A genuine mid, an outside type who can be developed to rotate through the middle for periods, a project KPF and a ruck.
If we managed to snare Gresham and Bonner I'd be pretty happy,
23 players at 23 or under as of round 1, 2016.
From 2017 they can start adding first round picks again.
They can still add free agents next year and beyond.
I think they will be right. There is more than one way to skin a cat, so to speak.
Bastinac is not in our best team anymore and is likely going to be shipped out this of season. Gibson is no longer playing solely an outlet role, but a defensive wing role and is well capable of playing a contested game when necessary. The primary issue with Stanton is that he is an outside...
Hes better outside than Bastinac who is a natural rover but is forced to play wing and in and out of our side. Stanton is an ineffective accumulator of uncontested ball. If we start playing a pure link man like Gibson of 2013-2014 he would likely get a gig, but if not then nope, wouldn't touch...
Stanton applies the defensive and contested pressure of wet lettuce. If that part of his game is not improved he has no place at North and has a limited AFL shelf life.
Are players employees of their clubs or of the AFL? If the former then no ******* way should or could they be traded without consent. If the latter then it is a question of whether it is ethically acceptable to s**t a guys place of work to the other side of the country without consultation...
Fair points, but they would still need to have a significant number of senior players on average to below average contracts though or there would need to be some excellent third party agreements going on, because the salaries paid to the top few players would be out of proportion compared to all...
The base payment for AFL players is $80,815. The base payments for rookies is around the 53K mark. Swans have 3 less senior list players ($80,815 x3 = $242,445) and 2 more rookies ($53,000 x2 = $106,000) leaving the club with an extra $136,445 in the cap. No wonder they can afford Buddy.
This reminded me of a quote in The Age a few weeks ago from an AFL recruiter. The line was something line 'if Vic Metro are weak, the draft is going to be weak, and we are in for a weak draft this year' or something along those lines.
Slowly.
Started up forward, wasn't seeing a lot of the ball, so was shifted down back. Apparently he has been pretty solid defensively without setting the world alight. But this review has a caveat. North Ballarat are utter shite this year so him struggling up forward is no surprise.
I have...
Look, he's capable, and his best is pretty bloody good. It's just that he wasn't able to show it last year due to playing with a shoulder that needed a reco for the vast majority of the year and is only now seeming to getting back to playing well. As you allude to the second half of the year...
He's 192cm and a slim frame, much more your 3rd tall, quasi flanker type these days, so quite different from Pav in that respect. Very agile and a nice skill set.
He had a shoulder reconstruction and the end of last year and is struggling for touch at the minute, although had a better game on...
North went into the 2014 draft with a clear idea as to who they wanted at their first. These players were all ball carrying mids. None of them lasted to our pick so we went with best available in Durdin. As such I would expect that the club will look to address a desire for ball carrying mids in...
The question then gets influenced by how the recruiters see next years draft. Given that 'Big Men Take Time', and given that Melbourne are likely to have a nice high selection next year too, from a list balance and timing perspective there is the potential that Melbourne could go with a mid and...
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