2017 trade/draft thread

[kane249]

Interesting Bayok got another deal

Cat B rookie, nothing to lose really

 

[RookiePick]

The new ruling on Category A rookies being available for senior selection may see quite a rise in the recruiting of those mature age rookies. It could be a real life line to guys who developed a bit later or needed an extra couple of years to get their heads screwed on. Much lower risk for the clubs to have a look at them on a 1 year deal and be able to play them if they want to without having to have an LTI.

 

[Chris_6678]

Yeah cant see Bayok working but he is a free hit so you never know... he did improve as the year went though...

 

[DanWCE]

Source?

Edit: never mind, club's put the story up.

Watson moved off the Cat B list.

Best news all trade period. Games for Watson in 2018!

 

[sey666]

The quickest way to rebuild any list is to trade in a slow 30+ inside miidfielder with average foot skills like A. Swallow.

 

[WCErevival]

Swallow was more cooked than Priddis. Surprised if he even plays an AFL game net year

 

[new breed]

Yeah cant see Bayok working but he is a free hit so you never know... he did improve as the year went though...

Has pace and as you say he is free ...also allows us another Category B this draft with Watson elevated to the Rookie A list ..

 

[Chris_6678]

GC will only do it if they are desperate and scared David will leave.

 

[pantskyle]

Not sure if srs...

Very serious.

If having him cheap helped lure his brother its a no brainer, worse case he plays wafl just like any player we would have taken with that pick, best case he becomes a contributor, finds his best form again and his brother comes home.

 

[Suma Magic]

Bayok definitely improved as the year went on. We would have been silly to cut him.

 

[twce13]

I wonder if Watson upgrade also mean we have out eye on another cat b rookie

 

[FKASC]

Very serious.

If having him cheap helped lure his brother its a no brainer, worse case he plays wafl just like any player we would have taken with that pick, best case he becomes a contributor, finds his best form again and his brother comes home.

We always talk about getting one spud to lure over a better brother but I can't remember it ever happening except maybe with Beams but that was to do with his dad I thought

 

[pantskyle]

We always talk about getting one spud to lure over a better brother but I can't remember it ever happening except maybe with Beams but that was to do with his dad I thought

At least these brothers are from Perth.

 

[WCErevival]

I wonder if Watson upgrade also mean we have out eye on another cat b rookie

We already have a B spot with Brophy gone. I'd say he has been upgraded so we can play him when ever he is good enough and not have to rely on an injury

 

[Happy Mastenator]

We always talk about getting one spud to lure over a better brother but I can't remember it ever happening except maybe with Beams but that was to do with his dad I thought

If we are signing spuds to get their brothers maybe we can look into whether conigilio has a brother?

 

[lewigie]

I just do not rate McInness

 

[BartBart]

We always talk about getting one spud to lure over a better brother but I can't remember it ever happening except maybe with Beams but that was to do with his dad I thought

Worked well for Collingwood with the Clokes.

 

[Eastern Rangers]

I can’t for the life of me understand how McInnes is still going round. It’s just stupid list management.


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[WCErevival]

I can’t for the life of me understand how McInnes is still going round. It’s just stupid list management.


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Meh he's rookie listed as a depth ruckman/forward. It barely affects the list.

 

[new breed]

We already have a B spot with Brophy gone. I'd say he has been upgraded so we can play him when ever he is good enough and not have to rely on an injury

Rule has changed Category A rookies can play when selected now without the need to be upgraded .

 

[Eastern Rangers]

Meh he's rookie listed as a depth ruckman/forward. It barely affects the list.

Nonsense.

It does effect the list when it goes on for three or four years longer than it should have.



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[Carbine Chaos]

Very serious.

If having him cheap helped lure his brother its a no brainer, worse case he plays wafl just like any player we would have taken with that pick, best case he becomes a contributor, finds his best form again and his brother comes home.

Andrew Swallow is a cooked spud.

 

[Dark Sharks]

Get another project ruck/fwd from a state league.

There really isn't need to keep giving Mcinnes contracts over and over and over again. He's not going to suddenly become AFL quality.

 

[FKASC]

Yeah this is what we have been doing for the last 10 years with the colledges and the hamses and the tunbridges

 

[Eaglemaniac]

Disagree, travel doesn't kill him or any of the others. There has been no pressure been put on these players to replace them. It is easy to say just play someone else but they should have to perform highly at WAFL level to get picked and they don't.
Look at Partington this year, so many on here were screaming for him to be played yet lets look honestly at his year. He played an enormous amount of football at East Perth as a midfielder yet polled very poorly in the Sandover which to me is not the best guide but it is an indicator as you know about that huge gap between WAFL and AFL!!! He didn't even come top 3 in the East Perth best and Fairest yet some think he was knocking the door down.
My point is the players playing for the Eagles have little pressure to perform on them, of course they should want to and there character should be questioned but that is just the culture at the Eagles.

Culture, Committment and dedication to the cause is the reason we are so inconsistent, not just Lecras but many of our best 22.

Partington was playing well at WAFL level where he played as a midfielder, then he was promoted to the AFL and played as a half forward. Hardly surprising he wasnt replicating his wafl form.