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Reckon Turner stays. Would be very strange not keeping him for one preseasonAnd Turner ?
And Turner ?
I’d wager that a big part of it is that 20 something year olds don’t won’t to live in Adelaide… particularly 20 something year olds who have grown up in the eastern states being fed a lifetime of “Adelaide is boring” tropes. And it’s kinda true. This city is great if you’ve got a young family and want to make life a hell of a lot easier for yourself, but unfortunately it doesn’t have a patch on what Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne have to offer for cashed up young folk. And from what I understand, outside business interests in Perth dwarf the potential here in Adelaide for making extra money outside the salary cap.I think Adelaidecrows meant it’s not that difficult to attract a South Australian that’s been a Crows fan all his life. It’s a special achievement in terms of recruiting to attract an elite talent that is neither.
Why did Lachie Neale choose Brisbane? Why have we never had a non South Australian come out and nominate us? We must have offered big $. We must have made promises of game time or position preference. Is it the city of Adelaide? Is it the people running the club? Is there anything that we can do to make it more attractive?
Turner takes Butts spot on the rookie list (Seedsman takes Strachan)And Turner ?
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Would rather get Verrall on the list, we don't need Turner especially if Crouch is stayingAnd Turner ?
Yep, they drafted him with an injury so it was never about the "here and now". They obviously see AFL traits in Turner and he's only got serious about his footy comparatively recently. In an AFL system hopefully he will continue the upwards trajectory.Reckon Turner stays. Would be very strange not keeping him for one preseason
I've said before, but when Seedsman nominated us I was really hoping that might be a trend. Would be great to be an attractive place to play footy regardless of background. But I am comfortable with our current focus targeting elite SA talent each year provided it's actually working, which it finally is (Dawson, Rankine, to a lesser extent Hately). Make drafting SA boys scary and watch them slide more often. Port helping with that by picking up JHF too.

We offered fat stacks to both Cameron and Dusty when we were a decent side and didn't achieve anything.Too busy paying fat stacks to average players because of experience and loyalty.
You have to win and pay up
You just know he’s gonna get 40 to 45 touches a week, absolutely dominate and the Sanfl flogs will still give the magarey to some hack from one of the original clubs!Congratulations 2023 Margarey Medallist Matt Crouch.
Keays is definitely more valuable … his work without the ball is exceptional“”
the problem is… at who’s expense?..
Sloane before he did his knee was already looking cooked.. considering it takes a player a whole year of footy before they show signs of getting back to their pre-knee injury best.. and sloane was already on the downward spiral.. I hardly see him being some valuable gun next season!..
And given he definately wont be there for our next finals campaign….
What do we achieve by giving him that position in front of our youth?.
Its just stupidity.. i would actually rather they gave the role to Keays over sloane.
Ultimately.. Pedlar, cook, rachele, taylor, nank, newchurch.. all these young guys should get a look in at that half forward/small forward role before a cooked rory sloane.
This club loves taking three steps backwards before finally taking one step forward!.
Reckon bulldogs will take him as a delisted FA so I reckon he has more AFL time to comeHas to be
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i guess at this point the hope can only be that matt crouchhas one hell of a pre season and gets into the best condition of his career. hopefully he's insulted by the lack of interestPLAYERCARDSTART5Matt Crouch
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I imagine the Butts contract extension could be announced with his move to the Senior list. How many year? Three?
Contracted until end of 2023
Rory Sloane
Chayce Jones
Harry Schoenberg
Andrew McPherson
Josh Worrell
Shane McAdam
Jordan Butts (R)
Fischer McAsey
Tom Doedee
Darcy Fogarty
Lachlan Murphy
Nick Murray (R)
Kieran Strachan (R)
Matthew Crouch
Paul Seedsman
Jackson Hately
Zac Talyor
Luke Nankervis
Taylor Walker
Yeah 7 list changes minimumThe Butts contract extension could be announced with his move to the Senior list. How many years? Three?
Contracted until end of 2023
Rory Sloane - move to ambassador role
Chayce Jones - trade or keep
Harry Schoenberg - keep
Andrew McPherson - trade or delist
Josh Worrell - keep
Shane McAdam- keep
Jordan Butts (R) - keep
Fischer McAsey - trade or delist
Tom Doedee - trade or keep
Darcy Fogarty- keep
Lachlan Murphy- trade or delist
Nick Murray (R) - keep
Kieran Strachan (R) - delist
Matthew Crouch - delist
Paul Seedsman- delist
Jackson Hately - trade or delist
Zac Talyor - keep
Luke Nankervis - keep
Taylor Walker - assess
Important re-signingsThe Butts contract extension could be announced with his move to the Senior list. How many years? Three?
Contracted until end of 2023
Rory Sloane
Chayce Jones
Harry Schoenberg
Andrew McPherson
Josh Worrell
Shane McAdam
Jordan Butts (R)
Fischer McAsey
Tom Doedee
Darcy Fogarty
Lachlan Murphy
Nick Murray (R)
Kieran Strachan (R)
Matthew Crouch
Paul Seedsman
Jackson Hately
Zac Talyor
Luke Nankervis
Taylor Walker
I imagine Seedsman will effectively be off the list this year, still think he'll be forced into retirement by the concussion stuff. SSP rookie in his placeThe Butts contract extension could be announced with his move to the Senior list. How many years? Three?
Contracted until end of 2023
Rory Sloane
Chayce Jones
Harry Schoenberg
Andrew McPherson
Josh Worrell
Shane McAdam
Jordan Butts (R)
Fischer McAsey
Tom Doedee
Darcy Fogarty
Lachlan Murphy
Nick Murray (R)
Kieran Strachan (R)
Matthew Crouch
Paul Seedsman
Jackson Hately
Zac Talyor
Luke Nankervis
Taylor Walker
We need to get Taylor and Fog signed ASAP.The Butts contract extension could be announced with his move to the Senior list. How many years? Three?
Contracted until end of 2023
Rory Sloane
Chayce Jones
Harry Schoenberg
Andrew McPherson
Josh Worrell
Shane McAdam
Jordan Butts (R)
Fischer McAsey
Tom Doedee
Darcy Fogarty
Lachlan Murphy
Nick Murray (R)
Kieran Strachan (R)
Matthew Crouch
Paul Seedsman
Jackson Hately
Zac Talyor
Luke Nankervis
Taylor Walker
Wish we gave Dawson a wing - permanently!The vibe I got was he wasn't tackling enough, I believe he was playing on the back flank at times.
I think we won him over because we said the wing was his.
It depends on a few factors...
List Structure - Clubs have the options of 36/6, 37/5, or 38/4 list structures. We were 37/5 this year, and appear likely to move to 38/4 for 2023 purely because we need the extra senior list position.
Inactive Players - Seedsman and Brown are both contracted for 2023. Brown has already announced his retirement, and Seedsman's announcement surely can't be far away. Depending on our 2022 salary cap situation, we may end up needing to move one (or possibly both) to the rookie list, before placing them on the inactive list. If that happens, then that's one (possibly 2) less rookie list positions available for filling via the RD - though we would be able to fill the vacancies via the PSSP or MSD after the players are moved to the inactive list.
Note that Parnell & Murray are both contracted for 2023, and will be remaining on the rookie list. Turner isn't contracted for 2023, but is likely to be retained - though he may find himself delisted and then re-signed during the PSSP.

I'm not sure we really tried that hard on JHF. We basically said we found out he might be wanting to return home, had some chats but Port were further down the track. And I believe he wanted Port because their offer wasa better.Should we have thrown buckets of cash at Jumbo Ravioli like Port?
I don’t get it. We tried hard for JHF, but he wanted Port. We tried for Bowes (pick 7), but he wanted Victoria.
Other than overpaying fat blokes, what else are we supposed to do?