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• Liam Baker (27/1/98)
• Jake Waterman (6/5/98)
• Brandon Starcevich (24/7/99)
• Jack Hutchinson (10/11/01)
• Liam Duggan (11/12/96)
• Jack Graham (25/2/98)
• Tylar Young (5/9/98)
• Tom McCarthy (12/7/00)
• Brady Hough (5/3/03)
• Tyrell Dewar (27/3/04)
• Harley Reid (17/4/05)
• Bo Allan (16/02/06)
• Jobe Shanahan (2/8/06)
• Josh Lindsay (7/4/07)
• Willem Duursma (21/6/07)
• Cooper Duff-Tytler (22/8/07)
• Elliot Yeo (1/10/93)
• Tim Kelly (26/7/94)
• Matt Owies (19/3/97)
• Harry Edwards (1/10/00)
• Deven Robertson (30/6/01)
• Finn Macrae (13/3/02)
• Sandy Brock (14/12/02)
• Reuben Ginbey (10/9/04)
• Archer Reid (19/9/05)
• Hamish Davis (2/5/06)
• Tom Gross (15/9/06)
• Lucca Grego (15/9/06)
• Sam Allen (13/1/07)
• Tylah Williams (22/2/07)
• Jamie Cripps (23/4/92)
• Tom Cole (28/5/97)
• Matt Flynn (13/9/97)
• Bailey Williams (17/4/00)
• Milan Murdock (30/6/00)
• Harry Schoenberg (21/2/01)
• Tyler Brockman (22/11/02)
• Rhett Bazzo (17/10/03)
• Jack Williams (1/12/03)
• Harry Barnett (22/1/04)
• Elijah Hewett (27/5/04)
• Noah Long (23/8/04)
• Ryan Maric (6/9/04)
• Clay Hall (12/5/05)
• Harvey Johnston (18/8/05)
• Jake Miles-Wrency (??/??/05)
• Jacob Newton (20/3/06)
• Malakai Champion (17/5/06)
• Fred Rodriguez (10/7/07)
 
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eaglevision said:
Go and have a look at him in the flesh smash the top agers in Colts and/or PSA this year. Every team in the comp needs him.

We have 1 A grade tall and 2 potential ones, we could most certainly use Axel.
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He looks elite for sure.
Who do you see partnering an A Walsh ruck combo?
A Reid or CDT?

CDT looks to be drafted for his elite athletic tall traits and being used as a Ruck/KPF.
A Reid looks to be a very high calibre tall/ruck?

3 athletic rucks the same age seems overkill in that position?
For sure A Reid could be a high quality KPD imo, which would solve 1 positional deficit in the team?
 
WCE777 said:
He looks elite for sure.
Who do you see partnering an A Walsh ruck combo?
A Reid or CDT?

CDT looks to be drafted for his elite athletic tall traits and being used as a Ruck/KPF.
A Reid looks to be a very high calibre tall/ruck?

3 athletic rucks the same age seems overkill in that position?
For sure A Reid could be a high quality KPD imo, which would solve 1 positional deficit in the team?
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They can all play KP or ruck long term. Archer’s goal kicking is enough of a concern to think that his long term future may be ruck and KPD. Even if they didn’t have the ability to play KP, there’s nothing wrong with having three blokes competing for two positions in the best 23. There will be injuries, form etc and on the balance of probabilities, one of them doesn’t nail a regular spot.
 
eaglevision said:
They can all play KP or ruck long term. Archer’s goal kicking is enough of a concern to think that his long term future may be ruck and KPD. Even if they didn’t have the ability to play KP, there’s nothing wrong with having three blokes competing for two positions in the best 23. There will be injuries, form etc and on the balance of probabilities, one of them doesn’t nail a regular spot.
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Be interesting to see how Archer goes this year with his goal kicking.

A number of the training reports state that he's being putting in a lot of work to correct it and it's gotten much better.

Can that translate to gameday though?
 
bzparkes said:
Be interesting to see how Archer goes this year with his goal kicking.

A number of the training reports state that he's being putting in a lot of work to correct it and it's gotten much better.

Can that translate to gameday though?
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I’ve been down to a few sessions since we drafted Archer and his kicking at training isn’t awful. There’s technique but for Archer it appears there’s a bit psychologically when he’s lining up on game day which you can’t replicate when there’s nothing on the line at training.

With Jobe’s hot start, Jake having 5 good years left and C grade KPDs I’d be starting Archer ruck/CHB from day 1.
 

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eaglevision said:
They can all play KP or ruck long term. Archer’s goal kicking is enough of a concern to think that his long term future may be ruck and KPD. Even if they didn’t have the ability to play KP, there’s nothing wrong with having three blokes competing for two positions in the best 23. There will be injuries, form etc and on the balance of probabilities, one of them doesn’t nail a regular spot.
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I find it a case of where do we spend our high picks and the positions.

I have no doubt A Walsh is elite but we just drafted CDT as an elite KP early draft pick, spending another top 5 pick on a KP player seems to me to be high spend for a position that usually you can draft a KP player of high calibre in the 2nd round comfortably, eg. A Reid.
BVR 2026 and the length of time for them to develop.

I would much rather use our top picks in 2026/27 on elite prospects around the ball, especially the 2026 draft as the 2027 draft will be highly compromised with the Tassie concessions.
I feel we are 1 elite mid away from an elite midfield group that will set us up for sustained success.

A Reid is more than capable to be a key pillar as a KPD.

I feel that if we put most of the pieces together in 2026 draft/trade period we are only topping up with role players in the following drafts/trade period.

Warner & Rivers as RFA's are the 2 that would come to mind as the elite top off of our team when Yeo/Kelly/Duggan are at the end.

edit. I see you just posted about A Reid being a KPD and agree totally with this.
 
WCE777 said:
I find it a case of where do we spend our high picks and the positions.

I have no doubt A Walsh is elite but we just drafted CDT as an elite KP early draft pick, spending another top 5 pick on a KP player seems to me to be high spend for a position that usually you can draft a KP player of high calibre in the 2nd round comfortably, eg. A Reid.
BVR 2026 and the length of time for them to develop.

I would much rather use our top picks in 2026/27 on elite prospects around the ball, especially the 2026 draft as the 2027 draft will be highly compromised with the Tassie concessions.
I feel we are 1 elite mid away from an elite midfield group that will set us up for sustained success.

A Reid is more than capable to be a key pillar as a KPD.

I feel that if we put most of the pieces together in 2026 draft/trade period we are only topping up with role players in the following drafts/trade period.

Warner & Rivers as RFA's are the 2 that would come to mind as the elite top off of our team when Yeo/Kelly/Duggan are at the end.

edit. I see you just posted about A Reid being a KPD and agree totally with this.
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A top 5 pick I’d take best available which with a very long projection is currently Axel in my view. I wouldn’t want to give up the opportunity to take him if available by trading out our 2027 1R, which would take the chance of getting him to pretty much zero.

BVR projects late 1R/early 2R, I wouldn’t use our 2R on him but he is a talent.

Don’t disagree with needing more mids, I’m just not sure an 18yo one is the best idea. I’ve posted about 2027 being the most important year in recent seasons with Rivers but particularly Warner a FA, which is where I’d hope we round out the midfield and hopefully Harley extends again. We’ll probably pay our 2R to bring Corey over in the event Chad is keen to come home.

I want Archer to make it as a ruck/KPD but there’s no evidence to suggest he can be a key pillar as a KPD, fingers crossed he can.
 
2026 is a make or year for a number of players at the club:

  • Barnett
  • Bazzo
  • Brock (contracted to '27)
  • Brockman
  • Flynn
  • Maric (potential trade bait)
  • Owies (contracted to '27)
  • B.Williams (potential trade bait)
  • J.Williams

I can't see the following players being contracted beyond this year:

  • Cripps (retire)
  • Cole
  • Long
  • Johnston
 
WCE777 said:
A Reid and CDT are 3 years away from a combo.
Flynn as backup, trade BW and delist Barnett.
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Yep, agree with this.

Given where we're at and the amount of holes we have in our B23 and list at the moment I think we can get by with an average ruckman for another two years. Look at premiership sides of the past seven or eight years - few have had champion ruckman. Flynn is more than serviceable, been saying for a couple of years now BWilliams is trade bait and I hope like hell Barnett comes on this year but he's only got until September to prove himself with us.
 
Chris_6678 said:
Why is everyone off Maric? He is pretty settled here with Karl Langdons daughter and he is improving game by game? I’ve seen a few suggestions of trading him?
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Fantastic clubman, good player but where does he play? Defence is overflowing, we have some wingmen now, tall forwards are stacked.

He’d be a walk up start as a tall forward for teams like Dees, Pies etc. Will be interesting to see where we intend on playing him. I’d rather keep him too.
 
There are a lot of out of contract players who are playing for their future this year

None of Long, Brockman, Maric, Barnett, J Williams, Hall, Johnston, Bazzo, Cole, Newton, Champion, Rodriguez, Macrae or Schoenberg are clear best 23 players with some naturally being closer than others. That’s 14 players with an uncertain future to varying degrees

Flynn and B Williams will continue competing with each other for the lead ruck role and with Archer Reid for the backup ruck spot. At least one of them will be retained for next year I suspect. Williams is also a FA so we have no control on where he goes or what we receive if he chooses to look elsewhere

Cripps (retirement) and Hewett (new contract) are the only two uncontracted players I have any confidence in knowing what will happen to this year

We’ve made significant cuts to our list over the last 3-4 years as evidenced by the fact that only 16 of our 47 players were at the club for the 2023 season. If you count Maric who arrived during 2023 that becomes 17

It remains to be seen whether we make significant cuts again this year or look to retain players to build depth but you’d expect around 6 players minimum to be moved on

Big year for those 14 to prove themselves
 
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Chris_6678 said:
Why is everyone off Maric? He is pretty settled here with Karl Langdons daughter and he is improving game by game? I’ve seen a few suggestions of trading him?
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He is not trade material.
While he is not best 23 automatic selection in our best team, he is best 25.
He and Hutch I find are a similar position, solid contributors but not top end players.
We need a paddock full of players of their calibre.

I think Maric/Hutch are in competition for the wing/hf role.
Best 25 will be a competition of Maric/Hutch/B Allan/Davis/Duursma for the wing role.

Baker/Kelly/Hewett/Newton/Gross/Schoenberg/McRae/Dewar/Long and company for best 23 spots.

WOW, what a position we find ourselves in, depth in a lot of positions and fighting for spots.
I think Maric will be in and about with most of the above and probably just behind our 1st choice players.
 

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Keys said:
There are a lot of out of contract players who are playing for their future this year

None of Long, Brockman, Maric, Barnett, J Williams, Hall, Johnston, Bazzo, Cole, Newton, Champion, Rodriguez, Macrae or Schoenberg are clear best 23 players with some naturally being closer than others.

Big year for those 14 to prove themselves
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Brockman could earn himself an extension if he stops beating up people in Geraldton and instead beats up people who target Harley.

But he's a dumb ****ing campaigner so I expect he'll be the first cut.
 
WCE777 said:
He is not trade material.
While he is not best 23 automatic selection in our best team, he is best 25.
He and Hutch I find are a similar position, solid contributors but not top end players.
We need a paddock full of players of their calibre.

I think Maric/Hutch are in competition for the wing/hf role.
Best 25 will be a competition of Maric/Hutch/B Allan/Davis/Duursma for the wing role.

Baker/Kelly/Hewett/Newton/Gross/Schoenberg/McRae/Dewar/Long and company for best 23 spots.

WOW, what a position we find ourselves in, depth in a lot of positions and fighting for spots.
I think Maric will be in and about with most of the above and probably just behind our 1st choice players.
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I rate Maric. He is way in front of plenty of others. Can be a tad unreliable with ball in hand but he is a very good size, athletic and a competitor.

Correct me if I am wrong but heard he was training as a back. From what I have seen that seems to be where he has been lining up so far.

Davis, Duursma & Allan seem to be looking a strong chance for those wing roles. Although I still think Allan is going to end up in the backline.
 
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I didn't write this on the Lachie Neale board because this is regarding WC.

Fagan saying today that they would not stand in Neale's way if he wanted to return home the end of this year and quoting he is a UFA, my understanding is he is a RFA?
Either way he will be free except the $$ of the contract.

Firstly from Fagan's remarks it would seem Neale is a UFA if his comments are correct, this most likely means his contract was front ended and he is on a much reduced pay in 2026.
Secondly those comments are incorrect from Fagan and he is a RFA.

Either way Neale is a HUGE chance to return to WA with all the background dynamics happening.

I would be offering Neale a 1 year deal to play and a coaching/development role after that for 1-2 years.
All of these factors will be considered on how well he keeps playing and the FA pursuit of Warner & Rivers in 2027 imo.

These are the types of players that make our team better with their ability & leadership and I would be using everything at our disposal to make it happen.

2026 will be a huge development phase of our young team and we are screaming out for decent mids and leadership, win/win imo if he ends up at WC.

All the young midfield including HR/Hewett/Hall/B Allan/Davis/Gross/S Allen/Lindsay/Duursma/Rodriguez would benefit immensely from his on field ability and leadership and off field standards, training/diet/preparation etc. not the off field bedroom antics.
Make it happen WC.
 
Lachie Neale free agency chance?
 
Mighty Eagles said:
2026 is a make or year for a number of players at the club:

  • Barnett
  • Bazzo
  • Brock (contracted to '27)
  • Brockman
  • Flynn
  • Maric (potential trade bait)
  • Owies (contracted to '27)
  • B.Williams (potential trade bait)
  • J.Williams

I can't see the following players being contracted beyond this year:

  • Cripps (retire)
  • Cole
  • Long
  • Johnston
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How about this guy gravy_86 ,he reckons your man is a goner next season...
 
CoastersFlag No.5 said:
Lachie Neale free agency chance?
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If it happened it would have to be a player/coach type thing (like with Sam Mitchell). I think it will be a year too late. We've already put some nice experience around the kids with Baker/Graham/Starc/Dev/Schoenberg etc. By next season our 2021-2024 draftees will have had 3+ preseasons and be claiming spots in their own right anyway.
 

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WCE777 said:
I didn't write this on the Lachie Neale board because this is regarding WC.

Fagan saying today that they would not stand in Neale's way if he wanted to return home the end of this year and quoting he is a UFA, my understanding is he is a RFA?
Either way he will be free except the $$ of the contract.

Firstly from Fagan's remarks it would seem Neale is a UFA if his comments are correct, this most likely means his contract was front ended and he is on a much reduced pay in 2026.
Secondly those comments are incorrect from Fagan and he is a RFA.

Either way Neale is a HUGE chance to return to WA with all the background dynamics happening.

I would be offering Neale a 1 year deal to play and a coaching/development role after that for 1-2 years.
All of these factors will be considered on how well he keeps playing and the FA pursuit of Warner & Rivers in 2027 imo.

These are the types of players that make our team better with their ability & leadership and I would be using everything at our disposal to make it happen.

2026 will be a huge development phase of our young team and we are screaming out for decent mids and leadership, win/win imo if he ends up at WC.

All the young midfield including HR/Hewett/Hall/B Allan/Davis/Gross/S Allen/Lindsay/Duursma/Rodriguez would benefit immensely from his on field ability and leadership and off field standards, training/diet/preparation etc. not the off field bedroom antics.
Make it happen WC.
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The RFA and UFA list gets released later in the year. I think Cal normally release it around April.

Not sure if Neale age makes him automatically a UFA or Fagan might have a fair idea that Neale might’ve been on a front ended contract so won’t likely qualify as a RFA.
 
Not that I think it’ll make much difference given Fagan’s comments but you’d think Neale will be a Restricted Free Agent

This year will be his 8th at Brisbane and it’s likely he’d be in the top 25% of salary on their list which means he’ll be a RFA

I was keen to get him across when it was raised last year but it’s a less attention proposition for 2027 given we might only get one year out of him rather than two had we brought him across for 2026

It’s a wait and see on how Neale and West Coast perform this year as to whether he would be a net positive for us in 2027
 
Keys said:
Not that I think it’ll make much difference given Fagan’s comments but you’d think Neale will be a Restricted Free Agent

This year will be his 8th at Brisbane and it’s likely he’d be in the top 25% of salary on their list which means he’ll be a RFA

I was keen to get him across when it was raised last year but it’s a less attention proposition for 2027 given we might only get one year out of him rather than two had we brought him across for 2026

It’s a wait and see on how Neale and West Coast perform this year as to whether he would be a net positive for us in 2027
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He'll be 34 at the start of next year with now a history of leg injuries.. I dunno how much left he's gonna have in the tank tbh, plus with his peronsal life also going in the tank.

Our midfield would have to be abominable again this year to seriously consider him.
 

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