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Football is a ruthless industry, and MSD picks have classily had a terrible retention rate if I recall the stats bandied about mid year.Would be a bit ruthless to delist the kid after 2 games in 6 months.
Surely he was taken with a bit of a longer term view.
Well should be giving a chance but I think his gone with Hayden staying on will be the downfall fall of him unfortunately plus with talk of Atley could be staying won’t help eitherHe hasnt had a chance yet with the covid impacted season. Hopefully we can keep him on and give him a fair go next season
Should keep his rookie spot, give him 1 year and see how he goes with an AFL preseason
Well look at it this way Ham should be already re signed ahead of Hayden but got the feeling his gone as I feel Atley with be giving another chance or Dumont ahead of him.I'd take him over TC, Atley and Dumont
100%I'd take him over TC, Atley and Dumont
Laying it on thick here RF08. We're talking about 19 year olds here. Actual 18 year olds like Mitch O'Neill get drafted in the rookie and cut 10 months later. Where are the tears for them? Ham should be happy to get a shot, most kids never step in to an AFL club.Seriously... why even pick an 18 year old kid up in the mid season draft if you aren't going to give him an actual crack at it? We gave Lachie Hosie 18 months FFS.
IMO if this happens again to another sub 20 y.o kid like it did to Cody Hirst, then I reckon they need to make the mid season draft for 21 and over players.
I understand that footy is a ruthless industry, but destroying an 18 year old's dream in 6 months is a bit much.
Laying it on thick here RF08. We're talking about 19 year olds here. Actual 18 year olds like Mitch O'Neill get drafted in the rookie and cut 10 months later. Where are the tears for them? Ham should be happy to get a shot, most kids never step in to an AFL club.
Laying it on thick here RF08. We're talking about 19 year olds here. Actual 18 year olds like Mitch O'Neill get drafted in the rookie and cut 10 months later. Where are the tears for them? Ham should be happy to get a shot, most kids never step in to an AFL club.
100%.Laying it on thick here RF08. We're talking about 19 year olds here. Actual 18 year olds like Mitch O'Neill get drafted in the rookie and cut 10 months later. Where are the tears for them? Ham should be happy to get a shot, most kids never step in to an AFL club.
There's probably something to lifting minimum draft contracts across the board. Getting delisted as a very young man is always going to sting a lot.To be fair, I probably am a bit....but I just don't like that a kids dream can be taken away from them with less than 6 months to prove themselves. Ham probably would've been better served staying in the NAB league (even though there wasn't any games) and hoping for a late ND or rookie contract. At least he would've got a bit more time to prove himself.
Having spoken to Cody about his experience at Sydney, it was heart breaking for the kid. I just think these younger guys should get a minimum 18 month contract in the mid season. Not 6 months.
When list sizes go back to normal that is a decent idea.There's probably something to lifting minimum draft contracts across the board. Getting delisted as a very young man is always going to sting a lot.
Seriously... why even pick an 18 year old kid up in the mid season draft if you aren't going to give him an actual crack at it? We gave Lachie Hosie 18 months FFS.
IMO if this happens again to another sub 20 y.o kid like it did to Cody Hirst, then I reckon they need to make the mid season draft for 21 and over players.
I understand that footy is a ruthless industry, but destroying an 18 year old's dream in 6 months is a bit much.
Particularly as we selected for the future, not immediate impact.I would be very surprised if we delisted him. We thought he was a good prospect 5 months ago. What would have changed?