Due to a number of factors, support for the current BigFooty mobile app has been discontinued. Your BigFooty login will no longer work on the Tapatalk or the BigFooty App - which is based on Tapatalk.
Apologies for any inconvenience. We will try to find a replacement.
Does the name Richard Douglas mean anything to you? There are plenty of players who have been regular contributors throughout the year, only to be cut at the end of it.
Players drafted onto the rookie list are only given 1 year contracts, compared to 2 years for drafted onto the senior list. The rookie draft is conducted after the national draft. In combination, it still provides the clubs with an opportunity to select some more speculative picks - and to cut them quickly if they don't show enough promise in their first year.
No salary limit, but the first (approx) $80K of their salary is outside the salary cap - which is why many clubs (including Adelaide) prefer to have a full rookie list, rather than a full senior list. There is nothing to stop Adelaide from paying Keays $400K while he's on the rookie list, of which only $320K is included in the salary cap.
Log in to remove this Banner Ad
The question was about Frampton. Not "do we cut a contracted player" - we may, but there are players not getting anywhere near the first 22 who'd go first.
So,
Don’t think Davis will get rookie.
I’ve long been a fan of Dudley but he looked a bit behind the pace in the recent state game. Good last quarter but I’m starting to re think whether he makes it. O’Loughlin to be honest I’ve never been a fan of and nothing I saw last week changes that.
The point is that regular player selection is not a helpful guide to list management decisions. I would have thought that was fairly obvious.
My guess is that Kelly & Parnell will both get new contracts, with Parnell remaining on the rookie list. Davis & ROC to be delisted. Not sure what will happen with Newchurch & Borlase - depends on what the club intends to do with Dudley & O'Loughlin.
Currently if it comes down to push over shove I'd be retaining Borlase and Newchurch over replacing them with O'Loughlin or Dudley.
Fair enough. I'm certainly not arguing - and I certainly wouldn't argue with your junior watching credentials.
Delisting ROC would make 4 senior list positions, and delisting Davis would create a rookie list vacancy as well.
I've seen a fair bit of both Dudley and O'Loughlin over the last couple of years and with their size (lack of) personally at this stage I'd only be prepared to give them a rookie spot and I'll be surprised if either aren't late speculative National Draft picks or rookie picks. I've long been saying O'Loughlin for mine to make it as an AFL player is being played at the wrong end of the ground, why he hasn't been tried as the small crumbing forward is a mystery to me.
Ah yep, I forgot about the Stengle/Parnell senior/rookie thing
