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Yea we're right in the premiership window. Now is not the time to be pumping games into youngsters who aren't ready and provide less output than veterans. If they're good enough they should naturally displace our fringe role players or veterans who are dropping off massively. Play best available.Tbh with Adams out of contract in 2024 his cap hit isn’t a huge deal. I’m still not sold on Macrae but if he can’t make the leap in year 4 to a regular member of the team with Adams at the club or not, he’s probably not ever making it.
I know, I agree with you, trying to make sense of the first quote,If you read the initial post, it made no sense. They said winning a flag cost them winning a flag..
I would sat yes you're the only one.Am I the only one who wouldn't mind one of our legends retiring to free cap space and give a younger player a go. I wouldn't be too saddened to see Elliott retire or Adams seek a trade to Sydney. Would like to see us challenge again in 2024 with Macrae and Reef having break out years.
I think you are on the money there with what we should be targeting. Regarding the first two you've listed, I think clubs really need to start looking at mature league talent in the VFL/Sanfl/WAFL, a mature aged ruck and a KPD could be identified via these leagues and won't cost the salary or trade capital a FA or traded player would.My targets would be:
- Back up Key Defender (Murphy concussion issues)
- Mature back up ruck
- young up and coming winger to take over Sidebottom/WHE in time
and the obvious dream target:
-Gun Key Forward
There is a happy middle ground here. What is for sure, if we are good enough to get to the GF next season there will be a different 22 running around. We still need to develop as a Club, get games into the emerging talent but we need to do it correctly. Agree with you, it’s not just about pumping games into them as you say but the only way you can get comfortable at AFL is exposure.Yea we're right in the premiership window. Now is not the time to be pumping games into youngsters who aren't ready and provide less output than veterans. If they're good enough they should naturally displace our fringe role players or veterans who are dropping off massively. Play best available.
We're also not going to get such a good run with injuries compared to previous years so need healthy squad depth when we're challenging.
Many have mentioned Haynes as a good target for a defender and I agree. If Giants foot most of his contract I’d 100% take him. Their back six is very good and very settled so he’ll find it tough to get a game.My targets would be:
- Back up Key Defender (Murphy concussion issues)
- Mature back up ruck
- young up and coming winger to take over Sidebottom/WHE in time
and the obvious dream target:
-Gun Key Forward
All the talk of dynasties and a fantastic list surprise me. Our top end players are mostly at the end of their times. Relying on them for another year like this one seems folly to me. Our position is very similar to Geelong's last year. Another good year would be a very pleasant surprise for me: more than that would be amazing.
With little in the way of draft or trade capital, the list team will have their work cut out preventing a decline, let alone orchestrating improvement. This week has been euphoric, but it's back to square one now. Creating success for next year will be even harder than this year's task, and that was a huge one.
My approach will be to temper expectations, and hope for the best, same as every other year. We can take nothing for granted.
agreed - this is the reason I was desperate for us to win this year. Another year down the track with our 30 + players and it's pretty unlikely they'd be producing the same output.All the talk of dynasties and a fantastic list surprise me. Our top end players are mostly at the end of their times. Relying on them for another year like this one seems folly to me. Our position is very similar to Geelong's last year. Another good year would be a very pleasant surprise for me: more than that would be amazing.
With little in the way of draft or trade capital, the list team will have their work cut out preventing a decline, let alone orchestrating improvement. This week has been euphoric, but it's back to square one now. Creating success for next year will be even harder than this year's task, and that was a huge one.
My approach will be to temper expectations, and hope for the best, same as every other year. We can take nothing for granted.
There's no reason why we will decline next year.All the talk of dynasties and a fantastic list surprise me. Our top end players are mostly at the end of their times. Relying on them for another year like this one seems folly to me. Our position is very similar to Geelong's last year. Another good year would be a very pleasant surprise for me: more than that would be amazing.
With little in the way of draft or trade capital, the list team will have their work cut out preventing a decline, let alone orchestrating improvement. This week has been euphoric, but it's back to square one now. Creating success for next year will be even harder than this year's task, and that was a huge one.
My approach will be to temper expectations, and hope for the best, same as every other year. We can take nothing for granted.
Many have mentioned Haynes as a good target for a defender and I agree. If Giants foot most of his contract I’d 100% take him. Their back six is very good and very settled so he’ll find it tough to get a game.
Back up ruck will be a bit more of a tougher find. Lycett might be our best bet.
Have mentioned this previously. Elliott just completed the most productive season of his career in terms of games and goals. He is extraordinarily important to us. None of our juniors look like being anywhere near Adams' likely level next year.Am I the only one who wouldn't mind one of our legends retiring to free cap space and give a younger player a go. I wouldn't be too saddened to see Elliott retire or Adams seek a trade to Sydney. Would like to see us challenge again in 2024 with Macrae and Reef having break out years.
Said about the Cats three years ago then they won the flag in 2022.All the talk of dynasties and a fantastic list surprise me. Our top end players are mostly at the end of their times. Relying on them for another year like this one seems folly to me. Our position is very similar to Geelong's last year. Another good year would be a very pleasant surprise for me: more than that would be amazing.
With little in the way of draft or trade capital, the list team will have their work cut out preventing a decline, let alone orchestrating improvement. This week has been euphoric, but it's back to square one now. Creating success for next year will be even harder than this year's task, and that was a huge one.
My approach will be to temper expectations, and hope for the best, same as every other year. We can take nothing for granted.
I think JDG is finally ready to become the Superstar we have all hoped he would become. Reckon 2024 he finally arrives and have an incredible season.I think Geelong would've been fine to make finals and push for a preliminary/grand final this year if it wasn't for injury to key players. Jack Henry, Mitch Duncan, Patrick Dangerfield in particular just didn't put together enough games of footy. They didn't have the depth to cover them, either.
This year we had injuries but fortunately we had depth as we had learned our lesson from 2022 and fixed that issue.
Geelong also lost Selwood who led from the front more often than not. We saw just last Saturday how important your skipper or ex skipper is in a high pressure environment.
We just need to hope we don't do a West Coast, which is what some said happened to Geelong early this year (before injuries probably made it too hard for them to recover). That being a mentality of trying and working so hard to get to the top of the mountain, that once you get there it's hard to go again.
We have enough players like Taylor Adams to want to get there again. We have enough elite leaders in the group to want to go one more time; Pendlebury, Sidebottom, Howe (assume no retirement).
But most of all a lot of our elite players are in their prime, which couldn't be said for Geelong. Those like JDG, Maynard, Moore etc.
The young players like Nick Daicos will be the ones pushing us up the mountain over the next few years and trying to keep us there.
Guaranteed Fly, Leppa, Wright etc are setting the club up for similar success next year.All the talk of dynasties and a fantastic list surprise me. Our top end players are mostly at the end of their times. Relying on them for another year like this one seems folly to me. Our position is very similar to Geelong's last year. Another good year would be a very pleasant surprise for me: more than that would be amazing.
With little in the way of draft or trade capital, the list team will have their work cut out preventing a decline, let alone orchestrating improvement. This week has been euphoric, but it's back to square one now. Creating success for next year will be even harder than this year's task, and that was a huge one.
My approach will be to temper expectations, and hope for the best, same as every other year. We can take nothing for granted.
Was to be expected wasn't it? There's not much out there. We knew that all along leading into this trade period.Pies are very very quiet.
Normally a sign we're plotting something. We have the cap space ...Pies are very very quiet.
Not sure they’re going to announce delistings right before the CopelandI would imagine we'll start to see some players delisted today and that will inform us of decisions to come.