List Mgmt. Contracts. Trades. Draft. 2021 Edition

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The Contracts Thread

Current contract status (Updated 27/8/25) : Total 40 Players - Main List (33) Rookie List (5) Cat B (2) Contracted to 2029 (3) : Jake Waterman (6/5/98) - Signed a 4 year extension (2026-29) on an existing contract due to expire 2025 in October 2024 Liam Baker (27/1/98) - Signed a 5 year...

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[Bender_]

Thinking about young WA talent to target during the off-season, I'd like to see us go after Jordan Clarke and Sam Petrevski-Seaton.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

With both Barrass and HEdwards available?
He might rotate through but surely if Kennedy is out, Allen will be up forward?

Think we will trial next year backline with Harry to ruck as well as play backline, essentially play a lock down role on the oppposing 2nd ruck. So for this week

FB: Cole, Barass, Edwards
HB: Witherden, Oscar, Foley

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Tf is 'exploratory soft tissue surgery'?

Assuming some weird and expensive shit

 

[WCErevival]

Why? If surgery goes well he has at least 3 more year in him. This solitary issue aside he is just willing to keep going

Can't see personally but if he can then great.

 

[Truckosaurus]

I read it as "checking we didn't **** up his last soft tissue surgery", but my medical degree comes from buying a packet of bandaids once.

 

[amazingjoshy]

Thinking about young WA talent to target during the off-season, I'd like to see us go after Jordan Clarke and Sam Petrevski-Seaton.

Couldn't agree more, Brander as a swap for one of them would make sense to me considering we keep trying to turn him into a mid since we have a glaring lack of young talent in that area

 

[KERRPOW]

We paid market value for Gov. You can’t look at how he is performing now and say it was a poor move to sign him then.

If we weren’t paying him that contract then someone else was.

Piss poor to pay market value when we dont have to bring a player in.

 

[Bender_]

Tf is 'exploratory soft tissue surgery'?

 

[Chris_6678]

There is no way Gov is going to be out 12 months with a hip injury.

IF Shuey is playing this week then why the 6 months haha

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

There is no way Gov is going to be out 12 months with a hip injury.

IF Shuey is playing this week then why the 6 months haha

Cleanup surgery for Shuey more or less. It’s surgery to strengthen not fix. Happens all the time.

12 months worst case scenario. Mid season next year is best and most likEly still

 

[Chris_6678]

Cleanup surgery for Shuey more or less. It’s surgery to strengthen not fix. Happens all the time.

12 months worst case scenario. Mid season next year is best and most likEly still

Even so why would they risk him this week? They would delay the sugery by 2 weeks weeks because of the need to quarrtine on the way back for 2 weeks.

 

[RookiePick]

Tf is 'exploratory soft tissue surgery'?

The name of my new jazz-fusion band.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Even so why would they risk him this week? They would delay the sugery by 2 weeks weeks because of the need to quarrtine on the way back for 2 weeks.

Because we want to try and make finals id say. Crazy I know

 

[Bender_]

Is it really crazy? If the captain decides to go in for season-ending surgery when he technically doesn't need to prior to a 2 week quarantine it's sending a pretty shitty message to the younger players.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

That McGovern contract looks worse and worse if that hip issue is true.

Going to be very costly for the club.

 

[ArdentEagle]

The name of my new jazz-fusion band.

I thought it was a pick up line.

 

[ArdentEagle]

That McGovern contract looks worse and worse if that hip issue is true.

Going to be very costly for the club.

Renegotiated payout at worst???

 

[bzparkes]

That McGovern contract looks worse and worse if that hip issue is true.

Going to be very costly for the club.

Hindsight's a wonderful thing.

 

[ghostbat12]

That McGovern contract looks worse and worse if that hip issue is true.

Going to be very costly for the club.

Not if performance based.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Hindsight's a wonderful thing.

Oh, for sure. It's the danger with big contracts in all sports.

 

[bzparkes]

Oh, for sure. It's the danger with big contracts in all sports.

Agreed. At the time though, the risk of losing a player of his calibre was greater than the risk of the contract. Nobody knew about COVID back then so if things carried on as normal it wouldn't be much of an issue.

 

[shooshka]

Even so why would they risk him this week? They would delay the sugery by 2 weeks weeks because of the need to quarrtine on the way back for 2 weeks.

And, he's just come back from major soft-tissue surgery (and played on the weekend, returning from injury).

Surely if they felt the need to do exploratory soft tissue surgery (whatever that is - and TBH if it is just exploratory how do they have any idea it will be 6-months... a hamstring tendon replacement/repair was 12 weeks) - they would have done so rather than making him come back for 2 games, and quarantine for 2 weeks (i.e. adding a month to it).

 

[Chris_6678]

And, he's just come back from major soft-tissue surgery (and played on the weekend, returning from injury).

Surely if they felt the need to do exploratory soft tissue surgery (whatever that is - and TBH if it is just exploratory how do they have any idea it will be 6-months... a hamstring tendon replacement/repair was 12 weeks) - they would have done so rather than making him come back for 2 games, and quarantine for 2 weeks (i.e. adding a month to it).

Exactly and unless it was worth the risk to play in a GF i doubt that rumour is true.

 

[Nuke Fremantle]

That McGovern contract looks worse and worse if that hip issue is true.

Going to be very costly for the club.

The frustrating thing is this was so predictable. When an athlete has clearly demonstrated only token interest in maintaining elite personal fitness, he's likely to pay the price once he hits his late 20s.

He's going to be flat out just reaching the end of his current contract but if he does make it he'd better be ready for a severe haircut on his next one.

 

[Tugga27]

Not if performance based.

Some of the older players might have triggers for games played.
Established players wouldn't.

His money would be guaranteed I think.