eth-dog
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The fact Hewett and Chol get the same compensation should be cause to overhaul the system. Absolutely baffling decision.
Free Agency George Hewett [joins Carlton as a restricted free agent]
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The fact Hewett and Chol get the same compensation should be cause to overhaul the system. Absolutely baffling decision.
I’ve been big on him for a few years. I thought he would stay and take his shot post kennedy era.
might have been last year he had a 6-8 week period where his numbers were elite as a inside mid.
might have been last year he had a 6-8 week period where his numbers were elite as a inside mid.
HumanMeatball
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Doesn’t really have any elite traits. Think you could probably pickup a nice kid in the draft with similar output and save the $$$
Hewett is in the best 22 of every team in the league. When he was fit he was always an automatic selection at the Swans. Bloody good tagger and I think he is very much underrated as an inside mid.
HumanMeatball
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Many teams don’t really tag anymore though.
Johnnypkeane
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Carlton barely even tackle
- Oct 14, 2016
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Gonna be some humble pie served up at this rate... some of the comments in here are comical.
SSwans2011
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I'd say B-grader very capable of A-grade games is probably a good summary.
I can understand this move looking at the list profile of all our current and future midfielders, but there will be far worse players in the league on far more money than Hewett will be on for the entire duration of this deal.
- Mar 26, 2015
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Moved back into the middle after round 13 and averaged something like 4.5 tackles a game the rest of the year.
Averages 4 for his career. Fair, not great.
- Mar 26, 2015
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- 21,964
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- Carlton
- Other Teams
- Melbourne Tigers, Bendigo Braves, OKC
Our highest this year were Walsh on 4.5, Cripps on 4.3 and Kennedy on 4.2
So exactly like I said...fair, not great.
SSwans2011
Hall of Famer
Been thrown all over the place for his entire career, to be fair. Keep him in the midfield and he'll provide a huge amount of pressurr most games.
We don't have any of them at present...
- Aug 12, 2017
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So his Carlton contract is 400-450k?
teehee
We'd surely be league leaders in corralling tho.
- Mar 26, 2015
- 11,873
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- Carlton
- Other Teams
- Melbourne Tigers, Bendigo Braves, OKC
We'd be hoping for Stocker and Kemp to be getting significant time in the middle next year. They'd be the obvious two with expectations to step up.
Walsh, Cripps, Stocker, Kemp, Hewett, Cerra (hopefully), Curnow (transitioned out), hopefully continued improvement from LOB, Dow and Kennedy, rotations from Silvagni, Williams, Fogarty, Doc (looked OK on a wing this year), Martin, Fisher, Cuningham.
Question marks over Setterfield and Gibbons. Newnes and Cottrell probably delisted.
Looks better, but probably still room to improve.
Philip and Carrol options as well. Maybe even Cunningham later in the year.
Blues have invested plenty of draft capital into their midfield just need someone to grab a spot.
Can’t see how Kemp is going to go from barely playing (going back to pre-draft) to playing in your midfield.
Was always going to start off on a flank and hopefully transition into a midfield eventually after 2-4 seasons wherever he got drafted.
And he’s had more injury troubles since being drafted.
He’s years off being a contributing midfielder, and that’s fine.
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