Delisted List cull begins

[saint_]

Holy crap, we are really cutting our list. I can't help they have a trade potentially lined up for draft picks otherwise there is going to be a lot unknown selected players at the end of the year.

 

[Saintleigh]

I was hoping it was Mav

 

[The Punter]

Does it qualify as a cleanout yet?

 

[The Enemy Within]

Does it qualify as a cleanout yet?

Yes officially

 

[The Enemy Within]

I was hoping it was Mav

Need to trade out might still have currency

 

[saintwazza]

i like meatball he had a bit of x-factor

 

[ScrappyDo]

Does it qualify as a cleanout yet?

Nar. <5 = standard, 5<9 = freshen up, 10+ = cleanout. Or there abouts

 

[saintsrfreak]

With Mav probably gone as well, I don't see much sense in not retaining Lonie now. Our small forwards would be Long and Gresh, with Gresh slated for a move to the midfield eventually.

 

[aussierulesrules]

Not surprised to see Minch gone. Only surprise was that it didn't happen with the first 4 last week.

Had talent, but just not the tank to be able to play midfield at AFL level it would seem.

Terrific guy who always has a smile on his face and was approachable and friendly.

If only we could keep him on the list for when we play Geelong!!

All the best Minch.

 

[Half Back Pocket]

Out:

Minch
Gilbert
Goddard
Freeman
Wright
Stevens
Connellan (r)

my take:
Lonie - traded to Brisbane
Hickey - traded to WCE
Weller - traded/dfa to GCS
Longer - keep
Dunstan - traded to SA club
Acres - trade to WA club
Steven - keep
Billings - keep

 

[mighty_sainters]

I think we will literally be trading all of next years draft picks to get enough players for this years. Can’t say I have much faith in how that would go.

 

[The Enemy Within]

I think we will literally be trading all of next years draft picks to get enough players for this years. Can’t say I have much faith in how that would go.

What were supporters expecting ?? if you wrote your own list of players to go i think the clubs got it 100%

 

[JG22]

Are we done?

Having been keeping a close eye on it but 7 out is quite a few, all fair omissions though.

 

[Saint Watto]

What were supporters expecting ?? if you wrote your own list of players to go i think the clubs got it 100%

Absolutely agree there...…....I too think the club so far has got in 100% right.

When one poster here listed all our out of contract players......I jotted down their names and nominated who I thought would be de-listed......6 players in total.

4 have saluted so far.....another 2 to go.

 

[Brains Trust66]

I think Lonie has shown enough over the past couple of months to be given at least 1 more year to prove himself . So far we have lost Meatballs , Gilbert , Connellan , Wright , Freeman , Goddard , Stevens . That’s 7 players we have to replace , I would think that’s enough in one year although that means that we keep Weller as well lol. After all we are going to have very high draft picks to replace them so hard to imagine we would get much better players with those picks. I’m starting to think maybe the Saints are going to trade their first pick to get a couple of picks in the teens . God I hope we don’t.


Go Saints

 

[CaptainRisky]

Does it qualify as a cleanout yet?

More yet i hope

 

[jwikked]

I think Lonie has shown enough over the past couple of months to be given at least 1 more year to prove himself

Lonie has been given that year but he wants more.

 

[SaintTwitch]

How did they get 'Delist Minchington' out of 'Sack Richardson'...

At least Geelong will be happy to see him gone

 

[Half Back Pocket]

I think Lonie has shown enough over the past couple of months to be given at least 1 more year to prove himself . So far we have lost Meatballs , Gilbert , Connellan , Wright , Freeman , Goddard , Stevens . That’s 7 players we have to replace , I would think that’s enough in one year although that means that we keep Weller as well lol. After all we are going to have very high draft picks to replace them so hard to imagine we would get much better players with those picks. I’m starting to think maybe the Saints are going to trade their first pick to get a couple of picks in the teens . God I hope we don’t.


Go Saints

Lonie is goneski...unless we up our offer to 3 years. Aint gonna happen.
Hickey would be mad not to go to WCE as well...i'd imagine they'd offer a 2 year deal + 3rd year trigger

I reckon Acres and Dunstan will also advise the club they want to be moved on

 

[TheEnsign]

With Meatball & Gilbo now both gone, I hope we have a plan for our list spots that doesn't involve using all of Picks 58, 61, 66 & 76.

Edit: I don't really know how rookie elevations work, can we use two of those rubbish picks to elevate RoMa and Pierce?

 

[Saintbloke]

Lonie, Gresh and Membrey are the only guys who look like troubling the scoreboard on our list. Need to keep them no matter what.

 

[RobbieMuir]

Does it qualify as a cleanout yet?

We've only actually delisted four off our list so far, as Stevens has retired and Gilbert has effectively retired too. Connellan was not on either of our lists (main or rookie lists) as he was a category B rookie and was separate to the four players we had allocated to the rookie list (Pearce, Joyce, Langlands & Marshall). So Connellan doesn't need to be 'replaced' per se, although we can add another Cat B player if we want to.

So delisting four fringe players and retiring two at this time of year is pretty much standard. I suspect the only other player movements will be via trades where we get something in return (albeit not much in some cases). So I wouldn't classify it as a clean-out.

 

[Mindfury]

With Meatball & Gilbo now both gone, I hope we have a plan for our list spots that doesn't involve using all of Picks 58, 61, 66 & 76.

Edit: I don't really know how rookie elevations work, can we use two of those rubbish picks to elevate RoMa and Pierce?

Yeah, we'd have to use our last 2 to elevate them. I think they could only play when senior players went on the long-term injury list (which would have been Robbo and Stevens)

 

[Brains Trust66]

We've only actually delisted four off our list so far, as Stevens has retired and Gilbert has effectively retired too. Connellan was not on either of our lists (main or rookie lists) as he was a category B rookie and was separate to the four players we had allocated to the rookie list (Pearce, Joyce, Langlands & Marshall). So Connellan doesn't need to be 'replaced' per se, although we can add another Cat B player if we want to.

So delisting four fringe players and retiring two at this time of year is pretty much standard. I suspect the only other player movements will be via trades where we get something in return (albeit not much in some cases). So I wouldn't classify it as a clean-out.

Good point , I didn’t think of that .


Go Saints

 

[CaptainRisky]

I think Lonie has shown enough over the past couple of months to be given at least 1 more year to prove himself . So far we have lost Meatballs , Gilbert , Connellan , Wright , Freeman , Goddard , Stevens . That’s 7 players we have to replace , I would think that’s enough in one year although that means that we keep Weller as well lol. After all we are going to have very high draft picks to replace them so hard to imagine we would get much better players with those picks. I’m starting to think maybe the Saints are going to trade their first pick to get a couple of picks in the teens . God I hope we don’t.


Go Saints

i like meatball he had a bit of x-factor

He did , for about two games every year ,