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As of Monday after rnd 23, season 2016 finsihed, and season 2017 officially started. The first order of business is to review players, make the tough choices of ending careers and look at ways to improve next year.
What i will be doing (hopefully over the next few weeks) is to review every stage of the 2016 season to see what the hell just happened - including player reviews and ratings.
Here we go *gulp what am i in for*
2016 was a balls up from the start.
Season 2016 started after our 3rd straight elim loss in a row. The media was talking up our lot and made statements along the lines that we had shown enough to finish top 4 (as we were a brain fade from Bachar from doing that during 2015), and that our premiership window was now open. Dustin Martin were about to take the next step into superstardom, Rance was one of the best players in the comp, youngsters like Lennon, Cellis and Lloyd were showing signs, and b grade players like Titch and Bellis played their career best seasons and were looking to really improve. All we needed was some class and speed to add to our outside run and we'd be looking at a successful year
Delistings/Retirements
Heading into the trade period, our list of player outs was a list choc full of experience that needed replacing, plus a few youngsters that had been given a few opportunities
Outs - Foley, Newman, Knights, Petterd, Thomas, (all retired) Arnot, McDonough, Dea and Gordon. (all de-listed)
*Dea was drafted by the druggos and showed a lot in their backline*
Trade and FA period
we went in with a clear plan to trade in a whole bunch of gun players. treloar was even money to join, Harley Bennell used us to get freo jealous and offer him more money, and eventually we were left with our d*ck in our hands.
Our trade period involved the brilliant idea to trade out 2015's and 2016's 2nd round picks for Gold Coasts 2015's pick 19, which we on-traded to the "icing on the 2016 cake" Chris Yarran - in the hope that a top 4 finish would mean that 2016's 2nd round pick would be sitting at around pick 34.
We also traded late in the piece (what went down as a huge WTF moment) for a young unproven inside 'beast' in Townsend + pick 120 for pick 70.
The fact that we didn't trade out any players showed what other clubs thought of our depth.
We didnt manage to sign any restriced/unrestricted free agents, but we ended up bringing in another inside mid in the former top 10 pick, now delisted, Andrew Moore from Port Adelaide (continuing our recent reliance on picking up a former Port player).
Overview:
INS - Yarran, Townsend, pick 120 (not used), Andrew Moore (DFA), 2015 1st round (pick 19)
OUTS - 2015 2nd round (pick 31), round 7 (pick 70), 2016 2nd round (currently pick 24), 2015 1st round (pick 19)
Unless Yarran had won AA honours and finished top 5 in our B& F and we finished top 4, this trade period was never going to be a success - trading out 2 years worth of 2nd round picks for Yarran was ludicrous and in the end cost us so much more that it was ever going to gain us.
In the end, Yarran, Townsend and Moore ended up playing a total of 9 games, and have done absolutely nothing to improve the club. Pick 120, which wasnt used, has given us the exact same output as the other 3 combined.
This is how the picks we traded out were used:
Pick 19 ended up as pick 23 and Carlton got David Cunningham while the next 4 picks were Ben Keays, Josh Dunkley, Kieran Collins and Darcy Tucker. (totalling 40 games this year)
Pick 31 ended up as Pick 36 and went to WCE who picked up Tom Cole, while 3 picks later Lions got Rhys Mathieson who looks to be a decent player.
Pick 70 was not used
2016 2nd rounder has ended up becoming a top 25 pick because of our horrible year, so GC are still laughing at this trade.
Our trading/FA period was the ULTIMATE fail and was really an F- rating (and that is being generous)
next up
i'll discuss our national/rookie and preseason draft selections and get into preseason training heading into the season (including a minor incident that noone talked about at all)
What i will be doing (hopefully over the next few weeks) is to review every stage of the 2016 season to see what the hell just happened - including player reviews and ratings.
Here we go *gulp what am i in for*
2016 was a balls up from the start.
Season 2016 started after our 3rd straight elim loss in a row. The media was talking up our lot and made statements along the lines that we had shown enough to finish top 4 (as we were a brain fade from Bachar from doing that during 2015), and that our premiership window was now open. Dustin Martin were about to take the next step into superstardom, Rance was one of the best players in the comp, youngsters like Lennon, Cellis and Lloyd were showing signs, and b grade players like Titch and Bellis played their career best seasons and were looking to really improve. All we needed was some class and speed to add to our outside run and we'd be looking at a successful year
Delistings/Retirements
Heading into the trade period, our list of player outs was a list choc full of experience that needed replacing, plus a few youngsters that had been given a few opportunities
Outs - Foley, Newman, Knights, Petterd, Thomas, (all retired) Arnot, McDonough, Dea and Gordon. (all de-listed)
*Dea was drafted by the druggos and showed a lot in their backline*
Trade and FA period
we went in with a clear plan to trade in a whole bunch of gun players. treloar was even money to join, Harley Bennell used us to get freo jealous and offer him more money, and eventually we were left with our d*ck in our hands.
Our trade period involved the brilliant idea to trade out 2015's and 2016's 2nd round picks for Gold Coasts 2015's pick 19, which we on-traded to the "icing on the 2016 cake" Chris Yarran - in the hope that a top 4 finish would mean that 2016's 2nd round pick would be sitting at around pick 34.
We also traded late in the piece (what went down as a huge WTF moment) for a young unproven inside 'beast' in Townsend + pick 120 for pick 70.
The fact that we didn't trade out any players showed what other clubs thought of our depth.
We didnt manage to sign any restriced/unrestricted free agents, but we ended up bringing in another inside mid in the former top 10 pick, now delisted, Andrew Moore from Port Adelaide (continuing our recent reliance on picking up a former Port player).
Overview:
INS - Yarran, Townsend, pick 120 (not used), Andrew Moore (DFA), 2015 1st round (pick 19)
OUTS - 2015 2nd round (pick 31), round 7 (pick 70), 2016 2nd round (currently pick 24), 2015 1st round (pick 19)
Unless Yarran had won AA honours and finished top 5 in our B& F and we finished top 4, this trade period was never going to be a success - trading out 2 years worth of 2nd round picks for Yarran was ludicrous and in the end cost us so much more that it was ever going to gain us.
In the end, Yarran, Townsend and Moore ended up playing a total of 9 games, and have done absolutely nothing to improve the club. Pick 120, which wasnt used, has given us the exact same output as the other 3 combined.
This is how the picks we traded out were used:
Pick 19 ended up as pick 23 and Carlton got David Cunningham while the next 4 picks were Ben Keays, Josh Dunkley, Kieran Collins and Darcy Tucker. (totalling 40 games this year)
Pick 31 ended up as Pick 36 and went to WCE who picked up Tom Cole, while 3 picks later Lions got Rhys Mathieson who looks to be a decent player.
Pick 70 was not used
2016 2nd rounder has ended up becoming a top 25 pick because of our horrible year, so GC are still laughing at this trade.
Our trading/FA period was the ULTIMATE fail and was really an F- rating (and that is being generous)
next up
i'll discuss our national/rookie and preseason draft selections and get into preseason training heading into the season (including a minor incident that noone talked about at all)
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