New recruits - who worked?

[MWPP]

^ High Tea?? . They could always just do it at the end meetings organised to discuss other topics of mutual benefit eg the WAFL restructure model/progress and the upcoming AFL taxation system (and ensuring that travel doesn't count in spending figures)

 

[Truckosaurus]

It's happened. You all thought I was mad, many of you requested to be moved to another peanut factory. But now we *gets crushed by an elephant*


Ahem, now we can all recognise that I was right when I said at the start of the year that Bennell would be fantastic for us and that certain posters, who shall remain nameless because I can't remember their names, were wrong. I am so great, I am so great, everybody loves me, I am so great.


I was also a big fan of one S Cummings and that insurance ad that had him kicking a football out of Subiaco and into someone's house.

 

[Arthaus]

Wellingham ...were we spudded? he needs to really step it up continually.
but yeh, all the above, chick, stenglein,cummings,kennedy..whats judd and rosa?

 

[Ishmael_]

Shepherd feels like a new recruit, so him.

Then of course Bennell for this year, X as well and Yeo. Best trading the Eagles have done in years.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Just on this topic- Did Ken Judge ever recruit anybody(out of the plethora of players he traded in) that became a half decent player for us? I can only remember Michael Collica having a few solid years in the backline.

Yeah Collica was probably the best. Richard Taylor had a reasonable 2001. Harding, Prior, Merenda were all shot, Siera was bloody unlucky as he did his knee in his first quarter for us, Trent Carroll was Trent Carroll.

What did we trade for Bennell? He could be the best bargin WC have ever scored

Got him in the fourth round of the rookie draft - hard to pay any less than that!

 

[TW_Gangee]

He did draft Daniel Kerr. I would consider that his legacy over the BS drafting of hacks.

Didnt Ken Judge also draft Darren Glass?

Sorry I should of been more clear- I meant the players he traded in.

 

[kranky al]

Yeah that'll work. The recruiters from both clubs could discuss it over tea and scones

If a player nominates wc - freo dont bid and vice versa

Right now freo are looking for a kpp to replace pav - we are looking for a big bodied mid


These things get done all the time in business

 

[Tracker 101]

If a player nominates wc - freo dont bid and vice versa

Right now freo are looking for a kpp to replace pav - we are looking for a big bodied mid


These things get done all the time in business

Nice!
But I'm not so sure about that.

 

[Forward Press]

Loving how many of our new recruits and draftees drove the team on, especially given so many senior players were missing.

On another related note - since Butler was the sub, Glass called it a day and Cox was omitted, is it the first time ever that our 21 playing in the first half did not feature a single 2006 premiership player?

 

[MWPP]

Given that Cox has played 104 consecutive games and the last time he missed a game, we had more premiership players still on our list eg Kerr, Embley, A.Selwood , probably!

 

[Monocle]

Loving how many of our new recruits and draftees drove the team on, especially given so many senior players were missing.

On another related note - since Butler was the sub, Glass called it a day and Cox was omitted, is it the first time ever that our 21 playing in the first half did not feature a single 2006 premiership player?

Well spotted ...... I had missed that fact.

 

[Monocle]

These are the best three for me.
Yeo might in time rank the best of them all.
Has class, poise and toughness ,all the attributes of a good leader.

The bonus is that we got Yeo just after he turned 20 so we will most probably get 10 years service out of him.
I suspect he will be a 200 + game player for us.

We traded a first rounder for Wellingham
We trade a first rounder for Chick.
We traded a first and second rounder for Steinglein.
And we traded a second rounder for Yeo and that trade in comparison is looking like a pretty good trade at the minute.

 

[MWPP]

The bonus is that we got Yeo just after he turned 20 so we will most probably get 10 years service out of him.
I suspect he will be a 200 + game player for us.

We traded a first rounder for Wellingham
We trade a first rounder for Chick.
We traded a first and second rounder for Steinglein.
And we traded a second rounder for Yeo and that trade in comparison is looking like a pretty good trade at the minute.

Yes , Yeo is the only highly rated incoming player we've haven't overpaid for. I wouldn't say we paid unders in the same way that say, Port , paid unders for Polec. We could have gotten Yeo for even cheaper given the circumstances ie *Go home five* but we were too soft/nice. Given our other trades though, not complaining!

 

[Shoestar]

My top 3 would have to be since 2012 Yeo 2nd Wellingham 3rd Ellis

 

[kranky al]

My top 3 would have to be since 2012 Yeo 2nd Wellingham 3rd Ellis

Bennell has shown more than wellers so far imho

 

[Scotland]

Andrew Donnelly was pretty good.

Andy Lovell looked like a good pick up then sort of faded away.

Chad Rintoul had 2 reasonable years at West Coast sandwiched between 2 years at Adelaide and 2 at Collingwood.

Winner has to be Greg Harding, though. After 5 mediocre years with Freo we decided he was better than Metro (he wasn't) and traded for him. Played 9 mediocre games for us and was never seen again. Metro became a very highly played Subiaco regular.

 

[larrikin]

Got him in the fourth round of the rookie draft - hard to pay any less than that!

Seems utterly unbelievable now doesn't it?

We traded a first rounder for Wellingham
We trade a first rounder for Chick.
We traded a first and second rounder for Steinglein.
And we traded a second rounder for Yeo and that trade in comparison is looking like a pretty good trade at the minute.

Draft picks seem to be rated higher than players these days, it's been a weird shift. There's no way Stenglein would command the same price today.

Chad Rintoul had 2 reasonable years at West Coast sandwiched between 2 years at Adelaide and 2 at Collingwood.

I thought Rintoul started with us???

EDIT = nope - my crappy memory

 

[joeyavalanche]

Chick

Smother , handball , cramp , Sheppard , goal assist , flag !

Worth the trade right there !

Came in to say this

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Winner has to be Greg Harding, though. After 5 mediocre years with Freo we decided he was better than Metro (he wasn't) and traded for him. Played 9 mediocre games for us and was never seen again. Metro became a very highly played Subiaco regular.

6 mediocre games more than Metro played for Freo though.

The ultimate lose-lose trade.

 

[Scotland]

6 mediocre games more than Metro played for Freo though.

The ultimate lose-lose trade.

Metro was a 100-gamer and regular fixture when we traded him. I didn't understand it at the time and I still don't understand it 10+ years later.

 

[larrikin]

Metro was a 100-gamer and regular fixture when we traded him. I didn't understand it at the time and I still don't understand it 10+ years later.

Harding was a regular for Freo at the time too.

 

[TheGhostOfJohnBelushi]

Paul Harding.

Premiership ruckman.

Harding addressed a need to fill a weakness we had. He wasn't a star and pretty undersized but he was a competitor and experienced head we needed to compliment our midfield of the time.


Does Phil Matera count? Technically traded from Fremantle.

 

[West Coast Weasel]

Stenglein and Chick. I still remember reading that we got Chick one morning, turning to my missus and saying 'Holy Crap! We're gonna win a premiership the next few years!'. I may of been too young to appreciate our WA AFL team in the 90's but I'm glad I was around for those glorious short years

 

[Scotland]

Harding was a regular for Freo at the time too.

Being a regular at Freo in the 1990s is nothing to write home about.

 

[larrikin]

Being a regular at Freo in the 1990s is nothing to write home about.

Haha true