Opinion Recruiting and List Management Team: Hamish Ogilvie, Justin Reid & Co

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

How many CBA's will Sydney give Warner 22, Rowbottom 23, Gulden 21 today?

They just need to build up their tank

 

[Doctor B]

They just need to build up their tank

Swans are idiots, they should be playing them in the forward line

 

[Greenfinger]

Wonder if Nicks still thinks the midfield is stacked

 

[FullyBigKPro]

The 2018 and 2019 drafts have absolutely destroyed us...

 

[George Kramer]

How many CBA's will Sydney give Warner 22, Rowbottom 23, Gulden 21 today?

Wow, that’s so depressing. Compare that young midfield with Heeney and what we have.

Honestly, Hamish should be embarrassed and just resign.

Nicks should smack himself in the head for the lack of belief in what he has.

If it looks like we will miss the finals and we don’t play our young mids it will be a disgrace. In one way it will be better if we are 0-5 and 3-7 so we don’t have this false hope we are still playing for finals.

 

[Sanders]

And if JHF had played…

F’ing painful

 

[Doctor B]

Wow, that’s so depressing. Compare that young midfield with Heeney and what we have.

Honestly, Hamish should be embarrassed and just resign.

Nicks should smack himself in the head for the lack of belief in what he has.

If it looks like we will miss the finals and we don’t play our young mids it will be a disgrace. In one way it will be better if we are 0-5 and 3-7 so we don’t have this false hope we are still playing for finals.

Be interesting to see what our list would look like if Kinnear Beatson had been our recruiter for the last 10 years

 

[Sanders]

How many CBA's will Sydney give Warner 22, Rowbottom 23, Gulden 21 today?

Like Bargearse ordering dim sims: a shitload

 

[Sanders]

Be interesting to see what our list would look like if Kinnear Beatson had been our recruiter for the last 10 years

He used to work as one of our recruiters

 

[crows dude]

Wow, that’s so depressing. Compare that young midfield with Heeney and what we have.

Honestly, Hamish should be embarrassed and just resign.

Nicks should smack himself in the head for the lack of belief in what he has.

If it looks like we will miss the finals and we don’t play our young mids it will be a disgrace. In one way it will be better if we are 0-5 and 3-7 so we don’t have this false hope we are still playing for finals.

But But Jones and McHenry are great kids from great families.

 

[George Kramer]

Like Bargearse ordering dim sims: a shitload

Do me a favour as Mutineer has me on ignore, ask him about his thoughts on that midfield compared to what Hamish has delivered us. Point out Goulden was an academy player but we could have bidded a lot earlier than he went.

Speaking of Goulden, someone texted into 5AA saying we’ve offered him $1.2M a year. I hope we have the balls to do something like that.

 

[1970crow]

It's just not possible to delist seven players, otherwise you are still picking players in the craft at 120

Not really, clubs start passing around 50, more likely just end up with picks 65-70.

 

[1970crow]

OK. Someone tell me how we are the ones rebuilding?

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Excluding ruck, that’s 25,24,23,29 years old

How are they so much younger (and better) than us 5 years into our F-ing rebuild?!?!?

Our midfield was already stacked.

 

[Sanders]

Our midfield was already stacked.

No, that was just the zimmer frames piled against the wall

 

[Doctor B]

Do me a favour as Mutineer has me on ignore, ask him about his thoughts on that midfield compared to what Hamish has delivered us. Point out Goulden was an academy player but we could have bidded a lot earlier than he went.

Speaking of Goulden, someone texted into 5AA saying we’ve offered him $1.2M a year. I hope we have the balls to do something like that.

We took Thilthorpe with pick 2 they took McDonald 4 and Campbell 5.
If we used our Pedlar pick 11 (or Cook 25 or Berry 28) to bid on Gulden would they have been able to match and still get Gulden?

 

[George Kramer]

We took Thilthorpe with pick 2 they took McDonald 4 and Campbell 5.
If we used our Pedlar pick 11 (or Cook 25 or Berry 28) to bid on Gulden would they have been able to match and still get Gulden?

Good question, not sure. Jeffcrowe might know as he wanted us to bid on Goulden early

 

[Danger in Texas]

Do me a favour as Mutineer has me on ignore, ask him about his thoughts on that midfield compared to what Hamish has delivered us. Point out Goulden was an academy player but we could have bidded a lot earlier than he went.

Speaking of Goulden, someone texted into 5AA saying we’ve offered him $1.2M a year. I hope we have the balls to do something like that.

Not confirmed but I reckon that caller’s putting two and two together, Twomey’s pointed out as two separate bits of info that 1) we’re trying to chase him, and 2) clubs are offering deals in that price range

 

[Eagleboy2011]

The 2018 and 2019 drafts have absolutely destroyed us...

In 2018 we actually bid on Tarryn Thomas. In hindsight that would have ended well.

 

[Pugsley]

Like Bargearse ordering dim sims: a shitload

Or at his favourite Chinese takeaway, The Golden Greyhound.

Mick Molloy's funniest work.

 

[Pugsley]

Not confirmed but I reckon that caller’s putting two and two together, Twomey’s pointed out as two separate bits of info that 1) we’re trying to chase him, and 2) clubs are offering deals in that price range

He ain't coming to a fish bowl.

 

[Danger in Texas]

He ain't coming to a fish bowl.

Oh I think it’s no chance

Shouldn’t stop us trying, though

 

[MRB37]

OK. Someone tell me how we are the ones rebuilding?

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Excluding ruck, that’s 25,24,23,29 years old

How are they so much younger (and better) than us 5 years into our F-ing rebuild?!?!?

You just know if someone like Nicks was there he'd have Boak in there. That's where one of Nicks fundamental beliefs has its major flaw. He believes you need experience in key position areas to win games. You can have youngsters around the edges, but you need hardened, senior players to get you there.

But how to players gain experience? By getting experience! Which is the one thing Nicks doesn't want to give. So he fools himself into thinking playing Pedlar up forward for 4 years is the way to go, that'll get him a experience! Then the mind tricks come in though, "we need a mid, who do we bring in? Pedlar? Can't be him, he's a forward he need him up there!"

We know we've needed midfielders, but then we have this fantastic idea to continually draft and play mids forward of the ball to "gain experience" which may be OK for 6-12 months, but eventually you need to pull the trigger to get them time where they were drafted to play.

So we should be doing (and should have done) the exact opposite of what we did do and done like what Port have done. Sloane, you're out of the midfield, go play half forward for your last 2 years. Laird? Guess who's replacing Milera at half back from now on?

Nicks spent 2020 to 2023 and the only real change to the midfield has been Dawson, which he could stomach because Dawson was a senior player.

 

[Pugsley]

Oh I think it’s no chance

Shouldn’t stop us trying, though

No, I agree we need to enquire.

 

[Eagleboy2011]

But But Jones and McHenry are great kids from great families.

The McHenry experiment has failed badly. Lovely kid but not a footballer at this level.

 

[Multiballz]

Dont understand why people think we would have developed Gulden into anything near the player he is at Sydney?
Probably be playing back pocket SANFL right now.