List Mgmt. Talk about the makeup of our list (and overall list management)

[DERO]

At this point I’d like to clarify that in no way was I suggesting he should be nicknamed berserker. I was merely pointing out that Margaret Thatcher was a Tory berserker, leading the good ship Neocon with her wild, intimidating cries of warfare. B Zerk Thatcher just has a nice correlation.

If there are any chavs out there, they will be shaking in their boots.

 

[Cold Sober]

Mitch Brown, what's happening, still on list or not. Should be for no other reason than being our best forward.

 

[Doss]

Mitch Brown, what's happening, still on list or not. Should be for no other reason than being our best forward.

Yes, he was signed on for 2019 in September.

 

[Bombermania]

So who will be gone next off-season?

Prediction time.

I see Baguley, Brown, Ambrose and Clarke delisted.

I can also see Myers and Hartley being up for grabs in trade.

Would only disagree with Ambrose being delisted as I think he is in, or is close to being in the best 22.

 

[fairbump_playon]

Would only disagree with Ambrose being delisted as I think he is in, or is close to being in the best 22.

Yeah if not best 22, definitely best 30. Not going to be delisted.

Brown could go either way this year. Will be an interesting one for him. He's actually pretty slick, just needs an extra 10% of physicality and intensity.

 

[vass44]

Ambrose is an interesting one - hes our 4th best tall defender and in possibly in a similar situation to our 4th best forward - James Stewart. Both need good years to lock in a new contract. Others who are in danger of being not on our list at the end of 2019 are Dea, D.Clarke, Long, Baguley, Myers, Hartley, Brown, Stewart and Houlahan


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[eth-dog]

Ambrose is an interesting one - hes our 4th best tall defender and in possibly in a similar situation to our 4th best forward - James Stewart. Both need good years to lock in a new contract. Others who are in danger of being not on our list at the end of 2019 are Dea, D.Clarke, Long, Baguley, Myers, Hartley, Brown, Stewart and Houlahan


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Stewart is contracted for 2020 already so that blows that theory out of the water. He'll be on the list next year and will be best 22.

 

[vass44]

Stewart is contracted for 2020 already so that blows that theory out of the water. He'll be on the list next year and will be best 22.

Contracts mean nothing these days - Stewart can still be traded if he has currency at years end or paid out his final year if the club wants to make space on their list. He’s also a fair way off best 22 right now


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[BrunoV]

Contracts mean nothing these days - Stewart can still be traded if he has currency at years end or paid out his final year if the club wants to make space on their list. He’s also a fair way off best 22 right now


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Contracts mean nothing and yet a club can choose to enforce the contract and the player can do nothing about it?

 

[rusman]

According to these recent articles (http://m.afl.com.au/news/2019-01-12/who-has-the-best-onballers-we-rank-every-club)
we were ranked:

Defense - 4th
Midfield - 7th
Forward - 4th

Surely that is a top 6 team

 

[Red Black and Blue]

According to these recent articles (http://m.afl.com.au/news/2019-01-12/who-has-the-best-onballers-we-rank-every-club)
we were ranked:

Defense - 4th
Midfield - 7th
Forward - 4th

Surely that is a top 6 team

Our midfield is very underrated there. Probably not that strong a starting three but it bats as deep as any. Have a look at GWS, they have De Boer as their seventh mid and then the likes Shipley and new draftees. For us those positions are made up of Langford, McGrath, Parish and even Fantasia running through.

 

[Bjchan13]

Mitch Brown, Hartley and Ambrose are all great depth. Id hope we'd keep all 3 if they're happy to play on 1 year contracts and mostly in the VFL until they're needed. How much they'd want to be paid would also have to be taken into account due to the fact we've got genuine guns that will have to be paid somewhere near market price when they come out of contract. Holding the list togther now as it starts to take shape will take some selflessness from players and some smart moves by list management.

 

[eth-dog]

Contracts mean nothing these days - Stewart can still be traded if he has currency at years end or paid out his final year if the club wants to make space on their list. He’s also a fair way off best 22 right now


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Brown and McKernan are 28. Stewart is 24. How is he "a fair way off best 22" when he kicked 1 less goal in the AFL than the player most people have as a starter in McKernan from a similar amount of games, hmm? He'll be best 22 by the end of the year, bookmark it.

 

[blitzer]

Mitch Brown, Hartley and Ambrose are all great depth. Id hope we'd keep all 3 if they're happy to play on 1 year contracts and mostly in the VFL until they're needed. How much they'd want to be paid would also have to be taken into account due to the fact we've got genuine guns that will have to be paid somewhere near market price when they come out of contract. Holding the list togther now as it starts to take shape will take some selflessness from players and some smart moves by list management.

There is probably only 1 best 22 spot between Brown, Hartley, Ambrose, Stewart and McKernan but they all have some pluses in their favour and something to offer an AFL side in the right circumstances.

I'm most partial to Ambrose and Stewart out of the above list. Ambrose has great versatility and his athletic profile is ideally suited for shutting down players. Brown and McKernan outperformed Stewart in 2018 but they are both 4 years older and I don't have any particular faith that they will maintain their career best 2018 form for the remainder of their career. Stewart to me will end up a slightly better and younger version of these 2. Being the same age as Daniher is just a much more appealing pairing and I think ultimately will prove the difference for him.

Despite my preferences if you can keep these sorts of players on your list as genuine depth for key posts I think that's a very, very good thing. All have shown AFL level attributes at times, so if they are willing to stay at budget price then I could easily see us keeping 4 out of 5 of these blokes on the list going into 2020.

 

[rusman]

If Daniher is back to full fitness I would try a best 22 without brown Hartley mckernan Ambrose and Stewart.

We play our best being smaller in the forwardline and focusing on pressure.

A defense of Hurley hooker Francis can take any big 3 fwds. You can also move hooker forward to mix things up on match ups for 5 minutes.

 

[blitzer]

If Daniher is back to full fitness I would try a best 22 without brown Hartley mckernan Ambrose and Stewart.

We play our best being smaller in the forwardline and focusing on pressure.

A defense of Hurley hooker Francis can take any big 3 fwds. You can also move hooker forward to mix things up on match ups for 5 minutes.

I think none of them is a bit much. Does that mean Daniher goes into ruck to spell Bellchambers and we have no tall forwards during that time? I'm not really a fan. I still like the standard 2 tall forwards then somebody like a Stringer as a 3rd tall/medium sized marking option.

 

[BelleJames]

Pretty solid read.

https://themongrelpunt.com/afl/2019/01/07/ifsbutsbombers

 

[rusman]

I think none of them is a bit much. Does that mean Daniher goes into ruck to spell Bellchambers and we have no tall forwards during that time? I'm not really a fan. I still like the standard 2 tall forwards then somebody like a Stringer as a 3rd tall/medium sized marking option.

Yep Daniher would have to Ruck.

It’s similar to Collingwood / Richmond. Definitely worth a trial. It give us an extra player to apply manic pressure and run over teams.

 

[Bjchan13]

Teams are always trying to figure out the best balance of talls in the forward line and winning combinations are changing all the time. Richmond added Lynch which changes their setup. Collingwood had some success with only Cox which no one saw coming but lost to WC who play a lot of talls. Collingwood were close but lost the aerial battle. We were playing 3 talls in 2017 with some success but obviously had to mix that up last year. I think our best combination if all 3 are in form and fit would be Joey, Horse and Stringer as a 3rd 'tall'. Horse in because of his rucking ability and 2018 form but wouldnt be upset to see Mitch or Stewart in if he goes cold.

 

[blitzer]

Pretty solid read.

https://themongrelpunt.com/afl/2019/01/07/ifsbutsbombers

I enjoyed it for the most part. A few things I disagreed with, in particular a suggestion for Myers at half back. It was a pretty typical neutral's pros and cons summary where they pick out a few notable things about a team and then try to show the negatives and positives.

 

[owen87]

Myers at half back

He's one of those players where you look at what he has; size, good above the head, huge kick - and think, gee he'd be ok at half-back.

Until you remember we've tried him there many, many times, and he's consistently been terrible anywhere other than the midfield.

He's also not as bad a player as people try to make him out to be, he's just been extremely injury prone. When he's on the park he's a fairly standard C/B grade midfielder.