Strategy Trade and List management Thread Part 5 (opposition supporters - READ posting rules before posting)

[weltschmerz]

**** it. Naughton, JUH, Bruce, Lobb, Darcy forward line with Weightman sitting on all their heads.

 

[BrisDog]

Hopefully one of Bevo’s mates has Weightman learning forward pocket craft like Milne or Betts. Watch the ball come in the move to the front/back of the pack depending on trajectory then snap the ball in a motion that produces 6 points rather than 1.

 

[BLACAE]

Does anybody know the YouTube channel that shows the training sessions. I have watched one before where they recoded the whole training session but don't know of it was a one off thing or it's something that happens regularly.

Cheers guys.

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[BLACAE]

Anyone get down to open training today that can give a run down on how the boys are looking?

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[Hoges64]

Anyone get down to open training today that can give a run down on how the boys are looking?

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In the Pre-Season thread.

 

[Here we go dogs]

Every AFL club’s 2023 free agents revealed

Check out your club’s free agents here.

www.sen.com.au

Based on the above list of free agents I’d be most interested in:

Jade Gresham - primarily as a small forward. He’d add some X factor.
Harry Himmilberg - as a key defender. I think his a better option than Ben McKay as his quicker. Think he could replace Keath or Jones.

Separately I’d have some interest in Nathan Broad as lockdown defender.

 

[Foxman98]

Every AFL club’s 2023 free agents revealed

Check out your club’s free agents here.

www.sen.com.au

Based on the above list of free agents I’d be most interested in:

Jade Gresham - primarily as a small forward. He’d add some X factor.
Harry Himmilberg - as a key defender. I think his a better option than Ben McKay as his quicker. Think he could replace Keath or Jones.

Separately I’d have some interest in Nathan Broad as lockdown defender.

Gresham is hurt or missing too often for what he would cost.

Wouldn’t hate the HH option but also depends the cost given we still have reasonable tall depth

Broad is getting older now and won’t leave

 

[doggiesin08]

Gresham is hurt or missing too often for what he would cost.

Wouldn’t hate the HH option but also depends the cost given we still have reasonable tall depth

Broad is getting older now and won’t leave

Is Harry Himmilberg actually any good or just a stat padder playing loose behind the ball? He had some big numbers but also Rhylee West beat up on him when we played them.

 

[Testekill]

Is Harry Himmilberg actually any good or just a stat padder playing loose behind the ball? He had some big numbers but also Rhylee West beat up on him when we played them.

I'm not impressed by Himmelberg playing behind the ball, plays very loose and accumulates so unless we want a tall flanker who won't actually stop his opponent we'd be better suited looking elsewhere.

 

[doggiesin08]

I'm not impressed by Himmelberg playing behind the ball, plays very loose and accumulates so unless we want a tall flanker who won't actually stop his opponent we'd be better suited looking elsewhere.

Thanks. That was my impression but from limited viewing.

 

[TedDougChris]

I'm not impressed by Himmelberg playing behind the ball, plays very loose and accumulates so unless we want a tall flanker who won't actually stop his opponent we'd be better suited looking elsewhere.

Agreed

 

[Here we go dogs]

Gresham is hurt or missing too often for what he would cost.

Wouldn’t hate the HH option but also depends the cost given we still have reasonable tall depth

Broad is getting older now and won’t leave

Gresham - I think he was their most dynamic player this year coming back of a ruptured Achilles and back stress fractures.

I believe he ended the season with a PCL which is typically an impact injury that is uncommon for smaller players and shouldn’t have long term impacts.

I’d be more concerned about the back and Achilles if he didn’t come back the way he did first half of the year. The back and Achilles are more likely to impact him long term.

I really think he could add a lot of much need class forward of centre. If his tank is decent he’d probably also make a very classy wingman.

Broad - I’d only do as a cheapy similar to Duryea. I don’t think his a certainty to play every week at the tiges this year.

 

[bobs head soup]

Every AFL club’s 2023 free agents revealed

Check out your club’s free agents here.

www.sen.com.au

Based on the above list of free agents I’d be most interested in:

Jade Gresham - primarily as a small forward. He’d add some X factor.
Harry Himmilberg - as a key defender. I think his a better option than Ben McKay as his quicker. Think he could replace Keath or Jones.

Separately I’d have some interest in Nathan Broad as lockdown defender.

Ben McKay would be the one I'd be chasing hardest. At 24 would be a dream addition to our list.

 

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

Every AFL club’s 2023 free agents revealed

Check out your club’s free agents here.

www.sen.com.au

Based on the above list of free agents I’d be most interested in:

Jade Gresham - primarily as a small forward. He’d add some X factor.
Harry Himmilberg - as a key defender. I think his a better option than Ben McKay as his quicker. Think he could replace Keath or Jones.

Separately I’d have some interest in Nathan Broad as lockdown defender.

McKay is really the only one there that piques much interest from me. Some decent players in there but not many that fit our list demographic. I'd put work into McKay early and possibly one of the OoC mids (e.g. Bergman) but otherwise, meh.

 

[Here we go dogs]

Ben McKay would be the one I'd be chasing hardest. At 24 would be a dream addition to our list.

McKay is really the only one there that piques much interest from me. Some decent players in there but not many that fit our list demographic. I'd put work into McKay early and possibly one of the OoC mids (e.g. Bergman) but otherwise, meh.

I haven’t watched McKay as closely as others.

However I’d prefer a more athletic defender that can really cover the ground due to our system.

From what I’ve seen McKays contested marking and one on one work is brilliant but he can also get exposed on the lead.

Also he has missed a lot of footy due to injury.

 

[flipper83]

I haven’t watched McKay as closely as others.

However I’d prefer a more athletic defender that can really cover the ground due to our system.

From what I’ve seen McKays contested marking and one on one work is brilliant but he can also get exposed on the lead.

Also he has missed a lot of footy due to injury.

Not a free agent but Noah Balta is out of contract at the end of the year.
Would take a lot to get him but would sort out our spine for the next decade.

 

[House_of_Dahl]

Ben McKay a free agent? So if norf finish last we just have to convince McKay to leave and norf get pick 2?

 

[Bulldogs85]

Hopefully Darcy Re-signs soon

Top-three selections Sam Darcy and Finn Callaghan headline six 2021 first-round draft picks yet to extend their original contract beyond this season – but there is momentum for Darcy to remain a Bulldog.

They join St Kilda’s Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera, Bomber Ben Hobbs, Sydney’s Angus Sheldrick and Lion Kai Lohmann in being out of contract at season’s end, while the other 14 players chosen in the first round have signed until 2025 or longer.
Industry sources told The Age that negotiations were ongoing for Darcy’s next contract, but there was genuine hope the 19-year-old would re-sign before the season started on March 16.

The 209-centimetre son of Western Bulldogs great Luke Darcy demonstrated his immense potential at both ends of the ground in a four-game cameo, including one final, at the end of last season after recovering from a foot stress fracture.
“It’s a slow build when you’re that height and age, but he plays in a great environment, [and] seems to be loving every moment of what he’s doing,” Darcy’s father told The Age in August. “He seems really happy. It’s a privilege to play sport for a living, and he loves it.”

Negotiations are also progressing well on new deals for midfielders Callaghan and Sheldrick, while Wanganeen-Milera, from Glenelg, is a priority re-signing for the Saints’ new list boss Stephen Silvagni, especially with Adelaide and Port Adelaide likely to be interested in him.
Essendon trio Nik Cox, Archie Perkins (both signed until 2024) and Zach Reid (2025) were the final top-10 picks from the 2020 draft to re-commit in May and June last year, and the Bombers are similarly in no rush to lock away Hobbs, but he will remain at Tullamarine.

The Lions, too, are excited about athletic forward Lohmann, who made two senior appearances in 2022, and he is a key part of their long-term plans.
No.1 pick Jason Horne-Francis’ bombshell move to Port Adelaide as part of a four-club mega deal – after just one difficult season at North Melbourne – saw his agent, Ben Williams, of Players Ink, renegotiate a six-year contract for his client until 2028.

Hawthorn midfielder Josh Ward, the No.7 pick in that draft, inked a fresh two-year deal in mid-January, and Giant Leek Aleer, Richmond’s Tom Brown and Demon Jacob van Rooyen also re-signed since last season ended.

Club list managers typically prefer to lock away first-round draftees ahead of their second season and sometimes even before their rookie campaign, as was the case for Adelaide’s Josh Rachele and Port Adelaide’s Josh Sinn.

The 2021 draft class is already shaping as a strong one, with Collingwood father-son Nick Daicos the winner of last year’s Rising Star award and promising to be a future All-Australian at minimum.
Daicos – who agreed to a four-year deal before he was even drafted – Horne-Francis, Rachele, Ward, Josh Gibcus, Wanganeen-Milera and Hobbs quickly became senior regulars, while Darcy and Callaghan showed impressive glimpses. Gibcus underwent surgery recently and will miss the early rounds of this year after damaging his right upper hamstring tendon in a pre-season training session.

Only Brown, van Rooyen and West Coast’s Campbell Chesser did not appear at senior level last season out of the first-round picks from two years ago.

Chesser was on track for a round one debut in 2022 before suffering a serious ankle injury that wiped out his entire season, while Brown and van Rooyen spent the year developing in the VFL, although van Rooyen went close to breaking into the Demons’ finals side.

 

[House_of_Dahl]

Hopefully Darcy Re-signs soon

Less nervous about Darcy leaving than any of our young guns. There'd have to some sort of disaster to lose him surely.

 

[Bulldogs85]

Less nervous about Darcy leaving than any of our young guns. There'd have to some sort of disaster to lose him surely.

I think all of our young guns would want to stick around club has a bright future ahead

 

[hatescaptcha]

I think all of our young guns would want to stick around club has a bright future ahead

Agreed. I can’t see any of our young players leaving. They all seem pretty tight also.


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[dergert]

The only one I have concerns about is Bailey Smith. But let's not open that can of worms

 

[doggies ftw]

The only one I have concerns about is Bailey Smith. But let's not open that can of worms

I really don’t get this one? He’d have more financial opportunities outside of his contract than any other player his age in the comp and from the outside looks extremely locked in in the ‘clique’

Sure he may have godfather offers in 2 years but we’ll already be planning our cap around that - way more likely we lose decent role players to keep him than lose him

 

[weltschmerz]

Baz seems pretty happy to be a Dog.

 

[Libbaaaa]

Have zero worries about Darcy, Naughton, Marra, even Baz. Only one is English if West Coast come calling once Nic Nat hangs them up.