9 little coaches and a recruitment manager playing in the Park, RSEA that is, Moorabbon
Along comes regime change and now there is one,
maybe two.
Just saying.
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9 little coaches and a recruitment manager playing in the Park, RSEA that is, Moorabbon
Please no to SOS.
The fact SoS and Trout are close mates of Ross puts them in the box seat you'd think, especially now the mood of the supporter base is accepting of giving Ross another go after his failed list rebuilding with Freo then I can see either of SoS or Trout being welcomed back to the club with open arms.D.B.Cooper wrote: ↑Wed 14 Dec 2022 4:25pmPlease no to SOS.
Surely holds some type of AFL record history as the worst recruiting and list manager of all time in the AFL.
Will Saints chase SOS after list manager’s exit?
– Jay Clark
St Kilda is on the hunt for a new list manager to help spearhead the club’s resurgence after parting ways with talent boss James Gallagher.
The Saints confirmed on Tuesday Gallagher would depart the club as he looked to move home to South Australia for family reasons.
The club will embark on a process to find a replacement although it remains unclear whether former Carlton list boss and ex-St Kilda assistant coach Stephen Silvagni will be a target.
Silvagni was cut by the Blues over an alleged conflict of interest because his son Jack was on the club’s list and has since led the league website’s trade coverage in recent years.
St Kilda’s list strategy has failed to help the club rise up the ladder in recent years following moves to top-up on some mature-age recruits including high-priced midfielders Brad Hill and Daniel Hannebery.
Other pick-ups include Dan Butler, Paddy Ryder, Zak Jones, Dougal Howard, James Frawley, Dean Kent and Shaun McKernan.
St Kilda’s recent football department review – which led to the sacking of coach Brett Ratten – recommended a change in list strategy after the club missed finals in 2022 despite an 8-3 start to the season.
Former North Melbourne coach David Noble helped lead the review, while former Kangaroos list boss Glenn Luff completed a list analysis for the Saints which found it lacked top-end talent.
The club’s new list boss will be on a mission to add more A-Graders, after missing out on Collingwood free agent Jordan De Goey, and recalibrate the salary cap.
The Saints are known to have a tighter-than-expected cap after the moves to add some mid-tier players on decent wages.
Gallagher, who played 38 games for Adelaide Crows, joined the Saints in 2018 after a career in banking.
Chief executive Simon Lethlean thanked Gallagher for his contribution to the club over the past four years.
“James has contributed significantly to the improvement of our list and culture throughout his time at the Saints,” Lethlean said.
“He has an appetite for hard work and his care and passion for seeking to improve the quality of our list and the culture of our club was evident, no more so than when taking on more than just his primary duties throughout the Covid interrupted 2020 and 2021 years.
“We wish James, his wife Laura and children Jack, Alice and Olivia all the best for their move back home.”
You would think so. The discussions on list manager position and Gags wanting to go back to Adelaide, go back months.
In hindsight was it so bad for the Pies to lose Adam Treloar. They did make an almost Hanneberry scale blunder with Grundy's contract, but.
That's right. Perhaps Collingwood fans don't react well to criticism even when fair so Cornes concentrates on softer targets. We on the other hand can tend to self flaggellate, some almost welcoming it. E.g. one or two on here leave Cornes in their wake with their constant nark. Solidarity comrades!
I don't think the recruitment of the mature age players was necessarily a bad option in isolation as a recruitment strategy, where it failed was the inability to continue that strategy over the following years. For example we needed to follow up with the recruitment of ready made A grade midfielders to avoid the strategy stalling, and therin lies the problem with the quality of the current list. You could argue had we not recruited the fab five in 2019 could we have tanked to another wooden spoon, but equally you can argue all it did was place us in a middle of tbe ladder holding pattern becaue of said inability to continue the mature aged recruitment spree.Killa wrote: ↑Thu 15 Dec 2022 9:14pm Interesting that the media article reproduced on here makes no mention of perhaps the best of those recruited (from Adelaide) BUT includes Frawley and McKernan, both signed for one year exclusively as cover given the demographics of our List
Neither Frawley nor McKernan were signed with a long term view - they were given a one year Contract each in the hope they did not have to play at AFL level
They were purely insurance
Hill is class - as was Hannebery, confirmed by when he did get on the Park, picking up 3 Brownlow votes in his final game
Hill remains on our List and is a first choice player
Howard leads our defence as our only KPP size defender
Butler has been useful playing a role whilst Higgins, another not mentioned, has his future ahead of him - and has shown his capabilities
Ryder gave excellent service - his presence with Marshall coinciding with St Kilda wins (and how costly was the loss of Ryder, Hill and Long from the side that lost to Richmond in 2020 - then the loss of Carlisle with his back concerns?)
And Jones has had several 30 plus possession games coinciding with St Kilda wins - the health set back and weight loss leading into 2022 setting him back
Simply, and typically from this media outlet, all you get is uneducated rubbish
The uneducated telling their fellow uneducated what they do not know
And confirmed
Or even a spreadsheet maybe
If you think we made a near 1m play for DeGoey I call BS on how tight how cap really isSuperDuper wrote: ↑Thu 22 Dec 2022 3:24am "The Saints are known to have a tighter-than-expected cap after the moves to add some mid-tier players on decent wages."
I dont understand this. Hannebury took a haircut in 2022 and is now off the books.
Crouch wage was band 3, with crows getting a 2nd rounder
Hill is in big bucks, but as has 2 years left his contract. So one can start planning post Hill contracts.
Is Jones initial contract is over? His new one would be less money. Cannot be on much in 2023
So who else did we bring in?
Butler. Cant imagine his salary is high in 2023
Higgins may be on a bit, he came over from Tigers.
But again, he already has run two yers of that contract
Surely our Salary Cap is not very tight?