As a minimum contract to be the 4th ruck option / 5th tall forward option surely he is better than Hunter and McKernan.

Hopefully you can get someone who is equally down the pecking order/delisted but is better to fill this role.

Send Hawks to the south and Roos to the north.

Let them both play 2 home games at the MCG for the first decade.

Problem solved.

The NFL do it so probably something the AFL will steal. For the spectacle and game quality it is probably better to move it before the Grand Final to ensure all players are going in as healthy as possible. I like the idea of an All Star or Origin game the weekend prior along with Brownlow and awards...

It's behaviour that he has a history with. It was occuring during his first knee injury times at GWS.
Definitely unsolicited suggestive texts, not sure if it included images.

Johnson had X Factor though - he actually won series for Australia 2 x ICC player of the year. That's very fair, probably one of the flaws of my selections was just looking at there stats as a whole and not taking into account peak performance. Johnson peaked at 849 and Starc at 804 according to IC...

Mitch Starc? Not sure he’d be in Australia’s best few bowlers since 2010? Harris, Cummins, Johnson Agree with you there for Cummins, Hazelwood and Harris, but he is in the team as a left hand option, to which he was the best in the world over the last 10 years. He has a superior average and strike ...

Love how you put this together, however when your purpose is "to win everywhere", Warner cannot be considered. Would Smith from South Africa push him out under the charter. The toss up was between Latham (44 total avg 42 away avg), Smith (44 total avg 53 away avg) and Warner (49 total avg...

I have Kumar on par with the modern giants of the game with the bat Lara, Tendulkar, Kallis, Ponting, Dravid, Khan, Kohli, DeVilliers, Williamson. He would almost make a greatest ever side purely as a batsman. A classic left handed bat, with every shot! A better batsman than Gilchrist without doubt...

Is there any possibility of a trade up?
I am guessing that this wouldn't be too bad as with reduced list sizes the last picks in the draft are probably still in the 60s.

I haven't had a look at any other teams needs to trade to match academy pick bids.

If there is someone rated 20-30 in the draft by the recruiters that slips through, then that would be a god opportunity to take two early "rookie selections".

Use the rookie list to re-draft the delisted player, potentially the least attractive to another club.

The knowns are: Free Agency List (i.e. restricted are in top 10 paid players) Sam Fisher Restricted Brendon Goddard Restricted Jason Gram Restricted Free agency and the new veteran rules may make an ageing team a more desirable outcome. Who would you rather have as the #18-25 on the list - Dean Polo...

Why are we all so quick to bemoan the players we may lose ue to free agency. The flipside is, if we lose said players, the ability to sign classy players under free agency. One thing NRL has taught us, is with unlimited free agency you can rebound very quickly with good salary cap management and abi...

The comments are similar to what Akermanis had to say about homosexuals in that in isolation they look insensitive and incorrect, but in the context of someone trying to highlight an area of deficiency they are absolutely correct. I am of the opinion that there are no known homosexual players in the...

B: AJones Hughton Baker
HB: SFisher Maguire Goddard
C: Dal Santo Hayes Montagna
HF: Riewoldt Loewe Hamill
F: Milne Gehrig Burke
R: Gardiner Harvey Ball
Int: Peckett Voss Koschitzke Blake

Good movie, great book, while the main point of finding undervalued players is good, it doesnt apply as easily to AFL. 1) Afl season is too small statistically, I think MLB is over 100 game season, where statistical anomalies cant exist, ie the best team will win 2) The salary cap doesnt allow for h...

Agree with Joffa Burns. Everytime a player in their first 3 years replaces an established player on merit the team is improved. Ross, Ledger, Cripps, Sipposs et al. coming into the team will see us improve. If our bottom six and top six improve this year we are back in the hunt. For me our top six (...

Rd 1 Team: B: Schneider Blake Dempster HB: Goddard Fisher Gilbert C: Montagna Armitage Ray HF: Siposs Riewoldt Cripps F: Milne Kosi Wilkes R: McEvoy Dal Santo Steven Int: Jones Polo Clarke Gram Inj: Hayes Gwilt Ins/Outs by Rd 22 representing improvements (i.e. incoming player is playing at a higher ...

A quick little hypothetical game:

Two former Saints will be in the PSD/Rookie Draft

Zac Dawson and Andrew Lovett

Lets assume that neither are taken in the PSD and both are available n the rookie draft at rookie prices who would you take, if any?

I think with the new Academy the focus will be on getting youth on the rookie list as opposed to the mature age recruits. However, with 7 or 8 spots available, there is room for 2 mature agers essentially as backup to current squad. With that known we probably have 2 areas where we really lack exper...

First Choice Players B: Fisher, Gilbert, Dempster, Gwilt M: Hayes, Dal Santo, Goddard, Montagna, McEvoy, Steven F: Riewoldt, Koschitzke, Milne, Schneider Other Seniors B: Blake, Clarke, Polo, Wilkes M: Armitage, Ray, Peake, Gram, Jones F: Untried/Rookies/Kids B: Simpkin, Ferguson, Lever M: Cripps, L...

October: Season over, unless we win the GF its all doom and gloom, time to rebuild. November: Draft build up, every person we draft will play 200 games. December: Draft letdowb, becasue player X wasnt picked up or was taken just before "the pick" we had. Then the rookie draft, another 4 pl...

Rookie draft if anyone will take a punt on him.

Profit & Loss can be misleading, without looking at the result, increased loss probably caused by: Increased depreciation from Seaford Increased write-offs at Moorabin (asset worth less as not being used) Financing costs of Seaford As earlier said should be running around break-even. Over the lo...

This could be perfect for doing summer program with NSW Scholarship (trials perhaps) or even international players, just because we know we can secure them outside of the draft. I wonder if the AFL would ever go down the path of TAC cup team alignment with the AFL and using a similar bidding system ...

So all 10+ year players are free game 8+ years that are not top 10 paid players also free game. With this being known how do you structure your list to maximise benefits, assuming everyone wants to get maximum pay? Which players do you target? Do you want a list that is high on talent and low on dep...