8 rookies promoted

[borderbarry]

From The Herald Sun.
FREMANTLE'S former VFL star Michael Barlow, Bomber Ben Howlett and Tiger Graham Polak are among eight rookies promoted by today's 2pm deadline.
The players were upgraded under a rule that allows a club is eligible to nominate a rookie player if it has 38 players on its list (not including veteran players) and it satisfies Total Player Payments requirements


Looks like we could not satisfy the Total Player Payment requirement.

[ace]

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7 teams had exisiting senior lists that were so bad that the clubs realised they may be better to play a guy from their rookie list in round 1 or if they had a few injuries, instead of guys already on their senior lists.

Despite what you may read in some newspapers, (newspapers make good emergency toilet paper), these guys have NOT been promoted to their clubs senior lists.
8 have been named as nominated rookies, they remain rookies, but they are eligible to play in senior matches.
They will get paid more if they play so they had to be accommodated under total player payments.


The desperate clubs are Richmond (twice), Fremantle, North Melbourne, West Coast, Essendon, Carlton, Hawthorn.

Last years preliminary finalists, Geelong, St Kilda, Bulldogs, Collingwood are comfortable with the players they already have on their senior lists, and will only need to temporarily promote rookies as the need arises under the long term injured replacement rule.
Hawthorn continues to be ambivalent about Gary Moss.

[borderbarry]

SInce we are a man down, maybe we should have considered it. Although who to promote at the moment, that gets a bit tricky.

[plugger66]

SInce we are a man down, maybe we should have considered it. Although who to promote at the moment, that gets a bit tricky.

Unless they are playing there is little or no point. None of our rookies are close to a game unless we revert bach to Leigh Fisher and I dont think that is about to happen.

[saintbrat]

SInce we are a man down, maybe we should have considered it. Although who to promote at the moment, that gets a bit tricky.

I would think untill the papers are stamped and signed and completed on the ' man down' it would become sticky if they upgraded and then had for some reason to change the situation.

[vacuous space]

We could have nominated someone and played them at full forward!

Seriously, this doesn't surprise me. None of our rookies looked anywhere close to getting a game. Dawson looked close last year and he still didn't get the nomination. If we really need to elevate somebody, there's another nomination point at mid-year and LTIs. Maybe we can put a certain someone who will nevery play again on the LTI list on account of his crippling stupidity.

[kezza]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/ ... fault.aspx

7 teams had exisiting senior lists that were so bad that the clubs realised they may be better to play a guy from their rookie list in round 1 or if they had a few injuries, instead of guys already on their senior lists.

Despite what you may read in some newspapers, (newspapers make good emergency toilet paper), these guys have NOT been promoted to their clubs senior lists.
8 have been named as nominated rookies, they remain rookies, but they are eligible to play in senior matches.
They will get paid more if they play so they had to be accommodated under total player payments.


The desperate clubs are Richmond (twice), Fremantle, North Melbourne, West Coast, Essendon, Carlton, Hawthorn.

Last years preliminary finalists, Geelong, St Kilda, Bulldogs, Collingwood are comfortable with the players they already have on their senior lists, and will only need to temporarily promote rookies as the need arises under the long term injured replacement rule.
Hawthorn continues to be ambivalent about Gary Moss.

Some clubs plan their lists by leaving rookies on the rookie list tp give them an extra player. Clubs that dont have veterans can have 2 nominated rookies, clubs with veterans that are "outside the list" effectively have extra senior players and less rookies.
Carlton always planned to promote Garlett, after his good year last year, and instead of placing him on the senior list they told him he would be the nominated rookie, just as Aaron Joseph was last year. Rookies can be paid more than the nominal payment and this is agreed to. To say clubs are desperate is not the case, more good planning of their list.

[ace]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/ ... fault.aspx

7 teams had exisiting senior lists that were so bad that the clubs realised they may be better to play a guy from their rookie list in round 1 or if they had a few injuries, instead of guys already on their senior lists.

Despite what you may read in some newspapers, (newspapers make good emergency toilet paper), these guys have NOT been promoted to their clubs senior lists.
8 have been named as nominated rookies, they remain rookies, but they are eligible to play in senior matches.
They will get paid more if they play so they had to be accommodated under total player payments.


The desperate clubs are Richmond (twice), Fremantle, North Melbourne, West Coast, Essendon, Carlton, Hawthorn.

Last years preliminary finalists, Geelong, St Kilda, Bulldogs, Collingwood are comfortable with the players they already have on their senior lists, and will only need to temporarily promote rookies as the need arises under the long term injured replacement rule.
Hawthorn continues to be ambivalent about Gary Moss.

Some clubs plan their lists by leaving rookies on the rookie list tp give them an extra player. Clubs that dont have veterans can have 2 nominated rookies, clubs with veterans that are "outside the list" effectively have extra senior players and less rookies.
Carlton always planned to promote Garlett, after his good year last year, and instead of placing him on the senior list they told him he would be the nominated rookie, just as Aaron Joseph was last year. Rookies can be paid more than the nominal payment and this is agreed to. To say clubs are desperate is not the case, more good planning of their list.

Will Carlton be Cum ing again this year?