Mitchell watch

[ScottH]

Looks like Hawthorn are freeing up cap space by off loading Sam Mitchell to West Coast

Wow. That is a surprise.

I guess the Hawks wanted to keep a Mitchell on the park.

Hawk Mitchell set to be traded to West Coast - AFL.com.au

[rb4x]

Things are starting to make sense now with the news that Mitchell may be going to the Eagles. That is Sam not Tom.

[AnnieH]

Wow.
Sam Mitchell gets a year, then a cushy coaching position.
Boys club, or what?

[caj23]

Wow.
Sam Mitchell gets a year, then a cushy coaching position.
Boys club, or what?

He's probably got another 1-2 decent seasons on the field left in him

It's actually a great move for the Eagles, quality player in, weaken a contender, and line him up for a future coaching position, all for SFA on the trade table.

[ugg]

Pretty hard to argue against that on his career to date. He's still young so he has time on his side, and I expect he'll carve out an AFL career, but he'll need to put some scores on the board against quality opposition in 2017

Further to the stats above, 9 goals in 8 games against top 8 teams this year

You're missing my point, which was that the same player gets judged very differently depending on whether he's wearing a Swans jumper or not. I suspect he would have been lauded for the same performances had he been playing for the Swans. As liz also points out, most players will have lower outputs against the better teams compared to the bottom teams.

[Markwebbos]

According to Smitchell, Clarkson suggested it to him.

I wonder what pick West Coast would send in return and whether that would make its way to Sydney?

[barracuda]

Wow.
Sam Mitchell gets a year, then a cushy coaching position.
Boys club, or what?

Looks like a mature option. In a way it shows the maturity of Hawthorn to be able to look outside the box and come up with a win (hawthorn) win (Eagles) win (S. Mitchell). I can see that S. Mitchell was always going to seen as a future coach, and if anyone could judge that it would be Clarkson.

Smart play.

[dejavoodoo44]

Wow. That is a surprise.

I guess the Hawks wanted to keep a Mitchell on the park.

Hawk Mitchell set to be traded to West Coast - AFL.com.au

Uh huh: so now the moving on of Psycho Sammy, who was apparently playing for peanuts, frees up significant salary cap space?

[Legs Akimbo]

How would we have felt if Goodes had done this? Probably still have Membrey on our list..

[mattybloods]

Uh huh: so now the moving on of Psycho Sammy, who was apparently playing for peanuts, frees up significant salary cap space?

I was thinking that too, still a lot of space to be made!

[longmile]

Just glad the 2 mitchells wont be in the same team together

I was having nightmares already thinking about it

[Plugger46]

Not sure where this is coming from.
For the last month there have been many people here who seemed ok with losing him.

Regarding Hawthorn, I have another 4 pages to read on this thread before I'm up to date.
I'm hoping that it's not full of sooks complaining about who they can and can't have and using the "they can't have everyone" line.
They have a cap. As long as they don't exceed it, then good on them.

Fair enough, I must have read different things.

Spot on with Hawthorn. Looking at their list, it's very easy to see how they can accommodate Mitchell and O'Meara.

[caj23]

You're missing my point, which was that the same player gets judged very differently depending on whether he's wearing a Swans jumper or not. I suspect he would have been lauded for the same performances had he been playing for the Swans. As liz also points out, most players will have lower outputs against the better teams compared to the bottom teams.

I don't agree with you, there's plenty of guys still wearing the red and white who get potted as well, its just the nature of footy supporters. I think you'll find that if he was a Swan and continued to go missing in big games he would be flogged on here as well, probably even moreso than he already does. Just look at some of the commentary on here this season on Towers, McGlynn, Tippet and McVeigh as an example

As for output against better teams, to date Membrey's hasn't been just down, he has been a complete non-factor for the Saints. He may well end up a good 3rd tall option as a forward, but as we've seen with Rohan, its a difficult position and unless you are very top shelf you are going to get found out against top quality opposition (i.e. the type that you face in Grand Finals).

[Ludwig]

Tom to Hawthorn for pick 14 ONLY.

[Markwebbos]

Tom to Hawthorn for pick 14 ONLY.

Is that a rumour, best guess, or done deal?