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“The body feels pretty good”: Hannebery refuses to rule out AFL return
Bring in Hanners on minimum contract to play as a forward in the Bell/Ronke/Clarke spot!
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My apologies. That's six. Where are the other six to make up a dozen?Comment
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Interesting discussion and a lot of moving pieces.
Kennedy, Sinclair, O'Riordon and Taylor and four certainties to be gone. Three of them have retired, so that guarantees it.
I imagine Bell and O'Connor would be looing over their shoulders as well.
One of Gould or Melican will probably go for more opportunity. The club can't have both leaving as their would be no back up for the McCartins and Rampe. Ronke possibly too.
Franklin, who knows, but if he does leave/retire, it would open up more opportunity for McLean or Amartey. On the flip side, if he goes around again one of both could ask to leave.
The list is in pretty good shape - no need to make wholesale changes!Comment
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But what we must do is regenerate the list every year. Clubs that don't do this, thinking they have a good list, invariably fall away. It's a delicate balance between retaining depth and and improving your list. Love them or hate them, Geelong and Richmond recruit from other clubs as part of their regeneration, while still finding a couple of good young players every year. Charlie Constable came up regularly as a player worth picking up. He played in a losing Gold Coast reserves side yesterday. Clearly there were reasons why he couldn't get a game for Geelong.
Take Bell and Melican as examples. Bell has shown that he doesn't produce at the top level and Melican has been constantly injured. These players are not going to improve our list next year so you let them go.Comment
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Pretty accurate summation Jimitron
Before the puff piece on the AFL site I would've thought that Naismith was a certainty to be gone as well, it beggars belief that he may get another contract.
If he can stay on the park, and that's clearly a massive question mark, he can only play one position, ruck. He has no flexibility to play forward, in fact he offers very little around the ground as a ruckman averaging 1.6 marks across his career. We've seen how much Hickey and Ladhams have offered around the ground and as additional onballers when they play. So if either of Hickey or Ladhams are fit, Reid would continue to pinch hit as second ruck and Naismith doesn't play.
If we're keeping him as a depth option, then it doesn't make sense. If we want him to be no 1, then he'd have to dislodge Hickey and Ladhams, and that's not going to happen.Comment
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We'll make changes as we do every year but for every player you let go, you need to find a replacement. We have three ND selections, two late teens and a late 30's so that covers three outs. Any more outs after three need to be back filled via the Rookie Draft or DFA who are other teams cast offs.
Naismith would be the 44th/45th player on the list, no big deal for him to get another year in lieu of what would be the 40th rookie selected in the RD or about the 100th player selected in this years drafts.
A number of players may be retained as marginal depth on minimal contract terms, although we don't have a salary cap problem at present.Comment
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Let's not forget that Naismith's spot has already been taken by Hugo Hall-Kahan after Naismith was placed on the inactive list. So he's basically off the list just to get us to the maximum 44 players. He's effectively already been delisted.Comment
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Amartey, McLean, Melican and Wicks already have contracts for next year so unlikely to be going anywhere. We have only three off the senior list for next year and likely to want to draft three picks. If Fox and Paddy were promoted to the senior list that is two more to be cleared from the senior list. I am not sure if they were promoted but it would be unlike the Swans to hand out contracts like theirs without promotion. Naismith if retained will also require a spot somewhere, maybe as a rookie. Uncontracted seniors include Franklin, Bell, Clarke, Lloyd, Cunningham, Gould and Ronke. We can expect to lose at least a couple of them. Taylor, O'Connor and MacAndrew are the uncontracted rookies so losing any of them does not help our senior list. I would not be surprised if all were cut to clear some rookie openings.Comment
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