I’d say the club is looking at just 2018 here. These guys will contribute more than picks 80, 100, 120 etc.
They will probably all be gone end of 2018.
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Spot on.
A deep draft next year will have a lot on our list nervous.
Next season up to 8 players will be playing for their careers.
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I appreciate people say this mostly as hyperbole, but drafts don’t go out that far. There hasn’t been a draft in the last decade where 80 players got taken. Pick 100 is not a thing.
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I’m shocked to be sitting here…
You’re right, should have said 5th, 6th, 7th round picks.
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Totally agree with you.
How is Jackos leg going? Will he get a full pre-season.?
I’m pleased he gets one final crack. Still reckon he is a better option than green
Players like Boekhurst and Hartung are delisted, yet we hang on to Jerrett and Long?
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Poor choice by Essendon
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We have a history of making questionable list management decisions like this but generally it’s been a case of delisting players and then adding them to the rookie list as opposed to simply going back to the talent pool and starting over.
Long I can stomach, but Jerrett… I mean, really???
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Bobshearman will be pleased.
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Very pleased.
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Says more about what’s out there, than what’s been decided as far as their individual talent goes.
Merrett the odd one for me only because we have any area of the ground he’d aim to play in covered,
so I thought we might delist him for a 'punt’on say a state league inside mid (a need)
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People bagging this decision have no foresight. If we delist them then we need to draft probable dud players super late and sign them on 2 year deals…which means we have to delist other talented players next year (or payout a contract early Austin Lucy style) to have a good bite at the 2018 super draft.
These guys getting 1 year contracts are basically ‘warming the seat’ for the draftees next year.
Also makes sense to want to keep Long, Merrett and Morgan over Hocking, Howlett, etc because of the potential upside. It’s unlikely at this stage but you never know, something might just click for Long and we might be lucky we never got rid of a champion son of Essendon.
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I remember hearing stories of Shearman’s prodigious kicking, but he left for Sturt as I was getting started. He was a huge success as coach of Sturt.
The story was that he left with the girlfriend of another prominent Essendon player, but when he died a couple of years back, she was still married to him after more than 50 years…so it was the real thing.
That’s a ludicrous argument. So Disco, the guy who has been claiming all year to have invested enormous time and energy into the back end of the draft, instead decides to go with retaining tried and true list cloggers?
If our recruitment team can’t back their judgement on 1 or 2 late picks in any draft, they should be replaced.
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So we better keep somebody guys who arnt up to it, incase we draft some guys who arnt up to it?
Jesus. You’d hope that’s not the mentality
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We should just draft superstars with every pick and then we wont have these types of problems.
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as opposed to consummate plodders.
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