Could this be a sign that we are getting Sheezel.
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Jon Ralph - Hearld Sun
ESSENDON
Has any club had more salary cap space in the last five years?
Out have gone Joe Daniher, Orazio Fantasia, Adam Saad with Peter Wright being paid only $300,000 a year by Essendon this year and maybe $400,000 next year.
Michael Hurley will retire after being paid $800,000 a season and more than that in a back-ended deal in 2022, while Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti’s lucrative deal is finished.
Jake Stringer’s heavily incentive-based deal won’t hurt them this year either.
So in what would be Ben Rutten’s final year if things go pear-shaped again, the list bosses have to be considering a Jordan De Goey type.
First-year mid Ben Hobbs has upside and Kyle Langford will return from a hamstring but Stringer and De Goey swapping in a rotation from the centre square and goalsquare is a game-changer.
Bobby Hill will again request a trade to Melbourne and why wouldn’t Essendon go again in a year when they should recruit Alwyn Davey’s sons Alwyn Jr and Jayden as father-son selections.
Hurley has a minor calf injury and while the mid-season draft approaches he is desperate to play on and at least try to get back for some late-season games.
We will probably throw huge money at De Goey, this year & The McKay brothers, next year.
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Id be very very surprised if we dont make Dunkley an offer.
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I don’t mind throwing money at a player provided they are free agents. If they’re not, no thanks. Wait another year or two for that.
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We have a metric fucktonne of cash to throw at the market. We need to throw that cash around to 1) put pressure on clubs to over pay thus releasing future players and 2) create a perception of scarcity (ie there are a number of players we are looking at, you want to commit first because if someone else does there will be no cash). Front loading of unused space can ensure that this strategy can be used again.
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Is Brayshaw a leader tho?
he can’t refuse.
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Josh Dunkley is one of the most underrated players in the game. Picture: AFL Photos/Getty Images
3. Slam Dunkley
This Bulldogs utility – a description used in a bygone era – doesn’t get the accolades he deserves. Put it this way, when Nathan Fyfe returns and delivers Dunkley’s numbers – 26 disposals, 11 contested possessions, seven score involvements and six tackles – the shrilling AFL media would immediately put Fyfe’s head back on the AFL’s equivalent of Mount Rushmore. Only two players in the competition average Dunkley’s numbers. One, of course, is Dunkley. The other is Adelaide’s Rory Laird, another criminally underrated player. Dunkley is a weapon. He plays mid/forward, he can play key forward, he wins the ball in the middle, can do a run-with role and has rucked. Best of all, he’s bloody tough. Little wonder the Bombers wanted him. He’s out of contact at the end of the season and the Bombers, and other clubs will have a dip again. An All Australian fancy, perhaps on the bench, Dunkley, in the past six weeks has recorded 143, 116, 118, 78, 136 and 143 ranking points and kicked 10 goals. That’s a huge change, because he didn’t kick a goal in his first five games.
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Yes, he’s also selfless and runs hard defensively.
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Is he in Fremantle’s Leadership group?
I’m talking about Angus from Melbourne.
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I’d do the following
Out: Shiel Heppell, Hurley, Stewart, Walla
In: DeGoey (UFA), Dunkley (Future 1st), Brayshaw (UFA), Dale (RFA), Hill (Shiel pick).
Premiership guaranteed 2023.
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Melbourne’s Leadership group:
Gawn, Viney, Petracca, Oliver, Lever & Brown.
Can still be a leader without being in the leadership group. Doesn’t include May in their leadership group and he is as vocal and demanding as they come on the field. Dees have many good leaders.
I absolutely think the club will go after De Doey.
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But isn’t it just guessing that he’s a ‘leader’ then?
Some players just enjoy worrying about their own game and doing their thing…. Not all players aspire or want to be leaders.
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We’ll fix that deficiency in his game.
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Jordan De Goey is Mr Impact for the Pies and the club must pay up to keep him, Robbo says. Picture: Getty Images
1. What’s he worth?
That’s always the question. But the better question is: What does De Goey do for Collingwood? That’s easy: He’s Mr Impact. On Sunday against the old enemy, he had a game-high 11 score involvements in a low-scoring game. That’s Jordan De Goey in a nutshell. There’s four players in the past two years who have averaged 20-plus disposals and a goal per game. The other three are Dustin Martin, Marcus Bontempelli and Christian Petracca. People shake their heads when it’s said he’s worth $800,000 a year, but he’s worth every cent of that. He’s going nowhere despite being out of contract at the end of the season because, if the Pies allow De Goey to leave after low-balling him, they will spend the next 10 years trying to draft someone exactly like him. Coach Craig Macrae knows that. True, De Goey owes Collingwood, but, at the same time, Collingwood owes De Goey a healthy contract. About $4.5 million over five years is in the ballpark
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Yeah I don’t disagree with that at all, I have no idea whether Brayshaw is a leader inside Melbournes four walls or not.
If he is, even without having an official title, he would be an excellent pick up.