Pfft… we don’t have any need for that. We’ve had plenty of succe… oh wait…
Issue is the other leg that has a hamstring injury that has him out for another 5 weeks. Pass.
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If we’re not going to rebuild, then I think this is the right approach. I’m not sure it works, but I can’t see any other mechanism to progress faster than a mid-table draft hand gives you.
Although some strategic trades out might also assist. Not something EFC is know for doing (last time was Lovett?).
Would be eaten by a Kako bid. Although we could theoretically trade it out into 2025 if demand for 20’s picks is as high as speculated.
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They’d better be ready to overpay. If we lose Bryan, we need a mature or near-ready replacement. Unless it is a crazy offer, I’d be forcing Bryan to stay for next year and see who we want to let go then (if anyone, we might play him & Draper a lot together in 2025).
Also is impacted if we do anything with Wright.
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I think good honest players is what we actually need in defence. Players that we can at a minimum rely on.
To that end I’m pretty sus on Cumming’s recent run with soft tissue injuries
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He’s free though and our medical team have been superb this year. It may also dilute competition for his services having an injury interrupted year. I think worth the gamble. He plays wing too which seems brads current thing, that everybody needs to be able to play wing for some reason.
Not sure if serious?
With something like $1.5m in the first year meaning the next 5 years are at an average of about $700k.
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Basically no injuries in the back half of the year, so yes, serious. What other club has had as shorter injury list after the bye? The only best 22 player missing was parish for a number of weeks there.
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Yeah, but Guelfi and now Duursma have both done soft tissue injuries in the past 3 weeks. This is the time you don’t want these injuries, but they have done ok.
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Paul Curtis, who was mentioned here in dispatches when everyone felt they could feed on the Norf carcass, has just re-committed until the end of 2028.
There isn’t a real difference maker out there in Free Agency for us to bring in. As mentioned, Perryman and/or Cumming are hardly players that will take us from being a fringe top 8 team to a top 4 team. One thing we do have is a number of players with decent currency that could help us construct a trade for players, or early draft picks, that will give us what we need. It will take some proactivity from the list management to do this, but with Dodoro still hanging around like a stale bottle of ■■■■ I highly doubt anything will happen in that space. Any trades involving first round picks from the past 5 years would be seen as an admittance that he got those picks wrong, and the one thing we know about Dodoro is that his ego will not allow him to do that.
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Bit of luck I think, still think we got too many soft tissues this year which are the ones to avoid, but it did get better in the 2nd half of the year
Cal reckons we will look at Cam rayner next year when he becomes a RFA, and hobbs should go if a rival club comes in for him
Caldwell going to get 4 years
goldstein open to going around next year
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Seriously, how much rag dolling from stronger, younger ruckman does this guy need to pull the fkn pin.
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If he’s happy to spend most of his year in the twos teaching our kids how to midfield I’m very happy with Goldstein as a backup ruck
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He aint just back up in a Brad team.
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Of course he is, he got paid probably an average of 25k a game this year to touch the ball a handfull of times. Who wouldn’t want that