Sounds spot on.
He had a good year, but he’s still backup and it remains to be seen how well he’ll fit with Joey in the team.
It all depends. If he plays the next few years at 2018 levels, he’s best 22 and a big addition to the side. If he returns to his old performance levels, he’s depth only and shouldn’t be on more than minimum wages.
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Yep 2nd KPP is up for grabs out of Smack, Brown and Stewart.
No reason Smack can’t be best 22 next year.
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A club would have to be desperate to spend a second rounder on McKernan. It’s not going to happen
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What’s the AFL median though?
Carlton are desperate.
cul_de_sacIt could be a significant development that the AFL are considering giving out priority picks which are conditional on being used for trading for mature players, and not for elite 18yo’s.
My understanding is that the picks are to be used for State league mature agers not ones already in the system
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Smack is out of contract I guess. So can he put himself into the draft if he wants to maybe get more money ?
no, he’ll just get picked up as a free agent if a trade isn’t done.
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I’d offer him a $350K base (guaranteed AFL average salary) with the ability, if he performs to his 2018 levels, to earn $500K, which to me is fair enough. If he plays to that level for 20+ games he is well and truly worth it. Clearly the club want to keep him, but only for the right price. I would sign him to those terms, 2 years with a 3rd year option based on games played.
Not a chance of the happening.
Way, way over his value.
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$250k max with $100k incentives would be my final offer
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He’s been so incredibly inconsistent across his whole career. It’s hard to trust that he can keep the same form going in 2019.
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we need walrock paul’s extending neck gif, with dollar signs transposed on it.
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Yep, that’s about right imo.
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Can you be my manager?
I think the AFL are considering both (Hocking was on the radio talking about on Saturday).
In the first example the priority pick must be traded prior to the draft for a player, so that the team can bring in an established player to improve their best 22 immediately rather than draft an 18 year old and have to wait 3 years for them to develop.
I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment. He had an excellent trot this year but even within an individual game he would go from monstering backmen to complete brain fades to being completely ineffectual. At his best you would think that a Daniher/Stringer/Smack forward line would be fairly formidable. But you could find at the same time he fails to get a game for large patches of the year.
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