Tom Edwards 1 year deal
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The club is taking a risk here, but itâs the price to pay for loyalty. Weâre showing that we look after our players and we back them in, as well as the medicos and HPD to get them back to their best.
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I have no idea what we are paying him or how that sits within our total salary cap, but Iâll question it all the same. In addition, do you think Brad Scott discussing Sam Draperâs calf over the weekend can somehow be linked back to Tom Edwardsâ ACL?
Just nail his recovery you incompetent club
Glad we showed some faith in him, I donât think we saw the best of him in our short time with us.
In the wafl it looked like he had some real marking power
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We will attract all the elite busted up players. Come to Essendon - we offer free medical.
Free does not mean good
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I think he showed more than enough that an additional 12 months makes sense.
Hopefully the recovery goes well and heâs up and about for 2026.
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Do you mean his 3 goals in that shootout we lost by 10 goals? Or that half he played in the practice match?
Itâs a list spot and we are using it fund a player who probably wonât be able to complete a good preseason. (Is it a 12 month recovery period?
From the human side of things support him for sure, 100%.
From a footballing sense the odds are extremely slim anything will come of it, IMHU.
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The shootout our future superstar, pick 10, key forward couldnât get a kick in?
You can just as easily hype his performance that game as dismiss it.
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People acting like weâve signed him for 5 years on big money or something.
Club saw enough in him to give him a contract to play this year. In the limited games he played, they saw enough to persist despite suffering an injury.
Might work, might not. Same as taking a pick at the back end of the draft, which weâd be doing instead.
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Some on BB - âwhy the Fark has Edwards been given a one year deal, he has shown sfaâ.
Are these the same posters who are happy to keep the likes of Cox and Jones on the list for half a decade and counting, or hand out a 20 year deal to a timid plodding big defender on a salary equal to the GDP of a small country?
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He showed more in the few games he played for us than half of the team. Not bad given where he came from. The club would have been following him at Swan Districts and have seen enough to make the call.
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This club sure loves a premature contract extension. What if our MSD selections all show promise? Is Rosa going to pull fresh list spots out of his arse at the end of the season? Nothing against Edwards, but surely we had higher priority contacts to sure up ahead of this one.
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I understand being upset at giving him one year, cos list spots are just so tight with the abundance of goalkicking superstars we haveâŚ
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If thatâs the case Jones should be delisted tomorrow and we take another pick in the mid season draft
Probably the same people who have suggested we look at Hunter and Baldwin again in the mid season draft
If the club feels like theyâve found one, then a 1 year extension makes sense. The alternative is to go to the draft with a late pick and try to find another key forward to play next year, who will need development and probably take a while. Edwards will probably come back from injury at the same rate that a new starter would get up to speed.
Iâm personally quite impressed with Edwards and can see him becoming a regular senior player in 2027. 2026 will be a bit slow as he works out of the injury, but thatâs basically what youâll get from a draftee, just without the confidence in what youâll get.
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I donât see a problem. Heâd be cheap, and was the talk of the preseason. The club obviously love him and there will still be plenty of guys available to chop at the end of the season.
If it doesnât work out cut at the end of next year.
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It would be very surprising if the answer to the first part isnât âthe bare minimumâ which means the answer to the second part is âit doesnât, because rookie minimum payments sit outside the salary capâ.
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