- Ryan: not surprised
- Borg: we added one tall defender to the list and concluded Wales+Marshall is enough? Right.
- Sargent: was never injured, AFAIK, and never played despite the list barely being larger than the squad each week.
- Frew: give me that Sliding Doors moment where she kicks (at least) 3 goals in round one
- Ashley-Cooper: joins EFC in 2019 and is our Rising Star and 7th in B&F, 2020 is a washout, Best Clubperson and Don of the Year and B&F winner in 2021, grabbed by us during Poaching Period, wins a premiership and is named Best Finals Player, does a foot for
a monthmany months and misses the entire AFLW season, recovers, plays one match, does foot at next training session, gets cut. She lives in interesting times…
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DJR writing a stan like series of letters to nat wood for this
At least a few of the above are presumably not surprises. All five have been training with our VFLW team, and all but Fede (just back from surgery) have played a game in this pre-season.
(As context, it’s been a very small minority of the AFLW players featuring in VFLW training, so far.)
I’m sad.
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Amazed that Ashley-Cooper or Borg are willing to stick around with the VFLW team. I would’ve told the club to ■■■■ off personally.
Sydney have given up pick #1 for Laura Gardiner from Geelong, who struggled for AFLW midfield time despite coming off a VFLW season where she averaged 35 disposals (call that 52 in a 120 minute game).
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And given this draft is just a supplementary one, pick 1 means almost nothing. Sydney has done well at the trade table as per usual.
When you have a comically small list of 30 players you are forced to make some arbitrary decisions, and injury during a short season can end (or sideline?) your career.
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With the delisting of Borg, Frew and Ashley-Cooper, I’d like to throw a very general “up yours” in the direction of our list manager.
I’m a big believer of having heart and soul players, who’d bleed for the jumper, in our squad during the early/developing years.
I feel we are a ruck short and if Killer suffers an injury, it’ll bite us in the ■■■■.
Frew just needed to find her rhythm, and Coops was just unlucky with injury.
Mark my words, if any of the three mentioned women get drafted by another club, they’ll get revenge on us one day in a critical game.
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I am NOT ok. 
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A few share your view.
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We’ll have one pick in this supplementary draft, pick 45.
I really just cannot understand the Borg delisting. The team just does not have the key position depth to not have a designated backup ruck
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Assuming no other changes, only if we decide to go with fewer than 30 players 
They just didn’t bother showing after round 3, because no one traded a fourth round pick.
Delisted free agency and any further cuts could change how many picks we take.
P.S. Related to that, I forgot to look: did Liz McGrath turn up on any VFLW lists?
We’ve picked up two delisted free agents.
185cm Ruck, Leah Cutting, from St Kilda
177cm Fwd*, Georgia Clark, from Geelong
(Our social media listed her as a forward, but she is a defender)
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Clarke sounds like a reasonable choice from a positional perspective. Sounds like she can play both ends.
Cutting was solid for St Kilda a couple of seasons ago. Already 31 though, but maybe the club thinks she’s a more ready made backup than Borg.
Also a bit of a weird triangle where we signed Borg over Nalder initially, Nalder moves to the Saints as Cutting had work commitments in SA, now Cutting delisted by Saints over Nalder and Essendon cuts Borg to sign Cutting…
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So if I’m counting right: started with 33, cut 8, brought in 4, 1 spot left.
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