Just had a look, they have fixed it and removed Long’s name.
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Just had a look, they have fixed it and removed Long’s name.
Ben McNiece is a standard (Cat A) rookie
I have seen this information only on Blitz I think, but there was never any announcement of a Rookie upgrade last year that allowed him to play, so it seemed to be true, until this new announcement.
McNiece was 100% a CatA rookie this year.
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Isn’t it weird that this list change is announced, however despite the AFL website telling us Long has been retained for another year and that Baguley was been demoted to a Rookie, the official email today mentions neither of those changes to the list?
Just Matty Dea to go now. Will be interesting to see if he is doing the police thing, or staying on.
Currently have up to 4 national draft picks (minimum of 2), and 1 rookie draft pick (maximum of 3 if we don’t fill the senior list), plus 1 spot left on the Cat B rookie list.
Well at least we know that the Rookie list is currently:
From the Contract Thread:
Rookie List
Baguley, Mark - (to be offerred a 2019 rookie contract)
Draper, Sam - 2019 (2nd year)
Mynott, Trent - 2019 (2nd year)
Lavender, Luke - 2019 (B List)
McNiece, Ben - 2019 (B List)Apologies to Dunlop for my update to the above quote.
So 3 Cat A and 2 cat B, so far,
with maybe an Irishman on the horizon.
So does this mean no more B list Next Gen Academy players, including Tiwi players?
I reckon Dea is done.
If we cutting Goddard in part with a view to playing Francis, Redman, Ridley & also have Guelfi able to play mid sized defender role I don’t see us offering him a contract
I reckon Dea is done.
If we cutting Goddard in part with a view to playing Francis, Redman, Ridley & also have Guelfi able to play mid sized defender role I don’t see us offering him a contract
It’s bad luck for Dea, he’s just a victim of our excess in quality mid sized defender depth, and you haven’t even mentioned Gleeson or Ambrose who he overlaps in function with.
He is clearly better than some of the players we are keeping, just not the right type to keep.
Agreed.
Was rumoured GC had offered him a contract as well as him potentially going into police force so he’s got options ahead of him
PC Dea has a nice ring to it
Updated the OP assuming the news on McNiece and Long is correct.
Would mean we could now take Neagle and Fletcher as F/S rookies, and still have 3 ND selections.
You’ve only got 1 primary rookie place left though?
Updated the OP assuming the news on McNiece and Long is correct.
Would mean we could now take Neagle and Fletcher as F/S rookies, and still have 3 ND selections.
Agreed. I think we might go the 5 or even 6 on the rookie list this year. It will be interesting anyway.
You’ve only got 1 primary rookie place left though?
You can take less ND picks, and extra rookie picks. So we could pass on our last pick (which is likely to be after anyone could have bid on Fletcher or Neagle) and take an extra pick in the rookie draft.
I would have thought if they were going to cut Dea, they would have by now.
I would have thought if they were going to cut Dea, they would have by now.
You could say the same about signing him
Updated the OP assuming the news on McNiece and Long is correct.
Would mean we could now take Neagle and Fletcher as F/S rookies, and still have 3 ND selections.
Why do we believe the “news” on Long and Baguley?
As I’ve asked in other threads, when has the club re-signed or delisted players without posting an article on the club site about it? There hasn’t been one for Long or Baguley.
Equally, to my knowledge there wasn’t anything from the club at any point saying McNeice was promoted to the Cat A list. But we believed it because a few communications specialists said so?
Woosha has been ruthless when it comes to list management since the start. I really liked that. This year’s delistings started well with BJ and strong call on Bags. But gone soft with the last couple, though they have been one year extensions.
I disagree.if we had better draft picks sure but I’d take all our uncontracted players on a 12 month contract over pick 80+ on 2 years
These guys might want better security than a 1 year deal and are either negotiating or considering other offers like Morgan did last year. May not be the club holding up the process here