Former #26 Kaine Baldwin

[Tbone]

Iam with Primmer

[bullishish]

Don’t particularly want to be with EFC List managers, but I am on this one

[Tbone]

We would be screwed if we have injuries to Draper and Bryan and don’t have Goldie as a back up.
Wright is not a ruckman
Vigo is no where near ready
Gerryn is further away then Vigo but has talent
Cox is too injury prone to ruck

[billybomber]

yep have to agree as much as id like to see vigo have a crack a fresh goldy coming in will be much better scenario

[Tbone]

Also I’d say having Goldie on the list coaching as well as playing offers far more to the team and development than Baldwin

[Houli_Dooli]

Depends if Draper and Bryan were both out and GoldStein had retired before mid season draft this would likely be my 22 in elimination final.

b: McGrath McKay Hayes
hb: Shiel Ridley Redman
c: Duursma Parish Martin
hf: Perkins Caddy Caldwell
f: KAKO Langford Wright
r: REID Durham Merrett
int: Gresham, Tsatas, HOBBS, Prior,
Sub: Cox
EMG: Jones, Roberts, El-Hawli

Reid, Wright and Cox to run through the ruck at times.
would be exciting and unpredictable Reid rucked in the NAB league as a skinny 17 year old.

[billybomber]

i was going to correct you but i guess the grand final is an elimination final?

[Tbone]

You are a monster for even suggesting that

[The_5th_Daniher]

Unfortunately a coulda shouda wouda been that didn’t

[whereswalla]

[KingDon]

@Houli_Dooli

r: REID Durham Merrett

■■■■ no! Are you on crack?

The kid has barely been able to string more than 2 consecutive games together and you expect him to ruck a final?!?

[Ants]

@dons85

For me, its Goldy who shouldn’t be on the list

Him to. Absolutely superfluous.

[Ants]

@primmer1978

@Ants

I think he’s a mistake of position firstly. With Lav terrible and Reid & Ridley’s bodies made of paper I think we need him. I expect to play Draper, Langford, Caddy up forward so don’t see a position for Edwards (or Jones).

I think Baldwin is capable of being a player who regularly finishes in his club’s top 10 in the B&F, maybe more.

Wow! Regularly in top 10 B&F. Are you watching Baldwin or soeone else. He was not wanted by all the other clubs, he was delisted by EFC, they gave the SSP spot to a bloke who had been there a week, I am not sure who you have been watching but it cant be Baldwin.

Not a single club wanted Tom Stewart until he was age 24-25 or so. Were all the clubs right to pass on him prior to 2016?

This club kept Menzie and let Mass go.

[AnnStBomber]

@Tbone

We would be screwed if we have injuries to Draper and Bryan and don’t have Goldie as a back up.
Wright is not a ruckman
Vigo is no where near ready
Gerryn is further away then Vigo but has talent
Cox is too injury prone to ruck

So we should clog the list with more than 5 Ruckman

Draper
Bryan
Wright
Cox and
Vigo

is suffice Gerryn is an added bonus and isn’t Goldy still on the list so that makes 7 ruckmen even taking out Wright and Cox it is 5

[Ants]

@Tbone

That is just a ridiculous view to be honest.
Firstly Menzie has played five times more games than Kaine also you want to get rid of a player in a area we are very short stocked in for an injury riddled player in an area we have pretty solid depth

We can and will obviously disagree on our assessment of the potential of a young tall who has mostly played VFL.

But you have no idea about our list. We’re likely to play 3 non-marking forwards. We’ve got Gresham, Perkins, Kako, Guelfi, Menzie, Davey, and Unwin. 7 players for 3 spots.

Down back we play 3 tall backs and have McKay, Reid, Ridley, Lav and Hayes. 2 spare players for 3 spots, with two of the main candidates quite injury prone. The idea we have more tall depth down back than small forwards is laughable.

[bltn]

@Ants

This club kept Menzie and let Mass go

Menzie was coming off a decent season though in 2023.

Heppell is the player Scott should have retired at the end of '23.

[Ants]

I was talking 2024 Menzie. No problem keeping him at end of 2023. Just pointing out EFC does make mistakes.

[Long_haul]

I know this won’t be popular, and its true I don’t give much of a fark about that - but I really liked Kaine as a forward at VFL level.
I know he got a couple of games there at AFL level, but I would have liked to see more. I think we were ■■■■-arsed terrible in those 3 or so games
Oh well; maybe at the VFL?

[jobiwan]

I really liked Baldwin as a player, but let him play a season of uninjured VFL and hopefully someone picks him up. Hopefully us, if he gets back form and his body is up to it.

[Ants]

@Long_haul

I know this won’t be popular, and its true I don’t give much of a fark about that - but I really liked Kaine as a forward at VFL level.
I know he got a couple of games there at AFL level, but I would have liked to see more. I think we were ■■■■-arsed terrible in those 3 or so games
Oh well; maybe at the VFL?

He got those games at the start of 2022, when he’d played I think 2 whole VFL matches in his career. He went back to VFL and played well as a forward for the rest of the year, then got switched to defence the next offseason.