he was showing heaps as a fwd and then we stupidly did the Cale Hooker surgery on him and think he’s a defender all of a sudden.
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Great to see Sharp (pure inside mid) and Robey show glimpses and hopefully they will be central pillars in our midfield for the next decade.
Sharp is line a Sidebottom type which is exactly what we need and hopefully Robey can both develop the goal kicking side of his game and start to be looked for by our midfield as we bring the ball forward.
With these two, our list focus for non KPs can now focus on run and skills.
Looking at the out of contract players at other clubs, If I were running the list I would throw money at Jarman Impey and Arti Jones. Two indigenous guys at opposite ends of their careers and opposite ends of the ground. Would give us a bit of dynamism.
Darcy Wilson from Stk worth a look too.
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any more to this story @Lawry
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Trade Langford,Parish,Ridley,Merret
Hawks first rounder for Merret
Lions first rounder for Ridley
Try and get second/early third round picks for Parish and Langford
Bring in Toby Greene and Lache Neale
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I would hope youre bringing in some experience if we let all ours go FN
Why I mentioned Neale and Greene. Jack Crisp will be another I look at or Lapinski
Geelong wants Greene. Good mates with Cameron. He isn’t picking us.
Plenty of other teams want Neale, also won’t pick us.
Since when Geelong have shown interest In Greene?
Fair enough shouldn’t stop us from having a crack tho
We should still be having a crack at Neale.
Throw an absolute shed load at him to get his attention.
Money to pay his divorce fees
One thing that was noticeable on the weekend was how nice it was to have a plethora of good or better kicks behind the ball. Roberts, Reid, Redman, Johnson, Farrow (and even Prior isn’t a slouch) generally used the ball very well (with one obvious exception). I was furious with the commentators when they were criticising us passing it across the square waiting for an opportunity in Q1, and laughed when one of the gang then hit a leading forward perfectly. By the time we got to the third quarter they were singing the praises of controlling the ball then hitting a forward. I think we didn’t do quite enough of this (and GWS tried to block it a bit) in the later stages.
Having a base of good kickers in defense will set up the list a lot better than previously. And Kondo and SEH are good users as well.
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they haven’t, it was a story made up by Jay Clark to talk about on first crack
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Geez that 2020 draft was a killer for us.
Not opposed to those players leaving but I do think we probably need to offload some senior players.
And look to bring in experience from other clubs. Not sure who else would be an option for us.
2020 not a great year. Ahead of our picks JUH traded, and Holland, DGB and Phillips all delisted once already. After our picks Pedler, Stone, Powell, Jones, Angwin, Macrae hardly setting the world alite.
Some good footballers I’ve not named, but many more misses than hits. Frankly, I still feel our first three selections stand up well for talent, but injuries and Scott’s development have done them no favours. Actually, I’d add Baldwin to that summary.
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Someone closely looking at big cox ?
In 2020, on draft night, I wanted to trade one of our first rounders pick for Collingwood’s F1 (became Callaghan)…
But that whole event has become even more infuriating this year…because Brayden Cook now looks better than any of our picks! And he was the player written on Forster-Knight’s whiteboard when he logged into the draft practice run-through (I’ve always wondered whether that leak affected our trading strategy, because it undermined a rumour that we were going to bid on Collingwood’s Reef McInnes).
Anyway…I will never know what really happened behind the scenes…but right now, I’d prefer Callaghan OR Cook over what we’ve got.
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Was doing a draft analysis for an article I’m writing on rebuilds and it got me looking at the age spread at Essendon. If we were to line up two playing squads from our list, with one being the youngest options at each position and the other being their older counterparts, it paints a real picture of where our list is sitting (and where it could go given likely 3-4 nice draft picks this year and Bewick next). Here’s how it played out:
SENIOR
FF: Wright - Edwards - Gresham
HF: Merrett - Jones - Langford
C: Fiorini - Martin - Duursma
R: Durham - Bryan - Caldwell
HB: Redman - Blakiston - El-Hawli
FB: McGrath - McKay - Ridley
I/C: Guelfi - Parish - Perkins - Setterfield - Prior
JUNIOR
FF: Gerreyn - May - El-Achkar
HF: Kako - Caddy - Day-Wicks
C: Clarke - Tsatas - Cox
R: Sharp - Visentini - Robey
HB: Farrow - Reid - Roberts
FB: Nguyen - Hayes - Kondogiannis
I/C: Unwin - Mid-Season Draftee - McMahon - Johnson - Bourke
If you overlay the sides, you hand pick the guys in the senior group that aboslutely make the junior side better. That gives you an idea as to who we can look at moving on and what list spots need upgrading urgently.
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That’s nice to see our young talent stacked up like that, it’s very promising seeing some of our top dnd talent is 21 and under. Thanks for sharing
I’m trading Merrett, Ridley, Parish
Keeping Martin, Duz, Duurs, Caldwell, Wright, Reddog, Mcgrath
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