Brendan Rhodes says list deadline for VFL(W) is next Tuesday, March 5th.
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Hopefully more accurate than the last time around, though the looooong TBC list kinda undercuts it.
Is it really just 1 VFL player hanging around from last year?
COACH: Blake Caracella (confirmed until 2024, replacing Leigh Tudor – Pascoe Vale).
STAYING: VFL: Matthew Foley; AFL: Kaine Baldwin, Nick Bryan, Jye Caldwell, Nik Cox, Alwyn Davey, Jayden Davey, Sam Draper, Sam Durham, Matt Guelfi, Lewis Hayes, Dyson Heppell, Nick Hind, Ben Hobbs, Jaiden Hunter, Harry Jones, Jake Kelly, Kyle Langford, Jayden Laverde, Nic Martin, Andy McGrath, Jye Menzie, Zach Merrett, Darcy Parish, Archie Perkins, Mason Redman, Zach Reid, Jordan Ridley, Will Setterfield, Dylan Shiel, Jake Stringer, Elijah Tsatas, Tex Wanganeen, Sam Weideman, Peter Wright.
ARRIVING: VFL: Jared Eckersley (Essendon VFL), Jackson Hately (Adelaide AFL), Kane Loftus (St Mary’s Geelong), Ayui Makieng (Melbourne University Blacks), Ricky Monti (Golden Square), Xavier O’Neill (West Coast AFL), Jack Peris (St Kilda), Tom Stapleton (Northern Bullants), Tom Toma (Golden Square); AFL: Nate Caddy (Yarrambat/Northern Knights/Carlton VFL), Xavier Duursma (Port Adelaide AFL), Todd Goldstein (North Melbourne AFL), Jade Gresham (St Kilda), Luamon Lual (South Warrnambool/GWV Rebels/Bombers NGA), Ben McKay (North Melbourne AFL), Archie Roberts (Hampton Rovers/Sandringham Dragons), Vigo Visentini (Brighton Beach/Sandringham Dragons).
DEPARTING: VFL: Jack Brown (Williamstown), Billy Cootee (Norwood SANFL), Joel Fitzgerald (Williamstown), Austin Harris (North Adelaide), John Jorgensen (Northern Bullants), Callum McCarty (South Adelaide), Harry Minton-Connell (Williamstown), Toby Murray (Adelaide SANFL), Quinton Narkle (Port Adelaide AFL), Tom Phillips (Carlton VFL), Harley Reid (West Coast AFL); AFL: Massimo D’Ambrosio (Hawthorn), Alastair Lord (delisted – Norwood SANFL), Cian McBride (delisted - County Meath), Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti (retired – Mildura Imperial), Rhett Montgomerie (delisted – Footscray), Anthony Munkara (delisted - Warragul Industrials), Andrew Phillips (retired – Lauderdale), Will Snelling (delisted – Sturt), James Stewart (delisted), Patrick Voss (Fremantle AFL), Brandon Zerk-Thatcher (Port Adelaide AFL).
TO BE CONFIRMED: Luca Alessio, Ben Archard, Brad Bernacki, Jacob Brown, Jack Cleaver, Sam Conforti, Oscar Duncan, Carlos Egan, Will Golds, Mac Hallows, Will Hoare, Josh Hotchkin, Michael Kiraly, Bruno Laguda, Riley Loton, Brad Lynch, Will Madden, Solly McKay, Jake Moorhead, Beau O’Connell, Stefan Rasinac, Jake Sutton, Mahmoud Taha, Tom Wallis, Declan Willmore.
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Super effort on the retention of VFL players. Come on down Matthew Foley and …………
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YEAH… but EFC haven’t CONFIRMED he has left 
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When the VFLW equivalent comes out, I expect to be mocking it badly. Hopefully this time he starts by removing the very-publicly-retired players.
EDIT: it’s coming out tomorrow.
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Another year of failing to secure decent VFL talent, and another year coming up of getting flogged when we there’s attrition to our AFL list. We love to talk up taking the VFL seriously, but it looks like it will be an after thought yet again. Pathetic effort from a weak and ineffectual club.
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Feel free to list the decent VFL talent we missed out on then?
Still wondering why he hasn’t turned up to training yet?
Voss?
Because, for whatever reason, the AFL has farked over the Victorian clubs with teams in the VFL. SANFL club salary caps are 345K, WAFL 250K, VFL is only 110K.
WTF we would agree to this, and other AFL clubs with VFL teams, is beyond me.
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its not Tigers, pies, and essendon…
its the poorer clubs - Hawks, Dogs, Saints, North etc weight of numbers and too many clubs where AFL basically control.
Firstly the SANFL sets its own salary cap in no consultation with the AFL.
The genuine SANFL clubs get $345k but the two AFL get only a small fee to bring in a few “top up” players. There are also strict rules over who the two AFL clubs can sign. All this is done to handicap the AFL sides and prevent them from dominating the comp.
SANFL clubs generally recruit well too as they are still very community based and it’s a sense of pride so sponsors will happily find employment for player and partner plus facilitate housing and help with things like education. So for the player who wants to have a second chance at AFL they get to play in a pretty decent comp and get looked after amazingly well. One of the things that interstate players always comment on is how well they are looked after and how enjoyable their time is and many will stay on
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How’s the VFL squad looking this year? Is the depth looking much deeper than last year.
I said decent.
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Given the salary cap constraints on AFL affiliated clubs its seemingly difficult to acquire a decent VFL list of players
If we want a competitive VFL team it needs to be being carried by our AFL listed players
Which needs essentially a healthy list and good depth
You can compare our list changes to other VFL teams. Many AFL affiliated teams have kept way more players than us
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Yet the other AFL clubs seems to manage to do it. I mean Norf even finished above us.
What are these other clubs doing, why do they hold on to their players and we lose ours?
Something isn’t right
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Wait we are complaining another year with a poor VFL list but also complaining we made changes to the poor VFL list from last year?
I think 3 or 4 of our top 5 from the B&F are no longer with us. Of course we need to make changes but you would hope we keep the decent ones and get rid of the ones not up to it
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