Who stays, who goes?

With salary cap changes and maybe other rules to come in around list sizes, who will and won’t be on our list in 2021?

NOTE: I don’t know how long everyone’s contract is. This is just looking at them from a performance/list strategy view.

Current List:

Andrew McGrath
Tom Bellchambers -Retired
Darcy Parish
Kyle Langford
Devon Smith
Joe Daniher
Zach Merrett
Martin Gleeson
Dylan Shiel
Aaron Francis
David Zaharakis - Traded
Tom Cutler - Potentially delisted
Orazio Fantasia - Traded
Jordan Ridley
Jayden Laverde - Potentially Traded
Josh Begley - Traded/Delisted
James Stewart
Michael Hurley - Potentially Traded (Love you Bear)
Kobe Mutch - Traded/Delisted
Jacob Townsend - Traded Delisted
Dyson Heppell
Irving Mosquito
Harrison Jones
Nick Bryan
Jake Stringer
Cale Hooker
Mason Redman
Ned Cahill
Patrick Ambrose
Brandon Zerk-Thatcher
Noah Gown
Brayden Ham
Andrew Phillips
Matt Guelfi
Lachlan Johnson
Dylan Clarke
Sam Draper
Ross McQuillan
Will Snelling
Cian McBride
Adam Saad
Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti
Shaun McKernan - Delisted/Traded
Conor McKenna - Retired
Mitch Hibberd - Traded/Delisted
Tom Hird
Henry Crauford

Just my thoughts, what do you guys think?

apart from Lav i wouldn’t be disappointed

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There’s a fair bit of chaff to bin that’s for sure.

Laverde isn’t one of them though.

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To my knowledge these are the uncontracted guys:

Andrew McGrath
Tom Bellchambers - retire
Kyle Langford
Devon Smith
Joe Daniher
Martin Gleeson - free agent…keep if he wants to stay
Jordan Ridley
Jayden Laverde - delist or give 1 year (I’m 50/50). Wouldn’t get anything in a trade
Josh Begley - delist
James Stewart
Kobe Mutch - delist
Irving Mosquito
Noah Gown - delist
Brayden Ham
Adam Saad
Shaun McKernan - delist
Will Snelling
Mitch Hibberd - delist
Jacob Townsend - delist (maybe keep if we get rid of Lav… I’d keep one of them at most)
Tom Cutler - delist (although I reckon there is a chance he’s contracted for next year)
Andrew Phillips
Henry Crauford

I doubt it’s worth trading any of our old guys. We’d get nothing for Hurley or Zaka
I’m also doubtful that we’d get enough for Fanta to make it worthwhile. I’d think about it for a pick in the top 30, but I can’t see anyone paying that

Cannot see Hurley or Zaka being traded.

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Be good though.

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Without knowing contract details

Andrew McGrath
Tom Bellchambers -Retire
Darcy Parish
Kyle Langford
Devon Smith
Joe Daniher
Zach Merrett
Martin Gleeson
Dylan Shiel
Aaron Francis - Trade
David Zaharakis - Retire (No trade value)
Tom Cutler - Delist
Orazio Fantasia - Trade
Jordan Ridley
Jayden Laverde
Josh Begley - Trade or Delist
James Stewart
Michael Hurley - Retire or see out contract
Kobe Mutch - Delist (sadly, I like him)
Jacob Townsend - Delist
Dyson Heppell
Irving Mosquito
Harrison Jones
Nick Bryan
Jake Stringer
Cale Hooker
Mason Redman
Ned Cahill
Patrick Ambrose
Brandon Zerk-Thatcher
Noah Gown - Delist
Brayden Ham
Andrew Phillips
Matt Guelfi
Lachlan Johnson
Dylan Clarke
Sam Draper
Ross McQuillan
Will Snelling
Cian McBride
Adam Saad
Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti
Shaun McKernan - Delist/Retire
Conor McKenna - Retire
Mitch Hibberd - Delist
Tom Hird
Henry Crauford- re rookie if no contract

Noah Gown? Come on. He is a project player who had a year with scratch matches. He stays

5-6 list changes only. Zaka and Hurley too old to trade. Both will finish when ready

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Oh…I thought this was a Blitz member cull.

I had a list.

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Need some help?

You also probs have RSI :upside_down_face:

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meh it’s irrelevant. most of the guys they’ll get rid of are outside the 22.

So next year you’ll still have
a cooked hurley
a cooked raz
a cooked zaka
a cooked hooker ( well that’s gonna get some weird replys)
in the starting 22.
may or may not have daniher
If you have mckenna you have a non committed guy with a foot out the door already and mentally shot cos of it.

Best bet, plan for 2022, then most of the decisions, like always with this club are taken out of their hands IF players decide to retire and or ask for a trade again when their current contract is up.

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Any of the players already mentioned above plus the following including those already confirmed:
Tanner
X
Worsfold
Harvey
Jordan
Corrigan
Dodoro

Where are Dods and Xav going?

I’m not sure any of them are ‘cooked’, but yes if they’re still on our list next year you’d be wanting to pump games into the kids for a good part of next year for sure.

This started well.

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I reckon Daniher will stay, McKenna IMO is gone, he’s been fit but hasn’t played. But if he’s homesick, fair enough.

Just being honest.

Reasonable to rely on Blitz’s resources. A thread like this will get lots of people to ‘help’ with the details.

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Wherever they want apply for vacant positions