GET THIS MAN!!!
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Moving on those 3 would make us younger (assuming we pick up only 18 year olds). But you need to move on 600+ games to be less experienced (assuming you donât bring someone in via trade/fa). Merrett moving as well might shift that needle though.
Premiership player, all Australian, Brownlow medalist and 3 time best and fairest winner Tom Mitchell? I mean guess they both hosted podcasts.
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Parish and Merrett are no brainers to move on. We need to give Robey, Sharp and either Tsatas or another young midfielder opportunities in the middle. Scott has already admitted there isnât room in the side for everyone. Iâd keep Setterfield as VFL depth.
Iâd rather recruit a Green, Sidebottom, or even Melksham to play a HF role than move Merrett permanently to HF. I really think a smart vet forward is a massive need given the inexperience of Caddy, May, Kako.
Lean into whichever Coach we get to lure a hard working vet like Scott did with Goldy too - eg Hinkley / Powell-Pepper.
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be careful, you move them on and we become exponentially younger again.
Understand everyone wants to blood the kids but doing so as you suggests puts us in a perilous position that Melbourne did many many years ago, kids teaching kids.
If we want to move on the senior players, we simply must bring in experienced guys to help guide said kids. They do not have to be stars but pseudo on field coaches if you like.
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As per my comment, Iâd move them on and replace with vets playing different roles.
Personally, I doubt experienced players come here if there arenât experienced players here to begin with. Theyâd prefer to have some quality around them to help even though we think they are useless. Even North still had Corr, McDonald and Darcy Tucker when they got Darling, Parker and Daniel. And this year Simpkin and Logue join them. It may not seem much, but the experience we get would want to focus on their performance as much as everyone else. And theyâll lean on the oldies at times. North are a tough comparison because Iâd argue their next experienced players (Zurhaar, Larkey, Xerri, LDU, Stephens, Comben and Curtis) are better as a group than ours. We have better individual players, but some arenât available often enough (Ridley, Martin) and others we donât like because of their link to our historical failures (McGrath, Duursma, Caldwell, Durham, Perkins).
There isnât a specific quota of how many games average you need or what average age you have. You just expect to be in the bottom 2 or 3 in the league for both of those (not just overall list, but also the weekly 23). If youâre doing that and you have 1 mentor / teacher in every part of the ground, then you have a start. But if that doesnât happen, then weâll have to switch to the Richmond model (before their 2017 premiership) where they had no experienced mentors. The closest they had was Ben Cousins and we wouldnât consider him a mentor. They had no premiership experience and relied on youth and older heads. 2010 they had Richo, Cousins, Troy Simmonds, Shane Tuck, Chris Newman, 2011 it was just Tuck and Newman, 2012 Brad Miller, Moore and Jake King joined them, 2013 stripped back to Tuck, Newman, Aaron Edwards, and King, 2014 Foley, Ivan Maric and Chaplin joined them, 2015 stripped back to Newman, Foley, Maric, Chaplin and Deledio joined them, 2016 stripped back to Maric, Chaplin, Deledio, Shaun Hampson and Grigg. None of those names scream leaders that you must have to teach the kids. I rate Newman, but we wouldnât consider getting someone who hadnât even won a final as one of our leaders.
I doubt we attract 3 players to begin with anyway. And the three I named (Guelfi, Gresham & Setterfield) are barely playing this year anyway. Iâm also not sure what this Essendon Spirit angle (if we choose to follow this path) will bring with it. I donât expect players like Toby Greene to come here even though he was a Bomber fan. Heâll lean towards Geelong if thatâs an option and I wouldnât blame him. And Iâm not sure how attractive weâll be to âoutsidersâ.
A lot relies on how we handle the extra $3mil of salary cap. If we top up (mid twenties players like Shiel, Stringer and Smith), then we attract other leaders, but as long as we arenât trading away future picks, we can probably stay the course and just make better decisions at the draft. How we handle the trade period will define whether weâre staying on the current direction (lean towards youth) or go for a top up (like St Kilda).
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someone who can see an spot in the best 23 at Essendon, but are currently playing state league at their club.
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Agree $2m per year for 3 years. Make him Captain immediately
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Fiorini is one.
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Arty Jones might be put up for trade by the dogs.
Rowan Marshall if we donât have faith in Bryan and want someone experienced to protect HVH and give the young midfield some protection
Charlie Ballard will be somewhere else, and plays a position we will need.
We need to walk someone to the PSD, I donât think we would have the balls to walk Walter though
Isnât this just the trade thread with a different name
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looks good
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Its Sullivan Robey & Dyson Sharps club now.
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Whatâs Derek Eggmolesse-Smith doing these days?
Anyone heard the rumour we are preparing a massive Offer for Harley Reid, given our cap space.
Midfield of Robey, Reid and Sharp 
Pretty sure he aint for trade and would cost us Bewick as we wouldnât have the picks to do it
Am I the only one that thinks Harley Reid is overrated, he might become a champion but damn he gets talked up.
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No, youâre not. Donât want (given the asking price). Heâs also a staging FIGJAM.
Is there a new president we could poach?
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