It can only be Young. Until we recruit another genuine key defender, Young has to be part of our plans IMO. Gov and Kemp are far too vulnerable and it leaves far too much on Weiters shoulders, which takes away his intercept and rebound game. SDK should be the priority target next off season

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Absolutely rotten news for Newy - and for the club. The defensive set up is a bit off kilter without him and Cincotta filling that hardened medium defender role.

Huge season for the Moo, and the door is open for Boyd to be a 20+ possession rebounder.

Three vacancies on the list. Of the group that is currently training with the squad, Matt Carroll is probably the only like-for-like... not that that makes him a certainty.

The AFL data has both of the Irish boys at 194cm, which is a fairly dramatic change to the list profile. Monahan is still listed as a forward, but I think they both play in defence this year.

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If anything, the defence is an area we actually have some depth in.

We've lost Newman and Cincotta, but we could play any six (seven?) of the following and be fairly comfortable:

Weitering, Saad, Cowan, Young, Kemp, Silvagni, Haynes, O. Hollands, Boyd, Docherty, McGovern... Wilson?

The hardest thing to replace won't be Newman the footballer, but Newman the organiser. I maintain that our 2022 season went to hell when he got injured, and we lost all structure. Hopefully three years on the rest of them know better what they're doing as a unit.

It really depends on what combo we feel is most effective.

Saad +1 year
Cerra +5 years

Cerra is a bit of a surprise, but that’s the modern game.

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Expiring Primary List contracts this year:

Non Free Agents
Adam Cerra…… +5 years
Adam Saad…… +1 year
Billy Wilson
Brodie Kemp
George Hewett…… +1 year
Harry Lemmey
Jesse Motlop
Mitch McGovern
Nic Newman

Unrestricted Free Agents
Jack Silvagni
Nick Haynes
Orazio Fantasia
Sam Docherty

Restricted Free Agent
Tom De Koning

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The club must be confident that he has overcome the recurring hamstring injuries.

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Seriously dumb to give a guy who had 5 hamstring injuries in the last 12 months 5 years.

At the very least its highly risky.

Clearly the club seems confident from the outcome of the DOha Quatar camp thing they sent him on...

Maybe a more prudent option could have been 3 year extension with options based on games played or something

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Hopefully it means he comes reasonably cheap

Because 5 years seems big to me

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3 years he'd be looking around

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Where's the news on TDK?

5 years is a lot but the trend seems to be for longer contracts lately. Perhaps he's taken less money for stability?

At the very least you would hope he has taken a significant pay cut for such a long extension, especially given his horror injury history.

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With the cap set to hit $17.7m this season, 5x $650-700k is fairly manageable. If he’s playing 20+ games a year, he’s probably worth more than that.

We’ve only got 36 on the primary list, with 10 of those aged 21 & younger.

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I agree.
But I'm probably too biased to offer an honest reflection as I probably expect more than what he can deliver.
I can't remember a game where I thought "wow! Cerra burned up the opposition".

If this contract means Carlton miss out on De Koening...you just shake your head in wonder at the stupidity.
Now I have seen games where De Koening was a difference maker, none that I can remember from Cerra.

But it could also mean it makes it easier to sign TDK, if we've sorted Cerra's wage sensibly.

My worry is this hamstring issue remains a thing, but I guess we hand it over to the new fitness bloke & hope for the best.

He is a good player Cerra in my view. Very good. His first game for us against Richmond & his game against Coll at the end of 2022 stand out to me. We just want to see his best, uninterrupted by injury.

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Matt Carroll gets SSP.spot
Sam Durdin gawn

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Good decision. No more injury plagued players please.

So last spot out of DGB and Liam McMahon

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While I don't disagree, didn't the young bloke miss pretty much all of last season with injury?

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