What's happening with Warnock?

Its almost 3 weeks since that article appeared and still no news. We have almost half of our list coming out of contract this year yet only one re-signing so far-Robbo. Anyone heard anything?

Jordan Russell 2012
Matthew Kreuzer 2012
Matthew Watson 2012
Robert Warnock 2012
Chris Yarran 2012
Brock McLean 2012
Andrew Collins 2012
Paul Bower 2012
Rhys O'Keeffe (R) 2012
Pat McCarthy 2012
Luke Mitchell 2012
Andrew McInnes 2012
Heath Scotland 2012
Marcus Davies 2012
Bret Thornton 2012
Nick Duigan 2012
Edward Curnow (R) 2012
Rohan Kerr 2012
Levi Casboult (R) 2012
Zach Tuohy (R) 2012
Simon White 2012

What's the hurry? Would rather wait until end of season. Plenty of time for contracts to get done. Hopefully Macca feels the same.

They are all playing like shit so the club has revised their offers. Well they should be.

There's only a couple of those who the club would probably want to move early on, the rest can wait until season's end.

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Looking like a massive off season for the recruiting staff. We will have to accept that some of our 'deadwood' players will go on to other clubs and probably play well. But by crickey, we need a good freshen up as far as the current playing list is concerned.

Just on the GWS boys, it should be noted that no one left the gold coast side last year. Pretty safe assumption that the same would apply to the GWS mob this year.

Gold coast on the other hand, may be a little riper for the picking.

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Be mindful that too much trading from other clubs creates more 'dead wood' as a byproduct. How long can they keep fooling us into thinking they are 'required' players?

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If we don't make top four I predict 8-10 changes to the list. We may trade dead wood for deadwood..but new deadwood at least has potential to be a player in a new environment than stale deadwood.

Yep, it then comes back to the coaching staff to get the most out of the new 'deadwood'. Players like Kerr may end up at another club doing reasonably well. The old change of environment scenario.

The big question we are asking at the moment is how conducive is our current environment for getting the best out of our players?

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But apart from Ablett, Scully, Davis, Ward, Brown and Bock, what else have the Romans done.

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I think we do reasonably OK... Laidler would be a good example and possibly Henda too,

Those guys fell into our lap, I just feel we don't have the capacity to polish the rough diamonds at the moment. Whatever the reason may be.

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Yes, but I was talking about the list cloggers that you have to recruit just to make up the numbers. That's what has been happening, fourth round draft picks and rookies having to do imitations of second and third round selections because we have over-traded the latter.

It is no wonder that our list looks a bit lopsided. No one does like-for-like (In terms of degree of worth) trades anymore. We may as well keep what we have and only go for free agents and kids.

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JR, Scotland and T-Bird are the only ones on that list eligible for Free Agency and GWS can only take 1 uncontracted player
Kreuzer, Gibbs, Yarran and Warnock are the priorities.

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Brought peace.

In what way did Laidler fall into our lap?

We identified him 2 years previous and tried to recruit him the year before. Hardly fell into our lap.

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Moreso in the context of him already having the capacity to fit straight into the team not so much how he was acquired.

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Well, he was from a team that was hard to get into and that was having salary cap pressure put on them. Did we orchestrate that part?

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Let's be honest - every time you see Jeremy Laidler play well you can thank Darren Milburn...

Laidler was such a gimme that few knew who he was - "we're trading for a rookie elevation?". People on here were moaning about how "we won't want to have wasted another mid-range pick" on him..maybe even one of the usual suspects in this thread

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