Yep, a good project for Andrew Russell. I'd be happy to see him get an opportunity. He has elite AFL qualities.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

I am very pleased with what we have done for our list so far in the trade period.

Yes we may have got a good player in the draft with pick 6/8. But surely if we were guaranteed to get a player for that pick in the draft who was good enough to be in the u/22 team 2 years in a row and place 3rd and 5th in an AFL teams B&F we would jump at it. So why not celebrate that we got that type of player in a trade?

I am disappointed that SPS was not successful with us and believe that the the way he was managed contributed to him performing at a lower level than expected when he was drafted. But with the addition of Cerra and Hewett to our midfield stock, SPS was not likely to get regular games as a mid. Getting pick 52 for him was unders, but the trade for Lewis Young filled a greater need in defence for the team than retaining a reserve mid.

Hewett cost us nothing and the reports that we paid too much are laughable. He is being paid marginally better than an average AFL players wage and he is just what we want to add to the midfield along with Cerra.

I was a bit ambivalent about Voss when he was first appointed, but have loved what he has said about his priorities for developing our team. I am confident that he will make a big difference to our mid field players performance.

Am excited about getting to the first test against Richmond in 2022.

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“Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticise them, you're a mile a way and you have their shoes."

I was thinking this morning about the opportunity we had over the past few years for Shiel and Coniglio, compared with the deal we have just done for Cerra.

Which would we prefer:
a) Shiel, 3yrs ago for two first round picks? We most likely would not have Stocker or Kemp who we drafted in the 2018 and 2019 drafts. Or we might have kept Stocker or someone else from Round 1, but lost Walsh
b) Coniglio, 2yrs ago also two first round picks? We most likely would not have got Saad, and probably not Williams either.
c) Cerra, now for one first and a future 3rd round pick?

Hindsight is great, but I reckon we've somehow ended up with the best of those options.
In retrospect, we probably dodged a bullet certainly with Coniglio and probably also with Shiel. Also, I don't think our list was ready yet.

I'm not sure Cerra is better than either Shiel or Coniglio, although he may turn out to be better. But, much better value for one first rounder.

Thoughts?

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

That is an interesting way to look at it.

Basically I am thinking you are saying we would have given up too much to get a Coniglio or a Shiel. That's a fair point. Teams can get really burned if they try too hard to get a player into their team. It can cost a hell of a lot.

There are so many sliding door moments.


I am interested in which midfielder will be the best resting goal kicking forward. Ed Curnow kicked 4 goals in Round 23....With Hewett from the Swans being a lock down midfielder, could Curnow become a solid contributor in some matches on the forward line?

I’ll ignore the usual shit you come up with Cazzeman
BV
From 2021 stats(averages for the Dockers) in order of best to not so best
Player Ranking
Mundy
Darcy
Fyfe
Brayshaw
Cerra
Serong
Total clearances
Fyfe
Mundy
Serong
Darcy
Brayshaw
Cerra

Tackles
Brayshaw
Fyfe
Mundy
Cerra ( not sure where the ranking is but not in the top 100 of the AFL

Disposals
Mundy
Fyfe
Cerra
Serong
Ryan
Metres gained
Ryan
Mundy
Cerra
Brayshaw
Serong


So BV that’s pretty good evidence that he is around the 5 th mark
Mundy Fyfe definitely better
I personally reckon in the second half of the season Serong and Brayshaw went passed him
And Darcy is the third best ruck in the comp

At least Cerra is only 22 maybe he was homesick
But tell me boys
Is a guy worth pick 8 and a future third rounder based on those stats

Unless Cripps recaptures his 2019 form Cerra will be asked to be our number two mid.
That’s unless Walsh gets injured
And Cerra won’t get the silver service he got from Darcy with DeKoning who I like but is still developing

At least Cazzeman we can agree on O’Brien since you have bagged the shit of out him all season Mr Positive

I’ve often wondered if things would have turned out differently for Bolton if we had landed Shiel in 2018. I suspect we would have been more competitive in 2019 and Bolts may have kept his job. But yeah, it would have cost us either Stocker & Kemp or Walsh (depending what deal we made with GWS).

We probably should assess the Cerra trade in about three years, but for now it seems like a fair deal for all parties.

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It's never as good as it looks and it's never as bad as it seems.

I’m not sure how he can prove to AFL recruiters that he is a more durable player given the low number of VFL games in the past two years. It’s not his fault, but I reckon he needed to demonstrate continuity in his footy to get back in the AFL system. Nobody touched him in the mid season draft and I can’t see that changing unfortunately.

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It's never as good as it looks and it's never as bad as it seems.

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Ricky Gervais - “Everyone has the right to hold whatever beliefs they want. And everyone else has the right to find those beliefs f***ing ridiculous.”

Looks like we are keeping O-Mac

That makes 39 players with contracts and the max is 42 and we need 3 draft picks/rookie elevations.

34 Main List
5 Rookies (O-Mac, Mirkov, Kennedy, Honey, Owies)

If LOB is to get a spot on the rookie list, he relies on us selecting only 2 draft picks and elevating a rookie.

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Go Blues

We should've got Mundy.

Was wondering what impact may be of both Marchbank and regrettably Doc being presumably on LTI at the start of 2022

With our first pick at 25 and having recruited 2 mids and 1 KPD who should we be looking for? Best available or a specific need. If the latter, what need.

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"Get ready, Teddy - you're on": Ron Barassi half time 1970 Grand Final

Is Cunners going to be LTI for next year too?

we wont see him back in action until mid year IMHO.

The Coniglio or Shiel will come to us next time. They all want to join a list where they should be the 2nd best midfielder but will be the equal 4th.

Give us a season to show our wares and there will be a queue.

We have seven gone out and three in, so we should have four vacancies, unless list sizes have changed from 2021 to 2022

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I know it is Tom Browne but he said tonight that some Carlton players were asked to take a pay cut so we could fit Cerra into the salary cap.
It was confirmed by barass70 on BF.
Surely this is not true.

Does Kennedy need to come out of the rookie list?

Ha ha
I’m still waiting for BV and Cazzeman to reply

For those interested. Found the article I was looking for. I’d say Kennedy can stay as a rookie, if preferred. The other thing to note is if a player is contracted, they can be moved to the rookie list in between the national and rookie drafts.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/659265/afl- ... or-rookies

List changes aren’t changing. We had 36 + 8 rookies + 1 international last year.

I believe you can do 38 + 6 rookies as well.