Is it just me - or does Hannebery look proppy in that vision of him jogging the boundary?

Why does everyone say Parker is a 'small' forward? I know that he is relatively tall and likes to try to take a speccy but the fact is that he plays the ball more off the ground than in the air. Thus, he is more of a crumbing/pressure forward than a marking forward. Yes, he is taller than Membrey b...

Sam Murray & Harley Bennell can both play footy. Both have a history of off field issues and clubs ignored them in both drafts. Both have skill & pace. Murray is fit and ready to go. Bennell would need to prove his calfs are ok. If they are fit and over off field issues would be a fabulous ...

Can the rookies play if there are no LTI's? Yes. Yep, now that the AFL has made that change, I don't quite get what the purpose of the rookie list is. Why not just extend the numbers in the main list?? It is a HR issue. Contracts and minimum pay rates. Ahh OK. However, I bet Wilkie has had a pay ri...

saynta wrote: ↑Fri 29 Nov 2019 2:04pm

Selhurst Saint wrote: ↑Fri 29 Nov 2019 1:58pm Can the rookies play if there are no LTI's?

Yes.

Yep, now that the AFL has made that change, I don't quite get what the purpose of the rookie list is. Why not just extend the numbers in the main list??

CURLY wrote: ↑Mon 25 Nov 2019 3:59pm

Stian wrote: ↑Mon 25 Nov 2019 3:24pm See that Lewis has nominated for the draft along with 4 other former saints players.

Interesting - who are the other 4? Cheers

I'm pretty sure all delisted players go into the draft automatically.
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Ahh, OK. Thanks for that.

See that Lewis has nominated for the draft along with 4 other former saints players.
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Interesting - who are the other 4? Cheers

C'mon guys. Get over it. He is a cheap short-medium term back up with a lot more potential upside than Billy and Spencer, who were gone for medical reasons anyway. Talk about a storm in a teacup.

And, as that article mentioned, Geelong's ruck is remarkably thin with Stanley as the no.1 ruck. He is a good(ish) player but surely he is too fragile to bear the no.1 burden for the whole year ?????

ausfatcat wrote: ↑Wed 13 Nov 2019 10:13pm

ace wrote: ↑Wed 13 Nov 2019 9:17pm
Time for all you ITKs to prove you really know something.

To prove they can look up the AFL rule book that's free online if you google it?

Yep, but looking it up is one thing; understanding the gobbledegook is something completely different !

“No doubt the opinion of McCartin is framed on the excellent pack mark he took in Tasmania against a then rampant Hawthorn then missing his shot on goal when a goal would have won that match for us”- To the Top Actually he took a better mark than that in that game, in my humble opinion. A high ball...

huh? ease up. His first year back in AFL. He looked good with ball. Lets just see what happens this year. I like him I agree. I know that the WAFL midfield doesn't compare directly with the standard required of the AFL - but give him a full AFL preseason and some good midfield players around him an...

Avoid. Bad influence for Hanners. Both of them may end up falling down some stairs together. Nope, different club, different people around him, he is more mature, he knows that it is last chance saloon, etc etc etc. Must push as hard as possible. Would be such a bonus if he comes good and no great ...

I remember all of the calls on here for us to draft Petracca at that time but I agree that both Petracca and Brayshaw have been disappointing.

Has anybody looked at the AFL playing records of the others in that draft to see who actually turned out to be the best of that year?

SaintJohn1956 wrote: ↑Mon 28 Oct 2019 10:57am Would it be worth giving Bennell or Sam Murray a chance?

I reckon taking Bennell is a no-brainer. His body is close to right (if not completely OK) and he would have a good stable atmosphere around him at the Saints.

The challenge is how fit can he get ? I would like to see him take Acres spot as the big bodied kind of random mid. He has done it at WAFL Is bigger, stronger and maybe faster than Acres - seems to play in a kind of random manner - not sure he will be quite to Acres levels of randomness though hope...

saintadamski wrote: ↑Fri 25 Oct 2019 2:15pm

outside66 wrote: ↑Fri 25 Oct 2019 2:11pm

saint6709 wrote: ↑Fri 25 Oct 2019 2:05pm If he gets a decent contract do we get a draft pick - or does he just go now ?

No compensation because we delisted him

What do you mean? Delisting him IS the compensation

Now that is harsh. Funny, but harsh.

Does this mean that the club now has finished all of the delistings that they need before the draft? Does anybody know that final list lodgement date? Cheers

Very pleased about that. I think that he still has a lot to offer. Maybe even more off-field than on-field.

Has there been any whisper that the delisting was so that he could be transferred to the rookie list?

On Jack Steven, does anybody have "real" information on whether we are still up for payment of some of his salary next year???

And Jack Bytel; so that's 8 class players.

It looked so bad at the time that I can't believe that there wasn't at least a minor injury. You might say "ahh yes but he came back on" but I remember Lenny Hayes coming back on and playing out about 2 or 3 quarters after he had done his ACL. I sooooooo much want to be wrong but I'm suspi...

Cousins was actually a likeable bloke with a drug problem Bennell is a d***head All young people make mistakes. Substance abuse and alcahol turns a lot of good blokes into dickheads. Heard Tim Gossage talking about Harley on SEN this week. He says he's followed his story and says he is desperate to...

GT helped Lyon. Those players were good little GT Boy Scouts turning into GTMarines by the time Lyon got them, I think it got technical in ‘07 and slowed down the mojo, then good to go like a rocket. Penny was a mystery to my interest was patchy. Why did he go so early? He was a really big loss for...