It's been a long time, I shouldn't have left you... without a dope beat to step to...
Free Agents:
For me,
Doedee is a pass. Will be 27 with 2 knee recos to his name. Will already miss the first half of 2024 and who knows how he'll recover? He's been talked about as a replacement for Howe, but I'm not so sure. I'd need convincing.
https://afltables.com/afl/stats/players ... oedee.html
I'd say we're out of the running for
James Jordon as he isn't filling an urgent need for our list. But as a kick in the guts to the Dees, it would be a nice signing.
Ben McKay and
Jade Gresham also look like non-Collingwood targets, but both players fill a need on the list.
Deos anyone actually want to go for
Boak. In a coaching capacity, its a yes, but does he have anything left in the tank as a player? Would he be playing these finals if we had him now? Yes the window is open, but how many 35 year olds can one have?
https://afltables.com/afl/stats/players ... _Boak.html
Then there's
Todd Goldstein. Not sure if Goldy offers a lot now that he's 35 too. Would he be playing these finals if we had him right now? Cameron-Cox are our guys atm. Begg is one to watch coming up. Who is our current ruck coach? I'd like to have a backup ruck on the list that is
ready to play when needed. But is there another option? Do we need to address other needs first?
https://afltables.com/afl/stats/players ... stein.html
Delisted Free Agents:
As more delistings happen, perhaps another name of interest will come up. But for now,
Jackson Hately is one DFA that interests me. The worrying sign is that he walked out on GWS to go home to SA and the Crows have now delisted him. So he's been let go by 2 clubs without much fuss. He is a 191cm hard bodied mid. Was pick 14 in 2018 draft and will turn 23 in October. Is there an injury history? Is he not up to it?
https://afltables.com/afl/stats/players ... ately.html
I think
Riley Bonner might get looked at. 26, 190cm Defender/Mid. In and out of Ports team this year, but a regular the 2 seasons prior. His numbers for this season were not great compared to previous seasons;
https://afltables.com/afl/stats/players ... onner.html
Sam
Petrevski-Seton is also a pass for me. But I will be interested to see if he gets to a third club.
Trade Targets:
Paddy
Dow is a pass for me. Likely to get to the Saints.
Ratugolea was someone I thought looked pretty good in defence until he completely ballsed it up and helped cost Geelong the game against us a few weeks back. Port can have him.
Zerk-Thatcher too. Scott
Lycett is also a pass for me. He was good 5 years ago. He's passed it now. But we do need to address our ruck issue.
Buku Khamis is someone the club seems to have highlighted. Ok go for it then. A nice cheap trade shall do it.
We've been linked to Max
Holmes and Jhye
Clarke from Geelong. We've been lightly linked to
Bailey Smith and even Aaron
Naughton from the Bulldogs. I dont know if I can see any of that happeneing! I think we simply dont have the picks to get any of this going. Say goodbye to Fin Macrae and Reef McInnes and current and future picks... and thats just the starting point.
As mentioned in another thread, there's a possibility that Trey
Ruscoe and Arlo
Draper are traded. Ruscoe to WCE was what I heard, but would he be interested in Freo if we were interested in
Liam Henry? But are we interested in Liam Henry?? And do we prefer to keep Arlo and Trey?
Our Boys:
Personally, I would keep
Bianco. But would he be happy to move to the rookie list if other clubs offer more opportunity?
Krueger is another I would like to keep, but move to the rookie list. Has
Will Kelly run out of time? At best, he gets a rookie contract.
Begg is someone I
really want to keep at the club. He has something.
Steene, Wilson, Murley are three rookie listed players that I think we can do without.
Links to check:
https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/out ... ct_players
https://www.afl.com.au/news/retirements-and-delistings