Another re-signing, great news! Smooch re-signed for 2 more years.
Swans lock small defender in for two years - sydneyswans.com.au
Who's next? ????
Another re-signing, great news! Smooch re-signed for 2 more years.
Swans lock small defender in for two years - sydneyswans.com.au
Who's next? ????
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good news, but how long will he be 'underrated'????
Premiership player. All Australian.
Great to see him resign for another couple of years - although I do fear he might seek new pastures next time around (I'm guessing by then he will be a unrestricted free agent?). Not that one could complain if he did - he's given great service to the club so far
"You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."
Great news, adds another two years. Is there a list of when players are signed until?
2022 Buddy
2021 Parker & Hanners
etc
Mods, could we have such a list as a sticky?
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I don't see why he should necessarily be seeking new pastures in two years time if he is not now (and the article says he didn't talk to any club other than the Swans). Of course, things can change but that is the case for any player. I think he would have been an unrestricted free agent at the end of this year had he not re-signed. He's been with the club for more than eight seasons and I doubt he'd be in the top 25% paid players at the club, given defenders tend to be short changed, and given how many high profile mids and forwards we have signed on decent coin.
I expect him to be like Mal looking for his last pay day in 2 years with the larger cap. Hopefully with us!
Better news (imo) than the Parker contract.
Critical player to our success.
He ate more cheese, than time allowed
I don't think he will either - but he will be at that age that, dependent upon the Swans overall fortunes and future path, that he may be targeted by some clubs looking to top up in search of experienced players to round out a list in search of a Premiership - who may be willing to throw over the top $$$$ at him.
"You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."
Great news, we really seem to have sewn up the vas majority of our squad now.
By my reckoning the major re-signing targets for this year are Heeney, Tippett and Mitchell, three pretty big targets. Heeney should be a reasonably easy re-sign but you'd have to be thinking that we'd be struggling to re-sign both Tippett and Mitchell on the coin they are on at the moment.
This is pure hunch (I did get Jetta right last year and was one of the first to call it) but I'd be thinking Mitchell is most at risk of bring traded. For the three following reasons
(1) He is on good coin and would supply the required cap space to keep Tippo
(2) If Mills is as good as we think then he may be easier to let go than we think
(3) We'd get decency trade currency for him (First rounder minimum) which may be handy
I think it is crazy for us to think that Buddy's additional $500K a year this year won't start to bite either
It's very early in the game to be calling trade period action, but nonetheless, you probably have hit the 2 most likely in Tippett and Mitchell.
Barring injury, Mitchell is bound to have a very good year and will be in much demand. His future may depend on how many of our emerging young midfielders step up and are ready to play high level senior footy. It may come down to how we rate the future prospects of players like Hewett and Robinson. The midfield squeeze that forced Bird out of the club is not going away anytime soon.
It's a big year for Tippo. He hasn't put a good full season together since we handed out all that coin for him. So many 'ifs' in our forward setup. If both Sinclair and Naismith have good seasons we might be ready to let Tippo go. He will be 30 next year. I would be looking to trade for one of Brisbane's young KPPs. It's considered a real weakness for the Lions this year, mainly due to lack of experience, but they have a around a dozen KPPs under 25 and most look to be very decent prospects, if not potential outright stars. They all can't play in the side and a couple are bound to be unhappy and will be looking to make a move. We have our our own emerging group of young KPPs in XR, Aliir and Davis (hopefully Melican as well), so we might be in good shape as well in this area.
I'm just adding a few things that come to mind to your thoughts on the matter. It's something to keep an eye on, and I'm sure we all will. Not making any calls at this point, but I am looking forward to the year to see how some of these potential player movements pan out.
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