There have been a few contracted players deciding to “retire” in recent years, which has always felt extremely dodgy to me. But not at the Swans with the exception of Tippo who was genuinely forced to retire!
There have been a few contracted players deciding to “retire” in recent years, which has always felt extremely dodgy to me. But not at the Swans with the exception of Tippo who was genuinely forced to retire!
My list changes would be:
Delist: Knoll, E Taylor, Reynolds, Ling, Stoddart, Rowles, Maibaum
Rookie list: Naismith
Assume we draft in Daniher and trade Reid (though keep Reid if we can't trade Daniher).
Best 22 looks like:
Papley Daniher Wicks
Hayward Buddy Blakey
Florent Heeney Rowbottom
Lloyd Rampe Dawson
Cunningham McCartin Fox
Naismith Parker Mills
Aliir Stephens JPK McInerney
E: Melican Hewett O'Riordan Thurlow
If Buddy or Daniher go down, McCartin to play forward and Melican to come in.
Solid team but we are lacking in the ruck department and desperately need to trade one in and ideally draft one.
I agree with most of these delist suggestions, but would give Ling and Stoddart more time. We've only tried them a handful of times and would like to see them both in the system for another year.
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I think you're being too harsh Cosmic. Fox has been outstanding down back. I'd be confident that if the team Captain suggested is fielded without injury next year, we'll be back in the finals race. The glass is always half full with me!
I think Port delisting is very different from us delisting as we are in a completely different boat - they think they are in the window while we are in the development phase .
I reckon we need more time to know about Ling. But we have had enough time developing stoddardt. I guess the question for the recruiters would be - can we find more value in other delisted players from other clubs than stoddardt. I think the answer would be Yes. Also our need may change as we now have more depth in the back half. We need solid midfielders who could step in and do the job - we are bare thin on that. I would cut him lose and find a value midfielder delisted from another club.
I am sure there are players who would mature a bit later and maybe after a jolt of delisting.
North have just delisted 11 players.
Wow...taht includes Jasper Pittard, Daw.. looks like its curtains for those guys.. if you have been cut by a team on the bottom, chances are they will not get a look in anywhere else
I suppose it comes down to an known and unknown quantities. There will be plenty of clubs delisting players with the view to redrafting them.
I would like to see Ling get a reprieve.
Seems a bit extreme. While they currently have picks 2 and 10 in the first round, and an early second rounder, they don't have another pick until the fourth round. So, to replace those that they've culled, the either have to get lucky at the bottom end of the draft and the rookie draft, or trade players in. I'm not sure how attractive an option North would be, for players open to changing clubs, since they're now probably favourites for next year's wooden spoon.
hmmm
the market is opening wider it appears
if we continue the picking up glass to turn into diamonds maybe it will work?
"be tough, only when it gets tough"
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