Agree with all that except the #2 mid. Gotta be an alpha. Strike mid. Pay up.
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The Blair "Which?" Project
- Thread starter Tony Braxton-Hicks
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Not much relevance unless you include the increased salaries we need to pay. i.e. Bakes, Rioli, Short, Bolton, Balta etc etc.
Fair point. We have a few OOC this year. Just trying to ascertain what TPP May be available
Miller, Pickett, Rioli x 2, Baker, Cumberland, Stack, Ross, Nyuon. Apart from DRioli, Baker maybe Pickett (payrises?) the others still fringe players at this time, I wouldn’t expect them to be due significant increases
Balta and Bolton contracted to 2023 will no doubt be due for a pay rise.
Short UFA 2027. Money already accomodated..
Tom Lynch back-ended contract payment increases as well.
Interested to know what people think the value of Hopper is?
IMO I doubt anyone would pay enough to give GWS band 1 compo, probably band 2 (end of 1st round) so if we traded just our 1st, does that get him? Obviously depends on what number that 1st falls on. Taranto worth more IMO due to being able to play multiple positions.
I'd love to find a way to get either Brisbanes 1st or the Bombers 2nd (both will want to downgrade them for points), upgrading our 2nd from 30ish to around 20ish. There looks like there will be several very good prospects around the 20 mark this year, and would result in bringing in either Hopper or Taranto and 7 picks inside the top 30 in 2 years, a good way to rebuild on the run.
IMO I doubt anyone would pay enough to give GWS band 1 compo, probably band 2 (end of 1st round) so if we traded just our 1st, does that get him? Obviously depends on what number that 1st falls on. Taranto worth more IMO due to being able to play multiple positions.
I'd love to find a way to get either Brisbanes 1st or the Bombers 2nd (both will want to downgrade them for points), upgrading our 2nd from 30ish to around 20ish. There looks like there will be several very good prospects around the 20 mark this year, and would result in bringing in either Hopper or Taranto and 7 picks inside the top 30 in 2 years, a good way to rebuild on the run.
as you are the expert, can you tell me which premiership stars the Swans picked before Shai Bolton? or which gun they picked before Noah Balta?
And I am guessing their rookie pick before Liam Baker must getting close to 100 games by now? or at least 50?
also, as was mentioned, Warner was their 4th pick that draft. who else did they get? if they ranked 3 others before him, that draft must have really set them up.
I think Hopper is the priority as it's the area that needs fixing most. Having watched Gold Coast a bit more recently, it's the role that Rowell is now playing for them. he's the inside bull that hunts the ball, shovels it out any which way he can to the side of the pack that is to the advantage for the runners. Cripps does it at the Blues, Oliver does it at the Dees. We have nobody doing this, and we just have a bunch of outside ball watchers hoping the ball pops out their way, otherwise we rely on back half turnover.
Allow me.
- in 2016 they took Oliver Florent(11) and Will Hayward(21)
- 2017 they took Matthew Ling (14)
- in 2017 rookie draft they took Angus Styles (0 games btw) before we took Baker.
- 2019 draft Sydney took Dylan Stephens at pick 5, Will Gould at pick 26, Elijah Taylor at pick 26 (delisted same year, might even be in prison now?) then finally Warner at pick 39.
For reference we took Dow(20), Cumberland(43), Martyn(44) and Ralphsmith at 46
This is fun.
It looks like Zigs is enhancing his drafting reputation once again haha. Of course we want our recruiters to nail every pick but it simply isn’t going to happen. I think RCD has the tools but he just doesn’t seem to want it badly enough. How do recruiters factor that in ???
Wow. i hadnt checked before I posted, but it looks like the Swans only got about 1 right in those 3 years.
Funny lambo is RFA , doesn’t that imply he’s in top tier 25% salary ,,,,that’d be >450 then ~600 I’d think
As’if we’d trade short out , it always surprises me how many dh underrate him, likely finish top 3in bf , wouldn’t even surprise me if he won it ,,,,again , and he’s rated so highly internally that he may very well be next captain , I don’t see how dusty plays elsewhere give size of his contract
I’m not sure mate. He was a rookie list selection in 2014. So it’s his 8th season in total.
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22 games across three seasons. Averages 14.6 disposals per game this year. For reference, Serong went three picks later.
My point is that he’s restricted which means he’s a top earners opposed to unrestricted coz they earn relative peanuts
