Lets rookie roach
This maybe from left field but will entertain us while not much is happening!
Lets use the rookie list differently this year, to put a "hold"on to a couple of careers that maybe worth saving.
If we put Roach and jacko on to the rookie list along with angus graham, that would be 3 spots used.So we could still rookie another 3 speculative picks and have a full rookie list of 6.
Why you ask? I'm not convinced theyre careers are over.Remembering cogs and newman won't play a huge roll early on and may not get back to full fitness all year.With a couple other injuries early our depth will be stretched to the max.Roachy got injuried at a bad time this year,I wouldn't mind seeing him giving one more year after all pettifer,hyde and newman had that bit of extra time and are proving very valuable.Roachy could be groomed to play Kane johnson's role when injuried or retired.
Jacko reminds me of an imature racehorse.You can see he has the ability he may just need a bit more time as well.
Surely these 2 kids would be worth rookieing for one year especially since rookies are usually only the leftovers from the draft anyway.
The last few years we never use the full rookie list to our advantage, and the teams that do syd,west coast adelaide bris are doing quite nicely.
Hartigan is in the same boat as well but in saying that i hope we keep him on the main list and he stays injury free and has a great year for us.Of these 3 players you know at least 1 maybe 2 and hopefully 3 will be long term players for us.
That was the nice part!Now for the boys that we could/should get rid of.
Ray hall has no future in a skilled team.He can't do a job on the big boys so why keep him on the list. I'd trade him for pick 50-100 it wouldn't matter.This actually gives us an earlier pick before the rookie draft.If we are keeping Kelvin Moore on the list he has to be groomed to play the position hall was playing or drop him off the list.Kelvin it will be 2007 or never.I'm not convinced on him.
With Howat coming into the team and adding a bit more depth i really don't see a role for tivver.With howat,jon,casserly harts etc pushing for spots and brownie cogs and newwy on the mend he's definately surplus to our needs.A trade of 30-60 would do.
In summary I'd rather give roach,jacko,harts a go then keep hall and tivvers on the list. Only my opinion of course.