It's curious to reflect on the same time last year that Lynch & Williams would (seemingly) become surplus to requirements.
Footy time waits for no man.
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It's curious to reflect on the same time last year that Lynch & Williams would (seemingly) become surplus to requirements.
Footy time waits for no man.
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Not sure if that comes up - Bulldogs interested in Dougal Howard, who is still contracted at Port.
199cm KPD
Slight exaggeration, but still a big turnover, 34 in 4 years.
2018 - ten Shane Biggs (retired), Clay Smith (retired), Kieran Collins (delisted), Nathan Mullenger-McHugh (delisted), Jack Redpath (retired), Luke Dahlhaus (unrestricted free agent to Geelong), Marcus Adams (traded to Brisbane Lions), Jordan Roughead (traded to Collingwood), Tom Campbell (delisted), Mitch Honeychuch (delisted) 2017 - 9 Matthew Boyd (retired) Bob Murphy (retired) Josh Prudden (delisted) Declan Hamilton (delisted) Tristan Tweedie (delisted) Travis Cloke (retired) Stewart Crameri (delisted) Roarke Smith (delisted) Jack Stringer (trade, Essendon) 2016 - 7 Jed Adcock (ret) Luke Goetz (del) Joel Hamling (trd) Nathan Hrovat (trd) Josh Prudden (del) Koby Stevens (trd) Will Minson (del) 2015- 8 Ayce Cordy (delisted), Sam Darley (delisted), Matthew Fuller (delisted), Jarrad Grant (delisted), Michael Talia (trade), Brett Goodes (delisted), Jordan Kelly (delisted), Daniel Pearce (delisted)
Rookies aren’t generally considered to be in the turnover figure, it’s a main list metric. So it’s more like 9, 7, 5 & 6.
We need to find a 6th and bring in talent while we can.
Besides being a touch too loyal to a few they’ve made significant changes over the last few years
It's an interesting question, re Porter. We are seemingly interested in about 10 players, and surely must be hoping to land 3. Which means 6 spots. Maybe the club is aware of interest in a fringe player from another club and will facilitate it? Maybe the thought is Dicko is going retire? The club obviously knows something that we can only guess. Surely we can't have the huge money and war chest of picks, with the offers/interest going everywhere and not have three spots ready to go if God forbid three players say yes to us.
I suspect our targets are pretty clear:
- KPD/swingman
- Class forward of the ball/small forward
- Outside run / wing
I expect we hope to bring in three mature players who are best 22 given what we are willing to pay. If we get 1-2 I think we'll still be in a very good position cap-wise, with the potential for a 'game changing' NGA/FS draft haul in 2020 setting up for sustained success.