I'd like to hear some view on what the Hawks should do over the next 2 years to rebuild the club?

So lets assume that the board and Clarko have appointed you as the List Manager and have made these assumptions and want you to map out a 2 or 3 year plan to get the club competitive again.

- We are on a rebuild but we can't just bottom out. ie no fire sale.
- We need to get back into the draft in 2017 and 2018
- Only a handful of players can't be traded. Roughead Hodge, Rioli, Burton, O'Meara, Mitchell and Frawley are off limits.
- We will be a player in free agency but we will need some additional cap space.
- While a number of players have contracts we are willing to help facilitate a trade if they don't want to go through a rebuild
phase with us. It may mean that we have to pay some of their salaries to help another club trade with us.

List the approach you would take?


To assist with your decision making here is their 2017 playing list

Senior List
Grant Birchall
Kaiden Brand
Luke Breust
Shaun Burgoyne
Ryan Burton
Jonathon Ceglar
Taylor Duryea
James Frawley
Josh Gibson
Jack Gunston
Blake Hardwick
Billy Hartung
Kurt Heatherley
Ricky Henderson
Luke Hodge
Daniel Howe
Will Langford
Mitchell Lewis
Kieran Lovell
Ben McEvoy
Teia Miles
Tom Mitchell
Harry Morrison
Tim O’Brien
Jaeger O’Meara
Jonathan O’Rourke
Marc Pittonet
Paul Puopolo
Cyril Rioli
Jarryd Roughead
Ryan Schoenmakers
Liam Shiels
James Sicily
Isaac Smith
Kade Stewart
Ben Stratton
Ty Vickery
Brendan Whitecross
Dallas Willsmore

Rookies (4)
James Cousins
Jack Fitzpatrick
Oliver Hanrahan
Luke Surman

Category B rookies (2)
Conor Glass
Conor Nash