- Hamilton gone
- Prudden delisted off rookie list with Honey or Crameri moved onto rookie list
- M Boyd and probably Bob retired
That's four spots there.
- Hamilton gone
- Prudden delisted off rookie list with Honey or Crameri moved onto rookie list
- M Boyd and probably Bob retired
That's four spots there.
Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.
I'm not sure if they changed the fine orient in the new CBA. But you can have one third year rookie only, so we could offer that spot to Lynch. Smith is in his third rookie year, so it's cut him, or promote him which it sounds like promotion will happen. NMM gets another year and Prudden gets cut I think. So i think we have two spots, one for Crameri and one for a kid.
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023
Confirmed: (2)
Bob Murphy
Brad Boyd
Uncontracted: (7)
Lukas Webb
Bailey Dale
Mitch Honeychurch
Declan Hamilton
Jack Redpath
Stew Crameri
Dale Morris
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023
Need to get Bailey signed up immediately.
It's better to die on our feet than live on our knees.
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023
This whole Essendon saga has screwed Crameri's career. Will be lucky to be on our main list and if he is will be on a third less than what he came across on.
More of an In Bruges guy?
Lucky his lawyers at Gordon Legal can sue for that loss of income...
I think the best for everyone is to engineer a move to the rookie list. If he can get fit, then he can play from round one and earn a bigger contract for 2019. Or at least that's what I hope we can achieve.
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023
Crameri moving to our a rookie list! How has this suggestion come about? Sure he returned to 2017 in at best average condition, ruled out for the season with a hip but he's far from on his own here and with more compelling reasons given what he's been put through. If we are a Club that 'Puts our arms around him' like Clay, like Roarke, like TBoyd etc I don't get why we would offload him to our rookie list because of one off season - particularly given his upside and our desperate need for what he can deliver.
If there's not a place for him on our main list, and compensated accordingly, he will be off to another Club that would undoubtedly value him more highly than a rookie.
For Crameri, and any other player, it should comes down to attitude, hunger and talent to see if they should be maintained on the senior list. He will have to be prepared to take a pay cut but if he has the desire we should keep him as a senior listed player. He's talked a couple of times at the players sponsors area and from memory he will be close to resuming training now. If all parties can get a deal done then he should be fit enough by December to set himself up for a good season in 2018.
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