Imagine if Roarke has a 9-10 year career spent entirely on the rookie list. That’d be an eker category all of its own.
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- Mitch ClearyQuote:
AFL clubs tonight informed they’ll be able to move two players straight from the senior to rookie list. Those players will avoid draft process, eg being delisted then re-rookied.Helps with list size constraints & salary cap ($80k of rookie contracts sit outside cap)
Updated with 2 Direct Rookie Rule:
Breaking down like this as an example, if Bevo wants to keep Roarke, with Hayes & Cavarra to RL (currently uncontracted)
37 Main List - 34 already contracted, JUH & MacPherson - so one more pick (Raak insurance??) OR one DFA (Jetta etc)
5 Rookie List A - Sweet, Gardner, *Smith re-rookied as a live pick (re-sets his 3 years), Hayes & Cavarra direct
2 Rookie List B - Khamis, *Raak
The maximum list number is reached.
Then it's:
In: JUH, MacPherson, Raak, *DFA or Live ND Pick, Treloar, Martin, Hannan, Hayes & Cavarra (RL)
Out: Dickson (ret), JT, Suckling, Greene, Lynch, Porter, Gowers, Young, Hayes & Cavarra (ML)
As a rough guide.
Many people stopped watching the game at 3/4 time. I think St Kilda lost interest too.
After all, it must be boring to always be so far ahead. Gotta feel sorry for them and Carlton, they are probably hoping for more competitive opposition from the Dogs next year (I am).
I think if we had played Geelong or Richmond (grand finalists like GWS were the year prior) we would have been belted off the park. We were awful against the saints. It was extremely disappointing to put out such a performance after the debacle the year before. We certainly do not respond when we say we will. We’re all talk at the moment. This comes back to the list and, as discussed in other threads, having too many nice guys and not enough guys who will cause havoc anytime anywhere. We still haven’t adresse this.
You can't say that, every game is different.
The fact is we lost by 3 points and could have won, but we didn't. Anyone thinking the Saints eased up is just nonsense. It was a final and they were out to win, so why would they just take it easy.
How about some praise for the boys fighting it out instead of just giving in like we did the previous years final.
I think the short quarters suited the Saints this year. It will be interesting seeing players like Ryder seeing out a full game next year, particularly with reduced interchange. Conversely our extra midfielders and endurance players should benefit from this. Bevo spoke about the impact of these changes in his breakfast interview this morning.
Meh I can say it if I want :D
Sure we didn’t fold. I’m not saying the saints went easy, rather I think they tried to save the game which meant their natural game went away and allowed us back in.
But frankly, all season I’ve seen the same lame excuses trotted out: "a little more time and we could have won" or "if we had kicked straighter we would have won" or the often "take out one bad quarter and we win". I hate it. Fact is we’re a middling side and we have lots of work to do to crack the top 4 which is where our list, on paper, should be pushing. We simply need to harden up and work a hell of a lot harder for each other. That’ll go a very long way. I’m not convinced the list has it in them but I haven’t given up hope.
We weren't good enough during the season, and there are no excuses, except one - we don't have the right players in the right positions. We are still short a good KPD and time will tell whether our small forwards will be better and whether the ruck situation has been solved.
List management is important and we have shedded some of the players that were not up to it, and like every season there are question marks on some still on the list.
No doubt we will be better next season (on paper) by adding Treloar, Martin, Hannan, and the number one kid in the country JUH and hopefully Bruce gets back to his best.
Roarke Smith, Hayes & Cavarra have been delisted. We've committed to re-drafting Smith, wait and see what we do with the other two.
https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/news/838262
Keep on ekeing Roarke! Does that mean we will re-draft him to main list or rookie list?
I like that we are keeping our options open for our final rookie list spots.
Any chance that we will ever mention Khamis? I don't think there has ever been an official update on his contract status since we drafted him yet somehow he remains???