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azza1719 wrote:Thats a bummer for us but I'm sure we have other options

I'm hearing that our cap is at its limit, so that's it for recruiting.

Doesn't surprise me re the cap. Still been a really good off season recruiting wise. Plus getting players back from injury pretty excited for the year

northerner wrote:John Plattens nephew Justin has resigned as ElizabethFC A grade coach to take on reserves midfield coaching role under Matt Gallarello.

Keeping it in the family there.

gazzamagoo wrote:

azza1719 wrote:Thats a bummer for us but I'm sure we have other options

I'm hearing that our cap is at its limit, so that's it for recruiting.

If that's the case why were we talking to them.

Is there a bag limit?

DOC wrote:Is there a bag limit?

Granty, cleaned out his bottom drawer on his last day…

TDJ44 wrote:

gazzamagoo wrote:

azza1719 wrote:Thats a bummer for us but I'm sure we have other options

I'm hearing that our cap is at its limit, so that's it for recruiting.

If that's the case why were we talking to them.

Coz one of them, or even both, could be better than someone we have already signed up, then we can cull.
Or they wanted too much, more than we had left in the bag.

DOC wrote:Is there a bag limit?

nah bag limit retired from trotting years ago, great horse!

Surely you cant just go culling a bloke who has probably signed some form of length of contract...most likely one year.

Surely you would be required to then pay them out which would still count towards the salary cap.

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.....nevermind the reputation the club would get amongst players if they moved blokes over here from interstate than cut them before the season started after signing a contract.

whufc wrote:Surely you cant just go culling a bloke who has probably signed some form of length of contract...most likely one year.

Surely you would be required to then pay them out which would still count towards the salary cap.

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.....nevermind the reputation the club would get amongst players if they moved blokes over here from interstate than cut them before the season started after signing a contract.

It would probably be local players who would be subject to culling, as all clubs do between one season and the next. It is not only interstate recruits who the club has to pay for, all players are paid for.

Cheers

bulldogproud wrote:

whufc wrote:Surely you cant just go culling a bloke who has probably signed some form of length of contract...most likely one year.

Surely you would be required to then pay them out which would still count towards the salary cap.

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.....nevermind the reputation the club would get amongst players if they moved blokes over here from interstate than cut them before the season started after signing a contract.

It would probably be local players who would be subject to culling, as all clubs do between one season and the next. It is not only interstate recruits who the club has to pay for, all players are paid for.

Cheers

Would doubt local players who are currently subject to culling would be on anywhere near as much as a potential boom new recruit from interstate.

whufc wrote:

bulldogproud wrote:

whufc wrote:Surely you cant just go culling a bloke who has probably signed some form of length of contract...most likely one year.

Surely you would be required to then pay them out which would still count towards the salary cap.

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.....nevermind the reputation the club would get amongst players if they moved blokes over here from interstate than cut them before the season started after signing a contract.

It would probably be local players who would be subject to culling, as all clubs do between one season and the next. It is not only interstate recruits who the club has to pay for, all players are paid for.

Cheers

Would doubt local players who are currently subject to culling would be on anywhere near as much as a potential boom new recruit from interstate.

Especially a local player who is in your best 21.
Hopefully the key tall that westies just signed isn't better than Pickering and the other kpp's that we have recruited.
The worry is that all of them are reserves standard only.

TDJ44 wrote:

whufc wrote:

bulldogproud wrote:

whufc wrote:Surely you cant just go culling a bloke who has probably signed some form of length of contract...most likely one year.

Surely you would be required to then pay them out which would still count towards the salary cap.

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.....nevermind the reputation the club would get amongst players if they moved blokes over here from interstate than cut them before the season started after signing a contract.

It would probably be local players who would be subject to culling, as all clubs do between one season and the next. It is not only interstate recruits who the club has to pay for, all players are paid for.

Cheers

Would doubt local players who are currently subject to culling would be on anywhere near as much as a potential boom new recruit from interstate.

Especially a local player who is in your best 21.
Hopefully the key tall that westies just signed isn't better than Pickering and the other kpp's that we have recruited.
The worry is that all of them are reserves standard only.

Oh Ye of little faith.
I'm sure the recruiting staff know what they're doing,
The one thing that encourages me is that we will be better than last year & that's the priority, improvement.

I think you will find that the majority of our recruits are better than 'reserve grade' standard, particularly given a new lease of life at a new club. Even the competition some will provide for spots should result in them 'upping' their standard. Will all recruits work out? No. However, if even a third of these go on to play regular league football, we will have benefitted. I agree with Gazza that we need to have faith in Meggsy, Mark and Thommo; they know what they are doing.

A wonderful night planned by the club on March 11: 'The Night of Nine', a celebration of our nine premierships. A fantastic way to start the season and celebrate our champions.

bulldogproud wrote:A wonderful night planned by the club on March 11: 'The Night of Nine', a celebration of our nine premierships. A fantastic way to start the season and celebrate our champions.

Hopefully all the current players have a ticket and they realise what flags mean to the northern suburbs!!

What do we think is a realistic pass mark for us this year .
I would be hoping that we improve enough to win 8-9 games

southernbulldog wrote:What do we think is a realistic pass mark for us this year .
I would be hoping that we improve enough to win 8-9 games

All depends on how much the opposition has improved as well!
We could end up winning 8 games BUT still end up 9th!
I'd be happy with being very competitive in every game, no one quarter fade-outs (this has plagued us in the past few seasons) and win a minimum of 6 matches.

gazzamagoo wrote:

southernbulldog wrote:What do we think is a realistic pass mark for us this year .
I would be hoping that we improve enough to win 8-9 games

All depends on how much the opposition has improved as well!
We could end up winning 8 games BUT still end up 9th!
I'd be happy with being very competitive in every game, no one quarter fade-outs (this has plagued us in the past few seasons) and win a minimum of 6 matches.

I agree; would be happy with consistency in being competitive each week.

Would 6 wins be enough to give Thommo a 4th year