End of year Trades and Delistings

[ossie85]

Surely St. Kilda's fall from grace is far more dramatic!

[Spite]

I would be very surprised if we have zero chance for a flag push within 5 years. 3-4 years would be nice

[JBs-Hawks]

I doubt you guys will get close to a flag but think you will be anywhere around 5-12 for the next 4-5 years. Too much talent to bottom out like others.

[powersuperkents]

Surely St. Kilda's fall from grace is far more dramatic!

Yeah, they have been hit worse and the Bulldogs as well. It's normal in the AFL. It's the point of the draft (for teams to fluctuate and slump). Only Geelong & Sydney (although the latter is provided all the support in the world from the AFL based on their target market) manage to evade it, however Geelong were in a recession (if you will) before Chapman, Johnson, Gaj and company gained experience

[powersuperkents]

The other thing that is fortunate for Collingwood is Malthouse in the draft. Pendles, Beams, Sidey, Elliott are all players who excelled/ or are excelling early so they still have plenty of football left in them. However, now they lack depth as the older players either leave or retire. Bright prospects still to be developed though with Broomhead, Gault, Scharnberg, & Freeman.

Honestly, they should de-list Swan once his contract expires. I don't see a point in keeping him anymore imo

[Capper]

The other thing that is fortunate for Collingwood is Malthouse in the draft. Pendles, Beams, Sidey, Elliott are all players who excelled/ or are excelling early so they still have plenty of football left in them. However, now they lack depth as the older players either leave or retire. Bright prospects still to be developed though with Broomhead, Gault, Scharnberg, & Freeman.

Honestly, they should de-list Swan once his contract expires. I don't see a point in keeping him anymore imo

why not trade him now and get something for him

[powersuperkents]

The other thing that is fortunate for Collingwood is Malthouse in the draft. Pendles, Beams, Sidey, Elliott are all players who excelled/ or are excelling early so they still have plenty of football left in them. However, now they lack depth as the older players either leave or retire. Bright prospects still to be developed though with Broomhead, Gault, Scharnberg, & Freeman.

Honestly, they should de-list Swan once his contract expires. I don't see a point in keeping him anymore imo

why not trade him now and get something for him

Actually that is much more practical hahaha could go him to Robinson (would be a really good trade, & Malthouse loves trading Carlton's genuinely good players for trash (i.e. Dale Thomas). I mean he was one of the best coaches in Collingwood, and he's basically walked into a team with some fantastic players and completely wrecked it. I honestly think he's working undercover for McGuire hahahaha

[Capper]

The other thing that is fortunate for Collingwood is Malthouse in the draft. Pendles, Beams, Sidey, Elliott are all players who excelled/ or are excelling early so they still have plenty of football left in them. However, now they lack depth as the older players either leave or retire. Bright prospects still to be developed though with Broomhead, Gault, Scharnberg, & Freeman.

Honestly, they should de-list Swan once his contract expires. I don't see a point in keeping him anymore imo

why not trade him now and get something for him

Actually that is much more practical hahaha could go him to Robinson (would be a really good trade, & Malthouse loves trading Carlton's genuinely good players for trash (i.e. Dale Thomas). I mean he was one of the best coaches in Collingwood, and he's basically walked into a team with some fantastic players and completely wrecked it. I honestly think he's working undercover for McGuire hahahaha

I can see Malthouse picking up Swans as well

[T Dog]

Will Sando join the coaching panel?  ;D

[Ringo]

Buckley needs all the help he can get

[Spite]

Will Sando join the coaching panel?  ;D

Really hope so!

[MC]

Very doubtful apparently. Pies are cutting back on coaching staff according to this article, preparing for a footy department salary cap(?)

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-09-17/sando-unlikely-to-join-pies


"The club recently told forwards coach Matthew Lappin his contract would not be renewed as it prepares for life under a football department spending cap."

[Noz]

Dayne Beams has officially requested a trade to Queensland

http://www.triplem.com.au/melbourne/sport/afl/trade-free-agency2/trade-free-agency-tracker/2014/9/dayne-beams-requests-a-trade/

[Samsturmfels]

What are the chances of the pies picking up a tagger to replace Macaffer for the year. Raines, Jones and a couple of others are available.

[Spite]

Collingwood's salary cap space has opened up drastically in the past two years with Heath Shaw, Dale Thomas and soon to be Dayne Beams and Heritier Lumumba all walking away from the club, the Pies will have the money to lure Dangerfield with a suggested salary cap space of $1.3 million available.

$1.3 million is a lot of money. With the new rules in place, I think we will not spend a lot of it allowing extra to be taken into future seasons.