2017 ORFFA Post Season Trade Discussions

Get Stuffed Bandit

 

SnOZ, that is hardly the most christian of attitudes to an ORFFAN reaching out for help. I expect better from the likely favourite for ORFFA glory in 2018.

 

Vultures list analysis post-position release.

Jack Crisp and Elliot Yeo as Defenders covers the Docherty loss to an extent... then again pretty hard to cover your best player haha. Would have had 3 of the top 6 defenders based on 2017 averages (Doc, Yeo, Howe) if his knee held up!

Higgins to a MID covers the loss of Crisp as well in that position, but leaves forward line a tad weak unless Hogan and Watts can stand tall.

DEF Yeo, Howe, Pittard, Crisp, Houston, Talia, Short (Docherty)
MID Beams, Parker, Higgins, Gaff, O'Meara, Fiorini, Brodie
RUCK Kreuzer, Martin
FWD Franklin, Greene, Watts, Hogan, Deledio, Otten (DEF), Johnson, Daicos

If I am to be a serious contender in 2018 I'm relying on players like O'Meara and Deledio to stay fit and find form, and others like Houston, Fiorini and Brodie to breakout in order to create a reliable form of depth.

Then again, I'm sure moves will be made in the trade period, and with delistings and the draft to come as well this team could look quite different come March 22nd next year!

 

Ah, the old jokes are the best jokes - baaaaaaaaaaa none.

 

The Cows were treated well by the 2018 SC position designations. We had wondered about our forward line but received good news there with the five players mentioned below all given M/F status. There was one disappointment with Nic Newman declared to be a mid rather than a defender - que sera sera. The draft and any trading will no longer be focussed on forwards but on improving the squad. If we had to put a team list in for an ORFFA match right now it would probably be -
D - Michael Hibberd, McGovern, McVeigh, Burton (Byrne)
M - Mitchell, Fyfe, Hannebery, B Crouch (D Howe)
R - S Jacobs (O'Reilly)
F - Menegola, McLean, Robinson, Papley (Parfitt)
I/C - Prestia, Hall (Newman)

However, the likelihood of that exact line-up being Cows and available is probably close to zero.

 

For the most part the 2018 positional changes for the Cradle Mountain Devils were as expected. The Devils have less DPP players in 2018 and the number of pure midfielders has increased from seven to 11 with Zak Jones changing from Def to Mid, WHE moving from the forward line to mid and Hopper and Steele both losing their forward eligibility.

The Devils still have two ruck/forwards, however Nankervis and Boyd have both lost fwd eligibility, English has gained fwd eligibility and Pedersen has gained ruck eligibility. CMD are back to having five players that can be used in the ruck with Jordan Roughead being the odd one out as being a pure ruck in both 2017 and 2018.

With the retirements of Steve Johnson and Matthew Boyd the Devils are down to 26 players. Defenders Gilbert and Hibberd are likely to be cut.

CMD will be looking to improve team balance and strengthen the team for the short to mid term when trading resumes in January by trading a fringe midfielder or two and one of our first two PSD picks. The two lines that the Devils will be looking to strengthen are fwd and def.

EDIT: The fringe midfielders CMD are most likely to trade are Will Hoskin-Elliot and Liam Shiels who both averaged around the 80 mark and played at least 21 games each during 2017.

Current Cradle Mountain Devils squad

Def: - M Hurley, J Lever, N Vlastuin, L Spurr, S Gilbert, H Himmelberg, Mitchell Hibberd
Mid: - D Zorko, S Pendlebury, D Heppell, D Zaharakis, J Steele, S Grigg, Z Jones, W Hoskin-Elliot, J Redden, L Shiels, J Hopper
Ruck: T Nankervis, J Roughead, T Boyd
Fwd: C Pedersen (F/R), T Lynch, T Membrey, J Gresham, T English (R/F)

Current 2018 PSD picks: 14, 32, 50, 68 & 86

 

Big positional changes at Chookland.

Mitchell is now retired.
Mumford is now retired.
Kelly is now retired.
Stanton is now retired.
Spencer is now out of the AFL.
Atley is now a forward.

Rest of the team is still the same, just older.

Carry on.

 

For conspiracy theorists it is the 50th anniversary of Harold Holt's disappearance today. In breaking news, a couple of cows have been invited for a swim off a desolate, unpatrolled west coast beach just south of Bulls this afternoon ......

 

Merry Xmas ORFFANS

 

Merry Christmas to all. You have defiled this beautiful board with that ugly bird SnOz. Just think, somewhere in the world people would enjoy cooking that thing for xmas lunch. In aflland, the pie, its players and its supporters are roasted most weeks through winter.

stay good