Thommo only suggested it to Marty Pask (Dawson's manager), who in turn gave nothing back.

Thommo even pre-empted the comment by saying it was pure speculation as Dawson could be a good fit for Fremantle.

So wouldnt take it as anything more than a rumour with no grounds.

Would we look at promoting Jackson Ferguson or even Curren? Wouldn't think so. Both are only first year rookies, so we can keep them on the list for a second year if we want. We can always upgrade them within the year if we want or need them to play senior footy. No point delisting a senior player ...

problem with that is that we chance losing walsh to any club if he goes into the ND.....I reckon he would be snapped up well and truly before 58...infact I reckon he would go before 40... We can just promote him onto our senior list before the draft when we do our list lodgement...as long as we mak...

savatage wrote:

bergholt wrote:yup, but if necessary we could probably get away with demoting heyne to the rookie list. (effectively cutting him and redrafting.)

Yep you're right. If this guy didn't have a year left on his contract - he'd be gone.

Wouldnt be feeling too safe if I was Cahill either....

Or alternatively we could delist/trade one more and maybe exchange our 2 2nd round picks for one higher one...

Interesting point BigMart. So the suggestion would be that if we were to trade out another player (I will use Ray as an example), we should accompany him with a pick (e.g. 39), hoping to perhaps get a late 1st round pick for him, rather than a 2nd rounder... Makes sense. Also, we can actually use on...

Rhys Stanley....time to actually give the kids a go.... or we could recruit a good ordinary hack to take more of his development time..... Agree, he has to start playing, same goes for Winmar. If they are not up to it, we need to find out and move on. Unfortunately we can't wait until Stanley gets ...

I think there has been plenty of doom and gloom recently - what started with Lyon walking out, all the talk of losing Goddard, our failed finals campaign, the salary cap and more, I think it's time to start looking ahead to some much more positive times. I close my eyes and picture that photo taken ...

Cases like this seem to be seen almost every year around the trade period - a player wants out, the club wants him, and even though he is uncontracted, the club refuses to trade him. The hope is then that they can convince him to stay within that one month window between the end of trade period and ...

How come you censor the f-word, but not the c-word??

Strange...

Oh well.

22 Year old midfielder who is very very unlucky not to be playing 22 games a year.. just cant break into their midfield and will look for another club next year. Good solid midfielder who kicks goals. Could be a handy addition to our midfield, add some depth. Should we go after him next week? Discu...

I hope we keep all our draft picks .. If we do trade do it for more draft picks .. I would love to see us have a selection of second round draft picks to just load up on kids.. We will get some duds but we might uncover the diamond in the rough ... Next year new coach new game plan and each week fi...

I ask myself why Dawson and Ray have not signed new contracts at this point of time. Have they had better offers from elsewhere I wonder? The club has suggested through a few quotes that Dawson especially is waiting to hear from the new coach about what sort of role and worth he will have to the te...

Yeah, bevo still there. But funny enough, Saints website just posted this article... http://www.saints.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/5315/newsid/124757/default.aspx "Throughout the week, the Saints football department has descended on Etihad Stadium for the 2011 NAB AFL Draft Combine. In total,...

I work just around the corner from Etihad stadium, and was up on the concourse for lunch. Saw Beveridge having lunch with someone (not in either club colours or in the combine outfit, although was wearing ‘sports gear’), but had NO other Saints staff or admin around him. For those who have been ...

Mick would be good...

But still reckon Paul Roos would be much better... And perhaps within the realms of reality!!

older saint wrote: in a heart beat i would do Gilbert for one of those 17 year olds. .

Hmmm... Really?

First question would be, was it a caller that stated this, or one of the callers?

3AW have him at the back of their list.

Plus with the club stating that interviews start this Thursday, it seems somewhat unlikely that he will already about to get the gig...

My interested in who the senior assistant (if there is to be one) would be. It was suggested this morning in the Herald Sun by Jon Ralph that we were concentrating on bringing in an experienced assistant: "The Saints seem to be concentrating on elite assistant coaches rather than finding an exp...

Gerard Wheatley on 3AW has said we are interviewing Robert Harvey, Alan Richardson, Gary Ayres, Gavin Brown, Ken Hinkley and Scott Watters.

Well I think this Herald Sun article with quotes from MM's manager puts to rest all these rumours... ""Michael will be finishing up his duties at Collingwood. He has given the club his absolute best and leaves it in a much better place than when he found it. "It is now my intention to...

If he's still in Australia - how do we know the new coach will want to keep him on? As far as I am aware, it is not just Saints fans who rate him. I have a friend who is involved in recruitment at another club and he has been flabbergasted all year that he hasn't gotten a game. He also says that Wa...

"The recruitment program will be systematic and comprehensive and is expected to be complete in approximately four weeks." This is music to my hears, the words "systematic and comprehensive" are exactly what's needed. Four weeks takes us to the weeks AFTER trade week (which begi...

Wonder how long this process will take... It will be hard for us to commit to any major trades - in or out - with no senior coach named. Players we are trying to poach would likely be put off from coming to a club where there is not yet any senior coach. Also, would surely have to be a coach decisio...

I just posted this in another thread... As for the U17 draft - or the 'mini draft' - clubs can offer GWS anything they want - players, picks, or a combination of both - GWS then rank the quality of the deals, which subsequently determines the draft order in the mini draft. So hypothetically, if we w...