Tasmania Devils

[wenchbarwer]

Imagine how many kids will leave once their inital contract is up, they would be dreading to move to Tassie, nice place to visit but to be forced there for work you would be counting down the days to get out of there.

Lot of people thought the same about GWS early on, but they managed to make it work, and then flourish

[Booney]

$5m to play with outside the cap in the first two years ( max $3m in any year ).

You're looking at 6-8 players getting 650-830k up front to sign on and by then top end players will be well over $1.2-1.5m.

Few blokes looking at $2m+ in their first year.

Still f*cking freezing down there.

[Booney]

Imagine how many kids will leave once their inital contract is up, they would be dreading to move to Tassie, nice place to visit but to be forced there for work you would be counting down the days to get out of there.

Lot of people thought the same about GWS early on, but they managed to make it work, and then flourish

Have they?

[Lightning McQueen]

Imagine how many kids will leave once their inital contract is up, they would be dreading to move to Tassie, nice place to visit but to be forced there for work you would be counting down the days to get out of there.

Lot of people thought the same about GWS early on, but they managed to make it work, and then flourish

A lot left early, their core were the established players that went there, it would be an interesting analysis to see how much of their original squad stuck around.

Living in Sydney vs Tasmania as an 18-20 year old?

[Lightning McQueen]

$5m to play with outside the cap in the first two years ( max $3m in any year ).

You're looking at 6-8 players getting 650-830k up front to sign on and by then top end players will be well over $1.2-1.5m.

Few blokes looking at $2m+ in their first year.

Still f*cking freezing down there.

You have to sit down to wee.

[Lightning McQueen]

Imagine how many kids will leave once their inital contract is up, they would be dreading to move to Tassie, nice place to visit but to be forced there for work you would be counting down the days to get out of there.

Lot of people thought the same about GWS early on, but they managed to make it work, and then flourish

Have they?

They've had more success that I had them penciled in for, they've won the same amount of premierships as us and Adelaide combined in their existence, you could add Freo and Gold Coast into the equation too.

[Booney]

Imagine how many kids will leave once their inital contract is up, they would be dreading to move to Tassie, nice place to visit but to be forced there for work you would be counting down the days to get out of there.

Lot of people thought the same about GWS early on, but they managed to make it work, and then flourish

A lot left early, their core were the established players that went there, it would be an interesting analysis to see how much of their original squad stuck around.

Living in Sydney vs Tasmania as an 18-20 year old?

Bugg left after 3 years
Cameron 8
Giles 3
Hombsch 1
Hoskin-Elliott 4
McDonald 1
Scully 6
Treloar 3
Adams 2

To name a few

[wenchbarwer]

Imagine how many kids will leave once their inital contract is up, they would be dreading to move to Tassie, nice place to visit but to be forced there for work you would be counting down the days to get out of there.

Lot of people thought the same about GWS early on, but they managed to make it work, and then flourish

Have they?

They had a pretty good strategy about who they wanted to keep and who they could let go. Even losing players they wanted to keep resulted in them getting top line picks, so the cycle begins again.

Recently they've kept Green and Callaghan, among others, so they've built a culture that's working. retention isn't the issue for them, it's winning a flag.

[Booney]

Imagine how many kids will leave once their inital contract is up, they would be dreading to move to Tassie, nice place to visit but to be forced there for work you would be counting down the days to get out of there.

Lot of people thought the same about GWS early on, but they managed to make it work, and then flourish

Have they?

They've had more success that I had them penciled in for, they've won the same amount of premierships as us and Adelaide combined in their existence, you could add Freo and Gold Coast into the equation too.

Only Sydney, Hawthorn, Bulldogs, Melbourne, Richmond, West Coast, Collingwood, Geelong and Brisbane have.

[Booney]

Imagine how many kids will leave once their inital contract is up, they would be dreading to move to Tassie, nice place to visit but to be forced there for work you would be counting down the days to get out of there.

Lot of people thought the same about GWS early on, but they managed to make it work, and then flourish

Have they?

They had a pretty good strategy about who they wanted to keep and who they could let go. Even losing players they wanted to keep resulted in them getting top line picks, so the cycle begins again.

Recently they've kept Green and Callaghan, among others, so they've built a culture that's working. retention isn't the issue for them, it's winning a flag.

Green, Coniglio and Ward.

[wenchbarwer]

Imagine how many kids will leave once their inital contract is up, they would be dreading to move to Tassie, nice place to visit but to be forced there for work you would be counting down the days to get out of there.

Lot of people thought the same about GWS early on, but they managed to make it work, and then flourish

A lot left early, their core were the established players that went there, it would be an interesting analysis to see how much of their original squad stuck around.

Living in Sydney vs Tasmania as an 18-20 year old?

Bugg left after 3 years
Cameron 8
Giles 3
Hombsch 1
Hoskin-Elliott 4
McDonald 1
Scully 6
Treloar 3
Adams 2

To name a few

Blokes in red were more than dispensible
Scully played two more years and was done
Treloar and Adams were viewed as inferior to Coniglio, Kelly & Toby, so became good bargaining chips
WHE played 13 games in his last two years and was also trade bait.
I reckon Cameron is the only one they wanted to hang onto

[Brodlach]

WHE ended up being far batter than anyone would have expected

[wenchbarwer]

WHE ended up being far batter than anyone would have expected

See, list clogger on their list doesn't mean list clogger on your list!

[Booney]

WHE ended up being far batter than anyone would have expected

See, list clogger on their list doesn't mean list clogger on your list!

[Lightning McQueen]

Bugg left after 3 years
Cameron 8
Giles 3
Hombsch 1
Hoskin-Elliott 4
McDonald 1
Scully 6
Treloar 3
Adams 2

To name a few

I thought Tomlinson was going to be better than he ebded up, liked him early on in the piece.

[Brodlach]

WHE ended up being far batter than anyone would have expected

See, list clogger on their list doesn't mean list clogger on your list!

Where’s the aloe vera


List cloggers are always list cloggers.

[Brodlach]

Bugg left after 3 years
Cameron 8
Giles 3
Hombsch 1
Hoskin-Elliott 4
McDonald 1
Scully 6
Treloar 3
Adams 2

To name a few

I thought Tomlinson was going to be better than he ebded up, liked him early on in the piece.

List clogger

[Booney]

*cough* Ben Keays *cough*

[Brodlach]

*cough* Ben Keays *cough*

What about him?

[Booney]