Discussion Re-Signings, Retirements, Delistings, Trade & Drafting

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Yep - was hoping he'd be picked up. Would have preferred it to be team rebuilding. I guess Geelong is kinda in that zone now and you don't take a 26 year old to have him rot in the twos but Geelong have already got decent small forwards so I query whether he makes it into the best 22.
 
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Yep - was hoping he'd be picked up. Would have preferred it to be team rebuilding. I guess Geelong is kinda in that zone now and you don't take a 26 year old to have him rot in the twos but Geelong have already got decent small forwards so I query whether he makes it into the best 22.
Of all clubs Geelong though
 

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2023 Pre-Season Draft
1. Hawthorn - Chad Wingard (re-listed)
2. Gold Coast - Sam Day (re-listed)
3. St Kilda - Riley Bonner (de-listed by Port Adelaide)

Category B Rookies
Sydney - Indhi Kirk
West Coast - Coen Livingstone
Brisbane - Bruce Reville
Greater Western Sydney - Nathan Wardius

2023 Rookie Draft Order

Round one

1. West Coast Eagles - Loch Rawlinson (Sturt SANFL)
2. North Melbourne - Finnbar Maley (Northern Bullants VFL)
3. Hawthorn - Cooper Stephens (re-listed)
4. Gold Coast - Sam Clohesy (Werribee VFL)
5. Fremantle - Odin Jones (West Perth WAFL)
6. Richmond - Pass
7. Geelong Cats - Emerson Jeka (Hawthorn)
8. Essendon - Vigo Visentini (Sandringham Dragons)
9. Adelaide - Will Hamill (re-listed)
10. Western Bulldogs - Lachie McNeil (re-listed)
11. Sydney Swans - Sam Reid (re-listed)
12. Melbourne - Jake Melksham (re-listed)
13. Port Adelaide - Xavier Welsh (East Perth WAFL)
14. GWS Giants - Adam Kennedy (re-listed)
15. Carlton - Matt Carroll (Sandringham Dragons)
16. Collingwood - Pass

Round two
17. North Melbourne - Pass
18. Gold Coast - Will Rowlands (Norwood SANFL)
19. Fremantle - Pass
20. Adelaide - James Borlase (re-listed)
21. Western Bulldogs - Taylor Duryea (re-listed)
22. Melbourne - Kynan Brown (father-son)
23. Collingwood - Pass

Round three
24. Gold Coast - Jack Mahony (North Melbourne)
25. Western Bulldogs - Pass
26. Melbourne - Pass
27. Collingwood - Pass

Round four
28. Gold Coast - Pass

Round five
29. Gold Coast - Pass

 
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I wonder why Chad Wingard stayed at Hawthorn? Granted, he may be happy where he is, but why did he do the medical for Collingwood? Did Collingwood withdraw their interest or did Chad?

Hawks and Magpies supporters, I'd love your input, please? 😁
 
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I wonder why Chad Wingard stayed at Hawthorn? Granted, he may be happy where he is, but why did he do the medical for Collingwood? Did Collingwood withdraw their interest or did Chad?

Hawks and Magpies supporters, I'd love your input, please? 😁
The Hawks agreed they would keep him at the end of last season despite his injury. He must be happy to stay - even if I'd say by the time he is ready to play again in late season, there would be a few who have moved ahead of him from last season in Ginnivan and Watson. As he was the first player picked up yesterday, the Pies (and I have heard the Roos also were interested) didn't get the chance to select him.

No idea why he did a medical with Collingwood.
 
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The Hawks agreed they would keep him at the end of last season despite his injury. He must be happy to stay - even if I'd say by the time he is ready to play again in late season, there would be a few who have moved ahead of him from last season in Ginnivan and Watson. As he was the first player picked up yesterday, the Pies (and I have heard the Roos also were interested) didn't get the chance to select him.

No idea why he did a medical with Collingwood.
Thank you so much for your insight, @Ironhawk.
 
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https://www.afl.com.au/news/1066756...sam-sofronidis-for-trial-ahead-of-ssp-opening

VAFA star Sam Sofronidis is set to audition for a spot on the rookie list at Collingwood when the pre-season supplemental selection period opens on Monday.
Collingwood has also extended trial invitations to the club's VFL captain Campbell Hustwaite and delisted Port Adelaide ruckman Brynn Teakle, with ex-St Kilda midfielder Jack Bytel also set to train for a spot.
 
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The Hawks agreed they would keep him at the end of last season despite his injury. He must be happy to stay - even if I'd say by the time he is ready to play again in late season, there would be a few who have moved ahead of him from last season in Ginnivan and Watson. As he was the first player picked up yesterday, the Pies (and I have heard the Roos also were interested) didn't get the chance to select him.

No idea why he did a medical with Collingwood.
Imagine they did a medical to see if he was worth picking up, achilles is a major injury so if he's at all behind on it they'd basically be ruling him out for the whole year and no interest or if he's ahead of schedule then he'd have real use.

The fact that the medical became common knowledge is probably the bigger surprise, normally that stuff would stay under wraps.
 
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West Coast to sign Harley Reid’s mate Jason Gilbee to play for WAFL team

West Coast has signed up No. 1 pick Harley Reid’s great mate Jason Gilbee to play WAFL next year in another adventure for the milk-loving former GWS rookie.

Giants rookie Gilbee went viral this year after admitting he had replaced his entire water intake with milk, dubbed “Milky” by coach Shane Mumford after drinking up to 10 litres a week.

Category B rookie Gilbee was delisted after only a season as a 191cm running midfielder and was at Marvel Stadium as part of Reid’s entourage on Monday night to see him selected as the No. 1 overall pick.

Gilbee told this masthead on Sunday he was keen to try new life experiences and also push his AFL aspirations playing with the Eagles’ WAFL side.

But living with Reid – who has quashed any talk about homesickness after signing a mandatory three-year deal — can only help the brilliant mid-forward settle in under Adam Simpson’s care.

It is a canny move by the Eagles, who will ensure Reid is surrounded by friends while also giving former Bendigo Pioneers teammate Gilbee a football lifeline in the WAFL after he was shocked to be delisted.

With Harley coming over to Perth it probably got me over the line but I wanted to have a few life experiences too,” he said as he arrived in Perth for a pre-Christmas fact finding mission.

“So I have come over and will try something different. Obviously there is that connection (with Harley) but they were keen though to get me over to see what I was doing. They are keen to have me over, not just as Harley’s mate.”
Gilbee and Reid established a firm friendship through their Coates League careers, with Reid often bunking down at the Gilbee family house in Bendigo if he needed a place to stay on football duties.
 
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