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With East Perth being reduced to the Weagles reserves team in 2014 who does everyone think will leave the club and who should your team target?

I would be interested to see who people think is a worthwhile recruit for their respective teams.

Wulff and Clutterbuck would be good.. Smith has said he wont be leaving EP.
Will certainly be a few from Peel and EP looking at another team or they play ressies at those clubs most of the time depending on the whims of the AFL Clubs

Would be a couple of others but havent got time to check their lists right now.
Good topic should be interesting. Sure most G7 Clubs will be having a good look now.
As long as they approach the club first as the WAFC have bought in a automatic Fine of
$5000 if a player from those clubs is approached directly e.g

·WAFL clubs will be fined $5000 if they approach another club's players without formal permission. The fine will increase from the current $500.

I hope Swans have a crack at getting both Johnson (a former Black Duck) & Smith over to Bassendean Oval in 2014!

From East Perth:

Josh Smith
Freddie Clutterbuck (his old man played down the road from lathlain at Carlisle)
Aaron Sweet
Kyle Anderson

From Peel:

Brad Holmes
Kristin Thornton
Liam McKenna
Devin McFarline

Players like Smith, Johnson and Lee won't be moving. I think it will be your 21 - 25 year olds that will be looking elsewhere.

Players like Anderson, Sweet, Clutterbuck and Maldenis should be fielding a few offers. In saying that Anderson is loved at the Royals ( and so he should be) so he probably get regular games. Grover and Payne would be worth a look too!

Mr AFL wrote: From East Perth:

Josh Smith
Freddie Clutterbuck (his old man played down the road from lathlain at Carlisle)
Aaron Sweet
Kyle Anderson

From Peel:

Brad Holmes
Kristin Thornton
Liam McKenna
Devin McFarline

i doubt anderson will be at wafl level unless either eagles or dockers draft him.i suspect he might end up at st. kilda with micale.

HJack wrote: Players like Smith, Johnson and Lee won't be moving. I think it will be your 21 - 25 year olds that will be looking elsewhere.

Players like Anderson, Sweet, Clutterbuck and Maldenis should be fielding a few offers. In saying that Anderson is loved at the Royals ( and so he should be) so he probably get regular games. Grover and Payne would be worth a look too!

i already heard that the cardy's have already signed three.could be former players as the one mentioed by name is sampey who took the year off.he has had troubles getting his body right for the start of the last few seasons.as for smith the same source said so long as he doesn't get dropped for a eagles player he will stay otherwise over to tigerland.it's funny how a cardy supporter knows so much.

one things for sure oakley nicholls will not end up at the cardies.

Fair point Chaddy, Anderson is probably worth a whirl at AFL level.

If the Cardies want Sampey they can have him....

Oakley Nicholls will be playing Ammos

I thought it might be interesting to have a look at what the East Perth team might have looked like if they had fully aligned with the Eagles this year.

So I picked out what I considered was West Coasts top 22 and then shuffled the others around and here is what I came up with

Backs Jamie Bennell Wilson Adam Carter
H/B Ash Smith Brennan Butler
Centre Cripps Hutchings A Selwood
H/F Newman McGovern Hams
F Lycett McInnes Dick
R Sinclair Rosa Lee
I/C Mcginnity, Tunbridge, Colledge, Morton

So only 1 non WCE player amongst this lot (Lee). Now before you all jump on me, yes I concede that this number of WCE players will never take the field for East Perth as there will always be injuries in AFL, but even so you will still get a very high percentage of these guys playing consistently for East Perth and West Coast will not want any of them to play reserves footy unless they are young developing players.
So if you were an established East Perth league player like Johnson, Smith, Clutterbuck etc, you would be crazy not to look at other opportunities as I am sure they don't want to be playing reserves footy in the WAFL waiting for Eagles players to get injured?