Tracking your team - West

Plenty of outs, a few ins, salary cap breaches, financial problems. Can the Bloods go one step further.

Outs are:

Ryan Willits
Brad Fisher
Ben Fisher
Fort Caruso
Nat Caruso
Marc Borholm
Scott Blesing

Ins are:

Travis Tuck
Brad Mangan
Ryan Anderson
Daniel Webb (from PAFC Rookie list)

Given the salary cap breach, 5 well paid league players out means we can only add 2 well paid ins, plus Daniel Webb.

Overall, though, that retains our strong backline and adds a good midfielder and a versatile forward/onballer.

We will also probably not see as much of Brad Crouch, so the progress of several younger players, including Rankine, Homburg, Bonney, Schiller, Westhoff, Kirk, Anderson and others will be crucial, together with the best of our juniors, Johnson, Dijksman, Middleton & Co.

Are these FACTS Red? Or are you just starting something?

I think when you are talking ins you must also include the fact that we have retained Ferguson & Tippett who most seem to feel were going?

howthewestwaswon wrote:Are these FACTS Red? Or are you just starting something?

I think all of that is fact and on the public record, HTWWW?

Anything specific you think isn't

oldfella wrote:I think when you are talking ins you must also include the fact that we have retained Ferguson & Tippett who most seem to feel were going?

Good point and important, oldfella

Keeping Ferguson and Tippett was key, in my view, to laying the foundation for a successful 2013 season.

While the departures will all be missed in some way, the gains are genuinely impressive and, as mentioned, there are some younger players coming through who should be much improved next year.

Something in me still feels there something left in the whole Kurt Tippett saga.

If hypothetically, Tippett (Joel) got rookied to Sydney, you would think he would go. Maybe, just maybe part of the Kurt deal was getting Joel there too. This has been floated previously.

Do we know if he has nominated for the draft? I guess we'll see soon enough.

He has withdrawn from the draft and will be with Westies.

He's been at training.

Credit to him.

OK didn't know that.
I think that was part of the rumouring a few months ago.

Is his back now all good and in full training?
It was said it could have been career threatening.

didn't know that, good to see that Joel thinks Adelaide isn't too bad a place to live.....i thought he was gone

Has he withdrawn from the PSD as well R&B? I know he said he won't take a rookie spot but I thought the door was left open with the PSD?

I thought both, F9, but you may be right.

He is a great lad.

Flag No.9 wrote:Has he withdrawn from the PSD as well R&B? I know he said he won't take a rookie spot but I thought the door was left open with the PSD?

Sydney have 3 spots in the PSD today too

Chambo Off To Work We Go wrote:OK didn't know that.
I think that was part of the rumouring a few months ago.

Is his back now all good and in full training?
It was said it could have been career threatening.

Careful using that word chambo, some people don't like it.

Doesn't matter now.
Door closed on the issue.

There seems to be a theory that somehow West were lucky to finish 2nd last year. I'm not sure why, given that West beat their competition easily in the finals, bar Norwod, but beat Norwood during the year.

I'm not sure which other teams had more claim?

We're being written off in some quarters yet again, but will start with an excellent defence, a fairly settled side and a couple of potentially good recruits.

Ruck depth looks thin and we obviously need to kick more goals, but I think only injury will see us drop much.

Are West about to announce a massive loss ?

Already have.....

http://www.westadelaidefc.com.au/NEWS/LATESTNEWS/2012ANNUALREPORT.aspx

I don't have the time to read all club sites and wasn't sure it was on there. I assume they are the financials you have posted.

Will the media be like a dog with a bone on the result I wonder ?

A very poor result, to say the least.

They've embarked on a massive cost-cutting exercise and other measures to stay viable, but that result is disturbing.

West's losses are very disturbing, reportedly about $507,000, reduced to a 'cash loss' of approximately $286,000 after depreciation.

Since then, their cost-cutting would have saved about all of that much on a yearly basis, particularly through salary cuts alone.

Their cash flow looks terrible, as has been well documented, but I believe there are one or two new major cash inflows to look forward to, so their position should be back to manageable before long.

What must happen is that it doesn't happen again. One more result like that would be a total disaster.

The financial results will be published today, and as a member I'm looking forward to going through them in detail to see just how bad the position is.

Media ban on Tuck

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/west-adelaide-recruit-travis-tucks-lips-are-sealed-on-afl-drugs-policy/story-e6freck3-1226566269071

Any news on if Andy is going to implement a new game that actually gets people to games instead of turning them away? I lost interest last year with the awful excuse of football we played but have renewed my membership in hope I will actually want to watch games this year.