Ins and Outs 2024

IN:

Kobe Tozer (Norwood)

Tom Rundle (Returning)

Brady Searle (Glenelg)

Patrick Wilson (Sturt)




OUT:

Jono Beech (Retired)

Kaiden Brand (retired)

Nick Steele

Michael Mattingly

Owen Mulady

Bailey Chamberlain

Frane Babic

Nick Couroupis (Henley)

Kane Sherlock (Henley)




'RETAINED'

Will Patton




"LOST'

Will Snelling

Owen Mulady is an out.

Club has announced Michael Mattingly is an out

Big blow.

the West Adelaide Football club is excited to welcome Justin Schultz as our new High Performance Manager.

Justin has spent the last two years as Head of High Performance of the Junior program at the Glenelg Football Club. He is also the Strength and Conditioning Coach, High Performance 2IC at Adelaide United Football Club.

Justin has significant experience in organising and running pre-season and in-season programs, training sessions, rehab sessions, mentoring other S&C coaches and delivering effective gym workloads.

Justin officially starts on November 1, and we look forward to seeing him make a huge impact on the club.

Go Bloods!

Will Snelling delisted. Would he be any chance of coming back to the bloods?

Tozer played Amatuers this year for Prince Alfred after leaving Norwood.
From all reports, was a very talented junior but struggled with injury.
Let’s hope he can make an impact. We desperately need a key forward / ruck option.

South Australia under-18 captain Will Patton was the shock draft omission ---- wow ==== very bad luck for the young man but good for us

We’re pleased to announce the signing of Brady Searle for the 2024 season.

Brady comes to us from Glenelg Football Club, he is an inside midfielder who thrives in the contest, is tough and has good skills by hand and foot.

Brady strengthens our midfield, comes with a lot of experience so we are excited to see him play great footy for us next year.

Paul Streatfield, Head of Football had this to say about the signing of Brady Searle:

“We are thrilled to welcome Brady to the club. One of our focus areas has been to strengthen our midfield, and Brady brings valuable experience to this area for us. Brady has shown that he is more than capable at the level, he comes to us from a successful environment and we look forward to seeing him mix with our existing group”.

“Brady is a player we have been looking at for quite some time. He is a quality person and aligns with the values of our club. We look forward to Brady commencing training with us this week”.

Welcome to the Bloods Searley!

Oldfella wrote:South Australia under-18 captain Will Patton was the shock draft omission ---- wow ==== very bad luck for the young man but good for us

Agreed - but there is still this to come - the pre-season supplementary selection period. Which is open from 9am AEDT on Monday, November 27 2023 and run across the pre-season before the deadline at 5pm AEDT on Monday, February 19 2024 - Oscar Steene went to Collingwood last year.

In: $25,000 from Sturt.

Will took one look at there facilities  and was sold.

whilst obviously disappointed by wills reported decision we move on

No surprises there.
Ex players very rarely come back to Westies.

wolf pack i think that would be an interesting discussion actually as i feel most who return to sanfl come back to westies

To say I’m disappointed is an understatement.
If there was one player I thought would come back to the club it would’ve been Will.

Wolf Pack wrote:No surprises there.
Ex players very rarely come back to Westies.

Off the top of my head, those who have:
Brand, Beech, Brown, Champion, A. Hartlett, H.Hartlett, Keough, Schmidt, Porplyzia, Helbig, Silverlock, Lindner, Webb, Mickan, Slattery, Marsh, Bates, Spoon.
Those who haven't:
Jericho, Eagleton, Tiller, Durdin, Welsh, Snelling.

aldo, your list is what i thought -- fools never differ lol

from memory jericho and welsh were different issues

Fair Enough.
Happy to be proven wrong.
However, it’s disappointing that a Premiership Player would choose another club to play for.

totally agree mate --- when nathan eagleton did it to us i as property steward tore his picture down from the walk and threw it in the bin in font of andy collins who said nothing.

Surely we are going to announce more signings?????
We have recruited 2 new payers so far.
Once again we are behind most of the other clubs in recruiting.

Was hoping we might have got snelling, so agree the lack of signings is pretty ordinary but standard these days at Richmond.

I agree we need 2 or 3 key position players. That said I like what I saw last season with our "baby bloods". These young kids will only get better so all is not lost. Harts is also coaching very well and has them playing for him.
We will win more games this year I am confident of that.

As for Scott Welsh going to the Eagles at the end of his career. He did us a favour in my view.
His body was stuffed and he only played a few games. Injured most of the season. I reckon he knew that and if the Eagles were silly enough to throw $'s at him why not? If he saw his career out with us we would have been playing with a man down and using up salary cap.

I’m really hoping the club will announce a couple of good recruits very soon.
So far our Recruiting has been very very underwhelming.

Right now based on who we’ve lost and gained and given where we finished last year 2024 could once again be a very long season.

I’ve been posting similar posts at this time of the year for the past 5 years