The Tassie Devils’ list building process is well and truly underway, with the club preparing to launch into recruitment as early as this month.<\/p>\n
Hosting a public meeting with 30 player managers from across the competition on Monday, the club’s intent to delve into recruitment at the earliest stage was made evident, bullish on competing from early in their AFL tenure.<\/p>\n
And as revealed by list manager Todd Patterson, things are advancing at an incredibly rapid rate.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re really moving out of the operational setup stage as a recruiting department now,\u201d Patterson told SEN Tassie.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will get into the normal routine of games and our review meetings and vision during the week.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost importantly and probably most interestingly, we will get the list and TPP (Total Player Payments) strategy ticked off in the next couple of weeks, and then we\u2019ll be getting quite busy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will start lobbing some grenades!\u201d<\/p>\n
With a list to build out from scratch, the club has conducted a thorough player identification process, filing a list of talent across the competition that they believe will add significant value to the team via recruitment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a comprehensive list,\u201d Patterson revealed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of data and the sort that is sitting behind where all of those names are at, and there\u2019s already been some conversations about a number of those players on there and with some of those players.\u201d<\/p>\n
As part of their list build, Tasmania has been granted a $5 million sign-on bonus to spread across their talent acquisition. Expected to be used across multiple players over the coming years, Patterson explained that there are stipulations regarding the use of the cash.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can utilise that however we want across the playing group, so no limit there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can spread it across two years, but we have got to spend a minimum of $2 million of it in each of the first two years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Would the club be willing to use all $5 million on one superstar signing?<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t thought about that in that specific detail. There are many different and varied ways to go about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we will be going the sustainable approach, trying to make sure we spread it and built a team for long term success.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a part of their recruitment strategy, Patterson explained that the club isn\u2019t just in talks with the game\u2019s best and most valuable players in order to land a giant splash in the market.<\/p>\n
Instead, the club has divided their funds into different pools, with players allocated to different subgenres that can combine to create a well-rounded list.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it comes to the whiteboard, there are so many different names and so many different elements to it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have spread our TPP strategy into different buckets; people who are going to be in our first premiership team, our young guys, people that are going to be able to set the culture and are almost going to be playing coaches.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got an idea of how many different players in each category that we want, and how much of our salary cap we\u2019re going to attribute to each category.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite being granted a number of draft picks that the competition states must be traded, Patterson says that the club will not be looking to trade with other clubs unless entirely necessary.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019d be mad to trade unless we have to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven we\u2019ve got access to 18 uncontracted free agents in the competition, plus your natural free agents, it\u2019s better that we try to hold onto as many off those assets as possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat will really help us in the long term with the sustainability at the club.\u201d<\/p>\n
With talks underway, the Devils\u2019 list will begin to take shape over the course of the next 12-24 months in anticipation of their inaugural season in 2028.<\/p>\n
Listen to the full interview with Todd Patterson below!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tassie Devils’ list building process is well and truly underway, with the club preparing to launch into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-511010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}