He's amongst a handful of my favorite players, but if we get to the end of year and Dodson is still looking a lot more promising than Heath, and we pick up TDK, my head says we are better off trading big Ro at a premium.
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He's amongst a handful of my favorite players, but if we get to the end of year and Dodson is still looking a lot more promising than Heath, and we pick up TDK, my head says we are better off trading big Ro at a premium.
I can't see them getting a priority pick unless they don't win a single game. They suck, but they haven't sucked for anywhere near as long as North have. North Melbourne have been stinky for like 7 years, haven't made finals since 2016 and have finished 17th or 18th in the last 5 seasons.
West Coast made the finals every year from 2015 - 2020 and won a flag in there. Let them collect a few more spoons.
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Have to disagree on the assessment of Pou.
He is 190cm, powerfully built, not particularly fast, but not slow.
He has the attributes to be a Petracca style player. An inside bull with the ability to do a little bit on the outside and be super dangerous up forward.
But he 100% can be that big-bodied bull that we crave. I don't see him even close to being a majority outside player.
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100%
And Bo Allen ain't doing anything really.
Their WAFL side is so bad. There's literally no talent coming through.
1. No shiit einstein
2. Yes, if they don’t match the contract, we get him for free. Kind of the whole point of the thing for people playing along.
I think thats why they called it free agency.
The AFL haven't got a clue.
Back when Saints were playing Grand Finals, Melbourne were languishing at the bottom.
To give Melbourne a leg up, they gave a priority pick, which Melbourne used on Scully.
BUT: then they put a system in place that allowed their priority pick player to be stolen from them, ( GWS ).
OK , they got a good reward for it, but, that didn't address why they got the priority pick in the first place, two years after the pick ( and even the best players aren't top of the game after two seasons ), and they were back to square 1.
In their wisdom, Melbourne then decided that they should use their entire compensation on a mini-draft , netting them Jesse Hogan , who was 17 and couldn't play until 2015.
So Melbourne's 2009 priority pick finally gave them some sort of performance lift in 2015.
So what is a priority pick meant to do?
Why not put some guidelines in place?
Expansion side or not, why not preclude priority picks from that crap, on the grounds that the club was given it because they needed it?
What could we get back for a 31 year old Marshall who was just relegated to being a low output backup ruck for a year though? Pick 30? Not worth it at all.
We are going to spend between around 15 million ( they seem to be hiding the minimum ) and $15 800 000 on players.
We will spend that much no matter what players are getting what individual salary.
As long as the guys on the big bucks aren't spudding it up, and the guys we want to keep aren't walking out due to lack of pay, its totally irrelevant.
If we paid Hannebury too much, it only stopped us paying someone else to much. ( We were already paying Billings and Gresham too much ).
First round pick from a contending team.
His birthday is November , so he'll be 30 for the 2026 season.
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Would have been nice if we traded on draft night to get trainor who slid right down and looks like the kind of defender we need.
I don’t think any club would offer a first rounder at his age. If it’s pick 30 then you’re better off keeping him.
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Clubs weren't willing to take North's future first for the relevant picks, we had no chance of trading in. We got Tauru, we got Barret, let's see how they go in time rather than throwing them onto the field straight away because we have to.
I don't think we'd trade him this year. Imagine we ship Marshall off for a pick in the 20s and then TDK gets injured. Heads would roll
13.6 million is not free champ. There is also opportunity cost.
Everyone knows what SFA is but to say it's free sounds ignorant.
So you wan't Marshall as a back up?
Way i see it , if for whatever reason Marshall isn't close to the midfield, its a waste.
Everyone knows it means we don't have to cough up draft picks, which are worth more than salary because of the salary cap minimum.
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Honestly I'd rather just keep Marshall as our ruck for the next 5 years on 900k and spend the 1.7k per year on a gun mid or two
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“So, [TDK is] genuinely weighing it up, and I think if he hasn't signed by midseason, then he's probably on his way.”
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“If he hasn't signed by midseason, then he's probably on his way.”
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Marshall looks like he’s lost a step this season, the enormous workload might be catching up with him, not sure we can rely on him as the sole ruck for that long.
Stick him up forward and take those F50 Ball Ups and give TDK a chop out is a way to extend his career.
I think it's more that he was rushed in underdone and forced to take the full workload from round 2 onwards. Ro is a very ordinary forward and an AA quality ruckman. The bloke had a fractured pelvis. Would have preferred that we let the cheap battering ram (Boyd) take the brunt of the force for a bit longer rather than rushing Ro back
