Traded Jack Darling - Traded to North for Pick #67

[Monsterdarlz]

Doesn't make him a smart footballer. He's strong and good overhead with a quick few steps.

He doesn’t block leading lanes for other forwards, knows how to drag defenders away from key targets, can half a contest extremely well for someone of his size and is very adept at f50 pressure for a bigger guy. As an undersized key foward that isnt a very good contested mark he needs to rely on other tricks to be effective. Bizzare comment.

I don’t think he is as good as he was previously due to loosing a step and can be a liability at times but to say he doesn’t have forward craft is a lie

 

[Freomaniac]

It’s amazing this thread. It’s about Darling to North effectively and it’s freo fans who feel they need to pick up the fight.

I’d more worry your own players looking to leave your club annually.

If Darling Leaves, you can have Matt Taberner for a season or 2. lol

 

[bzparkes]

If Darling Leaves, you can have Matt Taberner for a season or 2. lol

Comfort pony for blokes in rehab?

 

[chaddy22]

West Coast out : Darling + #77 plus $200k salary contribution
West Coast In : #76

We use that #76 to get Baker and Bolton

 

[THE_GUN]

We use that #76 to get Baker and Bolton

Yep

 

[THE_GUN]

So we lose a player, continue to pay part of his salary, all to move up one single draft spot in the 70’s?

Do you do anything other than troll in these threads?

Well lets have a look at this in a more positive way

You have a 32 year old foward on his last legs that will most likely play WAFL in 2025 so you can get games into Williams and Archer Reid as well as your Captain Oscar Allen combined with Waterman and if required Maric.

So in 2025 your paying Jack Darling $800k to sit in the WAFL
If you pay 200k of his salary then thats a net saving of $600k not wasted

Sounds like a win to me . What am i missing here ?

 

[bzparkes]

Well lets have a look at this in a more positive way

You have a 32 year old foward on his last legs that will most likely play WAFL in 2025 so you can get games into Williams and Archer Reid as well as your Captain Oscar Allen combined with Waterman and if required Maric.

So in 2025 your paying Jack Darling $800k to sit in the WAFL
If you pay 200k of his salary then thats a net saving of $600k not wasted

Sounds like a win to me . What am i missing here ?

You're missing the fact we're struggling to make the floor and Darling can still contribute to the development of our players + contracted.

 

[THE_GUN]

You're missing the fact we're struggling to make the floor and Darling can still contribute to the development of our players + contracted.

Not missing any fact

Its very easy to use the entire cap in 2025 as you could easily front end the players contracted to open up space for next year where you could either attract Warner with $4-6 mil up front because you had already paid up this year.
Or Cap trading comes in as expected and you buy a 1st rounder with cap space

Next question

 

[bzparkes]

Next question

Who are we going to frontload? Bearing in mind that Waterman and OAllen are in line for new deals.

 

[Junk yard]

Who are we going to frontload? Bearing in mind that Waterman and OAllen are in line for new deals.

Did you just answer your own question?

 

[Monsterdarlz]

If this loose campaigner hasn't lost a step it's no loss to me loser. Pull your head in, if you can't spell maybe don't write. And J.D is cooked, maybe even more than you.

No guarantee he’s effective if he moves and yes he’s declined significantly physically in the last 3 years. Non of your KPP outside of Larkey kicked close to the amount of goals he kicked in a poor year. It’s a risk but clearly your management thinks he can bring some leadership and guile to your forward line.

And lol I haven’t made any spelling mistakes so check yourself first.

 

[bzparkes]

Did you just answer your own question?

No, because that might bring us up to the level just, but we ain't front loading anyone else.

 

[eastfreo75]

This is what I can't see past. He's a Perth bloke married to a Perth girl, with school aged kids. I can't see them uprooting to the other side the country for a year or two.

Stranger things have happened though.

A friend of mine spoke to Clancy Pearce. He said that Clancy told me that Hawthorn offered him a two-year contract after he was cut by the Dockers. Pearce didn't take the offer because he would have uprooted his wife and kids.

 

[Junk yard]

No guarantee he’s effective if he moves and yes he’s declined significantly physically in the last 3 years. Non of your KPP outside of Larkey kicked close to the amount of goals he kicked in a poor year. It’s a risk but clearly your management thinks he can bring some leadership and guile to your forward line.

And lol I haven’t made any spelling mistakes so check yourself first.

"Loosing a step"

 

[freoforever94]

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

I'm not joking, in this draft, once those picks move up from bid matching, I'm backing WC to win that trade comfortably.

 

[stallon]

I'm not joking, in this draft, once those picks move up feom bid matching, I'm backing WC to win that trade comfortably.

to be fair, the impact Darling will have at North wont be obvious to spectators, as a lot of it will be off-field

 

[The Falcon Strike]

Why has Darling requested a trade?

Are NM losing someone via FA and trying to protect compo?

If he's getting a half decent contract - we'd get more for him by letting him go for free under FA.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Why has Darling requested a trade?

Are NM losing someone via FA and trying to protect compo?

If he's getting a half decent contract - we'd get more for him by letting him go for free under FA.

He’s contracted so have to trade

Pick 64 is what will get it done

 

[stallon]

Why has Darling requested a trade?

Are NM losing someone via FA and trying to protect compo?

If he's getting a half decent contract - we'd get more for him by letting him go for free under FA.

Darling isnt a free agent

 

[WCE_authentic]

He’s contracted so have to trade

Pick 64 is what will get it done

Pick 64 is not worth it for us. Would you take Oscar Allen for pick 2 instead?

 

[Jeremias]

 

[Wild Bill]

Who are we going to frontload? Bearing in mind that Waterman and OAllen are in line for new deals.

Every single player to allow you to use the entire salary cap on Reid.

 

[bzparkes]

Every single player to allow you to use the entire salary cap on Reid.

We have plenty of cap, that's not the issue.

 

[Obeanie1]

I'm not joking, in this draft, once those picks move up from bid matching, I'm backing WC to win that trade comfortably.

Eagles have 58 that fingers crossed will be enough to match a bid on Champion made in the 30's to 40''s.

Then 68 becomes our substitute 3rd round pick. With picks used up on bids may end up around 59. Noah Long pick territory and this is definately a deeper draft.

Hoping we somehow end up taking to the draft four picks under 35 plus 58 and 68.