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List Mgmt. Trade & Free Agency talk Pt 5
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What a ridiculous comment !!
Maybe you should of said " Trading in 2 mids from a GF team that finished 1 & 3 in their teams B & F could rise you from 7th to 1st"
You are all over the shop now, Best go to bed
its been over ten years and that mincing, smug, dessicated dead baby bird whateley still looks at the camera like its gonna eat him.
absolute tosser.
probably got a cuckold fetish.
ugh.
absolute tosser.
probably got a cuckold fetish.
ugh.
I certainly see the value in those players & i like winning too. I am sure they make us better - but its the cost. To get both at the same time is a very very arrogant move, its almost insulting to the club you are dealing with. There will be no good will here. The fact we were balls deep into these stories 48 hours after our finals exit shows just how keen we are.
Essentially to get Hopper & Taranto, we may be trading away 2 x Gibcus + 2 x Sonsie & be paying the same, if not more in salary. We also completely remove ourselves from being able to stumble across our next Cotchin, Dusty & Rance for 2 more years. I like Taranto & Hopper, but i dont see their ceiling to be that high & thats the ceiling we will need to win a flag.
With so many players set to retire we not thinking about how we fill all those spots. How the F are we going to replace Riewoldt, Lynch, Grimes, Tarrant ? We totally lack any possible elite KPF & B prospects - we are going to have no choice but to replace them from the 3rd,4th, 5th rounds
You didn't understand what i was talking about, did you sweet pea? you have no idea who Kane Johnson is
Mulling it over i think getting them both is ridiculous. I would just secure 1 with Hopper my preference, & still retain a good portion of our 2022-23 draft hand. When we got Presita, Caddy & Toby,,we only stuffed up our draft hand for 1 year as we shipped off Deledio for a 1st & 3rd rounder. Toby only cost us a 3rd rounder, & Caddy was a 2nd. So basically the cost/risk involved in what we are doing this year, trading all present & future 1st & 2nd round picks, is not even close to being comparable in trades. We will not have many picks above 40 for 2 years
Going after both is crazy, especially since they are both at the 1 club. Is a pretty arrogant move to GWS too - seems unnecessary
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It has been more than two years when we won a premiership. When we won Dusty was firing.
Now, Dusty is older, he can come back but the past ways are not necessarily doable. We might have to win a different way.
It is far too easy to say put in Taranto and Hopper and say bingo we now win. You are correct GWS have not been outstanding in recent years.
Our defence is worse, Rance is not there, Houli is gone, our players are older but change is not needed?
Furthermore, what are our youngsters and others supposed to do if Hopper and others take away their opportunity??
Was the Swans trading for players when developing their academy players?? As I recall they where actually losing players rather than adding players from elsewhere. Geelong did not spend a lot getting Stengle, Henry and Holmes
What if Hopper and even Taranto struggle to match the youngsters??
I can see Short, Baker, Graham and others like Ross and even Banks struggling to get a opportunity. Looks like we are big chances to take out the reserves
It is almost like a slap in the face of our development area. It reminds me of when apparently Dimma was looking at letting go Rance. Not a good sign for me. I can understand getting one, but two has ripple effects. I would be surprised if B Gale was not a little concerned about the size of the play
short got moved to the centre to try cover our glaring holes, did well but obviously not his natural role.
i still rate him higher than baker off half back, the latter had a mare last third of the year.
in my top 7 best nearly every week, had a better year than grimes for example.
love the bloke.
with tarantino and the locust in the middle, he will go back and it will be up to baker to deal with the added attention his breakout year has brung if he wants to squeeze short out.
love bakes too.
dunno why short gets close to whipping boy status, he's a 100% team player who works his arse off.
i still rate him higher than baker off half back, the latter had a mare last third of the year.
in my top 7 best nearly every week, had a better year than grimes for example.
love the bloke.
with tarantino and the locust in the middle, he will go back and it will be up to baker to deal with the added attention his breakout year has brung if he wants to squeeze short out.
love bakes too.
dunno why short gets close to whipping boy status, he's a 100% team player who works his arse off.
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No man you didn’t just suggest that
FMD
Cannot for the life of me work out how some people comment about football on a footy forum when they have no idea about football or talent but whats even worse is not know where the team you support has the weakest line and needs to most help.
Cannot for the life of me work out how some people comment about football on a footy forum when they have no idea about football or talent but whats even worse is not know where the team you support has the weakest line and needs to most help.
It's reckless. Agree, 1 would be the wise move. Our backline is woeful, defensively. That final play has underlined it. There is a complete lack of leadership back there. We missed Houli so much I thought, even Astbury would have definitely had a fist on that ball in 2021.
Our backline looks nothing like a premiership one at the moment. It looks like something the Bulldogs would spew out on one of their off years.
I think Balta has surely shown he is a backman, but I also don;t see him being our backline general anytime soon. He had a concerning amount of brain farts this season. Thought Vloss dropped off & didn't step up in the leadership back their as much as i was suspecting. Broad started off great, but really declined & Grimes was far too often clumsy with both sides of his game. Tarrant had moments, but often looked very slow & had some moments where i am reminded he spent his career at North & would have rarely been in big moments/crowds like this. As the season went on, the concerns on Gibcus grew also.
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There was a lack of leadership at the final line. Where was the talk? If it was not a final one would think they tanked it.
It was a real ducks and drakes season. Really amounted to ending up in no mans land. Apart from developing our youngsters we did not do a lot. We develop our youngsters and now chase Taranto and Hopper? Does not make a lot of sense.
Who is our backline coach anyway? Just have a look at the website, we have none, so is that on Dimma?
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I will just leave this here for you guys to drool
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And some don't want The gws boys, fmd
These 2 are are a god send, been screaming for
A ready made mid and now real possibility
2 land in our lap , very rare to get a opportunity
To sort your midfield issues in the 1 hit
I'm doing cartwheels.
What gets me is if these 2 boys were in this years draft ( Totally untried and unknown )
Just about all these people would be wanting us to sell all our picks for pick #2 + #7 to select them
Sure we will get the pushback about them being younger but if you factor in that new kids usually take 3 years to get to top level or sometimes 4/5 years we are getting guaranteed 6/7 years from top end talent
But what these 2 provide that is never taken into consideration is how much better it makes our remaining mids become by taking the pressure away . Bolton , Sonsie , Cotchin , Dusty , Graham would be able to play their games freely and Short , Macca , Pickett will play their roles knowing we have 2 beasts winning the ball and can play more attacking game style.
We have been getting killed at stoppages and center clearances and allowing our defenders to be under pressure way too much.
Morro
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Ffs. Same shit you dribbled about Prestia.
Go sit in the naughty corner, you've learned nothing.
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Morro
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Correct. And was outstanding
Cdog71
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Like scoring more from stoppages?
Rubbish
Try harder
Rubbish
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Well that’ll stuff up teams like Melbourne, Brisbane and Collingwood as well…sorry opposition supporters lol
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What do people think about trading:-
Ins :- Taranto and Hopper
Outs:- Pick 19 and Short
We keep picks 12 and 30 in this year's draft..
And we keep a full hand in next year's draft.
Ins :- Taranto and Hopper
Outs:- Pick 19 and Short
We keep picks 12 and 30 in this year's draft..
And we keep a full hand in next year's draft.
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There's a massive difference between the 2002 and 2022 versions of the Richmond Football Club. One was a club that was in debt and massively under resourced and one that had no stability or direction off field. We could of added Carey, Voss, hird and.buckley and still wouldn't of had any success. The other has just come off 3 flags in 5 years and season where it made the finals and blooded a lot of talented kids. Once prestia went down we were smashed. Our midfield is a massive weakness and needs reinforcing. We drafted 5 quality kids last year to with the quality youth we have. The 2 guys are 24 and 25. If they cost a lot of picks the club will be smart and get extra in the year after
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In what world are any of these guys worth the equivalent of pick 19, even if we pay one of their low poultry celeries (which would be a total beta move)
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Biggie is a rookie, so a good chance he is offered another year. Always was going to be a project player.
Frustrated Tiger
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I must have watched a few of his bad games then....
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