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Well done to FD on our 2017 trade week


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Fantastic week for our club, think they achieved all their objectives and secured the players they needed to improve our list

Picks Available -  29, 31, 36 and 47

1/ Lever - huge get, the best kid traded to our club in many, many years. 

2/ Balic - good upside for the price we paid I saw this kid a number of times in WA this year. 

3/ Picks - essential brought in an extra usable picks into this years draft ie pick 36

Outs 

1/ Pick 10 - pretty much a raffle pick in this years draft so I'm not worried about exchanging it to get Lever & another raffle pick pick 36

2/ Watts - sad to see Jack leave and wish him all the best at the PAFC, he will always be a Demon to me. 

Wish to thank the FD for all their efforts in this tough, stressful and often emotional week.

Im very happy and looking forward to embracing our very positive and bright future. Go Dees. 

 

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You must be kidding??

We were the big duds of trade week, in fact spectacularly so!

1 Sold the farm for Jake Lever

2 Got  1 square metre of Quick sand for Jack Watts

3 As for Harley Balic, a same mans Ben Kennedy who we just delisted.

A poor a Drafting result as ever! IMV:blink:

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4 minutes ago, picket fence said:

You must be kidding??

We were the big duds of trade week, in fact spectacularly so!

1 Sold the farm for Jake Lever

2 Got  1 square metre of Quick sand for Jack Watts

3 As for Harley Balic, a same mans Ben Kennedy who we just delisted.

A poor a Drafting result as ever! IMV:blink:

I take it you don't expect us to be top 4 in 2018 Picket?

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Can we give Lever Kelvin Templetons number or would diamond Jim TIlbrroks be more appropriate ?

He's probably ordering a new yacht as we speak.

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6 minutes ago, picket fence said:

 

1 Sold the farm for Jake Lever

2 Got  1 square metre of Quick sand for Jack Watts

3 As for Harley Balic, a same mans Ben Kennedy who we just delisted.

 

1 - Wrong. We gave up fair value for the biggest fish of the trade period. 

2 -  We got fair value for Watts

3 - Hes talented, could go either way, only cost pick 66.

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Agree I thought it was a hugely successful trade period for us.

 

To the whingers, a coupla things:

 

1 - Jake Lever. You clearly have NFI how good this kid is and how big a coup it is for our club to land him at 21 years of age. Some of the lack of opposition player knowledge is genuinely embarrassing.

 

2 - The reason next year's draft is predicted to be a 'super' draft is purely because of how many potential quality top 10 picks there'll be vs this year. There will be many more potential number 1 picks next year. This year there are still plenty of players who are hard to separate from picks 15 -35. The club obviously believe there will be some quality remaining at 29, 31 and 36 and that it'd be smarter to take three second-round picks to the draft vs one late first round and later picks. Our chances of landing some good players at those three are very good.

Our development program, the coaches and leaders we have mean that any new talent coming through will be given every chance to shine. I think we're in a very strong position.

Our 'core' now comprises of:

Hogan (51 games)

Weideman (10)

Salem (46)

Petracca (39)

Viney (88)

Brayshaw (36)

Oliver (35)

Hunt (41)

Lever (56)

That's a beautiful spread of talent across all lines and that group coming through together have the potential to really take this club to the top. There are plenty of great support players underneath this group who I haven't named. But I think people forget how young and inexperienced these guys are.

Look at what Viney is doing at game 88 and now imagine what Petracca, Lever, Hogan, Oliver etc will be like when they reach that point.. Or 100 games.. We just need to keep adding smartly in and around this group. 

Looking forward to the draft.

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I didn't see any cup or medal awarded to any club at 2PM Thursday.

You don't "win" or "lose" at trade week.

You "improve" your list, or you "don't".

We won't know for sure until next season is underway, but at this stage it looks like we have improved ours.

That's the nearest to "winning" we can do in October.

Go Demons!

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There's some on here that will whinge when we win the flag that we should have won the GF by more. 1 point will [censored] do!!!

We got what we wanted so I'm happy with that. The reports that Maxy and Tracc are close to new deals tops it off nicely.

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A great week for the club.  A statement made by Goodwin and the F.D. over Watts. Untapped potential and popularity with fans does not win Premierships.

A fair price paid for Lever. A known quantity, unlike a high draft picks.  The club has sufficient young players being developed already.

What's to lose with Balic. Pick 66.

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29, 31, 36 and 47.

In Jason Taylor we trust.

Anyway, Lever is a player we'd be thrilled to get with a top 3 pick, so we're done just fine from this trade period.

I'd argue that aside from finding an ready-to-crash-in back-up ruck (are there any mature age worth grabbing?) Taylor has the luxury of just picking whoever he thinks might turn out alright.

I'd like to see some more 'exciting athletic gifts' around the place, even if a little flawed. Someone for McCartney to work on, get the kicking to an acceptable level. Petrucelle, Sambono, that sort of player. Bring 'em all in, let them have fun dashing around at Casey while they tidy up the flaws, our list is now strong enough to experiment without putting super pressure on.

We have the right picks to go collecting for that type, too.

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46 minutes ago, DaveyDee said:

Fantastic week for our club, think they achieved all their objectives and secured the players they needed to improve our list

 

But we missed out on Stringer?

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21 minutes ago, picket fence said:

You must be kidding??

We were the big duds of trade week, in fact spectacularly so!

1 Sold the farm for Jake Lever

2 Got  1 square metre of Quick sand for Jack Watts

3 As for Harley Balic, a same mans Ben Kennedy who we just delisted.

A poor a Drafting result as ever! IMV:blink:

When you consider Stringer went for 25 and 30 we got fair value for Watts.

As for Lever im backing him to become the best defender weve had for a long long time.

I agree re: Balic, im not getting to excited about him either.

Overall  I would give us a 7/10.

 

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Totally disagree Josh Mahoney should be sacked!!

Failed to hold his nerve with the Lever trade & gave away two 1st rounders, 10 and 27 would've be adequate but he panicked.

Lever ( a very good young player) nominated us, he was uncontracted, deals get done at the end of trade periods.

Adelaide held their nerve, we crumbled.

Watts pick 31, ok fair enough but paying part of his salary for a contracted player...please!!!!

Balic whoopee!!!

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2 minutes ago, Bring Back Slug said:

A statement made by Goodwin and the F.D. over Watts.

This.

For everyone (and I think it is just about everyone?) who has been irritated by the 'just more talk, when will we see action' pattern regarding the club's consistency issues, well, here you go, that's what action looks like.

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16 minutes ago, sydneydee said:

Terrible trade week for us. 

I am still filthy at the Watts trade for a packet of chips.

Me too! I am so annoyed that not sure if I want 2 go 2 the footy next year.

5 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

29, 31, 36 and 47.

In Jason Taylor we trust.

Anyway, Lever is a player we'd be thrilled to get with a top 3 pick, so we're done just fine from this trade period.

I'd argue that aside from finding an ready-to-crash-in back-up ruck (are there any mature age worth grabbing?) Taylor has the luxury of just picking whoever he thinks might turn out alright.

I'd like to see some more 'exciting athletic gifts' around the place, even if a little flawed. Someone for McCartney to work on, get the kicking to an acceptable level. Petrucelle, Sambono, that sort of player. Bring 'em all in, let them have fun dashing around at Casey while they tidy up the flaws, our list is now strong enough to experiment without putting super pressure on.

We have the right picks to go collecting for that type, too.

Hope whoever he selects besides having a footy brain can actually kick the footy well. Sick of recruiting players who are crap kicks.

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10 minutes ago, Billy said:

Totally disagree Josh Mahoney should be sacked!!

Failed to hold his nerve with the Lever trade & gave away two 1st rounders, 10 and 27 would've be adequate but he panicked.

Lever ( a very good young player) nominated us, he was uncontracted, deals get done at the end of trade periods.

Adelaide held their nerve, we crumbled.

Watts pick 31, ok fair enough but paying part of his salary for a contracted player...please!!!!

Balic whoopee!!!

You mean the same Adelaide that gave up picks 10, 16 and 73 to the Blues along with a future second-round selection for a 28 (soon to be 29) year old Gibbs?

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would've liked to have gotten saad. dont know why we didnt as we had the picks to get him.

happy to get watts out, even for nothing and didnt care that we paid overs for lever.

 

to all the people that say they are p!ssesd off for paying too much for lever, i can only imagine you would be more p!ssed off if we said 'nah stuff it we'll go to the draft instead' and risk not ending up with lever. and don't mention all the psd stuff. its still a risk not worth taking.

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Getting Lever was a great get - those bemoaning that we 'sold the farm' don't realise the risk inherent in these first round picks, which is ironic because we've had plenty of early draft picks in recent times.

We didn't want Watts and we got to offload him two years before his contract expired. That's also a win, and I hope it works out for Jack at Port.

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Paid way "over" for Lever.

Gave Watts up too cheaply (plus we are still paying part of his salary in 2018). Jack's performance over his 9 years had been well documented but players of his height, ability, kicking and finishing skills don't grow on trees. At what point do you look at the host of support coaches at MFC and ask what share of responsibility do they take for not getting the best out of him?? 

There is no hiding now. The club has made their choices and will have to be judged on those in 12 months time.

 

 

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