Why we must land a big name player this summer

[gOLLy 401]

So Kerr, Cousins, Brown and Pavlich...

Yeah, well... An All Australian team would probably go ok...

Nah ive been saying for a while now Kerr Cousins and a big forward personally Id go with Fev.

[Guest MFC4Life]

If we landed Pavlich or J.Brown, we could contend for a flag next year.

LOL As if those blokes would ever play for this club.

[jabberwocky 2,301]

I see absolutely no reason to rush out , wallets aflapping to land a supposed franchise player. What for ? Are we likely to challenge seriously in the next 2-3 years. I dont hink so. we wil lbe tialing off our rebuilding staring a possible window then. So in teh mean time we throw money at some "big name" Foolish for mine.

we need to play smart. Lets sort out who we want , who we'll keep etc. Sort out the money ( contracts) for them. Lets make sure we can trade in the black. Thats how you do business. A big money bloke whilst sating somes apetite for cosmetic glory wil do nothinng for us except waste money.

There is a right and wrong time to spend money..NOW/Next year..aint it !!

agreed to a point, but maybe the year after. Carlton has got it right to a point (except for the cheating and losing picks bit). have got a number of high picks over a few years during which they landed stevens and then landed Judd and have started to make thier way up the ladder. Make no mistake they are on the way up. Judd is a champion player and great leader and their kids are starting to show thier worth. Barring injury they will be around the mark next year.

Although you would have to say that if a class player became available it would remiss of us not to make a play. We do have a leadership vacuum and if we could get hold of a player who could bring an uncompromising, win at all costs attitude to our club then we need that (ie Brown), regradless of whether that player will play a part in our next finals series.

A few father-sons wouldnt go astray. Maybe we need to consider a breeding program for past champions.

[jacey 333]

Pickett has been the biggest fish we've caught this decade.

You're right there, Pickett was definitely big when we got him. Never really wanted to shed the fat either while he collected his super.

Your admiration for list cloggers is amazing.

[drdrake 3,162]

Do what the Tassie Hawks have done pay 92.5% get the money in the bank so when these young players become stars we have room in our cap to fit them in. In 5 years time we will have a premiership a brownlow medalist 5 all Australians we need room to keep the team together. Time to develop our own big name player no quick fix another year after this of pain before the march up the ladder commences.

[Rampaging Demons 1]

We are close to paying the salary cap this year - very frightening!!

the other issue is that it will be harder to land a big name with new teams coming in..

we have zilch tradeability at the moment.......

time to drag a rabbit out of a hat i am thinking!!

[beelzebub 23,313]

agreed to a point, but maybe the year after. Carlton has got it right to a point (except for the cheating and losing picks bit). have got a number of high picks over a few years during which they landed stevens and then landed Judd and have started to make thier way up the ladder. Make no mistake they are on the way up. Judd is a champion player and great leader and their kids are starting to show thier worth. Barring injury they will be around the mark next year.

Although you would have to say that if a class player became available it would remiss of us not to make a play. We do have a leadership vacuum and if we could get hold of a player who could bring an uncompromising, win at all costs attitude to our club then we need that (ie Brown), regradless of whether that player will play a part in our next finals series.

A few father-sons wouldnt go astray. Maybe we need to consider a breeding program for past champions.

A very practical man ( if fictional ) once uttered... " a man's gotta know his limitations!!" lol Same applies to a team really. We arent travelling to well. Right now isnt prudent to open a wallet with really nothing in it. I cede your view that mayube next year we possibly look at doing it for the yeart after.. So that would make teh mr magic man appear in season '10 That might be close to good timing.

But I should temper this with the idea that as teh poor end of town ( just a reality folks ) that maybe we grow som e of our own in the backyard instead of paying the inflated prices of teh (afl) Supermarket. Yes its harder to do so..but hey..like home grown carrots..they're sweeter and beeer for ya!! heheh. Point being you work within your means to expand them ( Isnt that right Mr Kyosaki!!lol ) .

It might feel better that we are the "we too" brigade.. look at moi look at moi ..we got this bloke etc. But does that really get you far ? We need a bit more than "1" marquee player to set this world on fire.

I simply feel that with limited means its beholding of us to travel a different path.

[rpfc 28,262]

We are close to paying the salary cap this year - very frightening!!

The only numbers I have seen were from 2006 and we were at around 100%.

Since then we have seen Bizzell, Brown, Pickett, and half of TJ off the salary cap (around $900k).

And next season we will have the other half of TJ, Holland, half of Neitz (vet outside), Yze, Whelan, and possibly White (vet inside) off the salary cap (around $1.3m).

We have added kids since then and our re-signings wouldn't get near what we have cleared from the cap.

[52k2 0]

how about this for an idea to get a couple of players cheap[draught wise]

we get two ex players to legally adopt nat and rich and we take them under the father son rule.

has anyone tried that yet?