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Right. Anytime someone posts a "mids mids mids" comment it will automatically receive one of these ...

We. Can. Get. Midfielders. And. Cloke. There. Is. Nothing. Stopping. Us. From. Trying. To. Achieve. Both.

I dont know if this has been said before but I reckon we do trade for mids & use Rivers, Bate & Dunn to get the best mids out of a teams like Collingwood Sydney Geelong or Hawthorn. Just do it.

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daisycutter
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I can't make up my mind between option 1 and option 3

PaulRB
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Check his stats for this year and his contested marks and marks inside 50 are at least double the next Pie player... And that's him having a bad year in a premiership contending team. An some here s

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I'm not so sure it's the dollar amount as much as it is the security of a longer-term deal. People ridicule the Clokes but what's Cloke Snr really doing that's so bad in looking after his son? If his

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Yep and how do they get it?? Mids. We could have Jesus H Christ there himself at FF and we would still struggle with our I50s which are amongst the lowest in the league. As well our delivery is bottom of the class.

He's too small for FF. Better as an inside mid.

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Yep and how do they get it?? Mids. We could have Jesus H Christ there himself at FF and we would still struggle with our I50s which are amongst the lowest in the league. As well our delivery is bottom of the class.

Cloke is No#1 for putting the ball inside 50m at Collingwood.

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I dont know if this has been said before but I reckon we do trade for mids & use Rivers, Bate & Dunn to get the best mids out of a teams like Collingwood Sydney Geelong or Hawthorn. Just do it.

Ha. Ha. No. They are FA's, and hold absolutely no value on the trade table. Try again.

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By having 2 power forwards 1 will be able to leave the 50m arc and get the ball themselves. Thats the wonder of it all.

who needs mids when you got forwards who go and collect it themselves :)

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I'm not sure if I heard correctly but I am sure that on Wednesday night, Gerard Healy said on 3AW that Melbourne had offered Cloke a 7 year deal. Please tell me I dreamt that.....

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All I can say: the thought of Travis Cloke on a hard lead outside 50. Mark. Swing around on his left foot with a quick, long, penetrating kick into a one on one contest to Mitch Clark makes me salivate.

Get all his good attributes and don't need him shooting for goal. :) Hope it happens....

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I'm not sure if I heard correctly but I am sure that on Wednesday night, Gerard Healy said on 3AW that Melbourne had offered Cloke a 7 year deal. Please tell me I dreamt that.....

You are mistaken. He has been offered a 17 year contract. That way he is out of other club's reach when he becomes eligible for free agency for a second time.

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You would have to ask if Cloke is actually worth the money mentioned he certainly hasn't had a stellar year. In Tonight's game against North he has racked up 10 possessions for 3 points at 3 quarter time.

Dawes has 6 possessions for nil score at the same time.

Not exactly the twin towers they were supposed to be.

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hahaha you beauty , my opinion is justified , you mugs still want no smoke cloke for a mill a year ? as good as a man short from what i seen tonight , bloody useless , as was dawes who lots on here were crying out for not long ago , lol legends , bah and you have a go at the recruiting team pppphhhhhtttt

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Imagine if we got his mate?! The big doofus beside him?

Still wouldn't mind Cloke though...

Not saying that I want Dawes, but good lord, he'd be useful in our current undersized forward line. At least for the 2nd half of the year temporarily anyway. Then I'd like to hand him back. At no cost, of course.

Can someone arrange this please?

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With our list and the front loading of contracts, I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't have 2-3+ mill left in our salary cap next year to front load a major contract or 2 or 3 - be it Cloke, be it Goddard, be it Boak.... Whoever is available we have so much cap room to fit them in for major deals without upsetting future contracts. I don't understand why people here are scared to offer big payloads to get us to our club that mya, just may help lift us up off the canvass. I don't care who we upset at other clubs, nor which of 'senior' players get a shake up because we will pay an outsider huge coin, our football club needs the best players we can get our hands on now, not what might be when our "window" opens - our "window" will open much sooner if we have better footballers playing, seems simple to me

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I think its much liklier that he will be signing for carlton

they can have him, he's not worth the money he's asking

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Cloke last night failed because of poor service. The Pies midfield were inefective and their kicking to him was poor for a change. Put him in our side with our current setup and skill level he would be completely useless. The thought of a 7 year contract, Arrgh!

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The money is not an issue - Green gone frees up $400-500K/year as will Moloney or Sylvia if either of them go. Davey has one year left and is on $500-600K/year. We have money to burn for the next couple of years might as well spend it rather than pay 92.5% of the cap or give it to players to beef up their contracts when they dont deserve it.

Cloke playing 40-80metres from goal leading up to the wings with Clark playing 0-40 out and being dangerous around the goals will be great for our structure.

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