Jump to content

Getting Smashed on Trade Radio

Featured Replies

Posted

Trade Radio are rating the team's performances througout the Trade period. Not sure what people think, or how would score us. Terry Wallace has given us a 'C', However Damian Barret has rated as an 'e'.

Is this fair you think?

Edited by Paul Prympke

 

Who really cares. Terry Wallace destroyed the Tigers once. I guess there is no exact way of doing things. No one can really know how we did until a year or two from now. Perhaps Gysberts and Morton do nothing an are delisted and Pedersen does well for us then we look like we did well.

WHO IS fOENANDER?

F**k them all, its their job to critique, our job to support, and our right to disagree, and it will be our privellage to let them all know how far off the mark they were!

 

I'd say we get a C and hope that they just want to have a temporary side for next year and that we will do our actual drafting next year.

Some of the selections reek of short term.

appart from gys i think we have done quite well.

got rid of some dead wood

got some new blood

Got some experienced players (some good some will wait and see)

B- mark for me.


We started Trade period alright, but it's just gotten worse and worse. When you look at how clubs like Geelong and Collingwood went, then look at us, you realise we are still the small fish in their big pond and our enemies grow stronger and now we seem even further back than we were. Frustrating to say the least!

Who cares?

If anything those ratings reflect far more heavily on our wasted early picks in the past and failures to develop than this trade period.

 

How could you rate it a pass. We've paid overs for everything, and received unders for everything given up..... The art of negotiation MFC style.

Barrett is a fcuk head always rips into the demons, at the start of trade radio he said he knows for a FACT that frawley would not have signed a long term deal with the dees if we weren't going to play finals in the in the next couple of seasons he just talks so much sh#t is isn't even funny


Mitch Clark was rated as a D pick up too :)

Who cares?

If anything those ratings reflect far more heavily on our wasted early picks in the past and failures to develop than this trade period.

Fair bit of truth to this.

I wish somebody would pay me money to randomly assign letters to things.

  • Author

Agree most of the replies, I wasn't really that fussed about the opinions of Trade Radio, more so what people thought themselves.

I would give us a C+, we did get most of our main targets so far, which is what you want from the club, which us what we should be getting marked on. I just think we paid overs for the Hogan pick, however the Bulldogs were circling with picks 5&6, which forced us a little bit... having said all that, the C mark is becuase of the calibre of the players we got (no Mitch Clark's this year)...for me only Essendon probably get top marks for Goddard, everyone else was OK. GWS have also smashed it getting the first 3 picks in the draft.

There tossers! B+


We started Trade period alright, but it's just gotten worse and worse. When you look at how clubs like Geelong and Collingwood went, then look at us, you realise we are still the small fish in their big pond and our enemies grow stronger and now we seem even further back than we were. Frustrating to say the least!

In your opinion......

I was happy with our performance until today. Giving up Gysberts and especially Morton for SFA is disappointing. I am confident both will perform better under the right development framework. I am also concerned Neeld is not prepared to invest any time to develop kids properly. Mature players from good cultures is a sensible strategy but too many mid-age NQRs will not a flag team make.

Barrett is having a masturbatory celebration about our latest trades.

And Wallace thinks we were put over a barrell in the Hogan deal.

I don't see that at all but WGAF...

Hogan, Barry, Dawes for 3 and 13.

He doesn't mention it like that though...

Terry Wallace struggles, he cant connected the dots between Viney and Hogan and that is fine. He ran a football club ffs.

Even guys like Bailey, Knights and harvey got assistants jobs, one bloke didnt

We have secured 3 Top 5 talents this off-season.

Trade week is prinicpally dealing around everyone's 25th to 35th best players and so we shouldn't get distracted over that.

Losing Gysberts and Morton for very little is a drafting issue rather than a trade week issue.

Grading is hard to do without the passage of time but the first line in this post will only be matched by GWS and Wallace gave them an A...

Terry Wallace struggles, he cant connected the dots between Viney and Hogan and that is fine. He ran a football club ffs.

Even guys like Bailey, Knights and harvey got assistants jobs, one bloke didnt

For one who cannot connect the dots, yet he calls himself the List Manager...


I'd say we get a C and hope that they just want to have a temporary side for next year and that we will do our actual drafting next year.

Some of the selections reek of short term.

Can't see this happening. Davey and possibly Martin are the only likely delisting next year. All other players coming out of contract i.e Watts, Sylvia, Grimes, Taggert, Gawn, Tynan, and Fitzpatrick are "must keeps" at this stage.

Very little room to move next year. Most players are coming out of contract in 2014.

Can't see this happening. Davey and possibly Martin are the only likely delisting next year. All other players coming out of contract i.e Watts, Sylvia, Grimes, Taggert, Gawn, Tynan, and Fitzpatrick are "must keeps" at this stage.

Very little room to move next year. Most players are coming out of contract in 2014.

Rodan got 1 year so he can be delisted next year

Thats right, im talking about delisting a guy who hasn't played yet.

 

The real truth to this potential blunder will come during next season. IMO Wallace is just about spot on with a "C" yep we have drafted talent with our very high draft picks 3, 13 and 27 for hogan, viney and Barry (and Dawes) but hogan we have to wait. Viney will be a good player possibly great. Barry anyone's guess. But too loose Maloney, rivers, Gysberts and Morton for pick 49, 88 byrnes and pederson appears IMO to be a horrible result for MFC

I don't rate pederson whatsoever

Byrnes 1 - 2 years yeah cool....

Pick 49 lotto, 88 won't be used.

Moloney I understand both parties views but it's a real shame player and coach couldn't work together

Rivers just don't get why we let him go

Morton is a frustrating player think he has talent and showed signs will be good for west coast hope he kills it.

Gysberts big mistake from MFC I'm certain he will be a very good player.

personally, I don't care what either of these two think. Barrett has had an agenda against us from the start of the trade period, he's repeatedly said over the trade period that no player wanted to join Melbourne. Bite me!!

I'm happy with everything that we have done. We had gaping holes in our midfield and forward line and we've tried to address them, only time will tell how successful we have been at doing that.

What mostly impresses me is that Mark Neeld said we were going to be aggressive and we were. He's also said that our current crop need to step up or step out and we're seeing that play out too.

I'm really looking forward to season 2013!!


Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Featured Content

  • WHAT’S NEXT? by The Oracle

    What’s next for a beleagured Melbourne Football Club down in form and confidence, facing  intense criticism and disapproval over some underwhelming recent performances and in the midst of a four game losing streak? Why, it’s Adelaide which boasts the best percentage in the AFL and has won six of its last seven games. The Crows are hot and not only that, the game is at the Adelaide Oval; yet another away fixture and the third in a row at a venue outside of Victoria. One of the problems the Demons have these days is that they rarely have the luxury of true home ground advantage, something they have enjoyed just once since mid April. 

    • 2 replies
  • REPORT: Gold Coast

    From the start, Melbourne’s performance against the Gold Coast Suns at Peoples First Stadium was nothing short of a massive botch up and it came down in the first instance to poor preparation. Rather than adequately preparing the team for battle against an opponent potentially on the skids after suffering three consecutive losses, the Demons looking anything but sharp and ready to play in the opening minutes of the game. By way of contrast, the Suns demonstrated a clear sense of purpose and will to win. From the very first bounce of the ball they were back to where they left off earlier in the season in Round Three when the teams met at the MCG. They ran rings around the Demons and finished the game off with a dominant six goal final term. This time, they produced another dominant quarter to start the game, restricting Melbourne to a solitary point to lead by six goals at the first break, by which time, the game was all but over.

    • 0 replies
  • CASEY: Gold Coast

    Coming off four consecutive victories and with a team filled with 17 AFL listed players, the Casey Demons took to their early morning encounter with the lowly Gold Coast Suns at People First Stadium with the swagger of a team that thought a win was inevitable. They were smashing it for the first twenty minutes of the game after Tom Fullarton booted the first two goals but they then descended into an abyss of frustrating poor form and lackadaisical effort that saw the swagger and the early arrogance disappear by quarter time when their lead was overtaken by a more intense and committed opponent. The Suns continued to apply the pressure in the second quarter and got out to a three goal lead in mid term before the Demons fought back. A late goal to the home side before the half time bell saw them ten points up at the break and another surge in the third quarter saw them comfortably up with a 23 point lead at the final break.

    • 0 replies
  • PREGAME: Rd 17 vs Adelaide

    With their season all over bar the shouting the Demons head back on the road for the third week in a row as they return to Adelaide to take on the Crows. Who comes in and who goes out?

    • 189 replies
  • POSTGAME: Rd 16 vs Gold Coast

    The Demons did not come to play from the opening bounce and let the Gold Coast kick the first 5 goals of the match. They then outscored the Suns for the next 3 quarters but it was too little too late and their season is now effectively over.

      • Thanks
      • Like
    • 231 replies
  • VOTES: Rd 16 vs Gold Coast

    Max Gawn has a massive lead in the Demonland Player of the Year award ahead of Jake Bowey, Christian Petracca, Clayton Oliver and Kysaiah Pickett. Your votes please. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 & 1.

      • Vomit
      • Shocked
      • Clap
      • Haha
    • 41 replies