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Players to target at the end of the year

JackVineyForPresident
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Mediocre looking draft sadly. Petracca/Brayshaw = Mcleam/Sylvia mark 2?

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    Rebuilding through the draft is the way to go imo

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    This thread is irrelevant now. Kiss any chance any GWS player wanting to come to us. They would laugh in our face after yesterday effort.

    Our best bet is delisted free agent now.. meh

    Not only pathetically defeatist, but not even moderately accurate.

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    sign up okeefe now.
    Who are we kidding, he would probably be our best player.

    Yes he's old, but what he will bring in leadership and experience will be massive.

    Get these boys some mentors.

    A stern grill won't do the job, they need to be shown how to do it and be able to replicate.

    Cross was a good start, add to it with R OKeefe.

    If we can get 2 top ten picks, Draft one and trade 1 in a bad to bring mid aged competent players, e.g. cameron.

    We could bring in Okeefe, Malceski, through free agency, though this would more than wipe the frawley comp pick. So we would be left with pick 2 from the draft, We could potentially trade pick 2 and our first second rounder for mitchel and Reid, would that get the job done? a lot of players from sydney :s.

    Or scrap the mitchel and reid deal,

    trade pick 2, second rounder and a player for cameron and sheil or trelor.

    That would yield us an old dog mid, a young gun mid, a massive forward duo (cameron and hogan) and an experienced smooth back men.

    That would go a long way to fixing our problems.

    We wouldn't have a problem, making room for them either.

    nut adding a player to that deal might be tricky, blease as steak knives/project player might do it.

    However we will need to bring in more players toy fill the gaps for the players that will be delisted. Maybe through the rookie draft.

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    Not only pathetically defeatist, but not even moderately accurate.

    i want to deny it, but it is true. Why would they want to come now.

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    High draft picks in a crap draft just our luck. I felt sick yesterday literally sick at what I saw and what it mean't for our chances of rebuilding.

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    How does Petracca compare to the top mids of previous years? Is Brayshaw and Petracca better then Aish Bontempelli and Mccrae?

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    How does Petracca compare to the top mids of previous years? Is Brayshaw and Petracca better then Aish Bontempelli and Mccrae?

    Petracca is a very different player, but he is seriously dominant, because it's relative to the competition it's hard to judge but Petracca in my opinion has been the most dominant under 18's player I have seen in the last couple of years,

    Brayshaw is probably not as impressive as the boys you mentioned in my eyes, although I didn't think much of Aish or McCrae at first so he might well be just as good,

    really hard to know until the player is at AFL level

    personally I think Ahern has the tools to be a really good player, wouldn't be upset if we pull the trigger a little early there.

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    Not sure if he has been mentioned, but what about targeting Liam Jones from the dogs? Not managing a game there but could be dangerous in our forward line and under Paul Roos..

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    Petracca will be like dustin Martin. So basically we will have a dustin Martin in our team which ain't too bad.

    think Jake Stringer, he's a bit taller and a better mark than Dusty, he has a little bit of Fyfe about him

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    Ye should be good. If we get PP, we could offer 3,4 for Cameron whilst offering really good personal terms. So that's +1 star in the midfield +1 star in the forward. It isn't impossible.

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    How does Petracca compare to the top mids of previous years? Is Brayshaw and Petracca better then Aish Bontempelli and Mccrae?

    Hard to say. Bontempelli looks like one out of the box.

    Rule of thumb is to always take the proven players over potential superstars.

    Draftees are just potential.

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    Plus I really like the idea of hogan and Cameron. It doesn't sound too bad. Plus I heard from 'on the couch' that Mitch Clark (only speculating) could go into the draft this year. However, any team will be able to take him if he does

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    Hard to say. Bontempelli looks like one out of the box.

    Rule of thumb is to always take the proven players over potential superstars.

    Draftees are just potential.

    Collingwood were desperate to get him, even with what looked like way overs for a while there

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    I reckon we go big time for Ablett, Roughead, Dangerfield, Talia and Fyfe. If we get those guys in we can be competitive Maybe. Although I admit we may have to give up something to get these guys, say Blease, Tappy, Strauss perhaps.

    Sorry I just woke up!

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    Wait nvm. I just found out his speed and agility is elite. Maybe we have a Dangerfield on our hands :)

    Also we should be set to get 4 of the midfielders who are in the 2014 U 18 all Australian in Petracca, Brayshaw, Stretch, and Wright...not too bad IMO

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    I like to imagine Jack viney will be able to talk Ollie Wines into asking for a trade to the MFC

    I like to dream

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    I like to imagine Jack viney will be able to talk Ollie Wines into asking for a trade to the MFC

    I like to dream

    My nightmare is that this happens the other way around.

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