Bring on Petracca and Brayshaw. (Saints will surely go with a tall?) Develop them properly and watch them become stars. The times have changed.

With improvement next year, we can go hard at Danger and any other FA without having to give up picks.

Happy camper.

Think positive - Brayshaw will come ready to go - think Wines.

Geez I haven't heard that "ready to go" comment before.

Geez I haven't heard that "ready to go" comment before.

Something different for us isn't it?

Watts, Trengove, Scully or Toumpas weren't ready to go, so I'm looking forward to it.

"Everyone is tradeable" my ass.

We traded one player, the best forward on our list. Woo [censored] hoo

Clealry the blokes we are happy to trade are unwanted, as are most from other clubs.

Another trade period another year with half a midfield.

All i'm going to say is thank god for Richmond's medical! How much longer would have his foot gone undiagnosed if it was just left up to us?????

Clealry the blokes we are happy to trade are unwanted, as are most from other clubs.

Exactly

Bring on Petracca and Brayshaw. (Saints will surely go with a tall?) Develop them properly and watch them become stars. The times have changed.

With improvement next year, we can go hard at Danger and any other FA without having to give up picks.

Happy camper.

So advice to StKlida is - don't go with the best player in the draft - draft to needs ?

I get that we couldn't do anything with 2 and 3 but what is going to happen with 23 surely we would prefer someone ready made than go to the draft with that?

Edited October 15, 201411 yr by Robbie57

"Everyone is tradeable" my ass.

We traded one player, the best forward on our list. Woo [censored] hoo

Haha it's a joke isn't it mate.

Another trade period another year with half a midfield.

At least we kept Terlich.

Clealry the blokes we are happy to trade are unwanted, as are most from other clubs.

This is the problem when you have an under-performing playing list.

Really what do people think we would get for a Watts or similar? If we don't value them chances are the rest of the competition, (whose baseline player is vastly better than ours) won't either.

There is no easy answer unfortunately. Our young players just must improve, and we must nail the draft.

We have done as well as we could in the trade period. Lumumba will be close to our best player next season and Garlett potentially fills a hole that we have had for years.

The midfield simply must be improved from within if we are to be a competitive unit in 2015.

EDIT: in terms of clarity and grammar...possibly my worst post ever

Edited October 15, 201411 yr by jabberwocky

What a surprise.

Bring on Petracca and Brayshaw. (Saints will surely go with a tall?) Develop them properly and watch them become stars. The times have changed.

With improvement next year, we can go hard at Danger and any other FA without having to give up picks.

Happy camper.

We should hope that Saints keep 1 as they might not take Petracca, GWS would.

So where does this leave Sam Belase?

Delisted, or do we go again?

What's his Contract status?

The deal didn't get signed off. Mahoney has been booked in to go on SEN for 5 days, hoping to make an announcement. Looks like the deal didn't get sorted. I will always back my source in, but apologies.

I was right about Frawley and Vince well in advance, 2/3 isn't too bad.

We should hope that Saints keep 1 as they might not take Petracca, GWS would.

Yes. If they were considering trading away their pick to GWS for Petracca, then nothing is certain that they'll take him.

So where does this leave Sam Belase?

Delisted, or do we go again?

What's his Contract status?

He gets traded tomorrow if not he will be delisted

Another trade period another year with half a midfield.

Yes but you might add the best two mids in the draft plus Billy. HL and Garlett could also have bursts in the middle and Salem, Toumpas, JKH, Kent and Barry to improve hopefully.

The deal didn't get signed off. Mahoney has been booked in to go on SEN for 5 days, hoping to make an announcement. Looks like the deal didn't get sorted. I will always back my source in, but apologies.

I was right about Frawley and Vince well in advance, 2/3 isn't too bad.

Hmmm. Good luck with that.

The deal didn't get signed off. Mahoney has been booked in to go on SEN for 5 days, hoping to make an announcement. Looks like the deal didn't get sorted. I will always back my source in, but apologies.

I was right about Frawley and Vince well in advance, 2/3 isn't too bad.

You seem genuine mate, so good on ya for sticking your head out!

The deal didn't get signed off. Mahoney has been booked in to go on SEN for 5 days, hoping to make an announcement. Looks like the deal didn't get sorted. I will always back my source in, but apologies.

I was right about Frawley and Vince well in advance, 2/3 isn't too bad.

cudo's for having the cojones to come back on here.

Let the spanking begin....

Lots of people crying foul about us not trading enough.. at the end of the day, you can only trade if the other teams/players are at the table.

Or if you put in the leg work during the year to set things up and have multiple contingency plans in place.

I get that we couldn't do anything with 2 and 3 but what is going to happen with 23 surely we would prefer someone ready made than go to the draft with that?

Dean Gore

Need to use all three picks and take the best we can. I would still expect StKilda may still do a deal with GWS, GWS is kinda fond of taking the best picks so will probably be prepared to swap 4 and 7 for 1. That will still leave Stkilda at least one tall forward to take with 4 and a second top 10 pick.