WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - JEFF GARLETT

[beelzebub 23,389]

Excuse my ignorance, but why was Carlton happy to lose him for very little?

ran foul of the Mouse

[What 18,810]

what a bargain

[John Crow Batty 8,880]

A bit underwhelmed but hoping Roos can do some of his renowned "value adding" to semi lost causes.

[beelzebub 23,389]

Henrieta and now Garlett for SFA -not too bad at all!

[monoccular 17,629]

Presumably Roos is happy that he can get him to play his role - what more can one ask, basically for free.

Geez, he and mad Mick must have had a huge falling out.

Hogan can't do it on his own. I obviously don't hold much faith in Pederson helping him out.

Nobody showed much faith in Pedersen prior to season 2014 - he made huge strides. If he can continue to improve he will fill a role (and not just as Merret's punching bag.)

[monoccular 17,629]

Wait till the real stories come out about his time at Carlton!

Then we might re-think!

Speculation, real information, or natural and completely justified demon pessimism?

[dees189227 12,445]

Essendon was also in the race to land Garlett, but he ultimately chose the Demons after meeting with the club's senior players and coach Paul Roos' desire to add him to the forward line.

good decision

[tappysquads 618]

The article on afl says "he managed only 12 goals in 9 games in 2014", that would nearly win our goal kicking in just 9 games.

Very happy, Just read he averaged 2 goals and 3.5 tackles a game.

He strikes me as a slightly fragile personality which would/did struggle under a [censored] like malthouse. But roos could make all the difference and at 25 he could be primed for it

[jnrmac 20,225]

Speculation, real information, or natural and completely justified demon pessimism?

No idea. Just presuming Carltank will start telling it like it is.....

[Pates 9,661]

I'm quite happy with this trade, we haven't given up much and he is a player that is highly skilled and highly talented. Hopefully Roos will be able to work his magic on him.

Welcome to the MFC.

Edited October 9, 2014 by Pates

[dazzledavey36 55,528]

[gsmith12 491]

Happy with that, seems like an extraordinarily good deal to me

[beelzebub 23,389]

much better

[SaberFang 7,151]

Stoked with this. Hopefully he can take JKH under his wing and they can feed off each other in complimentary roles, ala Betts and Garlett in 2013.

Carlton are really on the nose. How are they planning to kick goals next year?? No Waite, no Garlett, no Betts.

[buck_nekkid 6,054]

The fact that we couldn't ship Blease or Strauss must be worrying for them both. Perhaps they will be rookies somewhere. The fact that Cartank wanted pick 698 before one of these blokes speaks to their true currency.

And Jeff, when you put on the new shirt, try a smile!

[45HG 1,559]

Like it.

[InVINCEable 358]

JEFFFFEREY!

[InVINCEable 358]

Howe, Dawes, Kent

Garlett, Hogan, Pedersen

with JKH and Watta on the bench

Wow! That's a forward line and a half!

Edited October 9, 2014 by thedeeman

[leucopogon 1,519]

Howe, Dawes, Kent

Garlett, Hogan, Pedersen

with JKH and Watta on the bench

Wow! That's a forward line and a half!

Just swap out Howe for Cameron and I'm with ya

[dazzledavey36 55,528]

Just swap out Howe for Cameron and I'm with ya

The potential of Mcartin in there now does start to look formidable.

[pantaloons 2,019]

This deal gets a thumbs up from me. He clearly fills a need as a goal kicking forward and the cost is basically nothing. I don't think we will take more than three or four picks into the draft, and two of those will be Stretch and Jetta. We have way too many players on our list who are too raw or too useless to be playing senior AFL football, so the fewer guys we bring in with later picks the better.

[bing181 9,353]

And Jeff, when you put on the new shirt, try a smile!

That is a smile.

[sue 9,156]

And Jeff, when you put on the new shirt, try a smile!

Does this take the record for criticising a player early in his MFC career?

[Kumamoto_Ken 1,531]

Welcome Jeffy.

Trade question: why do they bother including those low picks?

Just to make Carlton feel better? From a big picture perspective what's the diff between 79 and 83?

I'm genuinely curious.

[chookrat 4,268]

Welcome aboard Jeffrey. Always liked the way this kid goes about it and looking fwd to him wreaking havoc in the fwd line