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Posted (edited)

I'm going with an A.

We look like we have the right direction for the first time in a long time!

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Posted

I'm with you.. U. I'm actually feeling positive. Bugg can play. Milkshake is a solid performer over 100 games. Kennedy, I'm not sure about but if he produces it's a big win. Pick for Parish appears a good result. If pick 7 goes well ( and surely we deserve some drafting good fortune). We could possibly pick up 5 players ... FMD!!


Posted

Er, it's the 'trade' period.

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Posted

B for me


We all know high draft picks don't guarantee success.... but there is a lot of optimism here


Posted

Depends on many factors, I give it a B+... only reason its not an A is we had to move out our 2016 first rounder in what will likely be a relatively high pick (though I hope not) in whats meant to be a stronger draft than this one

But if you factor in that we did these deals with a view to moving faster up the ladder and challenging ourselves to strive for success and making next years first round pick somewhere in the teens, then its an A+

Posted

Have lost Howe, Toumpas and pick 6 essentially. And have gained three hard at it, experienced players and picks 3 and 7. Considering we're not a destination club pretty crafty work i would have thought.

Posted

If we finish bottom 4 or 5 next year and have no first round pick in a strong draft, that's going to hurt.....

Hope like hell its a big year on field next yr..

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Have lost Howe, Toumpas and pick 6 essentially. And have gained three hard at it, experienced players and picks 3 and 7. Considering we're not a destination club pretty crafty work i would have thought.

FMD we lost another first round pick for next year also

we also lost a second round pick this year

Can't believe how many seem to not realise this

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FMD we lost another first round pick for next year also

we also lost a second round pick this year

Can't believe how many seem to not realise this

Live in the now, man.

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I "Rate our Trade Period" - as opposed to what it's outcome might be in due course (though I'm optimistic there, too) - as a definite 'A' for the engagement, suspense and entertainment it has provided me following it's twists, turns and progress on here!

Posted

Club went hard today. That i like.

PJ Said it it's Finals in 2016

We got rid of players who were not going to help us

It is not about the future now it is set up for NOW.

It has been a long time since this club has had the balls to take up that challenge.

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FMD we lost another first round pick for next year also

We haven't lost it, we've taken it this year.

You'd have to jump through a lot of hoops to see today's trades as a negative/loss. Still, true to D'Land form, there'll always be at least one.

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Club went hard today. That i like.

PJ Said it it's Finals in 2016

We got rid of players who were not going to help us

It is not about the future now it is set up for NOW.

It has been a long time since this club has had the balls to take up that challenge.

Not sure if our 3 pick ups, plus upcoming draftees will see us playing finals SWYL.

No stars in that lot, but obviously we are hoping for 3 x solid role players, who give a physical contest. On that score, we are miles ahead of what we have lost.

Im sure that the full realisation will hit us next year, in the supposedly strong draft, when we get to trade time, and our first tradeable pick is maybe pick 28 to 30. Yuck.

Lets hope our blokes are on the money, and we score 2 A grade players with 3/7 this year. Otherwise our schit eating grins might not be so big in 12 months time.

Personally, I would love to see the miracle completed tomorrow, with Watts and/or Grimes traded for 2nd round pick for next year, that we can convert into a first round pick, via academy trading.

Did I mention that I am a huge fan of the new Academy points system?

edit for too many commas. Apologies to my old English teachers, for wagging too many classes.

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We haven't lost it, we've taken it this year.

You'd have to jump through a lot of hoops to see today's trades as a negative/loss. Still, true to D'Land form, there'll always be at least one.

i didn't say it was a negative. I gave it a B. I am one of a handful of people who has been asking for sanity this trade period in fact.

But I'm not dumb enough to simply ignore two picks we gave up to make it sound better

Posted

We didn't get an A grade player which we were all hoping for at the start of the trade period but getting the two picks in the top 10 made up for it.

We better not finish lower on the ladder next year otherwise giving up our future pick will be very disappointing.

Posted

...getting the two picks in the top 10 made up for it.... giving up our future pick

I'm not even going to ask......

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We crawled, then we walked, then we stomped.

I'm sure nobody remembers, but I get all ranty about the value of going 'high-low' in the draft and using demonstrated 'adequate' players for depth.

Well, that's what we did and we did it efficiently.

Now an eye (and a massive warchest) to next year's fat list of free agents. Y'know, the guys we wont need that first round pick to recruit.

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