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A massive slap in the face to Melbourne if we were chasing him seriously and he picked the Saints. 

Last chance ever to play with his brother, and Saints aren't exactly firing. 

We are not having a good time luring players at the moment. I suppose finishing 17th and being always mostly terrible will do that. 

Z Jones is being massively overrated here; very limited player.  Pointless having speed if you don’t have the awareness.  Runs himself into trouble/pressure far too often.

 
4 minutes ago, Jaded said:

A massive slap in the face to Melbourne if we were chasing him seriously and he picked the Saints. 

Last chance ever to play with his brother, and Saints aren't exactly firing. 

We are not having a good time luring players at the moment. I suppose finishing 17th and being always mostly terrible will do that. 

Dont think we were chasing him. 

Maybe he's ok about not playing with his bro. Not everyone's thing.

No slaps in the face required.

Trade time hasn't even started. Deep breaths...

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2 hours ago, TGR said:

Another play with outside speed that we may overlook.

he is fairly quick but have you seen him kick?

poor skills and not great decision making either. no point adding speed without kicking skills imo


1 hour ago, DubDee said:

he is fairly quick but have you seen him kick?

poor skills and not great decision making either. no point adding speed without kicking skills imo

Richmond won a flag in 17 with the worst kicking efficiency in the comp

1 hour ago, DubDee said:

he is fairly quick but have you seen him kick?

poor skills and not great decision making either. no point adding speed without kicking skills imo

Good summary. He's a peninsula boy so personally moorabbin may suit him better.  Wouldn't add anythong new.

2 hours ago, Jaded said:

 

We are not having a good time luring players at the moment.

Who says?

We have targeted two and will have them both by the end of the week and had a nibble at one who is injury prone and might end up staying at his club. 

Where have we failed so far?

 
2 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Who says?

We have targeted two and will have them both by the end of the week and had a nibble at one who is injury prone and might end up staying at his club. 

Where have we failed so far?

And to add to this, it's never been reported that we've shown the slightest bit of interest in him, so it can't be a 'slap in the face' to the club if we didn't show interest in the first place.

4 hours ago, Jaded said:

A massive slap in the face to Melbourne if we were chasing him seriously and he picked the Saints. 

Last chance ever to play with his brother, and Saints aren't exactly firing. 

We are not having a good time luring players at the moment. I suppose finishing 17th and being always mostly terrible will do that. 

We are going to sign Tomlinson and Langdon, we are doing ok.   Langdon has Jones covered easily 

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It seemed obvious with Chunk being a champ of the MFC

We needed a pacey wingman, seems a bit strange 


We obviously rated Langdon higher who plays the same role. Based on the last 2 years I think we went after the right guy.

39 minutes ago, Billy said:

It seemed obvious with Chunk being a champ of the MFC

We needed a pacey wingman, seems a bit strange 

We did but when Zac met Goody, Zac thought this guy is stubborn. He also thought Melbourne's captains were a joke. 

Zak’s not a wingman, plays his best footy on ball or at half back. Contested players without great skills on the wing isn’t a recipe for success.

Langdon doesn’t have great skills but is a more natural runner. Tomlinson was free (from draft capital). 

I would’ve liked Zak but you have to draft and develop as well. Can’t be throwing 500k+ and 2nd rounders at every gap


19 hours ago, Moonshadow said:

Saints now have all the players who nominated them. Good effort

Agree, the Saints efforts are exceptional. Also the Cats.  

Can understand the Cats having drawing power but the Saints are a surprise.

Must have very effective powers of persuasion and been working on their targeted players for a long time. 

And have a well managed salary cap or lots of brown paper bags. 

 

I would think that recruiting a player because his brother already plays for us would be right at the bottom of a list of good reasons to be chasing after somebody.   Suspect we won't regret not picking up a vanilla player like Z. Jones.

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1 hour ago, hemingway said:

Agree, the Saints efforts are exceptional. Also the Cats.  

Can understand the Cats having drawing power but the Saints are a surprise.

Must have very effective powers of persuasion and been working on their targeted players for a long time. 

And have a well managed salary cap or lots of brown paper bags. 

Saints only have 51 and 82 this year. They still need to bring in 3 from the draft. Maybe a rookie upgrade? Not sure, but I think they traded future picks as well.

They've sold the farm for those 5 players. Better work, or they are rooted for the next 3-5 years.


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