8 hours ago, Patches O’houlihan said:

have been told trade for our second round pick is basically locked in. Will be done pretty quickly.

Thats fantastic if true.

We have cleaned up with those 2nd rounders around the pick 30 mark -    Hibbo, Melk,  Fritsch and now maybe KK.

5 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

Thats fantastic if true.

We have cleaned up with those 2nd rounders around the pick 30 mark -    Hibbo, Melk,  Fritsch and now maybe KK.

Seems alot to pay for a bloke with concussion issues that are now miraculously fixed but yet GC still dont seem to want to fight to keep him and has been inconsistent.

My biggest concern however is how do l pronounce / yell his name on match day! Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue

Edited October 6, 20187 yr by Demons1858

5 hours ago, Demons1858 said:

Seems alot to pay for a bloke with concussion issues that are now miraculously fixed but yet GC still dont seem to want to fight to keep him and has been inconsistent.

My biggest concern however is how do l pronounce / yell his name on match day! Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue

You could probably do something really creative and unique by dubbing him “Kolla” or just “Kade”. 

I plan on calling him Jazzknee

59 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I plan on calling him Jazzknee

how about mother brown ........ or just mother, mofo, mudder ?

2 hours ago, Nasher said:

You could probably do something really creative and unique by dubbing him “Kolla” or just “Kade”. 

"Jazza"

Killer jizz nay.  With a Sourth Yarrah accent, Prue.

5 minutes ago, buck_nekkid said:

Killer jizz nay.  With a Sourth Yarrah accent, Prue.

Lets hope he's nothing like killer watts

6 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I plan on calling him Jazzknee

Isn't that what they call you in the seats at the footy, Ethan?

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the kaderunner

Special K

18 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

Thats fantastic if true.

We have cleaned up with those 2nd rounders around the pick 30 mark -    Hibbo, Melk,  Fritsch and now maybe KK.

way overs if true. When was the last time a player at  a bottom club was told to look elsewhere and you traded a top 36 pick for him.

Makes AVB definitely worth a second rounder

22 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

way overs if true. When was the last time a player at  a bottom club was told to look elsewhere and you traded a top 36 pick for him.

Makes AVB definitely worth a second rounder

O'Rourke was a pick 2 that was traded (with pick 43) after two years to Hawthorn for picks 19 and 40.

KK was a pick 5 five years ago who achieved far more in his first year than O'Rourke did in his two years at GWS.

Seems like a good, fair trade to me.

KK also fits our list profile perfectly. 

1 hour ago, Diamond_Jim said:

way overs if true. When was the last time a player at  a bottom club was told to look elsewhere and you traded a top 36 pick for him.

Makes AVB definitely worth a second rounder

‘A top 36 pick’??

Yeah, the best players are always there...

5 minutes ago, rpfc said:

‘A top 36 pick’??

Yeah, the best players are always there...

Is there really any gaurantee that they're at any particular number though

Dees just do the deal that gets them the outcome they want.  If they pay slightly overs it’s not the end of the world. 

The recent record shows they know exactly what they are doing. 

1 hour ago, Demons11 said:

Dees just do the deal that gets them the outcome they want.  If they pay slightly overs it’s not the end of the world. 

The recent record shows they know exactly what they are doing. 

The recent record of delistings also shows me they haven't nailed enough late picks.

King, Flipper, DJ, McKenna + Balic (both free to good home trades we took a punt on instead of a late pick), Hulett last year. I know the strike rate isn't great at these spots, but fighting for every little bit at the back end helps the recruiters. 

We've certainly done well with recent trades, but there's no reason not to even better! KK isn't easy to get a value on, our 2nd round pick probably not a terrible deal but the Suns will probably have a lot of late picks they won't even use, I'd want to get some late picks or upgrades coming back. And of course the reality is any KK even done separately will be linked with a potential May deal so I'm not sure I particularly believe the optimism that it will be done quickly.

7 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

The recent record of delistings also shows me they haven't nailed enough late picks.

King, Flipper, DJ, McKenna + Balic (both free to good home trades we took a punt on instead of a late pick), Hulett last year. I know the strike rate isn't great at these spots, but fighting for every little bit at the back end helps the recruiters. 

You neglected to mention T Mac, O Mac, Hannan, ANB, Fritsch, Spargo, Hunt, Harmes and VandenBerg.

I think our later selections have been above average.

2 hours ago, Demons11 said:

Dees just do the deal that gets them the outcome they want.  If they pay slightly overs it’s not the end of the world. 

The recent record shows they know exactly what they are doing. 

 

Yeah, the club really suffered by having picks so late that we had to settle for Fritsch and Spargo as our first couple of selections. Disasterous.

18 minutes ago, Is Dom Is Good said:

You neglected to mention T Mac, O Mac, Hannan, ANB, Fritsch, Spargo, Hunt, Harmes and VandenBerg.

I think our later selections have been above average.

T Mac was a football eternity ago. Oscar might not be any good, there's a big thread here about finding a replacement. Fritsch and Spargo were early/mid 2nd rounders. Hannan was our first pick in the draft that year, you'd hope someone you like gets through to pick 46. Certainly some good later picks in the Jason Taylor era - it's a big part of why we all rave about him -  but the better the pick the better the odds of finding more talent.

I'm not suggesting we take the lead of some of the clubs who think trade week is a chance for club staff to make a name for themselves with empty tough talk, but we aren't the battlers any more desperate to do deals to get talent. Could be the year for us to dig our heels in over some deals.

 

16 minutes ago, Mach5 said:

 

Yeah, the club really suffered by having picks so late that we had to settle for Fritsch and Spargo as our first couple of selections. Disasterous.

I understand what you are saying but Spargo was pick 29 and Fritsch 31. There were 47 picks after Fritsch (Jarrod Garlett - Carlton was pick 78) so neither were late picks 

According to Craig Cameron on Trade Radio, Gold Coast didn't speak to the Dees at all today.

2 hours ago, Demonland said:

According to Craig Cameron on Trade Radio, Gold Coast didn't speak to the Dees at all today.

Probably little more to say at this stage, we both know where things sit and we need to work on other avenues before giving Gold Coast our attention.

21 minutes ago, Mach5 said:

Probably little more to say at this stage, we both know where things sit and we need to work on other avenues before giving Gold Coast our attention.

Yep...phones work well at this stage.

20 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Yep...phones work well at this stage.

surely at Marvel stadium the means of communication would be suitably stellar

Holographic at least