4 minutes ago, sisso said:

If Preuss is so great how come he couldn't get a game with North all season? Looks a bit of a lumbering dinosaur to me

Goldstein was back to his best form, Majak was playing well, Brown and Waite and others held forward spots...

I am clutching at straws as I personally rate Tyson far more highly than Preuss...

I can’t believe people actually think Tyson is in our best 22. He is depth only with a full strength list. Straight swap is fine.

 

Ruckmen don’t grow on trees. Inside midfielders do at Melbourne however. 

Edited October 9, 20186 yr by Smokey

Anyone else concerned with our lack of depth after this trade period?

Just now, juzzk1d said:

Anyone else concerned with our lack of depth after this trade period?

No

 

Preuss for Tyson isn't even speculative about who wins that. North get a 20 plus possession midfielder and we get a bloke who has barely played. You do the math.

If they want that deal to go ahead, shuffling of draft picks will need to come into it (or another club potentially). This isn't Essendon style over rating of our players but simply not wanting to get pantsed.

22 minutes ago, juzzk1d said:

Anyone else concerned with our lack of depth after this trade period?

I would need to look at who we bring in after the trade period to judge. If we lose our depth players and can't bring players back the other way....potentially yes. 

If Tyson is on $500k as suggested here then there's salary cap dump involved too which helps our cause.  I expect Preuss will come on less per year over 4 years.  That is a factor in evening out the trade value.

AFL site now reporting it is Hartlett, not Pittard???? 

2 minutes ago, buck_nekkid said:

AFL site now reporting it is Hartlett, not Pittard???? 

Haven't seen that?

Definitely Pittard 

11 hours ago, TheoX said:

Straight swap for Preuss? Ew, guy can't get a game at Norf, Tyson is best 22 for us. Preuss will play VFL unless Max is injured.

Teams play maximum two rucks with most playing one. Teams play how many midfielders and even more so how many inside midfielders? If we lose one inside mid in 2019 how much will you panic? If Gawn went down next year how much will you panic? 

Preuss is worth as much as Tyson. You could potentially argue more.

4 minutes ago, big_red_fire_engine said:

Teams play maximum two rucks with most playing one. Teams play how many midfielders and even more so how many inside midfielders? If we lose one inside mid in 2019 how much will you panic? If Gawn went down next year how much will you panic? 

Preuss is worth as much as Tyson. You could potentially argue more.

100% agree. There are plenty of one-paced mids out there. Perhaps we've already got something in the works and know Tyson will be surplus to needs.... Andy Brayshaw perhaps?? Speculation only.

4 minutes ago, Is Dom Is Good said:

100% agree. There are plenty of one-paced mids out there. Perhaps we've already got something in the works and know Tyson will be surplus to needs.... Andy Brayshaw perhaps?? Speculation only.

Corey Maynard is a very average AFL footballer but I guess he would be considered our 'insurance' inside mid who we can bring in if a few of our star mids go down

Real pity Dom doesn’t accept GC offer as it would make it easier to do the May deal without the Hogan deal. We might be able to get a better pick than we have by bundling other deals like Kent and AVB proceeds to give to GC .

It would certainly take the pressure off the Hogan deal. 

Edited October 9, 20186 yr by Redleg

Really was hoping for Dom to come up to the GC, I go to a few of their games so it would give me someone to cheer on. 

2 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Straight swap of Tyson for Preuss.  

Wtf.

We must need the backup ruck role desperately.    

North should at least give us pick 57 or 67 as a side order to go with Preuss.  They are unlikely to use them anyway.

Think that was pretty obvious when we delisted Filipovic and King.

In 2019, we are going to have the best ruck in the league, and a more than capable back-up who will continue to get better.  A lot of sides would be in envy of our position here.

If a straight swap isn’t a win, then what is?

Tyson for Preuss plus a 4th rounder we won’t use..?

2 minutes ago, Mach5 said:

If a straight swap isn’t a win, then what is?

Tyson for Preuss plus a 4th rounder we won’t use..?

Thinking the swap and we get there pick 29 and take one of our 3 rd rounders

1 hour ago, juzzk1d said:

Anyone else concerned with our lack of depth after this trade period?

It seems a little odd that we made a prelim and are making quite a few list changes. I trust the club though to be making the correct ones.

Edited October 9, 20186 yr by Ethan Tremblay

13 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

It seems a little odd that we made a prelim and are making quite a few list changes. I trust the club though to be making the correct ones.

Making the changes because we only made the Prelim.

Changes get us a flag

30 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

It seems a little odd that we made a prelim and are making quite a few list changes. I trust the club though to be making the correct ones.

Hardly any changes cut into best 25 (so far).  We can make these changes and get significantly better where we have gaps or nqr options.  Casey will be better for it!

1 hour ago, DemonLad5 said:

Haven't seen that?

Definitely Pittard 

Corrected back to Pittard

17 minutes ago, buck_nekkid said:

Corrected back to Pittard

Surely Pittard, as it'll be a salary dump to help the deal across the line.

Pittard was a free agent last year but signed a sizeable 3 year extension before spending a lot of the year playing magoos.

North can only offer their pick 11 for Polec but by taking the last 2 years of Pittard's contact off Port (who are squeezed with some terrible contracts) then they can add some value to the trade .... but they can't be so far off that they need to take Hartlett's monster contact, surely.

Edited October 9, 20186 yr by Axis of Bob

27 minutes ago, Axis of Bob said:

Surely Pittard, as it'll be a salary dump to help the deal across the line.

Pittard was a free agent last year but signed a sizeable 3 year extension before spending a lot of the year playing magoos.

North can only offer their pick 11 for Polec but by taking the last 2 years of Pittard's contact off Port (who are squeezed with some terrible contracts) then they can add some value to the trade .... but they can't be so far off that they need to take Hartlett's monster contact, surely.

I think it was just a case of Basil’s teleprompter.  Was changed back on the website pretty quick.  The dumping of salary cap sounds a valuable add on, but I wonder how the AFL see such things re trading fair value?

37 minutes ago, Axis of Bob said:

Surely Pittard, as it'll be a salary dump to help the deal across the line.

Pittard was a free agent last year but signed a sizeable 3 year extension before spending a lot of the year playing magoos.

North can only offer their pick 11 for Polec but by taking the last 2 years of Pittard's contact off Port (who are squeezed with some terrible contracts) then they can add some value to the trade .... but they can't be so far off that they need to take Hartlett's monster contact, surely.

and North can front-load it all in 2019 again