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How do you rate our trade period?

Wiseblood
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  1. 1. How do you rate our Trade Period?

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The draft period was ok with 2 good players in and one out, good picks in the draft but we must stick them.

Remember from the last match we had the following players missing May, KK, Aaron VDB, Tom Mc, Weid's, Joel Smith, Hannan, Jetta.

The players KK, Aaron VDB, Nietschle and Joel Smith virtually did not play so they like new recuits.

When Joel got injured against Richmond in the pre-season he was playing as a foward and kicked 4 goals on 1 leg.

My picks are Young, Kemp and maybe Martin.

If we get these players back from injury and picks are good then the draft was great

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    2 hours ago, D4Life said:

    Re big forwards, very good ones are few & far between.

    Indeed. There were no 3-4 goals a game forwards like Lynch, Kennedy, Hawkins, Brown etc.

    Just 1-2 goal journeymen like Jenkins and Bruce. Not too fussed we missed them.

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    16 hours ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

    How many players kicked 60 goals this season? Or the last few seasons? Raise yr expectations! Make it 100!!

    Very happy so far, now to nail the draft, have a great preseason and see how we go in 2020

     

    Across the board, WWSW, we need to seriously lift the expectatory bar quite significantly. We no longer control games; we could control games with absolute commitment and desire. We now have our outside mids, our key forwards, our own mosquito fleet, the potentially best midfield/ruck and run, the backline that could be a fortress (although Frosty is a loss) - and a season just past that has been misery and complacency, including gameplan confusions. You are dead right about expectations for 2020.

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    I liked it. B plus I guess. We got what we wanted, and did it early. We obviously are backing ourselves to bounce back next year, and don't rate our chances of our next years pick being close to what 8 this year will bring. 

    I don't know enough about the kids to know who we'd be looking at, but I think we are pretty switched on with that these days so I'd expect at least one of them to be a very good player for us.

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    I hate the entire idea of rating the trade period. 

    Firstly, the trade period is only one part of a process of recruiting players which reaches its peak with the drafts in November and these days, doesn’t end until March.

    However, the real results won’t be felt for some time well into the future. 

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