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Joel Smith will definitely be traded at year end. He will ask to be traded imo. 
 

Baker and Rivers must play v Saints. Need them to match Hill and Jones for pace. 

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    4 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    Joel Smith will definitely be traded at year end. He will ask to be traded imo. 
     

    Baker and Rivers must play v Saints. Need them to match Hill and Jones for pace. 

    No one other club is going to trade for Smith when they can just pick up a delisted free agent.

    Even if he asks for trade, no one is going to come banging down the door. Billy Stretch and JKH also asked to look at trade options last year and both barely got a nibble. And both made far more impact then Smith.

    In regards to Baker, I am fan and in the boat that he needs to start getting games. Goodwin needs to stop this idea of Vandenberg being a winger because its not working. Hunter and their outside mids exposed him on the weekend. Hate to think what Hill will do..

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    4 hours ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

    Joel Smith played in the backline... christ our coaches have no idea.   A scratch match and they dont even play him forward.

    He’s kicked 1 goal in his entire career.

     

     

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    10 hours ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

    Joel Smith played in the backline... christ our coaches have no idea.   A scratch match and they dont even play him forward.

    Totally agree PtoJ 

    practice matches are for some experimentation!!!! Find new roles etc!!

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    13 hours ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

    Joel Smith played in the backline... christ our coaches have no idea.   A scratch match and they dont even play him forward.

    This kid leads up well and would create real scoreboard pressure - to the backline he goes.  Modern coaching, i dont get it

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    3 hours ago, 58er said:

    Totally agree PtoJ 

    practice matches are for some experimentation!!!! Find new roles etc!!

    That is only the majority view. Goodwin prefers to do his experimenting off a four day break against the top side.

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    9 hours ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

    He’s kicked 1 goal in his entire career.

     

     

    Didn't he kick 4 or 5 in the pre-season game last year with the groin injury, when we inexplicably left him on and rubbed him out for the year?   

    Weird that they just abandoned that experiment.

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    23 minutes ago, Buzzy said:

    Didn't he kick 4 or 5 in the pre-season game last year with the groin injury, when we inexplicably left him on and rubbed him out for the year?   

    Weird that they just abandoned that experiment.

    I think he got 4 against Brisbane in a practice match, but the way some carry on you’d think we have Allen Jakovich playing in the back pocket.

     

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    22 hours ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

    Joel Smith played in the backline... christ our coaches have no idea.   A scratch match and they dont even play him forward.

    FD don't have an idea they shouldn't have been on  the list to start with let alone play forward.

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