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AFL Trade Radio

Whispering_Jack
in Melbourne Demons

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Sam MaClure was most uncomfortable when Watson got into him about Oliver. Lyon whacked him and he was backing of at a million miles and re Oliver. He must read Demonland because he said Oliver will be at Melbourne in 2021but they would want to have a good year, his discontent was real at the time. 

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    The opening day of AFL Trade Radio was more or less as expected given that the Trade and Free Agency Period hasn’t started yet. We had some list analysis including Melbourne as mentioned above and some discussion on players mentioned as likely to change clubs, most of which are already covered here on various threads.

    In the first instance, one of the restraints on clubs at the moment is the fact that the make up of list sizes for 2021 remains unclear.

    Other points of interest are:-

    * Jack Higgins could be on the way out at Richmond with Carlton a possible suitor. Melbourne has also been mentioned and my view is that if he’s fully overcome his health issues from late last year, he would be worth looking at as a small forward;

    * St Kilda is interested in securing Shaun McKernan who was recently delisted by Essendon. Again, I think the Demons might also look at him as a potential back up ruckman in the likely event that Braydon Preuss ends up at GWS; and

    * Essendon’s double play for the Dunkley brothers is still bubbling along despite the fact that Josh Dunkley still has two years left of his contract. The Demons delisted Kyle after the last game of the 2020 season. 

    The other trade story that intrigues me is the situation with Collingwood wanting midfielder Adam Treloar out of the club ostensibly because of salary cap issues. The Pies must have been having some interesting list management meetings these days. 

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    you already know if they sign KDunkley to entice Josh he'll be delisted after year 1 and it'll have made no difference to anything except he's further away from finals and a flag than if he stayed at the kennell, plus the late season ACL to mclean means theres room for him at HF at the dogs who were also rumoured to be in some pretty strong conversation with big Mason to support english so he won't have to play griggruck

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    1 hour ago, Whispering_Jack said:

    Kane Cornes just suggested on AFL Trade Radio that the Dees should consider a call to the Collingwood midfielder. “They’ve got all those inside mids, he would be the type of midfielder they need."

    What Collingwood midfielder?

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    2 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Treloar

    Wow. Ok.

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    My thanks to Whispering Jack and anyone else listening to Trade Radio and keeping us up-to-date. It's the off-season equivalent of the hard yards being put in by track watchers keeping the rest of us who haven't got the time, access or inclination to keep ourselves informed. Much appreciated.

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    I would take him for pick 50 and Pies paying $500k of his salary each year for the next 5 years.

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    26 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    I would take him for pick 50 and Pies paying $500k of his salary each year for the next 5 years.

    I agree, but it's a tough one. Because none of us know about our cap realities, we certainly need to pay Brown, Smith will be on a small contract and then we need to address our small forward problem, but that might be cheap too. Oliver and Petracca's looming extensions are probably the likely stumbling blocks though.

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    14 minutes ago, A F said:

    I agree, but it's a tough one. Because none of us know about our cap realities, we certainly need to pay Brown, Smith will be on a small contract and then we need to address our small forward problem, but that might be cheap too. Oliver and Petracca's looming extensions are probably the likely stumbling blocks though.

    Under my fantasy proposal, we would be paying him only about $300-$400 k a year. 

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    1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    Do you mean Brown, Smith or Treloar?

    Treloar.

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    21 hours ago, Turner said:

    you already know if they sign KDunkley to entice Josh he'll be delisted after year 1 and it'll have made no difference to anything except he's further away from finals and a flag than if he stayed at the kennell, plus the late season ACL to mclean means theres room for him at HF at the dogs who were also rumoured to be in some pretty strong conversation with big Mason to support english so he won't have to play griggruck

    Josh Dunkley  clearly wants midfield time He was not impressed playing a Ruck 2 roll and only  about 25% on the ball in 2020.

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    22 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

    The opening day of AFL Trade Radio was more or less as expected given that the Trade and Free Agency Period hasn’t started yet. We had some list analysis including Melbourne as mentioned above and some discussion on players mentioned as likely to change clubs, most of which are already covered here on various threads.

    In the first instance, one of the restraints on clubs at the moment is the fact that the make up of list sizes for 2021 remains unclear.

    Other points of interest are:-

    * Jack Higgins could be on the way out at Richmond with Carlton a possible suitor. Melbourne has also been mentioned and my view is that if he’s fully overcome his health issues from late last year, he would be worth looking at as a small forward;

    * St Kilda is interested in securing Shaun McKernan who was recently delisted by Essendon. Again, I think the Demons might also look at him as a potential back up ruckman in the likely event that Braydon Preuss ends up at GWS; and

    * Essendon’s double play for the Dunkley brothers is still bubbling along despite the fact that Josh Dunkley still has two years left of his contract. The Demons delisted Kyle after the last game of the 2020 season. 

    The other trade story that intrigues me is the situation with Collingwood wanting midfielder Adam Treloar out of the club ostensibly because of salary cap issues. The Pies must have been having some interesting list management meetings these days. 

    Dont want McKernan As he is same as Mitch Brown but I suppose he can play in the ruck whereas That's not Mitch's forte.

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    16 hours ago, 58er said:

    Josh Dunkley  clearly wants midfield time He was not impressed playing a Ruck 2 roll and only  about 25% on the ball in 2020.

    You can understand why Josh Dunkley is considering a change, he's a very high quality midfielder and he's being played as a second ruck and permanent HFF -  I'd leave too.

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    That midfield time isn't going to increase much. Dunkley's reduction in midfield time correlates with a healthy Tom Lib spending more time in the middle and Bailey Smith virtually doubling time spent inside.

    You aren't giving either of those two less time in the square, so can understand Dunkey having a look (and also the Bulldogs predicament).

    I think the Bulldogs are in a position to let Dunkley move on and get decent compensation. 2020 picks would hold no appeal given the Jamarra Ugle-Hagan bids would swallow any valuable '20 pick they could secure. Bulldogs have been interested in Tipungwuti for a while, and if I were them, that's where my trade demand would start.  

     

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    The big news of the day on Trade Radio so far is that it looks like the Tigers are going to release Jack Higgins and that Melbourne is one of three clubs after him.

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    5 minutes ago, Chelly said:

    The big news of the day on Trade Radio so far is that it looks like the Tigers are going to release Jack Higgins and that Melbourne is one of three clubs after him.

    A huge upgrade on Spargo and ANB...

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    1 hour ago, Chelly said:

    The big news of the day on Trade Radio so far is that it looks like the Tigers are going to release Jack Higgins and that Melbourne is one of three clubs after him.

    People are saying Higgins will nominate the Saints.

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    44 minutes ago, Freddy Fuschia said:

    People are saying Higgins will nominate the Saints.

    He'd the mad to nominate the Saints. They're spoilt for pacey forward types at the moment. Why not go somewhere where you'd be highly valued (aka the Dees).

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