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Sadly, Adam Cerra has nominated Carlton.

I think it may have been a pragmatic decision made due to Carlton having the number #6 pick in the 2021 AFL National Draft.

Oh well....his loss...time to move on and target someone else to strengthen our team.

 

There is still huge upside in JJ and Sparrow and our current list just won the cup.

Cerra is not a huge loss.

Yeah im feeling content 🤪

 
2 minutes ago, Supreme_Demon said:

Oh well....his loss...time to move on and target someone else to strengthen our team.

The natural progression of the younger players on our list will strengthen it quite substantially.

In the meantime I would be focussing on Max's & May's successors (3 to 5 years) and a key forward (King) in the next year or so.

I loved the idea of Cerra from a fit perspective (skilful, balanced mid)

But has the guy ever looked pick 5 quality yet? All his yearly highlight packages on youtube look solid at best.

Anyone watched him close enough?


Oh well move on.

At least we can now focus on finding ways to move up the draft order. 

31 minutes ago, GCDee said:

Cerra will be a fantastic player. But gee whizz carlton really need to start nailing their own picks before they improve. Constantly over paying in both picks and cap space for "proven" players will catch up to them. 

I don't think there's anything wrong with 'overpaying' for proven talent - hell, we've been criticized for that as recently as last year. The problem is they've been spending big recruiting the icing instead of the cake. At least Cerra is the type of player they actually need. 

 

5 minutes ago, adonski said:

But has the guy ever looked pick 5 quality yet? All his yearly highlight packages on youtube look solid at best.

Anyone watched him close enough?

He's a seriously promising footballer. Doubt he'll ever be a game breaker ala Bont, Trac, Oliver etc, but well and truly worth a top 5 pick. 

21 minutes ago, ding said:

There is still huge upside in JJ and Sparrow and our current list just won the cup.

Cerra is not a huge loss.

Yeah im feeling content 🤪

Cerra is quite a bit better than Sparrow and JJ, but I love those boys too.

 
4 minutes ago, A F said:

Cerra is quite a bit better than Sparrow and JJ, but I love those boys too.

I wonder if he will be better than Rivers or Bowey though 'A F'...they have a heap of development left in them.

34 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

they've sold him on the same thing we did lever - come home, be part of a bright future, be paid a heap of cash

Get to take September off?


I doubt that there's any way we could have satisfied Freo's trade demands, or our own salary cap constraints, without compromising our current list (and perhaps aspects of our superb culture).  Nice but unrealistic dream!

1 hour ago, rjay said:

The natural progression of the younger players on our list will strengthen it quite substantially.

In the meantime I would be focussing on Max's & May's successors (3 to 5 years) and a key forward (King) in the next year or so.

Yes, agreed.

Ben King should definitely be a target for us. It just depends if he wants to play with his twin brother Max at St. Kilda.

 

Given the Blues handed over pick 8 for Saad I wonder what they will end up giving up for Cerra. No way we could have really got involved here without trading out a few premiership players. No thankyou. 

I don't understand this 

1. Why wait to now to announce?

2. Why Carlton FFS - plenty of other Melbourne based teams with top 10 draft picks? Most of which are not the basket case of Carlton - he would be well paid at ay club - Why not choose one with some sort of stabilty?

3. If his preference really was us - just announce it and then go to your 2nd choice of a deal cannot be worked out - it's not up to him to repay Freo by choosing somewhere else to work based on current employers wish for reimbursement 

4. It just doesn't make any sense whatsoever - but we have one these🏆so WGAFF 


Despite my flippant comment about Carlton before, I do see the potential for them to progress next year; adding Hewitt and Cerra to Walsh and Cripps makes for a competitive midfield. The great unknown for me is what the coaching will look like under Voss 2.0.

3 hours ago, TRIGON said:

My understanding is that it will be Selwyn Griffith.

Safe to say he's Welsh on his father's side then. 

1 hour ago, Pulp Fritschon said:

Given the Blues handed over pick 8 for Saad I wonder what they will end up giving up for Cerra. No way we could have really got involved here without trading out a few premiership players. No thankyou. 

Reckon it'll be their first & second rounder for him.

Which is funny cause that's pretty much on par with what Freo acquired for prime Lachie Neale. 

Why are we still devotimg words to this guy? He has chosen MONEY over fotballing sucess

MOVE ON ALL

Looking forward to pumping Carlton next year

Close thread


3 hours ago, picket fence said:

Why are we still devotimg words to this guy? He has chosen MONEY over fotballing sucess

MOVE ON ALL

that's exactly what tex walker said about jake lever...

[censored] gratuitous garbage! MONEY HUNGRY

Good luck son ur gunna need it at Carltank

 
10 minutes ago, picket fence said:

[censored] gratuitous garbage! MONEY HUNGRY

Good luck son ur gunna need it at Carltank

signed for $200k less with carlton per annum than he was offered from freo

we couldn't get the trade done, clearly

1 hour ago, picket fence said:

[censored] gratuitous garbage! MONEY HUNGRY

Good luck son ur gunna need it at Carltank

I think your first line is a bit harsh Picket, especially given the post above this one.

I think he went with them simply because we couldn't get a deal done.


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