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In the coming season I will be watching the Giants teams to see how many games he gets at senior level. With the suspensions he might play the first game!

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    Killing it in the VFL too.

    One of the more bizarre list management decisions going around with Giants keeping him on the list and yet still refuse to play him.

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    We might struggle to attract mature players during the next Trade window. He would fill a need and having been already been interested you’d hope we would be in a good position to get the deal done. He’ll be out of contract to I think so would cost FA.

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    2 hours ago, seventyfour said:

    Fair to say he'd be getting games at the Dees. GWS costing him a fair bit of coin (match payments) by being stubborn last year.

    The epitome of selfishness the GWS.

    4 kids mouths to feed and they held him to his minimum chips deal.

    How Derksen and his management didn't get him out at the end of the last year is beyond me.

    How many players do they want to hold onto their list ffs!

    💩 human beings GWSFC.

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    GWS lost some absolute best 22 players in Perryman, Cumming and Peatling who would have objectively have made them a better side this year, and might explain why they've dropped out of premiership contention right at the moment, even accounting for their win obligatory/annual Geelong win yesterday.

    They probably couldn't or wouldn't let yet another player depart their building whom they saw a future in.

    If this guy continues to progress in the VFL but overlooked in the seniors , then we should be able to acquire him as he's out of contract at the end of the year and GWS would be unable to play hard ball this time.

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    Even when they had Hogan, Riccardi, Stringer etc all out injured he wasn't even an emergency

    Why bother blocking him if he will never get a game?

    With Lever and Hore constantly injured, if he ends up being a backman, we could use another interceptor and leave Turner fwd

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    Makes sense for us to still be after him. Turner, Derksen & Petty would be a very versatile group of talls to have

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    Spade is probably happy living in Sydney.

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    Cripes, Collingwood add Houston & Perryman to a side that won a premiership under two years ago, Hawthorn bring Battle & Barrass into a top six side, and our supporters are still ruing our inability to land Wade Derksen 8 months ago. We really are comfortable with being average.

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    4 minutes ago, poita said:

    Cripes, Collingwood add Houston & Perryman to a side that won a premiership under two years ago, Hawthorn bring Battle & Barrass into a top six side, and our supporters are still ruing our inability to land Wade Derksen 8 months ago. We really are comfortable with being average.

    Have to be realistic about our current situation. Hawks were only able to get Battle and Barrass in because they traded well with in the previous two years bring in players that other club didn’t want. The likes of Meek, Amon, Chol, Ginnivan and D’Ambrosio. All brought in for very little.

    We need to get those sort of trades right and start playing better footy before we can attract bigger name players again.

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    15 minutes ago, poita said:

    Cripes, Collingwood add Houston & Perryman to a side that won a premiership under two years ago, Hawthorn bring Battle & Barrass into a top six side, and our supporters are still ruing our inability to land Wade Derksen 8 months ago. We really are comfortable with being average.

    At the very least, he is dominating VFL games. How many of our talls are doing that?

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    4 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Killing it in the VFL too.

    One of the more bizarre list management decisions going around with Giants keeping him on the list and yet still refuse to play him.

    Bit like Bailey Laurie at the Dees

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    30 minutes ago, Billy said:

    Bit like Bailey Laurie at the Dees

    Laurie didn't ask for a trade last year.

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    1 hour ago, Colm said:

    Have to be realistic about our current situation. Hawks were only able to get Battle and Barrass in because they traded well with in the previous two years bring in players that other club didn’t want. The likes of Meek, Amon, Chol, Ginnivan and D’Ambrosio. All brought in for very little.

    We need to get those sort of trades right and start playing better footy before we can attract bigger name players again.

    I wouldn't go using Whorethorn as an example of good trading they are a bottom 8 team and nothing else.

    Barrass and Battle are not stellar Backman by any stretch of the imagination and won't get it done when the whips are cracking.

    Meek average battler, Ginnivan one trick pony with his dropping off the knees.

    I will give credit with Amon and D'Ambrosio excellent kicks of the ball and can split defences open.

    They have major strength the Dorks and that is there ball movement by foot but in finals teams they rely on this alone get found out with elite finals pressure.

    you stifle that strength and they are any easy team to beat.

    They played against a team on the weekend with average forward cohesion, average tall targets that dont compete and don't take marks I50 well and were well beaten everywhere but on the scoreboard.

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    1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Laurie didn't ask for a trade last year.

    I realise that, it was more along the lines the Bailey has been playing really consistently in the VFL & when our best midfielders have been injured or out of form he hasn’t even been considered

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    There's a world of difference between tearing it up it in the VFL and being a contributor at AFL level. Tom Fullarton being the most recent example.

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    1 minute ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

    There's a world of difference between tearing it up it in the VFL and being a contributor at AFL level. Tom Fullarton being the most recent example.

    It’s a stretch to say he was tearing up the vfl

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    Just now, Roost it far said:

    It’s a stretch to say he was tearing up the vfl

    Probably more than a stretch RIF. He did for all of one game, down at Geelong. That was enough for quite a few on here to call for his promotion. Nek minnit.

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    2 hours ago, Colm said:

    Have to be realistic about our current situation. Hawks were only able to get Battle and Barrass in because they traded well with in the previous two years bring in players that other club didn’t want. The likes of Meek, Amon, Chol, Ginnivan and D’Ambrosio. All brought in for very little.

    We need to get those sort of trades right and start playing better footy before we can attract bigger name players again.

    Can't have everyone. And half of them aren't worth the trouble.

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    I’d take Derksen in a trade deal. May is unfortunately not the player that he was, with injury and time slowing him down. Adams is okay but is treading water in the VFL and not showing any signs to me that he is ready for MFC footy. Derksen could be seen as a fit for May’s replacement. Just my opinion.

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