Trades hotting up

[drdrake 3,187]

With one player Meesen declaring he wants to go to Melbourne and hopefully Judd will do the same the MFC trades will be exciting to watch, so far we have heard the below

Frawley to St Kilda for pick 9

Robbo to Western Bulldogs for pick 22

They are the two most Journo have touted

To get Judd pick 4 and 9 and a swap of second round picks

To get Meesen pick 30 that we aquire from WCE

Leaves us with pick 22.

If we get the above two players, IMO Jamar will be offered to St Kilda as part of the Frawley deal for their third round pick also. To get a little room in the salary cap we will have to trade one of TJ or Davey these two are the only players with any trade value, Bruce would be included but the club isn't going to pay some of his wage if he went to another club.

Lets get this Grand final over and trade week started it may be a very very exciting one for the MFC.

[Hulett Packard III 166]

With one player Meesen declaring he wants to go to Melbourne and hopefully Judd will do the same the MFC trades will be exciting to watch, so far we have heard the below

Frawley to St Kilda for pick 9

Robbo to Western Bulldogs for pick 22

They are the two most Journo have touted

To get Judd pick 4 and 9 and a swap of second round picks

To get Meesen pick 30 that we aquire from WCE

Leaves us with pick 22.

If we get the above two players, IMO Jamar will be offered to St Kilda as part of the Frawley deal for their third round pick also. To get a little room in the salary cap we will have to trade one of TJ or Davey these two are the only players with any trade value, Bruce would be included but the club isn't going to pay some of his wage if he went to another club.

Lets get this Grand final over and trade week started it may be a very very exciting one for the MFC.

We should start a competition with a prize for guessing the number of BS trade rumours announced on Demonland.

[Dappa Dan 2,188]

The Frawley thing is new to me.

I don't like it.

[drdrake 3,187]

Frawley was brought up last night on Fox and also on a few radio stations. The trades I have mentioned are only the ones that the media has thrown up over the past week we all know Robbo wants three years, and in todays Age it is reported that Meesen wants to come to Melbourne.

[sylvinator 96]

i already posted this on another thread so i apologize, but this is probably the more appropiote thread for this:::sorry guyz...

for me the best possible trade week would be:

trade 1:

Judd to Melbourne.

pick 4, pick 21 and johnstone to WestCoast.

trade 2:

Johns Meeson to Melbourne (in 'TheAge' is reported that the demons have offered Meeson a contract and he has been asked to be traded to us)

pick 37 + a sweetener (maybe Miller or Jamar considering theyv lost 2 ruckman this off season) to Adelaide

trade 3:

Pick 22 and 38 to Melbourne

Robbo to Bulldogs.

overall:

Melbourne Gain: Judd, Meeson (basically the same 2nd and 3rd round picks)

Lose lose: pick 4, johnstone and Robbo

means in the off season we'v lost 7 players 28 years and older, gained the best player in the afl, a promising young ruck to take over White.

=massive win for Melbourne.

----trading robbo for picks will be important especially if we give away our picks for Judd. we dont want to end up with our first pick at pick 60

[Coxy 0]

I like your ideas sylv but we would be getting killed taking our first pick at 22 in a shallow draft?

[sylvinator 96]

I like your ideas sylv but we would be getting killed taking our first pick at 22 in a shallow draft?

no doubt it would be pretty average to have our first pick at 22 in this draft...

but let's be honest- in this draft their are 2 standouts- cotchin and Kruiser. by pick 4 we could have picked up an extremely highly rated youngster- Ebert, henderson, Masten...

but noone can honestly believe that any of these players will come even close to being as good as Judd.

Judd at 24 is in the top 3 players in the afl>>>>>>>>>>any first round pick we can get.

[Dappa Dan 2,188]

My oly concern with that sylv, and I've said this before, is that Judd has already played just under half a career. We could get a potential 300 gamer in our early pick (let's say 250 gamer to be on the safe side), not to mention the hundreds of games left in guys like Davey, Sylvia and co that have been mentioned again and again... Judd, should he come to Melbourne, would have an indelible effect, but will he still be playing good footy when the club finally returns to a threatening place on the ladder? In other words, it's no good recruiting a bona-fide star into your squad if the rest of it isn't up to scratch, as he will have limited time to win a flag... It could take years to recruit a premiership team around him, and years for Bailey to prove himself. Will Judd still be winning games off his own boot?

For my part, I look through history and see a lot of high profile trades where a single GREAT player is traded for a number of GOOD players... who in terms of history all amount to next to nothing. Sometimes you look at these stats and wonder what the club who traded the star were thinking. It's clear we need to shake things up, and I reckon Judd is certainly the answer, but while he's an out and out gun, there's still a LARGE element of risk here. What if his shoulders are bung? What if his OP flares up? What if it's revealed he was a great player at WC because of the midfield he played with? Or the coach he played under?

Needless to say, it has me worried, but in the end what do we lose? We can't get any worse... actually we can, all we'd have to do is stay the same.