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Jude Bolton is on the market. He would be great. Tough, smart and big enough to hold down the CHB and allow Rivers to play across the backline. The other one to look at is Henry Playfair. He is big, strong and has great judgment. Geelong originally tried to make him into a key forward, which he wasn't. On the other hand, I have watched him in the VFL and has been great. Go for him or Bolton, I say.

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Jude Bolton is on the market. He would be great. Tough, smart and big enough to hold down the CHB and allow Rivers to play across the backline. The other one to look at is Henry Playfair. He is big, strong and has great judgment. Geelong originally tried to make him into a key forward, which he wasn't. On the other hand, I have watched him in the VFL and has been great. Go for him or Bolton, I say.

I think you're thinking of the wrong Bolton. Jude is the midfielder, Craig is the defender.

As for Playfair... forget it, he is rubbish.

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i'd go for bolton he is much more experienced and has great ball sense. Henry Playfair has been struggling to make it into the seniors and hasn't got the best ball skills in the world i would prefer bolton. Though i feel we need a tall CHB rivers isn't a CHB he is more of ahalf back flank player i feel. What player in the draft fits the position CHB and is tall if you know please tell me i would be greatly appreciative.

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There always is the kepler bradley option but i think he is a crap footballer who is slow dumb and pathetic at footy seeing as he cant make a game at essendon and thats just sad.

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Jude Bolton is on the market. He would be great. Tough, smart and big enough to hold down the CHB and allow Rivers to play across the backline. The other one to look at is Henry Playfair. He is big, strong and has great judgment. Geelong originally tried to make him into a key forward, which he wasn't. On the other hand, I have watched him in the VFL and has been great. Go for him or Bolton, I say.

ah... bt you must be taking the [censored].

playfair?

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Go the Biff Redleg

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Wouldn't touch either of them. I thought the idea of trading was to improve your list. Jude Bolton has been a very good player but his best is past. Great worker, courageous but has lost a yard of whatever pace he had & his kicking skills are Godfrey-like. He won't shirk an issue but he won't win you a game either. Playfair, unlike Bolton, has never been a very good player nor will he be. Who's next - Leigh Brown ? Kepler Bradley ? Just because players become available doesn't mean we should make a play for them. I swear there are posters on this site who would give up a first round draft pick for Barry Norsworthy if he was declared to be "on the table".

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Though i feel we need a tall CHB rivers isn't a CHB he is more of ahalf back flank player i feel.

I hear this sentiment expressed often on this forum and in my opinion its wrong. Up to this point Rivers has certainly been best as a 3rd tall in defense and has looked a little undersized when playing on the big forwards, but if you look at his height and weight stats, he's the same height and just a smidge lighter than both Scarlett and Harley.

Given that Rivers has spent an entire year on the sidelines recuperating from groin troubles, I think it would probably be safe to say the bloke has put on even more bulk as he would've been restricted to mainly swimming pool and gym work. I think that we'll see a bigger and much stronger Jared Rivers pull on the Red and Blue next year and he'll be able to hold down CHB with aplomb. I'm pretty confident about this.

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Jude Bolton is on the market. He would be great. Tough, smart and big enough to hold down the CHB and allow Rivers to play across the backline. The other one to look at is Henry Playfair. He is big, strong and has great judgment. Geelong originally tried to make him into a key forward, which he wasn't. On the other hand, I have watched him in the VFL and has been great. Go for him or Bolton, I say.

I'm probably the only one on here that will agree with you about Playfair BT - though I am a little biased because he is the only AFL listed player that I actually know. I think Geelong needed a CHF and their KPP backs were covered - so they tried to turn him into a forward and he did alright for a while. IMO I think he is far more of a CHB than he is a forward (his kicking is too erratic to be a genuine forward). I doubt we'll get him though, unless we trade Miller for Bolton and then there's a slim chance we might look to cover our KPP stocks.

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Wouldn't touch either of them. I thought the idea of trading was to improve your list. Jude Bolton has been a very good player but his best is past. Great worker, courageous but has lost a yard of whatever pace he had & his kicking skills are Godfrey-like. He won't shirk an issue but he won't win you a game either. Playfair, unlike Bolton, has never been a very good player nor will he be. Who's next - Leigh Brown ? Kepler Bradley ? Just because players become available doesn't mean we should make a play for them. I swear there are posters on this site who would give up a first round draft pick for Barry Norsworthy if he was declared to be "on the table".

Totally agree with 'the idea of trading was to improve your list'. Neither Bolton or Playfair will do that for us.

BTW, didn't Barry Norsworthy poll a surprising number of Brownlow votes one year?

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can u guys have a look at charlie gardiners stats for geelong's VFL side this year....

He absolutely killed it!!!!

i like him and think he would add something to our forward line!!!

he definitely gets alot of it....

If this guy isn't a troll, I will be shocked.

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How can we contemplate trading Johnstone and picking up Bolton? Our midfield needs pace, not the likes of Jude. Jones and McLean will be leading the grunt work charge over the next decade, and adding Bolton seems to be very much a band-aid solution. I can't see us going for it.

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Diablo is this a discussion room or do u just hang it on everyone.....of course we are all not going to agree on everything.. but i believe we all barrack for the demons..

Charlie Gardiner is a ball finder thats all.... and when u have blokes like miller and davey etc who i rate highly.. they dont find the footy over 20 times..

Gardiner does.. yes he might lack polish but he gets his hands on it alot!!!!

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Diablo is this a discussion room or do u just hang it on everyone.....of course we are all not going to agree on everything.. but i believe we all barrack for the demons..

Charlie Gardiner is a ball finder thats all.... and when u have blokes like miller and davey etc who i rate highly.. they dont find the footy over 20 times..

Gardiner does.. yes he might lack polish but he gets his hands on it alot!!!!

Maybe mate. Again, I just find it spurious when you just join up, and then your first post is to report that TJ is all but a guarantee to Brisbane for a pick they do not have, nor are they likely to have. Then your second post is to talk up a player who quite frankly has done bugger all at AFL level and most of us would sneer at. If you rate him thats your prerogative, but it sounds like a bit of a wind up.

In any case, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt Goose. If your prediction about TJ comes true I will have no hesitation in eating humble pie. I still do not think Charlie Gardiner is worth anything we would have to give, however.

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Fair enough Diablo

I watch alot of the VFL as i have plenty of mates who play in it....

and Gardiner was one who stood out a hell of alot...

i think the demons need to get people that are capable of finding the football.... we do not have enough players who can get 20 + possesions...

we have one or two who can around 30.. then it drops to the ones who get 10....

to be successful we need some mid tier players the drop from good to bad is to much

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