old55
-
Posts
9,713 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
38
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Store
Everything posted by old55
-
Maybe you've hit the nail on the head right there - Warnock behind Frawley, Rivers and now Tom McDonald - Lisle behind Franklin, Hale and Roughead. We are developing our own - Cook and Fitzpatrick, but if Lisle is ready-to-go and at the right price then we should pursue him hard. It's like shooting fish in a barrel to come up with all the reasons why things won't work - you're an Olympic standard shot.
-
IMO Lisle is definitely the right "type" - I've never seen him play, but if we trade for him it means we rate him in that type and I'd be very happy.
-
Pick 4 + Swallow? Seriously - would be ecstatic with Warnock + 54 for 32, happy with Warnock + 36 for 27.
-
No we don't, if we did it would free a spot on the primary list which provides an advantage at the draft. But we can elevate a Designated Rookie into that slot and play them anyway. Not sure who would be next to qualify. The rules changed a couple of years ago - is it still 10 years service and 30 years old?
-
Martin is an improvement on PJ as a marking forward - that's about the best I can say about him. He did actually take some nice overhead marks last year but as yet he's not going to command the attention of the opposition key stopping tall defender. He may evolve into this - if we don't trade for a KPF we'll be relying on him to.
-
Yeah, the AFL have created Frankenstein's monster at GWS. They've written fairly loose rules with good intentions which rely on on good faith execution and then puit a bunch of crooks ... errr mavericks ... in charge in Allan and Sheedy who'll manipulate them every which way. GWS is a very tough project and I don't blame Allan or Sheedy for using any bit of leverage they think they can gain - their aim is to make GWS successful in a very hostile and competitive environment - the AFL wants GWS to be successful too but they let the monster off the leash with some unintended consequences. The AFL could've written the MD rule to require only player trades with greater than 3 years service and no draft picks or on-trading but that may have been too restrictive and you'd see the O'Meara pick going to Collingwood for Toovey or Carlton for Bower.
-
Not necessarily, it might mean we look up and can't go inside 50 because there's no long target. Our midfield does require improvement but we also need more versatility in our forward line, it's too easy to defend against if you never go long. It's the threat more than anything else. We need a tall with a decent engine who can run up and down the lines all day - sounds like Cook in a couple of years to me, but we need someone in the meantime so we can play that style.
-
We've got to turn some players over - Scully makes one, but we need at least 2 more vacancies, maybe more if we trade someone in to filla "gap", which I hope we do. Warnock, Maric, Macdonald, Wonna - all out of contract. Bate in contract but looking for a trade. In all probability at least 3 of them wont be on our list next year.
-
Yes, I think one look at the Craig interview on DeeTV shows that it wouldn't happen.
-
Bit extreme, I actually don't think it's all that different from them trading MD 1 to GC for ND 4 - - that's not in the spirit of the mini-draft either.
-
No I don't - but they might have been forced into this strategy because they couldn't attract any good mature players. Ablett was a bit of a special case.
-
I'm trying to imagine Maric playing like Stokes or Christensen in the GF - and struggling.
-
Oh noes - what sort of corrupt club would do that?
-
The Age, Big Footy and apparently Trade Radio saying GWS to trade U17 pick 1 (O'Meara) back to themselves via 3rd parties. Go to Big Footy for gory details. http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=881242
-
unfounded speculation.
-
In the Warnock thread posters have Warnock to Adelaide (on some pretty flimsy evidence I might add) but: Lisle to MFC Gunston to HFC Warnock + MFC pick to AFC
-
Warnock for Dangerfield, Sloan and pick 10 - otherwise no deal
-
FMD - for the 1000th time - the pick stays after the original club's pick
-
More medium forwards ...aaarrrrghhhhh!
-
Looks like speculation only - no real basis. Agree Warnock better suited elsewhere.
-
Good question, I'll ask the Port poster and see what he says http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showpost.php?p=22546020&postcount=324
-
BF Port supporter suggesting Port
-
Current deal rolls over until superseded
-
Those offers in that article have to be BS: O'Meara + 9 to GC for 4 + mid 1st round compo Crouch + 25 to Dogs for 17 + mid 1st round compo If we can't top then we're not trying!!!
-
Ther's 8 "interstate" teams now - lots of options.
