Everything posted by Redleg
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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - LUKE JACKSON
I just wonder if we have done a deal with GWS of some sort to ensure they get their extra top 5 player. It is a huge gamble if not by them.
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Phantom Drafts
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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - LUKE JACKSON
But it is the basis of our game, football.
- The No T$ No B$ Thread
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Tom Green (Drafted by GWS Giants)
I would be doing a deal for a player next year with GWS, to stop us bidding on Green and making them have wasted their upgrade.
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Splitting Draft Pick 3
We will get the player we want most likely even if it is Green. If GWS matched our pick on Green they would lose the extra top 4 player and would effectively have traded for nothing. This way they get who they want after our pick and then get Green later. One thing to factor in is that Green has a younger brother who apparently is also pretty good and if we got Green I wonder if the brother could be switched into our Academy zone? Anyone have the answer on that?
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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - LUKE JACKSON
Young could be the Shaw replacement.
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Phantom Drafts
Can we just assume that if we take Jackson with what could be the first live pick, it is because we think he is special. Young is probably a safe pick, but Jackson is obviously seen as more than a ruckman. If he can play as a key forward as well, we have solved 2 areas in one pick. We get our 3rd key forward, who can also be Max’s eventual replacement. If Bradtke keeps developing he can hopefully also play forward and share the ruck with Jackson when Max is gone. We can get another running defender or mid with 8 and that leaves small forwards as the last target. I can’t believe we take Jackson unless we see a future star and if he is, we will have done well. Personally I am not a recruiter and know very little of these guys, so as with Oliver, I trust Taylor to get it right with both picks under 10, as they are too valuable to get wrong. A couple of guys however who know Jackson well, claim he will be a star. These big guys who can play are like diamonds, as proved by Essendon keeping an injured one, because they had no replacement. BTW I spoke to him last night and he is a nice guy.
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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - LUKE JACKSON
And there is the answer. We can all have our opinions and good on everyone who has contributed to the draft discussions, but in the end the professionals will do the job, let’s hope they get it right. This draft is giving me a headache.
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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - LUKE JACKSON
Agree. I was just saying that where a player comes from is considered by the club.
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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - LUKE JACKSON
Not if they are on the bottom of the ladder and can do a Carlton and Bell would. Also you are 2 years down the track with the kid and if you draft another you start again.
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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - LUKE JACKSON
Not if Freo are on the bottom or close to it. With Bell negotiating that could be an outcome where you get nothing, like Martin this year.
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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - LUKE JACKSON
Then watch The Eagles and Dockers offer him the world in 2 years to go home, if he is any good.
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Geelong Eyeing Our Picks
Correct, get 2 great players instead of 1 and 2 maybes.
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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - LUKE JACKSON
With now Jacobs and Mummy plus 2 developing rucks and forwards Cameron to resign plus Finlayson and Himmelberg, I wonder if GWS really want Jackson. IMO if they can’t trade up a pick they match Green and take him.
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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - KYSAIAH KROPINYERI PICKETT
This kid is being hyped off the map. I smell something wrong.
- The No T$ No B$ Thread
- Poll: Who do you want with our first two picks?
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Tom Green (Drafted by GWS Giants)
Well could this happen, I mean be allowed? GWS offer to delist say Caldwell and he goes in the PSD, nominating terms that GC can't match and we swap 6 for 3 and maybe a later pick thrown in for us as well. They would get Green and whoever they wanted at 3 and lose Caldwell and a later pick. Essentially they would be swapping say Caldwell to get say Jackson and still get Green. That is a monster deal for them.
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Tom Green (Drafted by GWS Giants)
Couldn't Freo swap 22 and a later pick, for say 21 and a drop on that later pick, making it attractive to the other club? Then they would have another pick in 21 to swap with us.
- The No T$ No B$ Thread
- The No T$ No B$ Thread
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WELCOME TO DEMONLAND - MITCH BROWN
You would get at least 2 years out of him and turns 30 at end of next season. There was something about Weid in rehab, from a hip cleanout and that could be a big factor with Brown, as he would be extra cover for a late start by Sam.
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TRAINING: Wednesday 13th November 2019
I hope that is not the result of one 50. He does look leaner.
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Tom Green (Drafted by GWS Giants)
Would you be happy with another?