Nasher

Why do crud players who are going to be delisted nominate a preferred club anyway? Surely you'd just go anywhere that would have you. I remember Peter Walsh putting in a similar request to Craig Cameron in the mid 00s - "I know I'm gone, if you could find me a new club I'd be grateful". The club obliged and traded him to Port, and moved up two places in the draft.

Just one of the players and the fifth for their fourth. They'd be stupid to take a risk on all three - but then again this is the club that was laughing at us when they got Chris Johnson in the PSD.

And what's Eddie got to do with it anyway?

He's not tortoise slow like those two. You might be right about him turning out average, but the comparison is a bit naff I think.

I'm not going to ban you, but you have been shown the door enough times to know where it is. Close it behind you please, it's cold out there.

Remember when half the site wanted Dayle Garlett with this pick? Thanks Hawthorn.

Plenty of Adelaide supporters reckon Dangerfield had a close relationship with Sanderson and if anything, this increases the chances of him walking. Very hard to make head or tail of any of this to be honest. I'd be pretty concerned if I were a Crows fan: multiple key players possibly exploring avenues for exit, and an administration making huge decisions on the fly. Scary stuff.

Plenty of rumours about that Goodwin said "I'm about to sign with Melbourne so sign me now or I'm gone". Who knows if it's true, but it sounds like the Reverse-Neeld. If it is, hopefully it works out just as well for them.

Really? Damn.

Yep! Disrupts our plans, but I accept that that's the price to pay for getting to watch an Adelaide trainwreck for a few weeks.

I naively thought we got this guy to slot straight in to the 22. Probably a more realistic view would be an investment - a young NQR that can become a R with time and development, and that is what is happening. He looked really good in the last couple of games; progress was made. Hopefully he can consolidate on it in 2015.

Nah, you got called a troll by a guy who thinks that's what you were being. Being an administrator has nothing to do with it.

I don't think it's overs. Draft picks (and Toumpas) carry significant risk - we of all clubs should understand that. Dangerfield comes with next to no risk from a "can this guy play" perspective. Any trade has to be weighted in Adelaide's favour to negate that risk. Downgrading one of the high picks to a lower-top 10 pick is a very small change in my opinion, it's the trade equivalent of loose change. Just as likely to get a gun at pick 9 as you are at pick 3.

You either have an astoundingly short memory, or you're a troll. On recent form I'm leaning towards the latter.

I like the deal mooted in the thread. 2+3+Toumpas (or our second rounder) for Dangerfield+9. Three unknowns for a known and an unknown. I can't find a deal that works that doesn't involve them giving us a pick back. Pick 2 on its own seems too little, 2+3 seems too much.

Agree. He was awful this year. I think he has enough credit in the bank for me to believe it an aberration and move on, so I'm looking forward to a Garland with renewed vigour next year.

Hah. There is a ripping contribution from Clint Bizkit on the last page of that thread.

Pretty safe bet I reckon Clint.

Sorry mate, I laughed.

I wasn't expecting Sylvia to smash it, but it's really surprised me in the level in which he has been a complete and utter bust over there. They'd have to be pretty disappointed, I reckon. Suckers.

It doesn't really say anything, and calling him a 'reject' is a slap in the face. Cross was one of their key players when they were a top 4 side, and he's lost nothing since then really. He is just a product of a struggling club with a lot of promising young mids managing its list. I'd go out on a limb and say if the Bulldogs still saw themselves as contenders, they'd have kept him. So long as his body holds up he's the sort of player who will play at a decent standard pretty much forever because he's never relied on pace. His core attributes of clean hands, big tank and fanatic attack on the ball won't deteriorate too much as he gets old.

Even with their glut of inside mids, I was surprised Bulldogs let him go. Didn't look anywhere near finished in the games I saw him play in '13 and had an excellent year for us. Could very well have snatched the B'n'F if not for the injury. It's not outside the realms of possibility that he'll notch up 50 games for the MFC.

Maybe - I like him as a forward though. Runs hard, uses his pace well, knows where the goals are. Rotations through the midfield are fine, but I like to see him on the HFF charging forward.

I agree, and I expect that's the plan. The new coach - be it Goodwin or someone else - will also have two years having been involved heavily in the decision making and learning about the players, he won't be coming in cold like a coach from the outside. That pre-existing relationship has to be of massive benefit. This was how Roos became coach of Sydney in the first place, and Longmire seems to be going okay as third generation in-house coach. Sydney haven't hired their senior coach from outside their own system since Eade in 1995. I'd been really uncomfortable with this successor idea mostly out of fear of losing Roos, but as things start to take shape I can really see the merit in it and find myself at ease with the idea.