Adam The God

Lol. He was the one overrating them last off season. Can't believe someone keeps paying him for his opinion. Changes like the wind.

Probably wasn't worth popping that on the record mate. It's a ridiculous observation, but righto.

His tackling as a burst off the mark seems to be his best trait. If he can land some tackles, keep the ball inside 50 and kick 20 goals for the year, he'll be a player. Let's see.

Great post as always mate. I'm glad I'm not in charge of making the call with what to do with pick 3. I go from one thread thinking we should trade pick 3 for an established gun and then I go to another thread like this and believe you're absolutely right about splitting the pick for a bunch of mid firsts.

Haha, you keep championing the Ben King angle. I love it too, but sounds like it's off the table.

I know you've been a big fan for a while, mate. It's taken me longer to come on board, but I love Curnow and McKay as a one-two punch and the rest of the spine is solid as you say. Adding a ridiculous bloke that averaged 25 possessions in his first season makes them even stronger. They've brought in a lot of rubbish too, but the weight of top picks has finally started to yield results. And yes, they've picked well recently, but SOS wouldn't have got a job anywhere else if he wasn't SOS. He had an awful lot of misses at GWS, but we've been here before with this discussion.

I reckon the Blues are going to be a serious side next year. I hope I'm wrong, but adding Papley, Martin and Betts (despite his age) to that forward line, they are going to have x-factor and scoring power galore. Where you still beat them is the midfield. Still, Cripps can just about carry that midfield into the finals with their forward line.

It may sound stupid, but if they can get Green and add another top 10 talent for the loss of one top 10 talent in Taranto, they may go with that and keep spreading the profile of their list wider.

I think we need a very good player if we're splitting the pick or if we're going to the draft. The best way to ensure we get a very good player though is to split the pick and then trade one or two of the picks for an established player. Would anyone give up pick 3 in a straight swap for Taranto? And more importantly, does anyone think GWS would?

Ah, this old chestnut. 106 pages. Didn't think we'd be back here so soon. It depends what we'd be willing to pay for him. Langdon on one wing, Gaff on another, with Tomlinson as the utility that roams between the arcs. I like it if we don't blow our cap. Having those three runners on the MCG would make us a lot harder to play against on the spread.

Defensive forward, if he's going to make it.

That's right. He couldn't break his way into the side. Werridee would have called him a depth player.

I completely agree with having 10+ mids rotating through the middle and around the rest of the ground. The problem with Gus is exactly the same problem Viney has. Gus only has one position, maybe two at a stretch like Viney does. Gus has shown he can't play on a wing or up forward, leaving only the midfield and maybe half back as places he can't play. Likewise, Viney can only play middle and perhaps defensive forward, but he has more versatility in the middle than Gus does (inside or run with). I reckon we overrate Gus a bit. He really struggled at the top of 2018 before really getting going from the 5th or 6th round. So he's yet to put together even a full consistent season yet.

Haha, you're in your element mate. Do you walk around talking to people in best 22s or do you speak in full sentences?

What's the problem here then? None of us care about GWS' best 22, just ours.

No. They've had 8 years of injuries. Tomlinson is terrible and only ever played a single game for GWS because of injuries.

He was in their best 22.

Not necessarily. The Gaff rumour is simply that the Eagles might look to move him on. Not that he was ever to be involved in the Kelly trade.

Thanks mate. Do you have a link for that? I couldn't find it when I Googled before.

Not for that long. It's true to say he's a utility, but not that he's a depth player.

People are interested in improving the list. Do you think Viney, Brayshaw, Oliver, Harmes and Petracca can all play in the same midfield? Surely that midfield is missing at least two things. 1) polish & 2) pace. Viney and Brayshaw are too similar to Oliver, but neither are anywhere near as good. If we want to improve, let's look to broaden the skill set of our midfield and in doing so, make it less predictable. Right now, Viney, Brayshaw and Oliver is far too easy to coach against. Nothing particularly against any of the players, it's just they're too similar. If Gus is exploring his options, we need to make sure we get something back as a club that will add something different immediately to our midfield in 2020.

A depth player doesn't play 24, 24 and 25 games. I don't think you quite understand the definition of a depth player. Depth players don't play every week.

I think the trade'd be done if we'd been offered a draft pick of any kind.

We're in a lot of trouble. Not only are we paying overs for Tomlinson, but we're losing our AA, Brownlow medalist utility God in Sam Frost.

Yup, would much rather Ben King too, but Wright might be more gettable, cheaper and should be ready to bloom (23 years old, 66 games, 85 goals). My understanding is Wright's contract ran out at the end of this year.