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Surely Polak, Tarrant and Bradshaw will help the Bulldogs push to Premiership contention more then Akermanis. They already have plenty of quick skillful players and lack the tall key position players. I'm not so sure the Akermanis deal is set in stone.
Your thoughts.....?
c'wood-pies
4 Oct 2006, 12:21
Surely Polak, Tarrant and Bradshaw will help the Bulldogs push to Premiership contention more then Akermanis. They already have plenty of quick skillful players and lack the tall key position players. I'm not so sure the Akermanis deal is set in stone.
Your thoughts.....?
Agreed. They should still chase aka, but they really need to think about the other three.
Palmer Stoat
4 Oct 2006, 12:35
Yep, I've been pretty mystified by the Bulldogs' interest in Aker. If there's a club in the competition that doesn't need another pacy, goal-kicking mid/hff, it'd be the Bulldogs, I woulda thought.
With their lack of talls, Bradshaw, Tarrant, or even Mal Michael or Polak would seem to make more sense as recruiting targets.
Be interesting to see what eventuates.
Dogs Rule
4 Oct 2006, 12:57
I agree with all of that, but Aker's experience will be invaluable.
Seriously, can I ask the Collingwood supporters what they would want from the Dogs for Tarrant?
Nah, Akermanis would be a great target for the Dogs. Him and Brad Johnson on opposing flanks as goal kicking midfielders that can both hit a target....thats got to be even better than Aker and Headland was.
anjing merah
4 Oct 2006, 13:22
A flexible tall, doent need to be a star nor expensive but can compliment the running backs or crumbing forwards. See Swans trades recently. Not sure of the need for a player like Aka.
Surely Polak, Tarrant and Bradshaw will help the Bulldogs push to Premiership contention more then Akermanis. They already have plenty of quick skillful players and lack the tall key position players. I'm not so sure the Akermanis deal is set in stone.
Your thoughts.....?
yeah, it's not like teams with exceptionally strong midfields win flags:p.
I see your point, but the Bulldog's current talls are no worse than WC's looked a year or to ago. That said, they could probably do with one of those players, but hardly need all three.
Palmer Stoat
4 Oct 2006, 13:59
I agree with all of that, but Aker's experience will be invaluable.
Seriously, can I ask the Collingwood supporters what they would want from the Dogs for Tarrant?
That's just an invitation for a huge Tarrant/Collingwood slagfest, unfortunately.
Personally, I think he's worth two picks between 10 and 20. I think that's reasonable. I also think we probably won't get that for him. And if that's the case, I'd prefer us to keep him than let him go for less than he's worth.
you say we should target tarrant or bradshaw like its just a decision we have to make and its done. Those players will need to be chisselled out of their current teams with huge offers that they would have very little hope of living up to. aka, on the other hand, is a quality player coming cheap, due to circumstance.
we'll grab aka, and maybe someone else if there is another 'circumstance', but basically this is a great draft and clayton wants as many picks as he can get, which is a very good sign because it means he has targets for all of them.
Tarrant and Bradshaw would cost too much and Polak is no good. I'd rather draft talls.
It has already been stated by the club that they want 5 picks in the ND, so I highly doubt that the Dogs will be seeking to trade for any established players other than Aker.
wizard_9
4 Oct 2006, 16:15
Eade said on WLF a few weeks back he isnt interested in Bradshaw.
Premeirship CHF Ashley Hansen was pick 38 in 2001.
Moral of the story, if you can get a decent tall, fine, they don't grow on trees, and the Dogs wouldn't be the only club in the market anyway.
If not, draft one and hope he becomes a player like Hansen.
ford_dealer
5 Oct 2006, 21:47
I would prefer a ready-made player like bradshaw, than one we may have to wait a couple of years to develop.. but in saying that. The dogs still do have a lot of talls on the sidelines..
i.e Darcy, Morgan, Walsh, Williams (although unsure how all 4 will go at AFL, Darcy TWO knee recos, Williams still has really only player 18 months of footy due to all his injuries, Walsh relatively untried at AFL level and Morgan will never be as good as Ashley Hansen)
but it never hurt to have a few good KPP's
while we are on Ash Hansen, i know Lachlan and him arent brothers.. does anyone still think they look the slightest bit alike?
sinepari
5 Oct 2006, 22:37
FD, no. Not at all.