Got it on good word that Pandles is coming to play with us next year. Pretty sure.
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If that happens I will get I AM CARLTON tattooed on me
Well because people have been talking about Frawley and what clubs may be chasing him. Adelaide have previously been reported as going after him and I am telling you they won't pay the price he is asking
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Wasn't Bryce meant to sign up by now? Or can't he because he has a broken hand?
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We look forward to seeing that mate!
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You've just been looking for an excuse.
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I still don't see what Adelaide have to do with Carlton and you don't need to tell me anything!
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Frawley is a unrestricted free agent
Watch him go to Hawthorn.
Have a war chest full of cash now that Buddy has gone and is a ready made replacement for Lake.
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Thanks for the info
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Forget about Frawley, we should be chasing Ben Reid or Ted Richards both can play forward and back, would allow Lachie to stay forward.
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Richards is 31. Doesn't fit our recruiting policy.
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Anyone else think of Frawley as just a little over-rated? I get the huge appeal at his age, and he did bag an AA nice and early...I suppose I just don't have him at the top of the KPD tree.
Maybe I just don't watch enough of Melbourne.
Maybe I just don't watch enough of Melbourne.
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Perhaps we should change our policy, Hawthorn wouldn't have won a flag without recruiting a 31 year old key defender. We have a need and shouldn't be afraid to get someone in for a 2-3 year impact, especially if we are not giving up anything to get it.
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Richards will be 32 by the time next season rolls around. He's been great in a Sydney team that puts a lot of pressure on upfield. Lake is the better full back talent wise however. Richards is more of a Jamison type.
I'm assuming that Richards will be a unrestricted free agent because he is not in the Swans top 25% salary earners. However we'd still have to offer him decent coin to shake him loose. He's happy where he is and his brother is there. Lake had been injured, was unhappy and had some personality clashes with a couple of people at the Dogs.
I'd also suggest Hawthorn 2013 were closer to a flag than we are.
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Our defence is fine.
Why would we recruit a key defender when there's a gaping hole in our forward line following the retirement of Waite at season's end?
Waite is retiring!
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Waite is retiring!
One more injury riddled year and he'd be close. A lot can happen in a season.
Let's look at our KPPs in approximate order of merit (currently).
Henderson - equally adept back or forward
Jamison - full back or .... full back
Waite - key forward capable of playing CHB. In his twilight years.
Watson - key defender every day of the week
Casboult - key forward or bust
Rowe - pinch hitter forward, back or ruck
Giles - CHB capable of playing CHF
Definitely lighter in the forwards unless we want Giles to develop as a forward. We know if Jamo or Watson go down and we are under pressure, that Lachie is going back again and we have to replace Waite. With Rowe and Casboult, our other forward options, down the list in terms of merit, it's a glaring hole. Even if we keep recruiting key defenders, we need to eventually have a forward who reads the play and presents like a forward .... not a makeshift big body.
Yep.
Would like to see us pull off a sneaky Laidler-esque trade for a fringe forward (Shane Kersten, Lewis Johnston would have been ideal), and follow up in the draft for some more bankable KPP quality.
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