List Mgmt. AFC - 2014 Drafting and Trading

[Campbell's Chunky]

Think we can cool the heels on Aish this year. From what I've been told he is being targeted (and spoken to) but nothing will happen till next year, if it does.

 

[Scrotes2000]

It would be especially galling if PP end up getting Ryder and we didn't bother to pursue.

They'd be pursuing every option that might be available I'm sure. Just might not be worth it, especially if we land other players. Or maybe they know that Ryder would have offers over what we'd be willing to pay.

 

[GROTTO]

I dont think its being pessimistic but rather more of a realist, I just cannot see how the Crows could engineer the trade with the GWS regarding Cameron.

Aish is a little more attainable only if he has not yet reached dizzy heights, but when he does again that will be another problem. Again I think the Lions will want too much in any case.

I could see us getting Davis and using pick 9 on a local SA player? Durdin. Thats about as far as it will go.

 

[Campbell's Chunky]

CC your usually reliable for a good rumour or two. Have you heard anything this year?

Don't know any specifics this year. All I can say is we are in some discussions with GWS (no specifics on what over) and that Nobes went to watch Jono Giles the other week and the consensus was he was pretty ordinary.

Too far ahead to be looking at draft targets, think it's more likely than not that we won't have pick 9 though.

 

[JP Sauce]

I can't believe we're talking about trading in Aish AND Jeremy Cameron.

so much for this board being pessimistic! The way we're going I'm going to have to self-impose a personal media blackout until the end of trade week. Like I've said before this stress will be no good for me

Don't forget Frawley and Ryder via FA.

Brown Talia Jaensch
Smith Frawley van Berlo
Mackay Dangerfield Sloane
Aish Cameron Cameron
Ryder Walker Betts
Jacobs Crouch Douglas

M Crouch, O'Keefe, Pods and Grigg (sub)

 

[DD#23]

I'd put Aish as the #1 priority, much, much higher than Cameron.

We already have one of the most potent and best performing forward lines in the competition. This year we were the 3rd highest scoring team (only marginally behind Port) and the 4th most efficient at converting F50 entries into scoring shots. Adding Cameron to a forward line that already contains Tex, Betts & JJ (and potentially Cameron & Lynch) is only likely to result in a relatively minor gain to our scoring potential.

Our midfield, on the other hand, could always do with a boost in class. 2015 will almost certainly be Thompson's last year. A midfield with Danger, Sloane, Crouch & Aish is potentially much stronger than a midfield without Aish.

Aish is likely to cost us less than JC and his presence would add more benefit than JC. That's two damn good reasons why Aish should be our #1 target, not JC.

all good points.

but wouldn't it be nice if Sando could say "our forward line would be the envy of the rest of the competition" and for it to actually be true?

 

[WAG]

SEN reporting that Kruezer is on the table.

Any interest from AFC?

 

[GROTTO]

SEN reporting that Kruezer is on the table.

Any interest from AFC?

Kreuzer must be injured for MM to put him up. Buyer beware.

 

[Tex200]

SEN reporting that Kruezer is on the table.

Any interest from AFC?

Would have to be you would think given we are known to be chasing rucks.

Fitness and cost being the issues

 

[anonymous Derik]

I reckon get Aish next year for bargain rates after his second year blues

 

[Scrotes2000]

Any news on Robinson? I reckon he'd be a good pickup. Probably save some money because of his discipline issues, which I don't think would be a problem after moving to a new city and having good influences around him.

 

[GROTTO]

I thought our Club was alone smoking crack, it appears all the other Clubs are smoking it too regarding trading in players. Its amusing especially given at the end of the day, the two biggest trades over the past two years was dominated by one club.

 

[Danoz]

Any news on Robinson? I reckon he'd be a good pickup. Probably save some money because of his discipline issues, which I don't think would be a problem after moving to a new city and having good influences around him.

Read somewhere he has had zero interest from other clubs.

 

[Danoz]

I thought our Club was alone smoking crack, it appears all the other Clubs are smoking it too regarding trading in players. Its amusing especially given at the end of the day, the two biggest trades over the past two years was dominated by one club.

...and yet neither were trades.

 

[baldandbroke]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...369060851?nk=f321c9a0a566efa46068bd715714b3a5

Another article Rucci being spot on re Tippo.

Interesting reference to getting a contract done early for the good of the team :

... Dangerfield's point that Adelaide's on-field progress does not need the distractions of contract speculation.

This prompted Dangerfield to advance his talks from his previously preferred position of leaving negotiation until the end of the season.

"It's good to have it out of the way - we can now focus on team rather than individuals," said Dangerfield.

"I can now focus on just playing on footy.

"At the start of the year, I was leaning to (an end-of-season negotiation).

"But the speculation, the hype that generates has become a negative on the group.

"To get it out of the way and allow the club to focus on winning games of footy - rather than fielding questions about players' contracts - is about thinking for the club."

Dangerfield, 22, conceded that opportunities at rival clubs - Geelong was the keenest - had "come into calculations".

"That's the case with every player," he said, while downplaying the money factor in the bidding war for his signature.

"But there were plenty of reasons to stay.

"We are going to be a very successful team."​

 

[Golumless]

...

Well that was premature

 

[GROTTO]

Don't forget Frawley and Ryder via FA.

Brown Talia Jaensch
Smith Frawley van Berlo
Mackay Dangerfield Sloane
Aish Cameron Cameron
Ryder Walker Betts
Jacobs Crouch Douglas

M Crouch, O'Keefe, Pods and Grigg (sub)

That team if fully fit would win the flag. Get the feeling Sando would still select Martin and Wright.

 

[Crouch#44]

Kreuzer linked to collingwood

 

[Tex200]

That team if fully fit would win the flag. Get the feeling Sando would still select Martin and Wright.

Don't forget Hendo for "some punch off half back"

 

[MyLittleSloaney]

Wonder if the crows are intending to recruit Smack as a rookie?

 

[The Sloane Ranger]

Kreuzer must be injured for MM to put him up. Buyer beware.

why, even when he has been fit he has massively under-achieved

 

[FR0GGY]

SEN reporting that Kruezer is on the table.

Any interest from AFC?

yes the last reject ruckmen from them goes alright

 

[GROTTO]

Wonder if the crows are intending to recruit Smack as a rookie?

It would depend how the trade and draft pans out, I think Smack is finished along with his friends in Petrenko as well.

 

[The Sloane Ranger]

Wonder if the crows are intending to recruit Smack as a rookie?

reading in between the lines the simple answerseems to be No

the fact that the club made a statement wishing him all the best for his future suggests that he wont be rookie, if we intended to rookie Smack I think we would have made this known

 

[Danoz]

OutofTownCrow is like to think this means if we start next season well he'd be in with a chance of signing early again.