It's a fine line. Nic Nat started off on fire yesterday and by the end of the game had had a shocker. This included 37 hit outs. I'd prefer us to address our clearance strategy as opposed to going all out to recruit a ruckman.
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It's a fine line. Nic Nat started off on fire yesterday and by the end of the game had had a shocker. This included 37 hit outs. I'd prefer us to address our clearance strategy as opposed to going all out to recruit a ruckman.
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That's not where they lost the game though Nic Nat is a very good player but he's not a leader (yet anyway) Eagles leaders should have helped compose the team throughout the game. They have a midfield full of excellent clearance players. Yet they couldn't get close yesterday, we have to look at what we have and what would make a difference there. A good ruckman that can play every week would make a big difference to our side and very good ruckman who plays every week could transform our team.
Like you say we still need to address clearance issues and I think it's as much having more quality midfielders to play in the middle as it is the type of midfielders. Adding Selwood and Dangerfield to the group we have who will continue to improve should go a long way to resolving this.
I hope we can find a ruckman that can play consistently be happy for that to be Stanley as he offers a lot around the ground bit can he play every week?
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Your right we need to bolster every line,great if we can secure Dangerfield but it can't be at any price as he alone won't take us back to the top,ie next years picks in the draft must be retained at the cattery, this years picks look designated and I'm fine with that,we have a tricky couple of year ahead of us what we do in the next couple of week will be crucial to the future.
Answered this already. Unless there is a horrendous run of injuries - 5-7 at the very most.
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Could possibly be a chance that Gore gets in front of GHS by end of 2016 too I think.
If Gore keeps performing, he won't get a lot of centre bounce midfield time but Gore is also a brilliant user of the ball & quite fast so would still be pretty good on the outside while a GHS will never be an outside player
Could possibly be a chance that Gore gets in front of GHS by end of 2016 too I think.
If Gore keeps performing, he won't get a lot of centre bounce midfield time but Gore is also a brilliant user of the ball & quite fast so would still be pretty good on the outside while a GHS will never be an outside player
He also hasn't played a senior game yet. Let's wait and see.
I'm thinking Max Rooke
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"Could possibly be a chance in 2016" I said...
We could say let's wait & see on all the playing list but this forum is about posting what we think we could happen & having discussions about it.
So in saying that, did you see Gore play in the VFL at all this season? Do you think he could crack the seniors & possibly cement a spot in 2016?
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I'm thinking Lenny Hayes or Brett Kirk.
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no, because we are too softIt's not a perception though is it?
We at least come prepared these days.
we have not won a deal at the time of doing a deal
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its what im hearing
and the pr from the clubs we are dealing with is setting high expectations
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Why does it have to be about "winning" why can't we just execute fair trades?
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daz most deals we have done have favoured the opposition team at the time of doing the deal
deals like prismall look good in later years because of what wells brings to the table or the player traded farts it up
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it can be
name the last fair trade we had
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and I think for the most part in recent years we have been.
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bundy was not a fair trade
mitch was not a fair trade
Stanley was not a fair trade
so in recently history we have not had even trades
You yourself cited the Prismal->pick39->Motlop trade. I think we need more than one year to see who 'wins' a trade.
I thought the trade of picks to get cocky was fair
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I think he was among our better clearance winners last year, NSFB- I seem to remember running some numbers for all of our players.
Just checked total 2014 stats and he was 4th out of all of our players (behind Selwood, Guthrie and Johnson), with game time of only 65%, while the top 3 players all played 83-88% game time.
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It was just doesn't suit their argument...
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Bundy was out of our control. OOC and picks one club with PSD leverage over us.
Mitch. Disagree. Look who we lost. Still think that was fair.
Stanley slight overs.
In any case is 1 year recent history now is it...
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seriously a player who struggled to get on the field with known mental issues is not the equal of varcoe
varcoe had a good year for the pies
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