List Mgmt. Official 2016 trade period discussion

[GHS33]

1st & 2nd rounder for Caddy? Serious? Why was he dropped a few times? Is he that good?

Don't recall him ever being dropped in 2016 champ.

 

[GFrost]

1st & 2nd rounder for Caddy? Serious? Why was he dropped a few times? Is he that good?

Why do Richmond supporters keep claiming this. Caddy hasn't been dropped since he was a baby. Try again.

 

[Spazz Cat]

Now instead of getting Delidio and a pick for Caddy we look like getting pick 27.
FFS, why did we heck around playing games. Saying he wasn't going anywhere etc.
Just cost us a good player.

 

[Down at K Park]

2e trade is a win in my books. 2e was in the coach's team of the year? Smedts is an absolute waste of a list spot and i can see carlton being bottom 2 next year, we should be top 4 or at least top 6 so its fair in my book to downgrade a few picks considering we are getting the superior player.

As for caddy, we should tell richmond to gagf'd for being pricks in the delidio trade talks. Screw them. And i dont even really rate caddy.

 

[Black Saab]

Don't recall him ever being dropped in 2016 champ.

My mistake. Cheers. So is he that good?

 

[ijaxcat]

1st & 2nd rounder for Caddy? Serious? Why was he dropped a few times? Is he that good?

NO!!!!

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

Seriously, the media are making it sound like Caddy is an unrestricted free-agent and wants to go to Richmond, and that pick 27 will get it done because we must be powerless to negotiate a better deal.

Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!!

 

[Inferno]

1st & 2nd rounder for Caddy? Serious? Why was he dropped a few times? Is he that good?

When was he dropped, let alone dropped a few times? Please list the exact Rounds too since you're such an expert on our players

 

[Black Saab]

Why do Richmond supporters keep claiming this. Caddy hasn't been dropped since he was a baby. Try again.

My mistake.

 

[GHS33]

Now instead of getting Delidio and a pick for Caddy we look like getting pick 27.
FFS, why did we *** around playing games. Saying he wasn't going anywhere etc.
Just cost us a good player.

Can we get a public service announcement out there to confirm to every that:

1. Caddy is contracted
2. No deal has been done
3. Stephen Wells and Dan Richardson have both confirmed Caddy is happy to stay at the Cats
4. Geelong won't trade him for a pick in the 20s on its own

 

[Black Saab]

When was he dropped, let alone dropped a few times? Please list the exact Rounds too since you're such an expert on our players

My mistake, apologies.

 

[GHS33]

My mistake. Cheers. So is he that good?

Give us a first and second round pick and find out for yourself.

 

[Willo_]

True but I think the club knows what it's doing.

I certainly hope they do!

 

[GFrost]

To see some people blindly dismissing the article in The Age on the basis of absolutely nothing annoys me greatly, and speaks to a broader problem I have with the way journalists are perceived on BigFooty.

BigFooty is a microcosm of everything wrong with the general public's over-generalised, uncompromising attitude of contempt towards the media. While it makes sense to be healthily critical towards the media, the level of distrust the public at large harbours towards the industry is so completely disproportionate that it borders on absurdity. In the context of the AFL, all AFL-related news stories, particularly trade stories, seem to be read through the prism of this deluded, spurious narrative that all sports journalists are muckraking scum, and people seem willing to resort to obscene depths of confirmation bias to support this idiotic agenda; any time a journalist breaks a story, the media as an industry never gets any credit for it or any enhancement to its reputation, no matter how often this phenomenon occurs, yet any minor detail that turns out to be mistaken, is held against the media as if it were evidence of systemic incompetence. To me, the self-righteous, elitist, condescending way the majority looks down on the media reflects more about the ignorance of those attempting to critique or deconstruct it than it does about the media itself.

Now, I'm no apologist for the media - obviously, there are major flaws within the industry - but personally speaking I put far more stock in the credibility of stories broken by those whose professions it is to break stories than the blithe, over-confident dismissals of those aforesaid stories by anonymous members of the general public, most of whom are in thrall of an irrational, anti-establishment conviction that all journalists do is make things up, despite the mountain of evidence - namely, the fact that literally every single trade that has gone through thus far was reported on by journalists before it went through - to the contrary. Call me crazy. The media may be imperfect, but most of the information they report is still broadly accurate. To acknowledge that fact is to be in touch with reality, which is certainly preferably than continuing to perpetuate hoary old myths about the incorrigible untrustworthiness of sports journos.

Brilliantly put.
Every trade/move is forecast in the media first, whether people like it or not.
But I don't want my comments on this to detract from this brilliant post.

 

[Mahlepi]

My mistake. Cheers. So is he that good?

Better than your captain
I'll wait for his wifey to respond

 

[SkittleCats]

My mistake. Cheers. So is he that good?

Before he hurt his knee and missed 7 weeks his numbers in 2016 were A grade. Yeah, he can be that good, and at 24 he will only get more consistent.

 

[Spazz Cat]

Can we get a public service announcement out there to confirm to every that:

1. Caddy is contracted
2. No deal has been done
3. Stephen Wells and Dan Richardson have both confirmed Caddy is happy to stay at the Cats
4. Geelong won't trade him for a pick in the 20s on its own

Link.
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-ne...-live-coverage-day-eight-20161018-gs5dk8.html

 

[TEDDY24INC]

Now instead of getting Delidio and a pick for Caddy we look like getting pick 27.
FFS, why did we *** around playing games. Saying he wasn't going anywhere etc.
Just cost us a good player.

Settle down, that will not be the trade, we hold all the cards in any caddy trade

 

[Black Saab]

Give us a first and second round pick and find out for yourself.

Would you offer the same for him going the other way?

 

[Jhye Clark 13]

Everyone suggesting Carlton will be bottom 2 and we'll be top 4 again... on what basis?

Carlton beat us easily this year and we've been weakened considerably and we haven't improved our list. We'll finish in the bottom half of the 8 and Carlton around 10th-14th.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Missing out here JUBJUB melts galore...

 

[krisholio14]

I'm prepared to bet good money Caddy will be wearing #23 for Geelong next year.

 

[bulletproof]

What will irritate me greatly if this does eventuate, is if Geelong tries to claim that Caddy wanted to go and they just did the best they could in that situation. Geelong created this whole situation with the absurd persuit of Deledio.

They have clearly made a few errors this trade period, the first being overestimating Motlop's worth.

But it is not too late to get out of it unscathed.

Hope Scott is on the phone to recruiting team tonight.

 

[Black Saab]

Before he hurt his knee and missed 7 weeks his numbers in 2016 were A grade. Yeah, he can be that good, and at 24 he will only get more consistent.

Blimey, didn't realise. Do you think his game suffered because of his knee or because the whole team weren't clicking not just him (despite the fact Geelong had a very good year)

 

[Jeff76]

Tigers super keen on Caddy.
They'll be throwing picks 15 & 24 as minimum to just get it done.

Reckon ya right apart from pick15, not a chance in hell Geelong score that.