I've got north_lad's absolute epic description
Every time I read that I laugh.
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I've got north_lad's absolute epic description
I live for this thread every year but there’s bigger waste of bandwidth than our discussions in it.
But seriously I like Sam Weideman and he might be gettable.
Port Adelaides.
We had no idea he could play forward probably but Finlayson is a gun.
Yes this has escalated very quickly - that journo saying he was shopped a few weeks back may have been close to the mark.
Looks like a deal is done and just needs formal inking.
The rumours of 2 (albeit late) firsts from the Lions has the most credibility - both from their side and ours.
4 first rounders is what the doctor ordered for us - it will be say 4, 6, 14, 16......which will enable us to - at last - really hit the draft hard with 3 mids and a kpd.
I'd like to know a bit more about Polec though...what is the true story there I wonder.
Hmm I've got some doubts on that, going the full rebuild and trading him out for picks sounds appealing for the long term, but would we really go into next season with Larkey as our only recognised key forward? I guess it could work if we put Daw or Walker up forward with Larkey, they seem to be better defenders than forwards though...
If we were looking to get someone in to replace him, it'd cost us dearly to find someone to replace a bloke who kicked 60+ goals last three years. Albeit, so far this year, he hasn't been very effective
If we were looking to trade him, that is the exact reason that we would be doing it.
I’m still in the two first round picks for the guy who has kicked more goals than anyone else in the league over the last three years.
One of those picks under 10.
Not actively, no.You just wouldn't trade him unless he was asking for OTT coin.
Not actively, no.
But you’d consider it if you got overs from a desperate, think-they’re-in-the premiership-window club.
I very much doubt that would occur, and there's the fabric of the club to consider. It's sets a shithouse agenda if clubs traded out blokes based upon such a premise.
Ben just needs a point of difference in the forward line to get the double team off him.
You just wouldn't trade him unless he was asking for OTT coin.
I think the factor that we need to consider in this thread is the financial one. Revenue is down, and debt is up. In that environment - and given we're rebuilding anyway - assuming we could get two draft picks for BBB, we take quality kids from the draft, at a cost of (plus or minus) a third of what BBB's 700-800k in the first year (presumably of a min. 3 year deal). On the same logic, even if we had to pay half of Polec or Goldy or Higgins' contracts, second or third rounders for each would have to be considered (preferably for picks in 2021, which would push the wages cost out another year). With list sizes being cut, you then top up with moneyball options where you see a structural gap in the list.
People mightn't like it, but I bet Brady and Amarfio are having this conversation