Recent content by Hamsatma

I doubt it would happen too, but it is pretty similar to what we did with GWS for taranto and hopper (although perhaps freo would consider it a cautionary tale). Given where we're at we have to consider all options and there would certainly be positives in terms of bringing in young talent, but...

That is true although we did pick up most of our top guys before the expansion teams came in from 2006-09 (Jack, cotch, dusty, rance, grimes, edwards). Could be a similar situation now where we hit the draft hard in the next couple years before tassie joins

I wouldn't be surprised at all, to be honest I'd be more surprised if he went to a club like the gold coast. He did have a good relationship with Dimma it seemed but by the time he left it looks like a lot of those relationships were fairly frayed so there's no guarantee that the relationship is...

Overall a really gutsy performance which made for a great evening at the footy which I was pretty worried about after last week. Injuries and umps made it pretty tough for us but we could have pinched it at the end. Probably the most promising thing for me is that there is a lot of improvement...

Good players on that list but Taranto should really be 3 or 4

You would think that has to be the case, but from an outsider I just can't wrap my head around why you're not targeting a KPF in this draft? You seem to have heaps of talented mids even with JHF leaving but very light on KPPs, especially forward now that you got logue

Really don't like this for North. I understand not holding JHF, but their list is crying out for a key fwd and they have too many top 10 mids to fit in the team. They get the number 1 pick and they pass up a chance to get a gun forward for pick 3 and a future first from port (which likely won't...

Probably not that much but for the life of me I can't understand why they're not at least getting a late first. Surely the fact that half of Melbourne was falling over themselves trying to secure the deal should show that Bowes + 7 for a nothing pick is way too good of a deal

Not sure he's the profile you'd be after anyway? If it were a salary dump like bowes then absolutely but otherwise I'd think you're more focused on youth for the next year or two

I dunno I'm starting to get the sense that it's not a lock that this gets done. hope I'm wrong though

that's a good point which I hadn't considered. On the other hand, the way these long contracts work is that usually you're underpaying the player for the first few years and overpaying for the last few years. If a new Tassie team wanted to take a player who was towards the end of their contract...

Every time I look at rabbles like North (not entirely their fault) and the druggos (entirely their fault) I just feel more and more grateful to support a club like Richmond

I still think there's benefit in persisting with him, it would cost us virtually nothing to keep him so it would be worth it for the chance he comes good. Having said that, if we get taranto and hopper and an essendon or something comes to him and says you'll start most weeks I think it would be...

The Logue link was a strange one, I really rate him as a defender but I can't believe we'd be that confident in gibcus working forward that we'd bring him in? Also no idea how we'd get the deal done, but it is reassuring at least to see how confident we must be that we can get tarranto and...

I like Graham and think he has a pretty long future in the game and would be happy if that's with us. But if we're bringing in taranto and hopper and we decide that Graham is no longer best 22, I don't think we can afford to have his salary (~$500k) in the reserves given how tight our cap will...