List Mgmt. 2016 Trade/FA Thread 2.0: Ahern (pg168); Hrovat (pg252); Williams (pg270)

the Ziebull

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we should do Hansen or future 3rd round pick for Hrovat

then shut up shop unless we can snag the so called big fish we have been after at the last minute
 

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While I'm not at all pissed off about us missing out on a "big fish", I am pretty disappointed that we will only have one top 25 pick in this years draft. With the likes of (maybe) Petrevski-Seton, Taranto or Scrimshaw available at 11 it would have been great to find a way to get another 1-2 picks in that range and get a combination of Venables, Florent, Simpkin and Cox as well. With our need for pacey, skilled midfielders this is literally the perfect draft for us to attack, yet instead it looks like we'll be going into next year with Hansen, Black, Thompson, Swallow and Tippett all still on the list. I know some of those guys have very little currency, but surely we could have at least traded Hansen/Thompson and Swallow in order to upgrade our early 30's picks to late teens/early 20's?

Also, I think we should have been looking closely at trading next year's picks, for example 2017 1st and pick 33 to Gold Coast for say picks 8 and 24? Gold Coast have so many picks this year and we need to get young talent in ASAP, that kind of pick would likely get us our Wellsy replacement in Petrevski-Seton. Now I'm not saying we haven't made any attempt, but you have to ask what our guys have been doing over the last 10 days if the only deal we get done is a late pick for Ahern (a deal which I am a big fan of btw).

So yeah, I guess with the term "aggressive reset" being thrown around and the potency of this years draft as well as the amount of talented players looking like they will slip through our fingers, i guess I feel pretty disappointed that our guys haven't made more of this opportunity. :(
That is exactly how I feel. Well put.
 
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Players nominating 'preferred clubs' should be stuffed off.
Yeah it's absolutely ridiculous. Players are given way too much power, especially having the ability of being able to reject trades to another club. The AFL should take a page out of the NBA and clubs should be able to trade players to whichever club without consent.
 
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Our issue is we want the best and offer nothing, will won't trade our first draft pick unless like last draft we get one back and don't believe it will impact on who we have the opportunity to select.

We expect the best but offer up dregs. Am sure our 'team' get their trade proposals off BF....


Hansen,Black, McKenzie and Mullet for pick 5 thanks.
Or

McKenzie, Mullett, Hansen and Black for pick 5 thanks.

We don't take risks like other clubs.



 

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Nice.

This will be our last trade. Pickett wanted to come to us with Ahern (opposite what was being reported) but we didn't want to offer a 2nd rounder for both Ahern/Pickett.
no mid table 2nd rounder for two early 1st round pick players 2 years ago? Sounds cheap.
 
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