Review 2017 Free Agency & Trade Period

What type of player do we need most? (Whether mature or rookie age)

  • A tall forward

    Votes: 103 57.9%
  • An inside midfielder

    Votes: 44 24.7%
  • An outside midfielder

    Votes: 4 2.2%
  • A half back

    Votes: 15 8.4%
  • A small forward

    Votes: 7 3.9%
  • A ruckman

    Votes: 5 2.8%

  • Total voters
    178

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Eski3

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Weller would be a top 10 pick in his own right this year, but he's also had 3 years of development that shows his ability and would be guaranteed to stay in Gold Coast. They would take him with pick 2.
 

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Honestly, based on this year's draft compared to Weller's draft year, he'd be in the zone for our pick 5.
Somewhere in the top 10 yeah but not pick 2. GC should have arranged something in the top 10 and then come to us. WC would have parted with 13 for some lower picks, they should have inquired there. While I don't think pick 2 is right, junk 2nd rounders isn't either.
 

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Somewhere in the top 10 yeah but not pick 2. GC should have arranged something in the top 10 and then come to us. WC would have parted with 13 for some lower picks, they should have inquired there. While I don't think pick 2 is right, junk 2nd rounders isn't either.
I don't think you realise how shitty this year's draft is
 

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we can play hard ball as much as we like but weller wants to be in the Gold Coast and if it comes down to it we will go the right thing by him. Will accept a half decent deal. If it gets to next year and we have Melbourne clubs banging on the door won’t make a difference we will do the right thing by the player
 

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we can play hard ball as much as we like but weller wants to be in the Gold Coast and if it comes down to it we will go the right thing by him. Will accept a half decent deal. If it gets to next year and we have Melbourne clubs banging on the door won’t make a difference we will do the right thing by the player
Idk. If we did that then apparently we would be "silly", so maybe we'd be "silly" again and not do the right thing.
 

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we can play hard ball as much as we like but weller wants to be in the Gold Coast and if it comes down to it we will go the right thing by him. Will accept a half decent deal. If it gets to next year and we have Melbourne clubs banging on the door won’t make a difference we will do the right thing by the player
Couldn't give a toss about Weller. Don't mind being nice when your dealing with low picks for Balic/Crozier but hardball for your life when it's dealing with the first round. Club before player.
 

Big Flappy

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we can play hard ball as much as we like but weller wants to be in the Gold Coast and if it comes down to it we will go the right thing by him. Will accept a half decent deal. If it gets to next year and we have Melbourne clubs banging on the door won’t make a difference we will do the right thing by the player
Ask for overs this year.

Or good trade chip next year. Might get less but gives us flexibility to upgrade our first pick into the King/Lukosious/Rankine/Hill territory. Get us another asset to get Carter. Give us a year to convince Weller and his gf to stay. Weller might even bust out and be worth even more. (a lot can happen in a year)

No rush on this one.
 
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