List Mgmt. 2017 Trade & Free Agency Watch Part 2

Which Of These Talls Would You Rather

  • Sam Reid

  • Levi Casboult

  • Jackson Trengove

  • Harrison Himmelberg

  • Steven May

  • Daniel McStay

  • Eric Hipwood

  • Jonathan Freeman

  • Jack Repath

  • Other


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Grrr

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Some people seem to be unaware of the sizes of Callum Moore and Jake Stringer and what role they play. Both are 192-193cm, medium sized, 3rd forwards.
Moore was 193cm when drafted, reckon he might a little more now, but has great springs. Not saying using him as a ruck, just occasional relief, better than Grigg, but easily big enough for CHF.
 

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The AFL have said they'll pay him if he stays and 500k is an awful lot but moving to a big Melbourne club also increases his marketability and helps him increase revenues outside of footy.

If he came to us, pies, bombers or blues and won a premiership he'd make more over his lifetime then staying at GC and taking 500k extra a year.

Plus the ultimate goal in footy is to win a premiership, GC will not win one in his time. He could quite conceivably decide that he'd rather a premiership over cash and he is not the only player to make that choice. It's not like he won't be on over a mill a year in Melbourne anyway.
I'm more cynical than that. I think the AFL will be having a quiet word with any club that gets close to a deal. They can't allow clubs to continue to poach players from the Gold Coast. The AFL has a long term (20 year) plan for these clubs. They will spend hundreds of millions to make it successful. In the next few years, I expect to see an influx of proven talent (23-26 years in age) headed to the Gold Coast. Everyone will ask how they did it. Nobody will be able to provide an answer. The AFL will be silent.

I might be wrong about Tom Lynch. I'm confident that I understand the AFL and how they run their business.

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I'm more cynical than that. I think the AFL will be having a quiet word with any club that gets close to a deal. They can't allow clubs to continue to poach players from the Gold Coast. The AFL has a long term (20 year) plan for these clubs. They will spend hundreds of millions to make it successful. In the next few years, I expect to see an influx of proven talent (23-26 years in age) headed to the Gold Coast. Everyone will ask how they did it. Nobody will be able to provide an answer. The AFL will be silent.

I might be wrong about Tom Lynch. I'm confident that I understand the AFL and how they run their business.

Cheers.

Dave P.
You're probably right, they've invested too much to give up now
But if Tom (or more likely his gf/wife if he has one!) is desperate enough to forego $2m+ to move back to his home state than there's probably not much the AFL can do about that. Other than throw even more hidden money at him I guess...
 

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wouldn't mind stringer bruce/bt would jizz their pants when martin kicks to riewoldt who taps to rioli who handballs over his head to the package who kicks one around the corner. worth it just for the commentator lols
 

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I'm more cynical than that. I think the AFL will be having a quiet word with any club that gets close to a deal. They can't allow clubs to continue to poach players from the Gold Coast. The AFL has a long term (20 year) plan for these clubs. They will spend hundreds of millions to make it successful. In the next few years, I expect to see an influx of proven talent (23-26 years in age) headed to the Gold Coast. Everyone will ask how they did it. Nobody will be able to provide an answer. The AFL will be silent.

I might be wrong about Tom Lynch. I'm confident that I understand the AFL and how they run their business.

Cheers.

Dave P.
You can't make Lynch do something he doesn't want too and if he sees no future for the club he'll walk. The AFL can tell clubs to back off but every club will ignore that when Toms manager is knocking on their door he is the ideal player, a big power forward with proven leadership abilities, clean cut rep like Cotchin and highly marketable.

Sure the AFL will throw money at players but they've been doing that since the inception of both expansion clubs and failed to get much elite talent up there.
 

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Others think a player's height alone determines his position. Moore has a great leap. He's a KPP. (Same height as Michael Roach and Nick Riewoldt, by the way.)
They wouldn't be KPP's in most forward lines, but in ours, currently, they certainly are. All depends if we still view the CHF spot as a "need" and consider that a role for a tall Fwd/Ruck type.

We don't want to burn out Nank, but I certainly think after another pre-season he'd be able to handle the Ruck full time, with an occasional chop out, more often.

I would def be having a crack at stringer but only if he's interested in becoming a midfielder first and forward second and not the other way round.
Would love to see Dusty, Stringer and Caddy rotate between Fwd-Mid together. Dangerous. Maybe unstoppable.
 

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As much as I would love to add Rockliff, I think if we added him our midfield would become too slow. I would prefer we add an outside mid such as Kelly or Whitfield who could play on the wing all day and be our link between defence/attack.


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Schache + Rockliff deal would be awesome.

Thing is people keep talking about trading 2 firsts + player for Lynch etc. We could just as easily trade the firsts + plyer for picks that get the job done. this year it seems there are plenty of clubs willing to trade. So if we can fit the pieces together properly, we can land a big fish (or two just large ones).

Lynch is probably too much. But if we bundled firsts from this year and next etc etc we might get the sort of deal that GC would say yes to. Next year they get one pick. And they have the risk that they have way too much talent to stay crap. If they can get their sh*t together they are mid table, maybe even sneak into the 8. Lot to ask I know. But a new coach and they might get there. So next year or 2019 they have the risk of getting compo that isn't all that good for Lynch. Balancing that with a nice haul right here and now, if Lynch is wanting to go, would be an interesting thing to have to work through. Still with Gil dropping a heap of $ to have him stay at GC, I suspect he isn't going anywhere.

This could be a very interesting trade period. Lots of moving parts, and an increasing willingness (apparently) for many clubs to wheel and deal in 2018.
 

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You can't make Lynch do something he doesn't want too and if he sees no future for the club he'll walk. The AFL can tell clubs to back off but every club will ignore that when Toms manager is knocking on their door he is the ideal player, a big power forward with proven leadership abilities, clean cut rep like Cotchin and highly marketable.

Sure the AFL will throw money at players but they've been doing that since the inception of both expansion clubs and failed to get much elite talent up there.
Sounds reasonable. He might go. I'd suggest he's more likely to stay, and have a bunch of talented young players join him up there.

I wonder if Paul Roos might end up as Director of Football at the Gold Coast? It's a bit closer to Hawaii than Melbourne...

Cheers.

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As much as I would love to add Rockliff, I think if we added him our midfield would become too slow. I would prefer we add an outside mid such as Kelly or Whitfield who could play on the wing all day and be our link between defence/attack.


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Whitfield - drool. Would love to have him at Richmond in 2018. Word was that he was going to Hawthorn, but I understand he signed a two year extension with GWS earlier this year.

Hard to trade with GWS though - what do you give the girl who has everything?

Cheers.

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Shits me to tears. A player like Stringer, the kid could kick 50 plus year in year out and be and absolute jet. Why do they have these bloody attitude figjam issues.

He would be unbelievable at our club, him and Duz in the forward line would kick 100 between them. But if he doesn't bring a good attitude then he can **** right off. Attitude is everything.

If stringer had the attitude of Kane Lambert he would be a Brownlow medalist
 
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