2023/2024 Gold Coast Draft & Trade periods

[RowellAnderson12]

As a Bombers man, I can't see any of our younger ones wanting out. We are looking for a key tall to go with Harrison Jones.



Any thoughts on Fiorini being traded? Has struggled to get games the last two years unless players are injured..

Probably a few weeks late now;

He was always happy to stay and finally getting his run now, he'll stay in for the rest of the year.

Matt Crouch is a restricted free agent, a better version of Fiorini i'm sure you could convince him

 

[kreglze]

I have been thinking with our search for a key forward. I was musing on my podcast last night about potentially promoting Burgess as that second tall that can back up Witts in the ruck for 2022.

His past couple of games have been good to very good, and has shown he can hit the score board and his ruck craft against fellow undersized rucks has been quite good.

Our forward line in 2022 would then have King, Burgess and Corbett lining up as the talls.

We would save on cap space and trade currency, and would allow us to focus on defence and midfield.

Thoughts? Or do we still need a CCJ as an example to step in who is 200cm plus?

 

[Suns of Anarchy]

Didn’t see the VFL game but saw Jeffrey kicked another 3 goals and Davies got 18 disposals and laid 8 tackles are they tracking well for debuts at the end of the year?

Jeffrey is a real athlete with X factor. Won’t need a heap of possessions to do some damage.
Davies has definitely developed since the start of the year.
I’d think Jeffrey is more of a chance to debut this year. Both really exciting prospects.

 

[OB11]

I think with injuries occurring to our midfield and Fiorini getting game time to showcase him I think it will be the perfect time to offload him. He's just not good enough to be best 22 - too slow, has no penetration by foot and has poor disposal and has no 2nd position. He finds the ball but does FA with it.

 

[SnusCG]

I think with injuries occurring to our midfield and Fiorini getting game time to showcase him I think it will be the perfect time to offload him. He's just not good enough to be best 22 - too slow, has no penetration by foot and has poor disposal and has no 2nd position. He finds the ball but does FA with it.

Jesus, the man had 25 touches, almost 500m gained and 9 tackles.

he’s playing a link in role perfectly and other than Touk we don’t have midfielders who can rack up lots of touches which we need.

we also don’t have anyone who could come in and beat his current output.

people are so quick to jump down list management for Lyons but seem way too enthusiastic to offload Fiorini and Brodie despite both having proved they can play well at AFL level.

 

[LiveTheDream73]

Jesus, the man had 25 touches, almost 500m gained and 9 tackles.

he’s playing a link in role perfectly and other than Touk we don’t have midfielders who can rack up lots of touches which we need.

we also don’t have anyone who could come in and beat his current output.

people are so quick to jump down list management for Lyons but seem way too enthusiastic to offload Fiorini and Brodie despite both having proved they can play well at AFL level.

So I also thought he was slow so was shocked to see Fiorini in the top few for average speeds and work rate from the game against GWS. Must have had the spinnaker up!


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[Mt Isa Mustang]

So I also thought he was slow so was shocked to see Fiorini in the top few for average speeds and work rate from the game against GWS. Must have had the spinnaker up!


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Lowest TOG of everyone on the ground.

Think his top speed would be one of the worst on our list.

Can obviously keep the legs rolling over.

it’s the lack of acceleration that hurts on game day.

 

[Mt Isa Mustang]

ESPN footy podcast (with guys from champion data) suggested that we should consider trading Izak Rankine

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Izak Rankine

Age

24

Ht

181cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

Fwd

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13.0

3star

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9.0

3star

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4.0

3star

M

2.7

3star

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2.7

4star

G

2.0

5star

D

13.0

3star

K

9.0

4star

HB

4.0

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

2.7

4star

G

2.0

5star

D

13.0

4star

K

9.0

4star

HB

4.0

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

2.7

5star

G

2.0

5star

.

Assumed that we cannot retain all our young players - mentioned Lukosius, Rowell, Ballard, Powell.
They said, as Izak just plays forward pocket, we should trade him - 'bring in big value' and in the process - retain the rest of our youngsters.

hm.. how about no.

 

[Sunny_]

dafuq are these guys on

 

[CanYouFeelTheSunburn]

Who is excited about having Jye Lockett (nephew of Tony "Plugger" Lockett) tied to our academy? If he is even half of the player that Tony was we will have one heck of a player on our hands!

 

[CommittedSuns]

Who is excited about having Jye Lockett (nephew of Tony "Plugger" Lockett) tied to our academy? If he is even half of the player that Tony was we will have one heck of a player on our hands!

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I was earlier in the season but our academy players have been very quiet. I was certain Lockett and Steven’s were a couple of tall forwards that would have been great fixes on our list… now I’m not too sure

 

[Supersuns]

Lockett is not going to be drafted. Didn't make the allies squad, isn't dominating at NAB level either.

 

[Brenton87]

ESPN footy podcast (with guys from champion data) suggested that we should consider trading Izak Rankine.

Assumed that we cannot retain all our young players - mentioned Lukosius, Rowell, Ballard, Powell.
They said, as Izak just plays forward pocket, we should trade him - 'bring in big value' and in the process - retain the rest of our youngsters.

hm.. how about no.

For the first time since i can remember all these young Suns players seem to be 100% invested in the team, i know it probably seems hard for external parties to fathom but I can this whole squad sticking together for a long time.

 

[kreglze]

Bella looking like a better tall academy option at the moment.

 

[SunnerSS]

Last night's GCSUNSCAST mitch cleary suggested suns should go all in for Talia from crows. Currently out of contract. Should be a unrestricted free agent. Thoughts?

 

[Supersuns]

Bella looking like a better tall academy option at the moment.

Bella definitely the best chance, good contested mark and already has some decent leading patterns/forward craft.
Will be a longer term project I think but definitely worth a punt

 

[CanYouFeelTheSunburn]

Last night's GCSUNSCAST mitch cleary suggested suns should go all in for Talia from crows. Currently out of contract. Should be a unrestricted free agent. Thoughts?

I’ve had a look and he seems to be the only KPD on the market at this stage it wouldn’t be a bad idea as long as it’s for the right price, we are desperate for another big body down back to compliment Sam Collins but we have to bear in mind that we still have to re-sign a bunch of our young guns. Our cap is tight so it would have to be a team friendly deal. It will be interesting to see how creative we can get this off season.

 

[SandyToes]

Fiorini seems to be a really popular member of the playing group
He and Ellis seem close and he turns up in just about every group social media post

 

[Suns of Anarchy]

Last night's GCSUNSCAST mitch cleary suggested suns should go all in for Talia from crows. Currently out of contract. Should be a unrestricted free agent. Thoughts?

Mentioned a while ago we should look at either Talia or Tarrant short term.

 

[SUN OF A GUN]

Lockett is not going to be drafted. Didn't make the allies squad, isn't dominating at NAB level either.

True. Word is that the Academy not impressed that he left to play in Vic.

Not really the tall forward we need either at his height…


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[Supersuns]

True. Word is that the Academy not impressed that he left to play in Vic.

Not really the tall forward we need either at his height…


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189cm playing as a CHF in u/19s. Not a Corbett type runner or contested marking machine either. Dont see how he fits into an AFL at all.

 

[CommittedSuns]

Saw on Fox Sports today we are keen on Oliver Hanrahan

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Oliver Hanrahan

Age

25

Ht

181cm

Wt

75kg

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Fwd

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12.7

3star

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7.2

3star

HB

5.5

4star

M

2.6

3star

T

0.8

3star

G

0.7

4star

D

11.8

3star

K

6.5

3star

HB

5.3

3star

M

1.8

2star

T

0.5

1star

G

0.5

4star

D

12.6

4star

K

7.4

3star

HB

5.2

4star

M

3.6

4star

T

1.6

4star

G

1.2

4star

from the Hawks

 

[kreglze]

Saw on Fox Sports today we are keen on Oliver Hanrahan from the Hawks

Weird really. Doesn't seem to be doing much at the Hawks.

 

[CommittedSuns]

Weird really. Doesn't seem to be doing much at the Hawks.

Doesn’t seem like a need of ours either

 

[Southern Sun]

Just a thought, what if we could lose the salaries of Brodie and fiorini and put that into matt crouch

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Matt Crouch

Age

29

Ht

183cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

Mid

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28.4

5star

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12.0

4star

HB

16.4

5star

M

3.3

3star

T

3.9

5star

CL

4.8

5star

D

24.9

5star

K

9.7

4star

HB

15.1

5star

M

2.4

3star

T

2.4

3star

CL

4.4

5star

D

21.2

5star

K

10.4

4star

HB

10.8

5star

M

4.4

4star

T

3.4

5star

CL

2.0

4star

. His value may have dropped a bit this year but he has been a very good player who finds the ball. Averages over 28 touches a game over his career and at the age of 26 is in that window we're looking at