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People have been quick to assume the Macpherson deal is 19 for a future 3rd rounder, but given his contract only runs another year and we are keen to get into this year’s draft, I wonder whether it might actually be a future second? I’d have thought they could get a better deal than our future 3rd. Then again, I suspect it has to be a VIC club with cap space which narrows it down a bit….
Maybe GC have told him his opportunities will be limited or he's just happy to come back to Victoria.Probably. But we would be offering more than 1 year imo.
Or he would just stay with the GC.
Worst manager in the world then.Maybe GC have told him his opportunities will be limited or he's just happy to come back to Victoria.
We should be giving a future 4th then if he is taking a list spot for 2 years.Worst manager in the world then.
They will use the move to get more years 100%
Probably not on the same pay rate though.
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future 3rd or we don't pay any of his wage.We should be giving a future 4th then if he is taking a list spot for 2 years.
I doubt we get one.when do we get our compo pick for being crap for the past two years?
Tend to agree but with that we still have to be smart they could easily turn around and offer it to someone else. Pick 19 could and will be very valuable one would think. We just need to play it smart. I would imagine the people in charge will know how to play it right.future 3rd or we don't pay any of his wage.
They still need the list spot.
Pay the full wage if we get a draft pick improvement.
You mean finishing on or near the bottom of the ladder do you.when do we get our compo pick for being crap for the past two years?
I feel for the kid if this is the case. Imagine being a player that your club paid to get off their books, and your new club is just waiting to delist you or pay to retire. Good coin, yes, but could be devastating to a young person.
Negative. Had a fracture in his leg in the 2018 season. Missed most of the year with that.I could be wrong. But if memory serves me correctly, Didn’t Macpherson do a ACL after his break out season?
So what your saying is... seeing as he had a "break out year in 2019" we should break his leg when he gets to the club so he has a ripping 2022/3?Negative. Had a fracture in his leg in the 2018 season. Missed most of the year with that.
Can’t see how if it’s a salary dump it’s not a future third.
Exactly. No reason we can’t be the beneficiary of the AF's GC boner occasionally.If it helps stop an exodus next season, all in the AFL's best interest. They'll find a way.
Played his juniors at Diamond Creek.Well yeah I guess , where’s he from ?
Every decision the new administration makes appears to place us slightly ahead of the curve in my opinion.
1. We trade out Ben Brownand then we don't take Logan Mcdonanld and get unfairly battered for it, but only 6 months later we nab a potential top 10 draft pick in Jacob Edwards for nothing and sign CCJ for approx. pick 40.PLAYERCARDSTART50Ben Brown
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- 10.7
- 3star
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- 7.7
- 3star
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- 3.0
- 3star
- M
- 4.8
- 5star
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- 1.2
- 3star
- G
- 2.2
- 5star
- D
- 7.9
- 2star
- K
- 6.3
- 3star
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- 1.6
- 1star
- M
- 3.7
- 4star
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- 0.9
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- G
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- D
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- 3.4
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2. Keep a heap of salary cap free which we are able to leverage into an improved draft position with what i think is a simply brilliant piece of trading should it come off. McPherson is a high pressure, high tackling small forward and a good citizen, we don't have many small forwards and he may be able to fill a void for a season or two.
3. The Stevo deal was pure genius, it's been well documented but our ability to make that deal was another great piece of work.
4. The Lachie Youngdeal seemed to exploit a loop hole in the rules that no one knew about, not sure he's going to make it but its another example of being ahead of the game.PLAYERCARDSTART17Lachie Young
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- MG
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I am very interested to see what they do with picks 19 and 20. The lads are on fire at the moment.
Who knows that macpherson wasnt on our radar already? Its a good deal, and clever list management. If they can pull it off for a future 3rd then Brady walks on waterwe are getting 19 for paying $500k to McPherson and freeing up list spot at gold coast, it has to be a future 3rd, unless we think McPherson played really well against us once, and may do it again.
And I would like one more shake of the tree to see if the cap forces anyone else out... who is there that is tight Coll, certainly mention not out of the woods, syd but losing Dawson might have relieved theirs
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There is a distinct possibility MacPherson spend more than a couple years on our list.Every decision the new administration makes appears to place us slightly ahead of the curve in my opinion.
1. We trade out Ben Brown and then we don't take Logan Mcdonanld and get unfairly battered for it, but only 6 months later we nab a potential top 10 draft pick in Jacob Edwards for nothing and sign CCJ for approx. pick 40.
2. Keep a heap of salary cap free which we are able to leverage into an improved draft position with what i think is a simply brilliant piece of trading should it come off. McPherson is a high pressure, high tackling small forward and a good citizen, we don't have many small forwards and he may be able to fill a void for a season or two.
3. The Stevo deal was pure genius, it's been well documented but our ability to make that deal was another great piece of work.
4. The Lachie Young deal seemed to exploit a loop hole in the rules that no one knew about, not sure he's going to make it but its another example of being ahead of the game.
I am very interested to see what they do with picks 19 and 20. The lads are on fire at the moment.
Not only that, but such a trade says to a young player like Mahoney ....I know we gave you alot of games to develop this year but we actually believe THE ZIEBELL and we think you are crap and we are going to bring in a bloke who cant get a kick at the Gold Coast to take your spot because he played a few good games 3 years ago.I don't know enough about him to judge. But if anyone wants to give me half a million for that indignity then where do I sign up? :stern look
I can see us doing that trade for a future 3rd if we thought he was dead weight. But, as Fluffy said, our list space is tight. I think it would be pretty harsh to tell someone like Dumont or Atley that they have no future at the club... but we are going to give half a million to someone for a year to sit on the list so we can bring a 2022 pick forward and upgrade it a few places.
My gut feel is they think they have a strong chance of turning the kid around so we get the added benefit of the pick and a refurbished player. It would be pretty cold to boot a loyal player for something minor.
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11 for 19 and 20 doesn't seem quite worth it for us.![]()
Pies’ plot to solve AFL’s toughest trade dilemma; Bombers reveal top priority: Trade Whispers
Pies’ plot to solve AFL’s toughest trade dilemma; Bombers reveal top priority: Trade Whisperswww.foxsports.com.au
Essendon is eyeing multiple picks inside the top 25 of the draft, believing there’s a large group of talented players in the back half of the first round.
It could require them to trade down from pick 11 to acquire multiple selections, given they don’t have another pick until 48, and there are no notable players seeking trades away from the Bombers who would warrant a top-25 pick in return.
“The work that Rob Forster (national recruiting manager), Adrian Dodoro (list manager), and I have done on the draft, we’d like to have a few more picks,” Essendon GM of footy Josh Mahoney told 3AW’s Sportsday.
“We’ll try to get involved in some potential opportunities there.
“We think there’s a good group of players between the 10-25 (pick) mark, so if we can get a few players through that, I think it can add to the three first-rounders we brought in last year.”
Three clubs have two top-25 selections that both sit below Essendon’s pick 11 - Brisbane (14 and 18), Gold Coast (19 and 22) and Hawthorn (21 and 24).
The Bombers selected three players in the first round of last year’s draft - for the first time in club history - adding Archie Perkins, Nik Cox and Zach Reid