It's a bit of sobering reality that in our 25 years, almost all big names have failed to deliver - Hogan being the last. (Let's hope Luke Jackson bucks the trend).
I'm confident that at the very least, short of going back to Vic for some reason (he wont given how much he wanted to come back), he'll at least play a decade of footy for us, only question is just how good that decade + of footy is. That's more than you can say for all our other big name recruits
Modra seems a good one, I was too young to be invested enough in the story behind Croad and Tarrant but didnt we basically just force other clubs to send those players over by dropping our pants at the trade table. The general feel I've had on those trades were that neither actually wanted to join us, we just made offers too good for anyone to refuse for at least one contract
id def agree that Treacy should play AFL this year and i expect him to as well, but if last year was any indication, Amiss is basically first in, he may be skinny but the club obviously thinks hes capable of playing AFL
tbf Neale was the star he is now when traded (although thats mostly because he played for freo), daniher was what 3? years out of playing any meaningful footy, and Dunkley has been pretty much 3rd fiddle in that dogs midfield for some time
who do you trade out to bring in an A level talent though?
Yeah but all three are pretty big names to get to your club if not connected to your state in anyway
Lol Amiss is ahead of Treacy and is on a trajectory to be a 50 even 60+ goal a year KPF in a few years time. Amiss must stay in the side as much as I love Treacy.
Bell just said we have turned things around and have a great cultute + success which will incentivize players to make the move. Daniels than asked about all the WA boys OOC like Naughton. I don't think it's implied we are after anyone, rather we are always in contact with player managers.
Daniher very specifically wanted to get out of a "football state" from memory.
Dont need to imply we are after anyone, every club is always looking to trade players in, that's a given. Daniels asked about Naughton and Georgiades specifically then Bell said "we are having people ask about moving to WA and joining Freo now"
Ideally at this stage of our cycle it would be picks, but I assume like every year we're going to have players wanting to move again next season. Itt seems that is the way things are with list management, you might have to give something up you want to keep to improve your list because you can't have them all Vague rumours about Cox, Henry and Schultz have already started, I am not saying we want to lose any of these guys, but Melbourne didn't want to lose Jackson, we didn't want to lose Lobb. s**t happens.
Naughton is contracted until the end of 2024. If we try and get him this year he's going to cost a fortune. (In both picks and salary). Doesn't automatically mean we won't try but geez, the Dogs will want pretty bloody good compensation for him.
We literally even have all our valuable players signed up 2+ years.
Georgiades we could afford comfortably I think but not really the type of forward where I think would be worth it for our list.
Even forwards, are depth is ok. We just lack an A Grader.
