just because he’s potentially available as a free agent doesn’t automatically make him a good choice. Depends what the end goal is. If we are thinking we can challenge next season, go for it. Get him in. Otherwise it’s a strange play.
No it isn’t, because he’ll play more than one season for us
You'd rather keep Dean on the list as our fullback? And have Frampton default best 22 unchallenged?
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We would want to be competing for finals to make that call.
You don’t like our recent defensive efforts…?
I think that’s generally the plan
Let the players go who are reported as not happy with their contracts if that’s try. Perfect timing to get some young blood in now. Trade them out for picks but no fly wants players.
I’d rather look to the draft and trade in younger talent if we can. Propping up the current side with middling defenders seems like a waste of a spot. It that’s just me. I’d rather find a young defender and give them experience while Moore and Maynard etc are still there to guide them.
Sometimes you need to go backwards a bit to go forwards.
With what picks? We need all the points this year for our 3 F/S NGA prospects.
Sure. But we don’t have our own first this year, and Silvagni is a free hit upgrade for our backline. We’ll add McCarthy, McGuane and maybe a kid or two more this year, but adding Silvagni (younger than Howe & Frampton) is a no brainer.
clearly we disagree on what a no brainer is. But I guess it depends on when you expect us go be relevant again. The oldest side ever is going to take some time to fix. I’m not sure Silvagni is the answer nor the smart play.
I don’t think it takes that long for well ran clubs like ours to retool on the fly
Maybe. But we are a level of old that has never been seen before. It suggests a lot more of a rebuild than any team has had to manage before.
We’ll be shedding some of the less useful old imminently, and are actively recruiting players to smooth the transition away from our better old players (Perryman & Silvagni in particular). I just don’t think a rebuild is what’s needed
Fair enough. I think it’s a bit more dire than that. But hopefully you’re right. Hopefully McInness can come back from his injury and stake a claim to that spot. But I dare say the injurys that the two of them have copped might make them unreliable members of the team at best.
yep, we are going to need "top end talent", that has to be the no 1 priority. Have people seen the look on nick daicos's face tonight. He was extremely frustrated that he had to do everything. He was also extremely frustrated with players being stagnant.
Seems we’ve come a full circle today…
buddy I understand you find our losing amusing, but I never said collingwood would never consider the possibility of trading them. Tonight just confirms that it is extremely likely that we will need to clean out players to bring in top end talent, and the players who request trades will more likely than not have it granted.
So did Cooper Murley
Mate I don’t find it amusing at all. I was very much hoping you’d win as I said in my earlier post, it stuffs our draft pick too.
