Adelaide Trade Week Analysis

[crowman86]

McDermott also said in todays paper that the AFC should give up pick 14 for Jacobs and not muck around or they will be sorry.

Isnt sticks one of his best mates? Might have asked him nicely to put it out in the media again.

 

[kulak]

Really happy with both trades

 

[jenny61_99]

I think from memory his grandfather (?) has cancer (or otherwise pretty unwell) so more urgency than the usual.

His dad was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year (which is why he spent quite some time in Perth this year). His grandfather had a heart attack a couple of months ago.

 

[Vantz]

We over payed for Tambling and under payed for Jacobs.

If the trades had of been Tambling for 33 & 67 and Jacobs for Bock Compensation and 50, most people would think we had a good trade week.

 

[Elite Crow]

True

 

[FR0GGY]

Very happy with both trades, stoked we didnt give up pick 14, think RT and Jacobs can improve our side next year.

 

[aneale]

We over payed for Tambling and under payed for Jacobs.

If the trades had of been Tambling for 33 & 67 and Jacobs for Bock Compensation and 50, most people would think we had a good trade week.

i'm almost positive thats what Monday's deal was. And if it wasnt Tambling it was Walker.

Carlton dicked about and got burnt. plain and simple. we got 2 players we saw a need for and gave up the 4 picks we were prepared to give, and thats how i look at it.

 

[SebastianVettel]

If Jacobs and Tambling turn out to be great players for us, we can look back at our excellent use of the rookie list - and the success we've had with the current crop - as the reason why we were in a position to go and get them.

 

[dplggr47]

We over payed for Tambling and under payed for Jacobs.

If the trades had of been Tambling for 33 & 67 and Jacobs for Bock Compensation and 50, most people would think we had a good trade week.

pretty much to get both players, we would've had to give up those 4 picks anyway, so in the end, it doesn't make a difference to us, other than i'm glad the compo pick went to Richmond rather than Carlton, plus Richmond deserve the higher picks from us because Tambling was contracted and they were easier to deal with.

 

[Mismatched]

McDermott also said in todays paper that the AFC should give up pick 14 for Jacobs and not muck around or they will be sorry.

This is why McDermott writes for a paper as opposed to working for a football club, he really has no idea. Great player and leader certainly, not one of the better thinkers in the game though.

We over payed for Tambling and under payed for Jacobs.

If the trades had of been Tambling for 33 & 67 and Jacobs for Bock Compensation and 50, most people would think we had a good trade week.

Quite frankly I think its much or a muchness either way and not worth worrying about, certainly something we won't know for a year or so.

We were likely only going to take 2 picks into the draft anyway, so as long as we kept our first rounder the rest didn't really matter too much. It may turn out that Tambling is a dud and that we payed way too much, it may also turn out to be very much in our favour if Tambling were to find the form that saw him drafted so highly. If Tambling can refind the form he had in '09, then we've got ourselves a good deal, simple as that.

 

[Campbell's Chunky]

Filled our needs without paying too much and without giving away pick 14, so we have to be really happy I think.

I'd imagine the GC are going to pillage the first round for KPPs, so there should be a decent enough midfield talent there at 14.

Very happy with our business this week.

Sensational signature!!

 

[cmndstab]

If Jacobs and Tambling turn out to be great players for us, we can look back at our excellent use of the rookie list - and the success we've had with the current crop - as the reason why we were in a position to go and get them.

This is an excellent point, and one that probably won't be recognised by the footy media at large. It's all well and good to give away draft picks to get players, and if you want quality players, you need to give away quality draft picks - however, you are then stuck in the unenviable position of being required to delist players and fill those vacancies with late draft picks, unless you are able to do exactly what we did. We knew the rookie ugprade rules were changing, so we went out of our way to stack up on rookie picks in order to avoid that very situation.

Consequently, we were able to blow almost our entire stack on trades without being required to pick deep into the draft, using our superfluous picks as sweeteners and having no concern about what would be left over outside of the first round

 

[Elite Crow]

With the upgrade of the rookies and our trades, its not very often you can say you have added 5 players to your list that could all make a claim for spot in the 22. Assuming pick 14 is a quality midfielder thats potentially 6.

Over recent drafts we would be lucky if we had one draftee play more than a couple of games.

Now I know Jaensch and Henderson played this year, but they should both be aiming to play a full season.

Very successful preseason, especially if Jacobs pays off.

 

[The Sloane Ranger]

with the upgrade of our rookies it effectively means that we only paid a 2nd rounder for Jacobs

re Tambling, it would have been nice to keep pick 50 and pass on the Griffin pick as the sweetner however the Tarrant trade situation prevented this from happening, however MR seems confident that the player that we are targeting at pick 50 will still be their at pick 61

In summary, Tambling, Jacobs, Henderson, Jaensch and Thompson all added to the senior list with pick 14 (best midfielder) and pick 61 (sanfl mature recruit) to be added during the draft

overall a good week for the club

 

[The Sloane Ranger]

the bookies / betting markets have obviously rated our trade week

before trade week we were 34 / 1 for the 2011 flag, now the odds have been slashed to 17 / 1

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Adelaide also identified a need for another midfielder with extreme pace and they successfully lured Richard Tambling from Richmond. Richmond deserve some acolades here for putting a players career above perhaps their own immediate onfield needs.

We should have taken Franklin instead of Tambling.