Bryce Gibbs staying at Carlton - Silvagni in the no blinking zone

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The mistake you are making is thinking Lyons is a fringe player.

He has been lowballed because we know we need to lose a player and unfortunately we have too many of his type. He wants to stay and lowballing him is our only leverage.

He was a regular 22 player in a side that finished 6th, we aren't talking about a guy who came in and out of the side or is coming from a bottom team.

You need to have a look at his stats for the year, they were quite good and he also knows how to kick a goal.

He would easily finish in the top 10 of your B&F and figure highly.

Add that to a quality player you could pick up at 13 and you guys aren't being lowballed.
Look at what we are giving up. Gibbs has had 20+ disposals for the last 9 seasons. Lyons at 24 has done it once. That doesn't make him a proven commodity yet. Also a quality player at 13 is a 50/50 proposition.

You are getting more guarantees than you are giving up.
 

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He wants go. Damage done. Let him go. I am happy to step back next year in wins if I can see the development of another 4-5 talented kids that will lead us back to the top. Pick 13 & a second rounder is fair

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Wants to go but, according to one of our inside posters, would be happy to stay. Adelaide thought they could play us for mugs. The deal should happen on our terms or not at all.

Two forst rounders, with a third going back their way.

If SOS allows the big interstate clubs to push us around now, what do you think happens 2-3 years fron now when Cripps is sick of being a one man band and WCE/Freo come knocking?
 

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And that's why you should take him. You get 13 which will be a young quality mid and someone who will be a valuable contributor in your midfield.
Nah, we're after something more in exchange for one of our best mids.

Stop saying #13 will be a young quality mid. You have no way of guaranteeing that. We all know that pick #13 is a 50/50 prospect and Lyons has taken 6 years to break 50 games.

ODN said it best, you're bringing in more guarantee then you're letting go of. So how is that suitable for us?
 

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Look at what we are giving up. Gibbs has had 20+ disposals for the last 9 seasons. Lyons at 24 has done it once. That doesn't make him a proven commodity yet. Also a quality player at 13 is a 50/50 proposition.

You are getting more guarantees than you are giving up.
Lyons never achieved that before this year because of the bloody subvest and our own coaches preference to play ordinary senior players like Wright.

His first year of getting a decent go and he achieves an average over 20 and this is with us giving preference to playing Thommo in he middle. With more time in the middle do you expect his output to go backwards?

As for 13, it's supposed to be a decent draft. Surely you'd back your recruiters to get it right? What pick was Cripps?
 
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Lyons never achieved that before this year because of the bloody subvest and our own coaches preference to play ordinary senior players.

His first year of getting a decent go and he achieves an average over 20 and this is with us giving preference to playing Thommo in he middle. With more time in the middle do you expect his output to go backwards?

As for 13, it's supposed to be a decent draft. Surely you'd back your recruiters to get it right? What pick was Cripps?
Whatever the reason for Lyons' late development, it happened at Adelaide. It's not a factor Carlton have to buy into, just a sales pitch.

Cripps was our most astute/fortunate selection ever. Still a lot of hit and miss in this draft range.
 

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Whatever the reason for Lyons' late development, it happened at Adelaide. It's not a factor Carlton have to buy into, just a sales pitch.

Cripps was our most astute/fortunate selection ever. Still a lot of hit and miss in this draft range.
And Crippa fell due to injury.

FWIW, I'm over the Gibbs saga. Give me 13, Lyons and Grigg. Keep 25 and move on. Though, I'd love Gibbs and 25 for the Crouch brothers.
 

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Nah, we're after something more in exchange for one of our best mids.

Stop saying #13 will be a young quality mid. You have no way of guaranteeing that. We all know that pick #13 is a 50/50 prospect and Lyons has taken 6 years to break 50 games.

ODN said it best, you're bringing in more guarantee then you're letting go of. So how is that suitable for us?
with carlton's recruiting form pick 13 could be a Kane lucas, if the crows are happy to give a guarantee it will be a quality mid, id be happy to take the swap straight up. lets say 10 brownlow votes in first 4 years or crows give us 2020 pick 13 or better.
 
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Lyons never achieved that before this year because of the bloody subvest and our own coaches preference to play ordinary senior players like Wright.

His first year of getting a decent go and he achieves an average over 20 and this is with us giving preference to playing Thommo in he middle. With more time in the middle do you expect his output to go backwards?

As for 13, it's supposed to be a decent draft. Surely you'd back your recruiters to get it right? What pick was Cripps?
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Lyons never achieved that before this year because of the bloody subvest and our own coaches preference to play ordinary senior players like Wright.

His first year of getting a decent go and he achieves an average over 20 and this is with us giving preference to playing Thommo in he middle. With more time in the middle do you expect his output to go backwards?

As for 13, it's supposed to be a decent draft. Surely you'd back your recruiters to get it right? What pick was Cripps?
Lyons is a below average player. That is an objective assessment based on the below average salary AFC have offered him. AFC know him better than you, and me, and declare him to be below average.
 

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Lyons never achieved that before this year because of the bloody subvest and our own coaches preference to play ordinary senior players like Wright.

His first year of getting a decent go and he achieves an average over 20 and this is with us giving preference to playing Thommo in he middle. With more time in the middle do you expect his output to go backwards?

As for 13, it's supposed to be a decent draft. Surely you'd back your recruiters to get it right? What pick was Cripps?
Jordan Doring got 20 touches per game... when Gibbs gets it, things happen, ie goals get kicked
 
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Next AFC poster who tries to talk up Lyons should be carded. Waste of time. Not interested. No matter how they try to talk him up they can't actually disguise that their own club offered him a below average salary, yet can apparently sweeten BGs 600K salary.
But but he's better than an ordinary senior player like Wright.

Have to give Lyons some credit. After all, he used to wear the sub-vest. :p
 

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Lyons is a below average player. That is an objective assessment based on the below average salary AFC have offered him. AFC know him better than you, and me, and declare him to be below average.
its a given that Lyons is a jet...
there is two plausable explanations why the Crows offered him peanuts:
1. they have a cap squeeze going on and couldn't possibly have room for a bloke on 600K
2. they have been low balling him all year to get him primed to trade out, as they have been working on bringing home a gun mid all year...
 

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I would be happy to take Lyons, as long as we also received Couch and 13 for Gibbs on his own:)

On a serious note, I would be happy with either of these 2 deals:

Gibbs + 45 for Couch + 13 + 2017 2nd rounder

Or

Gibbs + 58 for Atkins +13 + 2017 2nd rounder
 

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TBH I don't want Gibbs at our club next year. I will be disappointed if is.
Going by the rage he has had hurled at him in autopsy threads over the past decade (myself included) it would seem most posters have got what they wanted. Something about careful what you wish for......
 
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with carlton's recruiting form pick 13 could be a Kane lucas, if the crows are happy to give a guarantee it will be a quality mid, id be happy to take the swap straight up. lets say 10 brownlow votes in first 4 years or crows give us 2020 pick 13 or better.
You'd want pick #13 and a talented youngster or another 1st rounder out of it.

Having 2 cracks at a 50/50 prospect we should nail one of them. If we don't, that's our fault.

Having a 50/50 prospect and a talented youngster, well if the pick doesn't work, at least we still have a talented kid who could be a decent player.

Getting a 50/50 prospect along with a 24 year old who's struggled to break 50 games means that he hasn't shown much and if we stuff the pick up we've totally lost out on losing Gibbs.
 

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It's a risk for us. Brad Pearce ... Nick Duigan, one season out of the box at a mature age. Then faded out.
I reckon that's the case too with Lyons. The Crows would know better than us and even they have lowballed him. Lyons with a 50/50 prospect is definitely not enough.
 
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