You know as well as I do that Yarran is not a "reserves" player. He may well be playing in the VFL at the moment, but at his best, which, given his age, is still to come, is an extremely effectively player at AFL level & this will be why your club, among others have been/will be sniffing around Yarran.
AFL clubs know his worth & there would be certain coaches who would fancy themself to get the best out of Yarran. In a side playing well, Yarran is the player who sets up much of the scoring opportunities.
FWIW, your club traded a 2nd round pick for another "reserves" player, Hampson & Yarran has already been a far better player than Hampson ever will be & is only just about to move into his peak years.
Richmond rarely trade out their 1st pick these days & Personally i wouldn't think they would be looking to trade it for yarran if thats his value for carlton most probably the trade wont happen.
Regards to trading for Hampson, I remember the same things were being said then and our supporters all thought a 2nd pick was too much - Yes it was too much and we did get rolled in that trade. Should never have been more than a 3rd rounder otherwise should have been left well alone
Yarran moving into his peak, we dont really know if that will ever happen to be honest , There are no guarantee's he will ever be more than what he is currently. And could just as easily go the other way as Tambling did - Its a risk.
I am a Yarran fan and probably similar to most carlton supporters on here get dazzled by the pace and 'sometimes' his skills, but as much as his skills are good there have been as many times where they are just horrible as well but the problem i find with yarran is that even in the ratten years where he played is best football he was very inconsistent and hardly ever put in games for long periods
I do believe that yarran has checked out of carlton as much as carlton have checked out of yarran and does look like the club is shopping him around as much as yarran and looks like both parties want out. Very hard to see carlton getting a top 20 pick for him and i dont believe they have any interest in keeping him in 2016.
We on here will just give opinions be it right or wrong and all want our clubs to do well out of the trades but theres nothing us keyboard worriors will write that will influence what either your club takes for him or what my clubs give up for him - We just give our opinions
what will be will be.
just another question that come to mind is, Do you guys think that a new coach will have much influence in what happens with trades this year as im of the thinking that SoS is fully in charge and has the final say in these matters for this year atleast has been given a licence to do what he thinks is best