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Theres plenty of KPFs who get drafted after the first round, I wouldnt be so negative so quickly about Reid. If all he does is bulk up and be capable of taking a strong mark above his opponents head he will be a good player.
You're delusional if you think Flynn will come in and all our Ruck issues will be sorted at best Flynn and Bailey working 50/50. Likely maric or both jack's playing wafl when Oscar come in
We’re not going to bring a player in (Flynn) that can only play ruck and have him rucking 50% of the time. When fit, Flynn will ruck almost the entire match with a couple of spells and will rest and setup a kick behind play when the ball is in our F50 with one of our forward talls to do the ruck work there.
'When fit'.........that's the issue. If Flynn wasn't injury prone I wouldn't be concerned. His track record is worrying.
Please, not Erasmus. He was never a great kick, but now appears to have been completely Fyfed.
As I said, Bailey is good ruck cover but he’s not a #1 ruck and I don’t think he’s a KPF with our relatively well stocked KPF players. That assessment might look very different at the Tigers who need KPFs and the fact that he can chop Nank out in the ruck is a bonus which would be good for their team balance. If he were to be traded we’d obviously need to look for mature ruck cover as Bailey has been this year, but if the Tigers value him and it means we can get Baker over without splitting our 1R then it’s worth exploring.
I agree on exploring all options, Flynn may be a good ruckmen but injuries to athletes are just as relevant to their skill sets. If we have English or Moyle lined up sure trade Bailey but don't do it if we are counting on flynn with his history is all I'm saying
English will stay. Moyle or Bryan would be fine. Worst case scenario picking up the best state league ruckman available in the rookie draft would tide us over as cover until Batman or Livingstone get up to speed. As I said this is dependent on Flynn playing out the season after what was a very, very rare injury.
I really hope Flynn works out, I'm just being realistic
He wont come in and be in contention for AA. He will however come in and prevent us getting slaughtered at ruck contests every week. Hes a lot bigger lump than BW, so will be better at going against the monster ruckmen
Theres always cheap ruckmen somewhere who can fill a role, we can easily trade out BW and then find a cheap ruckman in the PSD or for a very late pick, with the idea being they are only last resort backup.
Not sure of Bailey losing his spot given Simpson’s match committee history. Bailey has blossomed in the ruck 2023-24 and Simmo has typically rewarded players who deliver on what he has asked them to do. We have heard Bailey was meant to be KPF but has had to be No 1 ruck due to Flynn’s injury
Hahahaha how do you even know that he hasn't even played a game for us yet
Very much agree with this in that the ideal time to discuss/explore trading Bailey was earlier this year pre contract (although arguably having him uncontracted would reduce his trade value). I’d hope that any trade scenario with contracted players (Bailey or otherwise) would start with something like “Richmond has expressed a strong interest in having you in their squad, we’d love to keep you at the club but if you see your longer term future in Victoria we’d be open to exploring that”.
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Bailey isn't ass. He's a perfectly acceptable back up ruck option.
We literally went out and got Flynn
Hes played a bunch of games over the last 2 years lmao, hes not some rookie we picked up. Go and check out how he went last year before Briggs went past him before saying dumb shit lol
