No youre the one getting melodramatic. The crux of my first post was that we should jump at the opportunity to trade Shuey for pick 2 in the draft. I dont think he is worth pick 2, for reasons stated by others. It would just be a nice bonus that we would be getting rid of another ducker in the process of paying unders at the trade table. Nowhere did i say we should trade him soley for the reason of being a ducker. As for shuffling the deck chairs - id rather the cheats and divers and duckers play for any team other than mine.
What do you think Shuey is worth? Pick 1? Pick 2 and 20? When you give me your value, ill give you the 10 blokes from the 2008 draft that would be worth more to our squad than Shuey.
I don't really think any of what I said could be construed as melodramatic, but if you say so...
Personally I care about the West Coast Eagles being successful more than I care about people bemoaning or not bemoaning the fact that we, like any club, have a couple of players who duck their heads to get free kicks. I didn't say that it was your sole reasoning, but for it to be included at all is pretty silly I think, much like those who complain about Smith's and Masten's tats and haircuts.
What Shuey is "worth" and what Shuey is worth to us are two different things, much like how we purportedly demanded a first round pick for Brown last year because his value to us was higher than what you would consider his actual value.
Shuey is our most effective midfielder in that his clearances and disposals give us the greatest value out of any of our mids, hence why the opposition tags him. If you take him out of our midfield group we'd lack even more pace, class and scoreboard effect. For this reason, like Brown last year, his value to us is much higher than what you would consider his value to be in a vacuum.
In another draft I might be inclined to take pick 2 for him, but when the most highly touted draft prospects are skinny outside types (Aish, Kelly) or flankers (Scharenberg, Billings), none of which look like being full-time inside midfielders, how are we expected to replace, let alone improve on Shuey's output in a midfield that's already struggling? And that's ignoring the fact that Shuey is proven quality while a high draftee might not even pan out. With that in mind I'd probably want two top 10 picks in this draft before I considered trading Shuey.