Essendon 2008

[SouthPHXBombers]

Craig Bird is a NSW rookie for Sydney.

Oohkk,

And he played in TAC cup at the Rams instead of the VFL like the Melb rookies?

I saw him in the mock draft in the 3rd round so i though he hadnt been drafted...

My bad...

 

[Ants]

Sorry, NSW scholarship player, not NSW rookie.

Means they can pick him up for free pre-draft.

 

[The_Young_Gun]

Thats a load of rubbish.

- We got McPhee, Cupido AND a first round pick for Caracella. That pick (upgraded with Heffernen's trade) became Winderlich.
- We got #19 for Richards (Dempsey)
- The trade for Cole was a terrible result, I agree.
- We've picked up Zantuck, Heff and Campo via the PSD, no cost (although questionable decisions)
- Pick #6 + Alvey wasn't bad for Jacobs either.
- And the pick we got for Hardwick resulted in Welsh.
- I'd argue we got as much value from the McGrath, Murphy, and Alan trades as Carlton did.
- For Solomon we got #42 and upgraded our pick #52 pick to #48 (Houli & Reimers)


Our problem hasn't been our trading strength, its been our approach. Too often we've chosen to get old players, who have given sufficient value for their costs, but probably have delayed our development overall.

Sorry for my lack of information of the club its just that I havn't really been interested or involved in football or essendon since '03 after my uncle pasted but this year I had a look at our list and thought I might get into it again but other than my life story I agree that we had some good trades and signings but some were very ordinary and unnecessary but who knows it could of been worse.

Anyway we probably have the best full forward and maby the best full back in the league at the moment so if we get our midfield up and going we might even have a roughly good chance in '08, but thats in a perfect world.