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Rumour GFC 2025 Player Trading, Drafting FA, Rumours and Wish lists Pt 2
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Willo_
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Strong agree... An old side with no good kids (bar the obvious one) coming through getting rid of someone his age.. Suggests he isn't a good kid
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You can't have too many good players, I know some oracles here claim that we have no need etc..
And while I don't think it's a area of drastic need I'm willing to bet if the club are seriously looking at it they know why and what they are doing.
I don't at all see how we can produce whatever the Blues would want to satisfy a trade but it's all good fun speculation for a few days time at least
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We only need to revisit last week.
He is certainly since I’ve been watching the Cats since the late 70’s.
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He used to always get up and about when we played them, good player
That is an interesting way to put it. As long as we are not talking black hole levels of gravity then all good
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I'm in the "nothing's off the table" camp (except forcing a player out, which CS is against).
Maybe SNeale's evinced interest to ruck while still young, before "retiring" to the forward line. Maybe Jezza is more potent for us roaming all over the ground, whilst still finding the sticks. Maybe the prototypical rucks CS seeks, are right under our noses (SNeale and/or SDK). Maybe tenderfoots getting experience rucking is fraught with injuries whereas, importing footy-hardened
forwards/defenders into rucking is not (like using simulators to train novice pilots rather than in-situ).
All this is conjecture. But I like their left field thinking. If the Poach Brothers (Wellsy/Mack) didn't make the occasional mistake, they aren't trying hard enough.
Lastly, nothing's set in concrete. Maybe Curnow is worth throwing the rule book away for. You think SMitchell would bat an eyelid or rationalise against himself if Curnow wanted to come across?
To paraphrase the famous quote, don't look at each move for what it is but where it leads to.
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"To paraphrase the famous quote, don't look at each move for what it is but where it leads to"
Probably the best thing about bringing Curnow on board is that it would prevent say Sydney or Hawks or ? Improving a weak forward line.
As pointed out tho, by many, the timing makes it very hard to do.
As pointed out tho, by many, the timing makes it very hard to do.
Nah best thing would be the melts from the Richmond supporters
We don't need Curnow, they will ask for Stengle or a similar class of player just to get it done. That's already got me walking away.
He's injury prone, and he's suspect under pressure. Yes he has won the Coleman and he can play. But he's surplus to requirements.
There isn't one team that can match our firepower right now (maybe Bulldogs in full flight). He will unbalance our dynamic up forward and cause us to reshuffle our mix when we simply don't need to.
I'd encourage anyone who is on the Curnow train to do a quick analysis on his performance v top 8 and bottom 10 sides. It's not pretty reading and it's a trend. He was all but invisible in their finals run too.
Too often he doesn't want to do the hard stuff and he doesn't compete. He's a 'me me me' player. I'm sure he's a nice enough guy and if we could add him without losing quality then of course I would, but that's not happening.
He had his chance a couple of years ago, it's not on us to get him out of his situation.
He's injury prone, and he's suspect under pressure. Yes he has won the Coleman and he can play. But he's surplus to requirements.
There isn't one team that can match our firepower right now (maybe Bulldogs in full flight). He will unbalance our dynamic up forward and cause us to reshuffle our mix when we simply don't need to.
I'd encourage anyone who is on the Curnow train to do a quick analysis on his performance v top 8 and bottom 10 sides. It's not pretty reading and it's a trend. He was all but invisible in their finals run too.
Too often he doesn't want to do the hard stuff and he doesn't compete. He's a 'me me me' player. I'm sure he's a nice enough guy and if we could add him without losing quality then of course I would, but that's not happening.
He had his chance a couple of years ago, it's not on us to get him out of his situation.
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That is a lot of maybes for something that would cost an arm and a leg
If Curnow joins Geelong without an arm and a leg I’d give it a miss. He’ll be half the player he is now.
Literally
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Wellsy/Mack are paid to handle many maybes! If they're going after Curnow, they know more than you and I (no offence intended)
Did today show why we are looking for Curnow. Neale got a long way to go
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our midfield was awful. Why blame the guy in the end of the poor delivery??????
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Had a total of 14 possessions 2 marks and 3 goals for the final series. Thats 3 games. Had to compete and step up when Jezza got hurt but got owned by Andrews
Just from actual delivery of performance we are woeful
With the delivery he was getting Curnow wasn't going to do a lot better. Whats Curnow doing with that ball where Blicavs strolled through the middle of the field and kicked it straight to Andrews?
Marshall in, and lets push hard for Butters. We saw today just adding Worpel won't fix the midfield issues we had.
And lets go find a proper small defender. Bailey should have ****ed us early in the game and Cameron got a hold of us. And next year it might be Watson. Or maybe a new small forward pops up from somewhere.
But it used to be a big achilles heel and today we have no answer for their speed up forward.
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Curnow is not gettable so its not relevant. We need to get get marshall and a couple of mids.
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