Gibbs requests trade to Adelaide

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You don't gotta pay 2 firsts for a guy with only 3/4 years left

For that price you target someone younger
It all depends on what you get back.

If I give you a crisp $100 bill, and you give me 4 x $20 notes and a $5 note, did I spend $100?
 

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You don't gotta pay 2 firsts for a guy with only 3/4 years left

For that price you target someone younger
Yep we are paying a touch over the odds here no doubt, and I've said previously I'd rather Rockliff. IF we play in a GF or win a flag it'll be forgiven though, and we have a great deal of talent in the 20-25yo basket to make a good run.

Still think someone else might be in play though.
 

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I'm sick of hearing 'We got less for Danger blah blah blah'. Yep we did get stiffed a bit in the deal but to get a guy with a 3yr contract still in play and with possibly 3/4 good years left, you gotta pay up.
No you don't.

Gibbs was the party who approached us to come home. We didn't approach him. Its nice to know Gibbs wants to play fir us and will help but we can not put all of our eggs into the one basket by paying overs. 2 first rounds picks (1 an unknown pick) is very dangerous.

His manager must talk to Carlton and ask for a compensation trade.

Pick 13 and pick 26 with 53 getting swapped for 45. That is maximum we should pay.
 

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It's a risky move. Ideally we finish top 4 and Carlton finish bottom 4. Which means our 14-18 pick becomes 19-23. And if the draft is as good and as deep as they say there's every chance that the 10-30 ranked players are all rated equally which helps mitigate the risk further.
Ideally my ass.

Ask Port about all those future first trades that were going to be bargains when they shoot yo the ladder

Or GWS who took the Phil Davis compo pick on the basis we'd suck in 2012
 

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You need a "walk away" price or you end getting up screwed.

I'm ok with us using our first this year and next if at the end of the trade period we have improved our list significantly. Just getting Gibbs doesn't do that imo ... we need to either go all in, or accept making a Prelim as our ceiling. We can't hope for a once in 50 year stars-align finals campaign like the Bulldogs just snagged. Sustained success is apparently our aim, then act like it.
 
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If we give up 2 first rounders for Gibbs then our recruiters have failed. They have failed to gauge what price it would cost us before we went down this path.

If we were prepared to give up 2 firsts we should have targeted a younger better player than Gibbs and made it happen.
Never considered that we did but no one wanted to come here?
 

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Bear in mind that it's a double edged sword, if you sell high then opposition clubs then will then expect you to buy high as well.

It might be all well and good when they do this for Gibbs, but lets see how those supporters feel when Carlton get the SOS treatment from another club.
 
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