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Gibbs requests trade to Adelaide

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We can't get caught up in the romance of it. Carlton will be wasting a locker space if they don't trade him now. None else is going to want him. We can quite easily pick him up in the pre season draft.
You really should just stop now, before you really confirm what most of us are thinking!!
 

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I wouldn't give up pick 13 for Gibbs. He is going to be 28 next season. He has maybe 2 good years left, followed by 2 or 3 years where we will be wishing we hadnt signed him. We dont actually have a super talented group coming through. Milera and Menzel are first rounders, but other than that we are scraping the bottom. Maybe one of of Wigg, Gore, Doedee, Greenwood, Kelly makes it to a real top level player. We need to take our first rounders and use the talents of our fantastic recruiting department to make them count.
Sloane is 27 at the start of next year. If we follow that line of thinking Sloane won't be a premiership player for us. We need to captialise on our current crop of senior players. Sloane, Walker, Jacobs, Jenkins, Lynch, etc
 
Or are you underrating Sloane? No-one here underrates Gibbs, he is a classy outside mid, but lets be honest.

Sloane 4th in Brownlow, AA, AA vice-captain, 6th in AFL for tackles. He is clearly the better player at the current period.
Stopped reading right there. He's nothing of the sort.

He played all year at the coal face
 
Or are you underrating Sloane? No-one here underrates Gibbs, he is a classy outside mid, but lets be honest.

Sloane 4th in Brownlow, AA, AA vice-captain, 6th in AFL for tackles. He is clearly the better player at the current period.

I put them in the same ball park. Roughly the same age, output, accolades etc.

Sloane (and Gibbs) are A grade mids, but not elite. I reserve 'Elite' for Danger, Selwood, Pendles, Hodge, Judd etc.
 
Sloane is 27 at the start of next year. If we follow that line of thinking Sloane won't be a premiership player for us. We need to captialise on our current crop of senior players. Sloane, Walker, Jacobs, Jenkins, Lynch, etc

No. Sloane is already in our squad and he wont cost us pick 13 next season. Its not the same line of thinking at all. Gibbs wont buy us a premiership, we are nowhere near that close. Those last couple of games against west coast and sydney should have made that clear to you. If we are going around with Thommo, Mackay and Douglas again then thats great. I love those guys - yes even Mackay. But if we are we are simply not competing for a premiership next season - Gibbs or no Gibbs.
 

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Unrestricted free agent. Can go where he is wanted with 0 compensation.
Unrestricted does not mean 0 compensation. It just means that we don't have the right to try and match any offers he may receive.

We should receive some compensation, though what form that takes depends on how many $$$ his new contract is worth.
 
No. Sloane is already in our squad and he wont cost us pick 13 next season. Its not the same line of thinking at all. Gibbs wont buy us a premiership, we are nowhere near that close. Those last couple of games against west coast and sydney should have made that clear to you. If we are going around with Thommo, Mackay and Douglas again then thats great. I love those guys - yes even Mackay. But if we are we are simply not competing for a premiership next season - Gibbs or no Gibbs.
Clearly the club feels different
 

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God so many muppets on AA trying to bundle Hendo and Douglas or Dear and Hendo. Never mind the value doesn't add up but Hendo is a bloody FA for starters. Dear hasn't played a game. Douglas is 30. I'm sorry Carlton fans.

13 would have to be the meat in the sandwich surely.
 
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