Good luck Jarryd Lyons
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Correct me if I'm wrong but when you think your premiership window is about to open shouldn't you be trying to strengthen your list not weaken it?
As for Lyons, I thought he was too slow to make it. Good luck to the kid. Shows that if you have footy instinct, desire, clean hands and you are composed in traffic you can make it regardless of leg speed and/or athletic ability. Given all this, why are we trading him again?
What would a strong club do - offer the promising youngster in Lyons a better deal or give a 34 year old, who just had a really poor year, another contract? AFC - LOL.
As for Lyons, I thought he was too slow to make it. Good luck to the kid. Shows that if you have footy instinct, desire, clean hands and you are composed in traffic you can make it regardless of leg speed and/or athletic ability. Given all this, why are we trading him again?
What would a strong club do - offer the promising youngster in Lyons a better deal or give a 34 year old, who just had a really poor year, another contract? AFC - LOL.
It would depend on what we receive in the trade wouldn't it?
So what are we getting for him?
Disappointed to see him go and Thommo remain, but we're selling high
Disappointed to see him go and Thommo remain, but we're selling high
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If in the rare chance Thommo has a good preseason and actually plays some decent footy next year of course we'll all applaud him and the club.....
fat chance!
fat chance!
Lyons, CEY and Grigg are all much of a muchness. All capable of racking them up but just slow. We can afford to lose two of those 3 and not see one bit of difference in the slightest to our game. Good luck to Lyons, I hope he can establish himself further but I still feel he will be that 20th-24th man in any team because of a complete lack of weapons that make him standout.
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Lyons has shown this year he is AFL standard the other 2 are not.
Was Lyons guaranteed of a spot next year though? Someone needs to make way for Menzel, Hampton, Wigg, Knight, Milera etc. I think Lyons, Mackay, Douglas and Thompson are the big losers of any shift in selection policies. Hence why Lyons got offered such a low contract.
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And you could have said the same of Jarryd Lyons in 2015 before he was afforded a decent run of games, personally I believe CEY can do just the same and with his size instill a point of difference to our midfield. Was looking well up to AFL until injured in 2015.
http://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/pg-adelaide-crows--cameron-ellis-yolmen?year=2015&advv=Y
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Cheers Lyons and thanks for the memories. Great year got your currency up.
This is a good model for the future, If we can take in a pick 60 and develop them into a second rounder it will help us access more elite talent.
This is a good model for the future, If we can take in a pick 60 and develop them into a second rounder it will help us access more elite talent.
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Will prove to everyone just how criminally underrated he was if given appropriate opportunities and GC.
Hope he goes on to 200 games + and shows that he could be a borderline elite mid in his own right.
Hope he goes on to 200 games + and shows that he could be a borderline elite mid in his own right.
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So underrated. Such a * up from the beginning by the club. An absolute crime that Lyons is going and serial underachievers continue to get games and stay at the club.
Good luck and I hope you absolutely ******* kill it.
Good luck and I hope you absolutely ******* kill it.
fairfooty
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While I'm really sorry to see him go, I wish Jarryd all the best and I'm really really pissed that the club has let him go. We are going to regret this.
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We should be partying gibbs is happening!!
1st and 2nd rounder for Gibbs and a 3rd?
Never appreciated at the club. He was dropped mid season to make way for an under done Crouch. A move that cost us the game. It was never repeated.
Presented with a contract that would force his hand. After showing his quality in 20 games he is still vastly underrated by many on BF.
Trade week is not done yet so let's see how this pans out but I'm hoping where ever you end up they appreciate your obvious strengths.
Best of luck to him. Can't believe we hang onto plodders like Dougie (who's never going to get any better), and then force someone like Lyons (who's had a breakout year) out. F*cking Gibbs better be worth it!
Good on him if he does. Doesn't change the fact that he's 34 years old, steadily trending downwards performance wise and the money we are paying him (some) could have been diverted to a much younger player who has shown loyalty, proven to be able to come in and play his role, was cheap, wanted to stay in Adelaide and also presumably has some improvement in him.
This aint a Thommo bashing exercise.
No one "made way" for Lyons. He played his guts out in the SANFL until he couldn't be ignored.
I think our team will be better with Hampton, Knight, Milera and Menzel in it. That is if they are playing good, consistent football and are fit enough.
