Strapping Young Lad
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Ok.
Traded Harley Balic [traded to Melbourne] [retired]
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High possibility due to how smooth b hill coming to freo last year .
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He'd be an idiot not to go to Carlton.
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One can always hold out hope for a high draft pick for him I guess.
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Why do Freo do this to themselves? Nothing wrong with drafting kids who are happy to leave home to pursue football, but from what i understand Balic made it clear pre draft he didn't want to leave Victoria and they still took him.
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If there was no WA kids worth taking with that pick they take them and at least have some currency to trade back to VIC in 2 years.
Thats my view anyway
They back themselves in to turn his thinking around through various club proccesses.
By all reports he was just too good to pass up at that pick. We have a pretty good player retention rate, the club would have backed themselves in to sell themselves but obviously not well enough. I think he's going to be a 150+ game player so i'm spewing we'll get a bag of dicks for him.
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The hawks could get themselves a real bargain here. Presuming he picks the hawks, much like Hill to us, it should be pretty straightforward/no fuss trade.
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Fair enough, there are some kids that are hell bent on staying home and that won't be changed. I guess as a club with less home grown players to pick from generally you'd have to back yourselves in. You've done well with most Victorians.
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Yeah, I think so too.
Him and Dylan Roberton are the only two of the 30-40 odd interstate players I can think of that we've drafted in the last 10 years that wanted to go home. And Roberton only left cos his partner wanted to move after she got knocked up, he was actually happy to stay
Crozier, Langdon and Weller for example were all considered high flight risks, all happy to commit once they got over. Crozier's mum can be heard bursting into tears at the draft broadcast when Freo read out his name. We just got unlucky this time
I recall this as well.
Considering where he slid to & his pre injury expected draft position of a top 10-20 player they had to try.
I'm sure if Freo didn't take him at that point he would have gone within the next handful of picks anyway.
I certainly have my fingers crossed he nominates the Hawks.
Any good this kid... what are his best attributes?
Strong body, good overhead, seems to have a bit of Pendlebury in the way he weaves and finds time and space through traffic. Should be a solid pickup for somebody.
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You're saying GWS didn't by not taking Wingard?
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Probably a little bit different in GWS's case
Having so many high draft picks, they could afford (to a certain extent) to pick and choose who they drafted back then
Doubt Balic said he would definitely leave, it was his parents who were reportedly most concerns
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So pathetic how some parents gotta live through their kids.
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I hope im wrong but he seems to have a lot of skill but does he have the mental side of his game right to make it?
He does seem to have a lot of football tallent but that will only take him so far.
He does seem to have a lot of football tallent but that will only take him so far.
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There will be some commonalities with the McCarthy situation here I think. Cam was traded for the equivalent of pick 72, but that’s a notional value in points and not all points are equal. If that was the actual value then GWS would have just accept our 4th round pick. Instead it was pick swaps aimed at more of a win win. Freo accept more risk by dropping down the draft order but gained 2 players, GWS reduced risk and lost a player.
So it will be with Balic. The notional value the trade will probably be low in points (somewhere in the third round) but will actually involve pick upgrades which will be worth more to Freo than the points (having no second round pick at this time) and will net the Victorian club a player with a reasonable likelihood of developing into an AFL quality inside midfielder. Certainly a greater likelihood of a player than if they had actually used the pick.
So it will be with Balic. The notional value the trade will probably be low in points (somewhere in the third round) but will actually involve pick upgrades which will be worth more to Freo than the points (having no second round pick at this time) and will net the Victorian club a player with a reasonable likelihood of developing into an AFL quality inside midfielder. Certainly a greater likelihood of a player than if they had actually used the pick.
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When it comes to Balic's situation - a question for all? Can Fremantle offer him a new contract that then gives them currency to trade him alomot immediately given another club would pick up the contract in exchange for offering a pick?
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Just introduce trading without the player's approval - until they are restricted free agents.
