Is Luke Darcy right about Fev?

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With Fev showing the football world how good he is on a massive stage, is Luke Darcy correct in saying that now is the right time for us to do a Hawthorn and get the best possible draftees for an aging gun forward.

Will Fev be there when we are a Top 4 side?
Will trading fev at the end of the year help us get Hurley or Rich to our club?

I bloody love Fev. He brings more to our club than just his freakish skills.

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Luke Darcy is insane.

We're giving up a genuine superstar who kicks your goals and wins you games for an unknown kid or kids, who may or may not make it. With him gone, who will kick the bulk of our goals? Hartlett? Rofl.

The Hawthorn comparison is silly - did they trade anyone as good as Fevola for draft picks?
 

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Yet last year people were calling for his head!
i love fev, would be devestated if he was to go, and i beleive we should resign him now, in saying that i am also of the opinion that with his one more muck up and you are out senario our match committee have a difficult one to balance, if he does muck up again he goes and we get nothing for him, i say we all learn to except him for what he is, sign him to a 2 or 3 year contract and keep moving forward towards that flag that could come befor his use by date is up.
 
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Its an interesting point of discussion and it is a very emotional topic with Blues supporters.

I can see where Darcy is coming from in that we will be able to get a first round pick from a club that believes he is the missing link for a flag. Darcy is possibly looking that we are 4 - 6 years from being a flag prospect and Fev will be around 31 and will he be able to deliver then, will he still be in the game then??

The other valid point is who will kick our goals with no Fev up forward. Whilst we may get an early pick do we trade our only true forward option that we have had for the last 6 years??

Love him or hate him he certainly brings the supporters through the gates to watch the Blues. Personally I would like to see him stay but can also see the logic in trading if we were to secure something really good in exchange.
 

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Thankfully I wasn't one of them.
And neither was i... Fev is a critical cog to our team. He turns 28 in January, with a good injury history and touch wood that can continue you would hope he can go on to 32-34. Suggesting that by that time you will have players like Kreuzer, Gibbs, Walker, Murphy, Simpson, Ellard, Browne etc etc in the 24-26 catagory... we should be in good shape at that stage.

Big step backwards to listen to that box head Darcy!
 

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Can't trade Fev, surely Carlton would become a rabble again without Fev kicking bags. The Blues are starting to build a great side and to give away Fev would just about take you back to square one. Silly suggestion from Darc.
 

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Can't trade Fev, surely Carlton would become a rabble again without Fev kicking bags. The Blues are starting to build a great side and to give away Fev would just about take you back to square one. Silly suggestion from Darc.
agree we need to start getting a winning culture back at the club, i think we have enough good kids that we dont have to do a hawthorn and sell up good players. Upcoming drafts we'll still probably be getting picks 6 - 9 in the next couple of years so no need to go draft crazy and sell fev
 

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Darcy is right.
Trade Fev, Judd, Stevo, Murph, Gibbs and maybe Kreuzer and we could get the whole top 10 draft picks.........and spend the next 10 years being a development squad.:rolleyes:
 

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If we were to TRADE Fevola a "MATCH WINNER", a "SUPERSTAR", a PLAYER WHO is in their PRIME, for a player who might or might not make it WOULD be the MOST STUPIDEST thing Carlton can do.
The Brendan Fevola is an absolute freak, and will be at Carlton all his life barring his misbehaviors. :thumbsu:
 

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he's just as inspirational to the Carlton team & its followers as Richo is down at tigerland, except Fev can actually kick !

& the dogs thought all they needed to win a flag was Aker..

darcy, lyon & the rest of them, worry bout your own insignificant, success starved teams & not the team the AFL tried to make an example of but is slowly starting to rise again, stronger & more determined.

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he's just as inspirational to the Carlton team & its followers as Richo is down at tigerland, except Fev can actually kick !

& the dogs thought all they needed to win a flag was Aker..

darcy, lyon & the rest of them, worry bout your own insignificant, success starved teams & not the team the AFL tried to make an example of but is slowly starting to rise again, stronger & more determined.

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EXACTLY:thumbsu:
 

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It's a very interesting point by Darcy and unlike some of others who have posted in this thread, not something I'd throw out of the water without a second thought. It's something I have thought about as well.

The answer of course is not definite but some points of consideration would be:

1. How far away we think we really are. Do we think we are close, i.e. next 3-4 year? Or if we are bit further away (>5), would Fevola really be going as good as he is at 32? Would he last that long? Remember he is only one indiscretion away from being sacked.

2. What really is put up on the market come trade time. If a top 5 pick is there with some other incentive, surely you'd have to give it some consideration.

3. Of course the whole 'who is going to kick our goals' argument. Can we afford to trade him and still win games of footy? Who can do that? Waite? Fisher? Edwards' development? Players we draft? If we had've kept Kennedy, it probably would've been a tad clearer.

4. The new Gold Coast franchise coming over would be loaded with picks in top 5 in 3 years. Fevola would be 29/30 then, should we ship him off then if he is playing? Would he last that long? Would he still command a pick in that range?

What a lot of you blokes are forgetting is that Fevola is ONE indiscretion away from being booted out of this club. Can we risk it?

Remember, no club is going to pay top value for him when a player is out of form, you have to bite the bullet after assessing your options and the market. We missed our chance with Whitnall when he came off a b&f. Is Fevola in the same boat?

All these things need to be considered and it's something I haven't got the answer to but its definitely not a notion I'd not even bother listening to like some of you others who have dismissed it outright.
 

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The Hawthorn comparison is silly - did they trade anyone as good as Fevola for draft picks?
They traded their only forward option and drafted two others.

The Hawthorn comparison is not silly because even though Thompson might not have been AS good as Fevola, his worth and importance to the team at the time was almost the same.
 

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It's a very interesting point by Darcy and unlike some of others who have posted in this thread, not something I'd throw out of the water without a second thought. It's something I have thought about as well.

The answer of course is not definite but some points of consideration would be:

1. How far away we think we really are. Do we think we are close, i.e. next 3-4 year? Or if we are bit further away (>5), would Fevola really be going as good as he is at 32? Would he last that long? Remember he is only one indiscretion away from being sacked.

2. What really is put up on the market come trade time. If a top 5 pick is there with some other incentive, surely you'd have to give it some consideration.

3. Of course the whole 'who is going to kick our goals' argument. Can we afford to trade him and still win games of footy? Who can do that? Waite? Fisher? Edwards' development? Players we draft? If we had've kept Kennedy, it probably would've been a tad clearer.

4. The new Gold Coast franchise coming over would be loaded with picks in top 5 in 3 years. Fevola would be 29/30 then, should we ship him off then if he is playing? Would he last that long? Would he still command a pick in that range?

What a lot of you blokes are forgetting is that Fevola is ONE indiscretion away from being booted out of this club. Can we risk it?

Remember, no club is going to pay top value for him when a player is out of form, you have to bite the bullet after assessing your options and the market. We missed our chance with Whitnall when he came off a b&f. Is Fevola in the same boat?

All these things need to be considered and it's something I haven't got the answer to but its definitely not a notion I'd not even bother listening to like some of you others who have dismissed it outright.
I understand completely what your trying to say Jason_K but my question is can we afford to trade him at this current time of development? At the moment he seems to be sticking to his word and I believe this winning culture were getting and sense of believe within the team he has changed his ways, especially showed on his performance last night for Victoria and his current form for us, that he's a better man.
 
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