All good, with all the whingeing I was secretly hoping we would have given GCS our future 2nd rounder like some of you suggested as well.On behalf of bigfooty, I'd just like to say a big thank you for the entertainment you provided during the trade period
Traded Izak Rankine traded to Adelaide with #46 & F4 (Freo) for #5, F3 & F4
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Has firmly become a Crows fan favourite after his fantastic performance in the Showdown last night.
Absolutely proving his worth and high price the Crows paid for him
Absolutely proving his worth and high price the Crows paid for him
Max cant kick though.
Ben was a good get, and rankine got them decent return
Maybe the Kings would have got in each other's way.
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Would that make it a...King hit if they collided?
The Suns are trying to build a team.
Unless the loss of Rankine results a better on field performer (good luck with that) your 'decent result' is a FAIL in capital letters.
A great example of why the teams in the developing States need more of everything.
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Kicking 50 goals last season isnāt a bad return for a bloke that canāt kick
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Yeah canāt understand the hate for him. He is and will be a star, the goalkicking is relatively speaking a simple fix.
Bailey Humphrey is yet to debut due to a minor injury suffered a few weeks ago so it's not really a question that can be answered at this stage.
Is Rankine worth $800-900k a year right now? It's a lot of money to pay a small forward but you could probably argue he is with the way he's currently playing. Was he worth $800-900k at the end of last season when the decision was made? Definitely not. Now you can argue natural progression was to be expected but this is a pretty significant jump from 2022 to now. I'm also still not convinced he's going to keep this up but I can't really fault him so far.
Let's go back to 2018 when Brisbane were courting Lachie Neale and offered him $800k a year for five seasons. Fremantle offered Neale less money and less years and he ended up walking. Less than two years later Neale wins the Brownlow. It's really obvious now that Fremantle should have matched Brisbane's offer but at the time he really wasn't playing at that level and they already had a lot of money wrapped up in Fyfe's contract which limited their ability to match the offer. What I'm trying to say is in retrospect these situations can look really simple but you have to keep in mind the context of information that was available at the time.
It can easily go the other way as well which is something we've seen at GWS. They've got five or so players on $1m+ each and a guy like Nick Haynes simply doesn't deserve that kind of money. Now they're cap tied for many years and will progressively lose talented players (like Taranto, Hopper, Bruhn and Bobby Hill last year) because they have no wiggle room after committing too much to players that don't deserve it.
Ultimately I keep coming back to the idea that if not matching Adelaide's offer for Rankine allowed us to keep Noah Anderson and/or Matt Rowell then it was worth it. We know Anderson and Rowell both re-signed after Rankine left so these three moves are all directly related to one another. Don't get me wrong, Rankine is great but Anderson/Rowell are both capable of winning Brownlows in the future and I'd rather keep two potential Brownlow Medallists over the next Eddie Betts. It's like going back to 2017 and asking if you'd rather have Eddie Betts or Dustin Martin + Trent Cotchin in your team. Pretty easy decision when you put it like that but we're still a few years away from having a meaningful discussion about which player/s a team should have their money tied to.
Lotsa shots will get you there.
We said that about daniher
Reckon he's same boat. Athletic freak, good mark. Just a bit awry with the goalkicking
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Just because Daniher canāt work it out doesnāt mean King wonāt.
Even with the questionable goalkicking Daniher is still a quality footballer.
When he wants to be, but thats another discussion
King is quality. Just not a great kick. And not sure it is fixable, unless its all mental for me. But kicking actions are hard to change once they set in. Plenty of examples of it.
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King was/is considerably better than Daniher at the same age imo, just had an unlucky run of injuries, like his twin
King would need AA this season to match what daniher did at the same age.
how has luko been poor? two top 10s in the bnf while being made to play all over the ground
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Luko probably having his best game ever
And less than a day later, Luko has the best game of his career.
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Think we have seen enough sample size now (a month of footy) to suggest Rankine is on track for a career best season and AA birth (injuries notwithstanding)
He has brought a lot of energy and fan engagement/enthusiasm we haven't seen at the Crows since Eddie Betts
Happy for him and The Crows fans.
He has brought a lot of energy and fan engagement/enthusiasm we haven't seen at the Crows since Eddie Betts
Happy for him and The Crows fans.
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