Traded Josh Bruce [traded to Western Bulldogs for #32 and #51]
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Hard to know, but I suspect its because we don't see him fitting in along with both Membery and Max King.
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That's not the landscape of AFL trades these days unfortunately. I think his value is of an early second anyway. Somewhere between 20-25, just not a mid first rounder.
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Most logical would be Melb with pick 21 as they need a forward
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Not sure how you're drawing that conclusion? I was simply disagreeing with the assertion that the Dogs don't have any other forwards with the same scoring capacity. Of course we could do with more KPP depth. If one of our two KPFs (Naughton and Schache) goes down, we are forced to replace them with someone like English or Bontempelli (which hurts our midfield) or with a VFL-standard player like Gardner.
Bruce would be a great fit at the Dogs, and I'm sure the Saints will be fairly compensated if he did leave
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Therefore it may lower his value if this is being done with clubs blessing.
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Problem with that is - why would Bruce leave the Saints for Melbourne? Saints can probably pay him more, finished higher on the ladder, and both sides have been starved of on-field success for years. Not much incentive for Bruce to depart the Saints if he's heading to Melbourne, would be better off staying.
Dogs made finals this year with a very young side (which I'm sure Saints are more capable of doing than Melbourne in the near future) and he could earn some pretty heavy coin with us given our salary cap position
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You're counting his earlier years when he was a developing KPF. Even Nick Reiwoldt was pretty average until he was about 22. In the season he was traded, he kicked 41 goals in 16 games, including 7 goals, 6 goals, 4 goals and 5x 3 goals. Josh Bruce has kicked 6 goals, 4 goals and 3x 3 goals, for an output of 36 goals from 22 games. Dixon was undoubtedly worth a lot more than Bruce is.
I'm not saying he's bad (I really do rate Bruce) but he's not worth anywhere near what Dixon was when he was traded
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He fits perfect at Collingwood, however i wouldnt be surprised if the Collingwood recruitment staff just aren’t that interested.
He would have kicked 50 goals playing full forward for us, and takes some pressure off Mihocek. Also lets De Goey move more freely from forward to midfield as theres less reliance on him to be a power forward.
He would have kicked 50 goals playing full forward for us, and takes some pressure off Mihocek. Also lets De Goey move more freely from forward to midfield as theres less reliance on him to be a power forward.
Would be stupidity to trade him out. Worth more to us than we will get for him. Important to structure, will help King not get double teamed his whole youth and still contributes a solid amount of goals.
If we sent pick 12 we'd want something decent back. Saints don't have a second rounder at the moment which complicates it. Pick 12 for Bruce and something like pick 25-30 back would be okay for both clubs I think. Maybe what they get for Steven?
Pass. I understand what you mean in terms of fair value, but it’s just not in St Kilda’s interests to do this trade. I hope the club sees it this way too.
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Pies should be interested, 2020 first round pick?
His value is around 16ish realistically. Has 2 years left on his contract which strengths the case.
Personally to us, he is worth more.
Can see us giving him up if it means we go for Ben King.
Personally to us, he is worth more.
Can see us giving him up if it means we go for Ben King.
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Probably safe to say we will disagree I think melb has the upside over saints and dogs and just need to work out fwd entries coupled with a soft draw and players getting early surgery think Melb will be top 4 next year...
Whats even weird is Richardson doing exit interviews and Melb eek
For a first round pick
Dixon went for 10 plus some.
Pick 15-16 would be around the mark, especially being under contract.
Deep down I know that if I club goes after a contracted player they can't expect him for peanuts.
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What if the club is shopping him around?
I doubt we are, but if it's true it's because we'd want something good for him.
Either way, he's worth a first round pick.
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Maybe if we go very deep into finals but he’s not worth pick 12. We’d likely want something else back which they currently don’t have. Maybe a future pick could get involved.
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