Nick Stevens ?

[gosaints]

I don't think Port are definately going to be getting a gun in return for Nick Stevens. He is a very good player but if he wants to return to Vic, Port will have to be careful not to ask for too much cause if he goes into the pre-season draft he will be playing in melbourne and Port will get nothing.

He won't necessarily be playing for the Pies but he'll be in melbourne all the same. Assuming he is out of contract???

 

[Nic]

Originally posted by Macca19

Id bloody well hope we get a lot more than Didak for Stevens.

Stevens is a top line midfielder.

Didak is an average goalsneak at the moment that hasnt done much at all compared to what he should have done by now.

You're right about Didak, but the key words are at the moment. He hasn't had the year he promised, but even last Saturday night against Sydney he showed a fair bit. Some Collingwood supporters would be saying "Id bloody well hope we get a lot more than Stevens for Didak."

Of course, some would be stoked.

 

[PowerGirl36]

Last time Nick was to sign, Buckley and Eddie rang him up and everything, and he declined to stay with Port for less money. So it doesn't necessarily mean that he will go. Also I don't know if they want another midfielder in their side. Didak is good, but not good enough only for Stevens.

 

[Portia]

Originally posted by gosaints
I don't think Port are definately going to be getting a gun in return for Nick Stevens. He is a very good player but if he wants to return to Vic, Port will have to be careful not to ask for too much cause if he goes into the pre-season draft he will be playing in melbourne and Port will get nothing.

Thats only a valid threat if Nick wants to play for the Bulldogs or Carlton and wants the ill-will that goes with hoppingout on a club for no return. He's not that homesick or he wouldn't have stayed at Port even this long.

 

[bacon buster]

collingwood supporters would want to be very happy indeed if they got stevens for didak

didak has shown glimpses, and while he is 3 years younger (?) than stevens, stevens had done far more at the same age

 

[Macca19]

Originally posted by Nic
You're right about Didak, but the key words are at the moment.

He has an untapped amount of potential. Ive follwed him since he was 16. Hes one of my favourite players...probably my favourite non-Power player...but his development from the second half of last year to this year has been pretty much nothing. Could almost say hes gone a bit backwards this year compared to what he should have done, and his Wizard Cup, and considering hes the no.1 goalsneak at Collingwood now that N Davis left and L Davis in stuck at Willy.

He hasn't had the year he promised, but even last Saturday night against Sydney he showed a fair bit.

But thats the thing. Hes had a couple of pretty good games compared to Nick at the same development stage who averaged 24 touches a game and finished 2nd in a BnF by one vote despite missing 5 games thru suspension.
Nick this season was averaging 28 touches a match before his knee injury came about, played a few games out of the midfield then had surgery. He was in the top 3 form midfielders in the competition in the first 12 rounds.

Some Collingwood supporters would be saying "Id bloody well hope we get a lot more than Stevens for Didak."

Maybe.

But from a Port point of view....if all we got for Stevens was Didak - who we already have 2-3 other better flankers than...then we would be getting deadset screwed. Didak has proven nothing as an AFL midfielder yet - im sure he will but at the moment his done nothing in the midfield. Stevens has the runs on the board as a top midfielder.

 

[Carmelo Anthony]

Dont tell Port supporters this....if you ask them only crows draft the homesick (soft) players.

"I want to be close to my family"

what a cop out

Adelaide and Melbourne is a 45 minute plan trip.

 

[Portmanteau]

Point being, Carmelo? The only player we've lost to homesickness (which was surely a minimal factor) would've been Michael Stevens. That's a reasonable track record, given we have, IIRC, the highest proportion of interstate players at any club. So we must be doing something right.

Anyways, what was wrong with Lawrence Angwin - he's young, athletic, he's straight outta high school baby! I mean, er... yeah, he's like football's Jonathan Bender.

 

[sp-mac]

If players are keen to leave a club for somewhere else, it can be harder for that team to get what they want or even what the player is worth. I would've wanted more than a numbe twenty-something pick for Nick Davis but he was never going any where else but Sydney.

I guess for Port there is a marketplace of several Vic clubs rather than just the Swans though.

 

[Portia]

Originally posted by Guey_34
Point being, Carmelo? The only player we've lost to homesickness (which was surely a minimal factor) would've been Michael Stevens. That's a reasonable track record, given we have, IIRC, the highest proportion of interstate players at any club. So we must be doing something right.

Behind Sydney and Brisbane at any rate. Also, I'm pretty sure we lost Michael Stevens to crapness. Just because a player ends up in his state of origin, it doesn't mean homesickness was the motivation.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Obviously the film Being John Malkovich was based on Nick Stevens. So many people appear to "know" what he's going to do next year - there must be a not so secret portal into his mind ...

 

[The Scarecrow]

Without readng all the rumours, I think he may stay at Port, like Judd, who want to be there as they can be apart of a Premiership side in the making. But, if he's home sick as they say then it would be a good idea for him to return to Melbourne during the end of season to figure out, if he wants to stay in Melbourne, or Adelaide.