Rumour Thread

[Temploar]

We are a last minute Dark Horse to secure Gold Coast ruckman Tom Hickey with pick 20.

 

[Hagla]

Apparently we might have offered pick 20 for Tom Hickey from GC. Haven't seen much of him.

Edit: beat me to it. What's he like?

 

[jimmy35]

Hickey for pick 20 I heard somewhere.

 

[kristin5]

Apparently we might have offered pick 20 for Tom Hickey from GC. Haven't seen much of him.

yeah does anyone know anything about him? A bit wary of using a first round draft pick on a ruckman again (after we gave up a first round pick, for Wood).

 

[Shade]

All i remember of Hickey is he pulled wood's pants down in our game against GC this year

so he is already better than Wood but then again that's quite an easy feat.

 

[The Royal Sampler]

cant GWS have used all 10 spots allowed for pre-listed players.

Ah, thanks mate.

 

[Temploar]

Apparently we might have offered pick 20 for Tom Hickey from GC. Haven't seen much of him.

Edit: beat me to it. What's he like?

21 year old, 87kg 201cm so a bit skinny for his size.
Played 12 games.

Have not seen much of him but he looks alright.

 

[Old Spice]

yeah does anyone know anything about him? A bit wary of using a first round draft pick on a ruckman again (after we gave up a first round pick, for Wood).

Think we need to face facts. Jolly has maybe one more year, Wood is a bust, Witts and Ceglar are mere prospects who have not earn't a game in 2012 despite Wood and Dawes form.

If we think Hickey is value, you take one in the hand V two in the bush, so to speak. I'd hope to keep all 3 1st round picks and bring in Martin, but the club know what they are doing here.

 

[RuFiO]

Haha
Wood's like what the fuks going on?

 

[MagpieJoel]

2012 stats: http://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/pp-gold-coast-suns--tom-hickey

 

[Sidebottom2Beams]

Has played one good game against collingwood. Last yearplayed 10 games ave 9 possessions 9 hitouts. Includes the 19 possession 24 hitout game against Wood. So his other 9 games were rather terrible.

 

[soreplums]

If Adelaide are keen on trading pick 40 for angus graham and pick 50, do u thin that they could be interested in wood for the same price? Could then maybe package picks 39 and 40 for pick 30ish and then use 21 on hickey if we r interested? Could leave us with pick 17, 18, 30ish and 45 whilst gaining hickey and dropping wood?

 

[Old Spice]

Be surprised if Hickey is 87kg still. From the picture, he's not a streak of pelican shit.

 

[NT.Thunder]

http://www.goldcoastfc.com.au/the-team/player-profiles/tom-hickey/

Will he really be that much better then Wood....Pick #20 please no!

Maybe, pick #20 really ends up being around #24 and Hine is out of ideas....

 

[Shade]

http://www.goldcoastfc.com.au/the-team/player-profiles/tom-hickey/

Will he really be that much better then Wood....Pick #20 please no!

Maybe, pick #20 really ends up being around #24 and Hine is out of ideas....

He's already better than Wood pulled down his pants against him.

 

[TradeDraft]

Will Suns Accept Pick 20 and would we even Trade Pick 20 for Hickey?

 

[Matz]

Why are we even looking at Hickey? ralphy is so damn clueless we dont want to develop a ruckmen we have 2 of them already if we want a ruckmen get a ready made one.

You can never have too many ruckmen, 1 of 4 only end up being good.

 

[NT.Thunder]

He's already better than Wood pulled down his pants against him.

http://finalsiren.com/MatchDetails.asp?GameID=5923&Code=0f220a2625400cb14981133f5be8ac06

That's BS isn't it! I mean I can't remember the game but certainly the match stats don't show that Hickey was dominant. Looks to me that Wood actually slightly had the better of him.

 

[HFF]

Hmm...Pick 20 for Hickey?

Not entirely convinced on that.

Rather the draft.

 

[Pennypacker]

Only if they take Wood as well to free up a spot on our list not to mention the $ from the final year of his contract.

Absolutely. I would be dumping Wood no matter what now. If we're not going to pick him for a cut throat final against WC's gun ruckman even when Dawes was on one leg I can't see us ever picking him again.

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

All i remember of Hickey is he pulled wood's pants down in our game against GC this year

so he is already better than Wood but then again that's quite an easy feat.

That's all I know about Hickey too! Who doesn't get to see the colour of Wood's jocks?

 

[aussierulesrules]

Be surprised if Hickey is 87kg still. From the picture, he's not a streak of pelican shit.

Very, very confident that that is not Hickey in the photo (unless he's the one at the back).

 

[Temploar]

Very confident that that is not Hickey in the photo (unless he's the one at the back).

I'm not sure now.

 

[Sidebottom2Beams]

Think the guy in the back is Dixon, guy in fron Lynch?

 

[blaze036]

If we get hickey then wood is gone, can't have 5 ruckmen on ur list (plus gault lynch richmond).

Hickey will be an upgrade on wood, and could be a good long term prospect so he would be good to get. Ruckmen have huge trade value so we could sell one of either hickey witts ceglar in a few years and make a huge profit in a trade (assuming we get the 3 and dont have room for em all). The only problem i have is pick 20 sounds like a bit much... Maybe hine isn't keen on the players left at 20.

Of course it is JUST a rumour so it could be entirely not true.
If we could get for him cheap i'd be very happy

Potentially Pick 20, Josh thomas, 39 and 45 for Hickey and pick 25

GC get pick 20, JT, 39, and 45 (which they could use to ontrade for mature bodies or use in the draft).

We get Hickey and 25.

Currently the GC's top 2 picks are 25 and 44, and as they need to take at least 3 kids giving em picks 20 39 and 45 would leave them in a far better position to draft.

Pick 25 isn't much worse for us than 20 39 and 45 because we probably wont even get to use pick 39 and 45, and we downgrade pick 20 only 5 spots. Does this sound like a good trade for both parties?