Rumour Thread

[Axl the great]

Broughton off to the Suns, good get for them.

 

[Shade]

Broughton off to the Suns, good get for them.

If its for pick 13 its not running defenders are easy to find/get.

and broughton isn't exactly a gun, good okay player

 

[Old Spice]

Josh Toy can't get his heartbeat above 100 bpm. This is Jack Darling type subterfuge if we get him. More likely to get Chris Bryan.

 

[JOELY]

 

[Rusty22]

toys ill, he will have an early retirement, poor kid.

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

If its for pick 13 its not running defenders are easy to find/get.

and broughton isn't exactly a gun, good okay player

That's not what they were saying about him whilst he was a free spirit up for trade. Now that some other club has snapped him up he is suddenly just ordinary again. Such is life.

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

Toy sucks and his heart rate thing will make him suck even more

sorry he wont last in the AFL for long.

Hopefully life is kinder to him than the AFL.

 

[FIGJAM]

If Toy's heartrate couldn't go above 100bpm, he'd have to avoid photos like these:

 

[Shade]

Love the new username MMD.

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

Love the new username MMD.

Thanks Shade, though I was not the inventor. The credit goes to Pleasedon'tfail11. I still retain the MMD and it saves having to immediately change my avatar.

 

[Quicky]

West is a decent option as a backup, but you don't want to overpay for backups. Pick #21? Laughable.

It's the sort of deal that would undo our good work in this trade period. Fortunately I can't see our list managers being so careless.

 

[TradeDraft]

It's the sort of deal that would undo our good work in this trade period. Fortunately I can't see our list managers being so careless.

West was Highly Rated at start of the Seasons

 

[MyManLynch]

Sounds like another Toy story....

 

[Krueger]

Dont know why we didnt go after Hamish McIntosh if we wanted another ruck. Cats snag H-Mac with pick 36 and we are left with their scraps in West and Orrenson.

Rather keep Wood than either of the above two. Wood knows he is on the knife edge so hopefully he can play like it.

 

[Hardas]

Dont know why we didnt go after Hamish McIntosh if we wanted another ruck. Cats snag H-Mac with pick 36 and we are left with their scraps in West and Orrenson.

Rather keep Wood than either of the above two. Wood knows he is on the knife edge so hopefully he can play like it.

We can live in hope, I guess.

 

[Breakthelines]

Dont know why we didnt go after Hamish McIntosh if we wanted another ruck. Cats snag H-Mac with pick 36 and we are left with their scraps in West and Orrenson.

Rather keep Wood than either of the above two. Wood knows he is on the knife edge so hopefully he can play like it.

It's because H-Mac is an injury prone, overrated dud.
I'm not fussed on West either.
Maybe we know of a couple of ruck man out of contract at the end of next year and just waiting until then....rather than hitting the panic button.

 

[Krueger]

It's because H-Mac is an injury prone, overrated dud.
I'm not fussed on West either.
Maybe we know of a couple of ruck man out of contract at the end of next year and just waiting until then....rather than hitting the panic button.

I dont think the Cats made a mistake getting him and dumping Orrenson. McIntosh whilst injury prone (alot of it due to bad luck) is amogst the best when fit. He has 3 good years left and would have been the pefect fill in whilst Witts matures (if we decide to go that way).

IF we can get a gun ruckman next year that would be ideal but if not id rather keep Wood than recruit the likes of West or Orrenson.

 

[TradeDraft]

Jay Clark ‏@ClarkyHeraldSun
Demons deal for Pedersen is going nowhere fast. North don't want to off-load him for steak knives (pick 50) Contracted. Could stay.

Collingwood make a Last Minute Trade for Pederson?

 

[Hardas]

Breakthelines said: Maybe we know of a couple of ruck man out of contract at the end of next year and just waiting until then....rather than hitting the panic button.

Now that I would gladly live in hope of [you know, rather than the Wood finally gets it thing....].

 

[Old Spice]

I dont think the Cats made a mistake getting him and dumping Orrenson. McIntosh whilst injury prone (alot of it due to bad luck) is amogst the best when fit. He has 3 good years left and would have been the pefect fill in whilst Witts matures (if we decide to go that way).

IF we can get a gun ruckman next year that would be ideal but if not id rather keep Wood than recruit the likes of West or Orrenson.

Let me guess, you think we shouldn't have ditched Wellingham and Dawes, or picked up Young or Lynch.

Have we done anything right Cassandra?

 

[Swooop]

Wow, I must have overrated West by a fair bit judging by these recent posts here.

I thought he was pretty decent actually. I haven't watched the 2011 GF again properly, but didn't he do some reasonably good stuff for them in that? Guess that was only one game, but I must have only noticed the better bits of him during the year.

It's a slight conundrum - if Jolly goes down bigtime, or in finals, we'd be in very deep shite.
Wood may come up, but he hasn't yet, and I've stopped hoping that he will.

Win a grand final with Wood first ruck - haha, yeah right...

Not confident as some others that Witts and Ceglar are ready yet - they may come on well, but could be very slow to develop, and that's my tip, esp Witts.

I felt we needed a bridging option eg HMac, Hille as cover - but the problem is they'd be playing reserves as injury cover for Jolly and why would they want to do that ( assuming Lynch plays second ruck - resting forward) Also, then they'd be stifling opportunity for Witts/Ceglar.

This whole issue wouldn't exist of course if Wood had have cracked on.

Leaves us a little too vulnerable for my liking.

 

[Son of Skeletor]

Dont know why we didnt go after Hamish McIntosh if we wanted another ruck. Cats snag H-Mac with pick 36 and we are left with their scraps in West and Orrenson.

A) because McIntosh will want to play somewhere where he'll be first ruck- he'll walk straight in at Geelong
B) because McIntosh can't play the second ruck/forward role- he and Goldstein didn't work as a tandem

Out of every option mooted, I'd still personally most prefer Martin- he's in the right age bracket, he can take a mark, and he'd give us the ability to manage Jolly's workload throughout the season.

 

[Buena]

Very juicy news popping up here

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/new-twist-in-tippett-probe-20121024-285vi.html#ixzz2ADOdu1oS

 

[JOELY]

I feel for the supporters if they lose their picks, but us getting 18,19,20 would be cute.

 

[Unknown Identity]

Very juicy news popping up here

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/new-twist-in-tippett-probe-20121024-285vi.html#ixzz2ADOdu1oS

Dare say we might end up with 3 consecutive picks! 18,19 and 20!