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We now have multiple sources in the media suggesting he's looking to be traded out.
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Traded Sam Weideman [Traded with #54 and #72 to Essendon for #37]
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Weid out a solution: Dees-Dons trade could set off dominoes
Melbourne key forward Sam Weideman is poised to move to Essendon in a trade that could have a cascading effect on a range of other deals.
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Saints missing another one too.... Essendon this time..
They got a bloke that wants to play for North as well..
Absolute mess of a football club
They got a bloke that wants to play for North as well..
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Should be a handy foil for Harry and 2metre.
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That’s not a good decision…
I guess they want him as a fwd/ruck to support Draper and take the 3rd best defender, but I just can’t see him doing much
I guess they want him as a fwd/ruck to support Draper and take the 3rd best defender, but I just can’t see him doing much
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He wasnt a handy foil for Ben Brown and Tom McDonald in a premiership side so why would he be for those two at Essendon?
Wright and Jones are better than those two and he won't have to contend with the selfish types like Fritsch.
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I would honestly still take that rather than have to follow your rabble of a club for the last 20 years.
The only decent decision they have made in that time was to not bring back James Hird and even somehow that wasn't unaminous, despite us being told so.
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Peter Wright had a few decent seasons at the suns before he went to the bombers. Weid hasn’t even kicked 20 in a season before. Wish him the best at the bombers but even a 3rd round pick feels like overs.
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I dont get the interest in him specifically as a player, personally.
But I suppose we looked best when we had 3 talls and when Stewart went down we had no depth, so there's that I suppose.
But I suppose we looked best when we had 3 talls and when Stewart went down we had no depth, so there's that I suppose.
inaccurate. that place was on fire before weideman crashed into it............
we lack a mature KPF. and tbh, im not sure we have one on the list.
Weideman will provide cover and get games. Joins the long line of failed attempts to replace Lucas
Brown, McKernan, Kepler, Stewart, Johns
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I didn't even know we were chasing him?
Last I hear we weren't interested
Will be a handy pick up imo maybe we will turn him into a defender?
Peter Wright had the same things said about him when he was at GC
Peter Wright had the same things said about him when he was at GC
2MP is, Jones not yet. And dees are a shit tonne better than the bombers, yet he still struggled. Don't think Fritsch had any negative impact on Sam Weideman. If anything he'd take a defender away from him.
Alot of Essendon people comparing him to Wright when he came across but I reckon Schache is a better comparison.
Weideman reminds me more of Mitch Brown cross Shaun McKernan. Which is probably one reason why ops have been starved for him.
The body in the side will help as Jones is probably more earmarked for Stringer's spot as 3rd tall, and the rest of the talls are kids who need time to develop.
Stewart helped when was in, but he can't be relied upon with injury.
Interestingly, this is a poor "fix" for what didn't work in 2015
Francis was a good pick at the time. Hasn't come on. The miss on Curnow (A grade) is covered over by a cheap Weideman (C grade)
If we can get a Wright style renaissance, excellent.
Would love 2018 finals Weideman to be the norm
Reckon he is a dud, don't understand the fascination at all.
However, if Dodo wants to keep picking up clubs offcuts/lemons (e.g. Setterfield, Weideman etc) to build a supposed premiership threat, then I am going to watch with some genuine glee at how it all goes pear-shaped.
However, if Dodo wants to keep picking up clubs offcuts/lemons (e.g. Setterfield, Weideman etc) to build a supposed premiership threat, then I am going to watch with some genuine glee at how it all goes pear-shaped.
Both will cost late picks worth a punt imo
I said the same about McStay...
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