Yes a guy like Tenace wouldnt be delisted...but is he being courted for the PSD? It's occurred to me no doubt like many of you since 2pm Friday what is the real solution to the seeming strategy behind Geelong's present draft pick situation? Unfortunately this is going to take a while to explain...when in reality its quite a simple theory.
As we should we can take Wells at face value when he suggests we will have 4 picks in the national draft. In his own mind did he mean four picks total...or 4 'live' picks and Donohue? To be honest I'm not sure but realism given our list and whats been mentioned so far by the club would suggest 4 live picks in total plus donohue plus the 2 rookie upgrades is quite possibly the scenario.
Its been interesting to everyone that we traded King and Gardiner for pick 90... meaning virtually nothing...and yet opted to wait all week for pick 62 as a swap for 66 from the dogs for Callan. Why not just take 78 or 94 from the doggies and not worry about it at all? Remember we had already secured pick 44 for Playfair allowing us 17, 34, 44 and 50...so a clear cover for our 4 pick scenario....why wait on the Dogs for pick 62 when we already had pick 66 for Donohue or supposedly a pick we didnt need to use anyway? What it possibly suggests is that #62 was drafted in a way as to include its relevance as a possibly 'live' pick and not just a father/son selection.
My humble opinion is the cats are worried about at least one player walking into the PSD...the most likely candidate to do so presently is Tenace. The forgotten man almost who missed both flags but was never mentioned in the press. Was offered up at the start of trade week and hardly raised a ripple of interest. I have a funny feeling he could be the target of a PSD coup by either Richmond or a Carlton presently. He remains unsigned and no one has even asked him or his manager a thing about his future plans. Geelong may have asked them to stay quiet whilst they make a revised offer for a new contract? Why let the press in on something when they have fallen asleep at the wheel.
We all know Carlton and the Tigers have developed a pathetic culture of tanking games so as to receive reward for doing nothing and thats why they keep spending all their time at the bottom of the ladder these days. I feel particularly Richmond would be behind such a scheme as they seem to have adopted some self inflicted masochistic view of the Geelong Footy Club RE the Brad Ottens deal.
We need to do our regular delistments which most of us agree could/should be another 3 players to facilitate our drafting and rookie upgrading requirements... if Tenace walks too it might mean we have to use a higher pick as a replacement for him/midfielder and spend a fifth live pick #62 on a taller project player if we have only upgraded 2 rookies.
Our recent picks #63 for Egan, #61 Stokes and #59 Hogan is a pretty good track record for us so I am not daunted if we have to use pick #62 with Wells in charge.
Does anyone else think we have secured some contingency with #62 for a guy like Tenace walking into the PSD? Just a thought.