So west coast may get Varcoe as well. I'm feeling a bit bummed you know. I feel like every team that will be challenging in the 8 next year seem to be strengthening their lists and filling holes that they have. Hawks, Geelong, port, north, essendon, collingwood, WC, Gold Coast. They are all just improving their teams in ways that have been lacking .
I'm seeing people on here saying our team is fine, injuries hurt us etc but we have some serious holes in KPP and I feel we are going to get nothing of value this trade period and it is going to hurt
Simmo, I agree with you on this.
However it doesn't seem to be that simple.
For us this year, the mid tier improvement is tricky. Even with Kepler and Gumby's retirement, we still need to delist one more player. Probably one of Duffy, Hannath or Simpson. Bringing in a mid tier guy would mean having to drop another one out of the above 3. It may not be worthwhile.
At the top tier, most teams have wised up and re-signed their FAs way before season ended (like we did with Mundy). Frawley was the best available and we made a strong offer for him, it's too bad it didn't work out
I actually liked the ideas where we go crazy and shoot for Nick Riewoldt. We just need him for short term anyway. But it may mean losing Duffy long term (see above) for his short 1 or 2 year sting, not even considering the picks we'll lose, it may not seem worthwhile again.
Let's just see what happens. We'll still be in contention with our current list as it is. Don't really want the club to trade for the sake of trading if it's purely speculative.