Strategy Trade and List Management thread 4 (Be sure to huddle around your transitor radio at 11 am Edition)

Is the Stringer situation beyond repair?

  • The club clearly want him out the door.

  • This was just a shot across Jakes bow as a means of motivating him.

  • The club is clearly a rabble. Sack Macca!

  • This is just the first play in massive trade that we are not yet privy to.

  • This is a game of blink and Jake and Conners just blinked.

  • Its time to move on a negotiate the best deal we can.

  • I felt sad for Jake on that stage today.

  • We've warned you about creating polls Norm!

  • The Jack 'Armageddon option' Watts option


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Peter Wallis

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Dale will probably give you a better answer but my opinion is we aren't so much in the "now" window. Last year was something special, but look at our age profile. Look at our performance this year. Even if our window is open we're not in a position where it's about to close any time soon. We can make longer term, higher payoff decisions instead of rushing things and getting less to show for it. Next years draft looks very strong and full of talls. Whoever goes pick 1 this year will would struggle to go top ten next year. A top five pick this year is pretty uninspiring whereas we could get someone really special next year. I'm happy to wait. And there's also the chance a North or Carlton gives us theirs and the get the spoon. As for getting an established player now, I'd be all for it if there was someone available. I really can't see who it would be.
I agree. Lever would have been excellent but he is off the table & I don't think there is any other player available this year that we would really want. Tom Lynch in 2018 would be mouth watering & an early 2018 pick might help get him if the AFL don't prevent this from happening. Clearly this would be a long shot but worse case we could still get an outstanding tall prospect in next years draft.
This year is clearly a midfielders draft & this is not an area that we desperately need to strengthen particularly if Libba, Smith & Wallis get back to their best next year.
 

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More of Damo's work

If Jake Stringer is the only Bulldog seeking a new home ... then
... we'd be very surprised. As we said here last week, not a happy camp. Carnage everywhere, on and off the playing list.
 

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Can we stop the "we want him out so we'll get bent over in a trade" thread??

Seriously. He's contracted, and he wants out. Not denying the coach wants him moved, but we have all the leverage here.
Get your point Fronk but we have J-Mac sitting at the trade table. And him and Dal aren't seeing eye to eye. This has big potential to go very very wrong for us. Not many here have much faith in J-Mac, who by the sounds, is going to be very very busy in October and could be out of a job by Christmas, well out of Whitten Oval anyway.

I remember one of the last deals Rogers did before he left Carlton. Whiley, Jaksch and 19 for pick 7. Yuck.

I'm very nervous.
 

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More of Damo's work

If Jake Stringer is the only Bulldog seeking a new home ... then
... we'd be very surprised. As we said here last week, not a happy camp. Carnage everywhere, on and off the playing list.
He's been waiting for this and is full of it
 

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Anybody who doesn't want to play for our club - throw them out the door.

Can't imagine Bont or Macrae cracking the sads and wanting out after a harsh talking to.

In the words of Aegon Targarean **** I speak directly to Stringer - kill the boy and let the man be born.
He wanted to stay until the club told him he would be traded if they got a good offer. Not sure it's a matter of thinking he can get away with anything, he is just reacting to the news
o_Oo_O

***** Kudos for quoting Aegon Targarean


whoever the **** that is
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More of Damo's work

If Jake Stringer is the only Bulldog seeking a new home ... then
... we'd be very surprised. As we said here last week, not a happy camp. Carnage everywhere, on and off the playing list.
Can anyone with club connections shed some light on this? He's not the first to have said it.

Seriously, if this is true, how the hell do you go from a flag won on effort and belief to a basket case again in the space of a season?
 

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Some gross overestimation of his value going on ITT

2 late firsts, top 5 picks and Mitch Duncan not being worth half of his value? Ludicrous, and made even more so by the fact that you guys have acknowledged he and the club both want him gone.

Open market value at the moment would probably be a pick in the late teens/early twenties.
M8. With all due respect, up in Brisbane you wouldn't know a AA premiership player if he popped up in your porridge...

Hang on - there is one at Brisbane. Your captain (who had a worse injury history and was older than Stringer), had a bad boy rep, was contracted, had one AA cap while under 22 - all like Stringer. Beamsy hadn't lead his clubs goal kicking for the last three years running either.

And guess what?

Brisbane paid p5, 25 and Crisp. And no offence but a younger less injury prone, goal kicker like Stringer has more blue sky potential than Beams.

Meanwhile the Lions got two picks in the 20's for Aish. So according to you, a nuffy like Aish has more value than Stringer.

Maybe go back and do some research before you mouth off m8. You just look like a bit of a nuff nuff right now m8.
 

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Interesting times ahead that is for sure.

I've said it all along that Stringer is the player I'd prefer over someone like Martin. If you look at their career paths they share a lot of similarities. If Stringer can improve his tank he could be as good as Martin if not better.

Stinger for Goldstein would probably work out well for both clubs in my opinion. Good luck for the rest of the year.
 

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Interesting times ahead that is for sure.

I've said it all along that Stringer is the player I'd prefer over someone like Martin. If you look at their career paths they share a lot of similarities. If Stringer can improve his tank he could be as good as Martin if not better.

Stinger for Goldstein would probably work out well for both clubs in my opinion. Good luck for the rest of the year.
What else are you giving up with Goldstein? Needs to be a lot more on top.
 

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Interesting times ahead that is for sure.

I've said it all along that Stringer is the player I'd prefer over someone like Martin. If you look at their career paths they share a lot of similarities. If Stringer can improve his tank he could be as good as Martin if not better.

Stinger for Goldstein would probably work out well for both clubs in my opinion. Good luck for the rest of the year.
This post totally contradicts itself. Stringer could be as better than Martin but I'd only give up Goldstein :drunk:
 

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Interesting times ahead that is for sure.

I've said it all along that Stringer is the player I'd prefer over someone like Martin. If you look at their career paths they share a lot of similarities. If Stringer can improve his tank he could be as good as Martin if not better.

Stinger for Goldstein would probably work out well for both clubs in my opinion. Good luck for the rest of the year.

Throw in your first round pick and brown and we have a deal ;)
 

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Interesting times ahead that is for sure.

I've said it all along that Stringer is the player I'd prefer over someone like Martin. If you look at their career paths they share a lot of similarities. If Stringer can improve his tank he could be as good as Martin if not better.

Stinger for Goldstein would probably work out well for both clubs in my opinion. Good luck for the rest of the year.
Stringer in a swap for Goldstein is not going to happen. Goldstein will be 30 next year while Stringer is 23. Pick 4 would need to be on the table with possibly our 2nd pick thrown in to get that done imo.
 

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I assume North could cover all of Goldsteins contract for you. That way you could restructure bonts so that it's less to pay in the future.

Maybe 21 with Goldstein and North get 26.
Hilarious. We don't need a ruckman that badly, Bevo's gameplan isn't built around that. And Goldy's sizable contract is your problem, not ours. Not to mention Goldstein has fallen off a cliff.

Goldy + 21 for Stringer and no picks back would still be a steal for you blokes.
 
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