Strategy Trade and List .Management thread 5 (...the post coitus cigarette. Edition)

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How about we just keep stringer if he chooses not to return that's fine he can commit career suicide as he won't be able to play elsewhere without permission from the club and given his unprofessionalism a year off which would include him being lazy would kill his career or he can come back work his arse off and prove everyone wrong and leave next year or stay
 

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Hold fellas I saw that on the Stringer megathread but looking on his twitter I don't see it. So may not be true or it may have been taken down.
 

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Dire times?

Hate to see what you would be posting if we hadn't have won a flag for 60 years....
You can look back and say we are happy with one flag and be pleased with that.
For me as glorious as that period was, it’s now well and truly history.

Let’s face it we have hardly created a dynasty that most of us expected we would do.
Missing out on the finals in 17 was as close to the greatest fall from grace of any team ever.

So we can keep going with the status quo, make the same mistakes over and over and hope things change. In my experience that doesn’t happen. If you don’t adapt to change or have no plan b,c or d then you are doomed to fail.
There is a saying along the lines of “a plan set in stone is a plan doomed to fail”
We as a club need to be more adaptable or believe me we will languish.
If we have another lacklustre year with little change, miss out on finals again then yes it will be dire.
 

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I’ve asked this before, but no one answered, why don’t Essendon throw a player(s) into the deal? Is Dodoro that moronic?
We have not got the list spots to use these marvelous picks
let alone take on more players. The forward planning on this
is well backward to say the least.

I had physio yesterday and the physio was an Essendon
supporter even he could not see the logic in wanting Jake
Stringer when they have so many similar types as it is.
 
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Yep. I'd be asking Essendon for their 2018 first (unless of course we have no intention of ever letting Stringer set foot in the place again.)
This should be our last offer, if not taken then we walk from Essendon. No hard feelings, a deal can’t be reached. Move on.
 
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We have not got the list spots to use these marvelous picks
let alone take on more players. The forward planning on this
is well backward to say the least.

I had physio yesterday and the physio was an Essendon
supporter even he could not see the logic in wanting Jake
Stringer when they have so many similar types as it is.
Couldn’t we delist somebody though.
 

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You can look back and say we are happy with one flag and be pleased with that.
For me as glorious as that period was, it’s now well and truly history.

Let’s face it we have hardly created a dynasty that most of us expected we would do.
Missing out on the finals in 17 was as close to the greatest fall from grace of any team ever.

So we can keep going with the status quo, make the same mistakes over and over and hope things change. In my experience that doesn’t happen. If you don’t adapt to change or have no plan b,c or d then you are doomed to fail.
There is a saying along the lines of “a plan set in stone is a plan doomed to fail”
We as a club need to be more adaptable or believe me we will languish.
If we have another lacklustre year with little change, miss out on finals again then yes it will be dire.
Seriously you can go on all day about dynasties and doom but the fact is that last time we had a big upheaval it set the wheels in motion for us to win a bloody premiership mate!
The only languishing I can see at the moment is being done by you. Cheer up because we still have the Bont and he's worth two Stringers and change and we have Bevo who is a once in a generation coach!
 
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You mustn’t have read what I replied to.
I read it but for us two 2nd rounders don’t equate to a first round pick. West Coast might want two second rounders and that’s fine. We have already seen a deal like that with Dunkley/Collins picks when we could have in effect got Curnow. That’s all hindsight but I know now who I would prefer to have. Dunkley is ok but doubts must be very high on Collins ever becoming a quality player.
 

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I read it but for us two 2nd rounders don’t equate to a first round pick. West Coast might want two second rounders and that’s fine. We have already seen a deal like that with Dunkley/Collins picks when we could have in effect got Curnow. That’s all hindsight but I know now who I would prefer to have. Dunkley is ok but doubts must be very high on Collins ever becoming a quality player.
Trading Carlton's 16 for 25 and 30 is quite a realistic scenario given they need a pick between 25-30 to land Kennedy. This has nothing to do with points.
 
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