Strategy Trade and List Management Thread Part 8 (opposition supporters - READ posting rules before posting)

[_Mike_]

Opposition supporters coming to troll , you have been warned

 

[Foxman98]

Am I missing something here? Do player managers have a strange way of doing their job?
We are light on for KPDs. Any fringe KPD coming to us would be an excellent chance of getting a run. Yet the KPDs we are looking at are not expressing interest.
We have a very good crop of mids. Any fringe mids coming to us to be hard pressed to get a game. Yet they seem interested. Baffling

Because none of them are what we need

 

[BLACAE]

Bakers last few games too.

Yep, that's a fair call. Really liked seeing that from him.

 

[BLACAE]

Mr Kennedy as well.

Yep, another good call. He was great this year.

 

[Mojorisin]

He shouldn't cost too much but doubt he'd be delisted. Would be great depth.

He's not the best user but runs hard and tackles hard. And I've always thought of him as pretty fast?

Just looked up his draft profile and seems you are right

"his speed and agility is considered elite with a sub-eight second agility test and a sub-three second 20m sprint."

From watching him in the few games he has played it certainly didn't look it to my eye, that could be due to him being forced to a flank rather then his preferred inside role though.

 

[BLACAE]

Yep. In one of the finals in 2023 he turned on beast mode and shut down Petracca in the second half and got the lions over the line.

Exactly this, but he can still get the ball too. A lot like Picken used to.

 

[MaxiBont]

Has Wilkie confessed his love for Bevo at the Saints BnF yet?

 

[BLACAE]

Six years on Brisbane's list without looking like establishing himself as a regular senior player. Would he do any better with us or just continue to be a fringe player mostly plying his trade in the VFL? I suppose being out of contract and keen to move he could indeed come cheap. The question is, would he improve us?

It's a fair question. I personally think he would. Kennedy is case and point. He is a really good club man, and I think Dev will be the same. A hard bastard who busts his arse. Teams walk taller with these sorts of players.

 

[NoName]

Im also attending Wednesday night. My first time hahaha

Me too!

 

[DannyB4]

I want to sign Mason cause it be funny to roll out two 210cm forwards

Get that kid from Richmond VFL that was taller than Mason. Then we play 3x 210cm+ tall forwards and Naughts can go back to defence.

 

[Redders98]

Wilkie was spotted arriving at the Saints BNF in a brand new Toyota with a packet of Mission corn chips in hand, make of that what you will

 

[DannyB4]

Wasn't that the club was unprofessional but more so certain players, Hunter and Bruce are two that ruffled some feathers with their lack of ''taking it seriously''

Also was that Hunter/Smith drunk driving incident that was around that time.

 

[Mojorisin]

Also was that Hunter/Smith drunk driving incident that was around that time.

Hunter just happened to crash out the front of smith's girlfriends house if I remember correctly.

 

[geoffjennings79]

Wilkie was spotted arriving at the Saints BNF in a brand new Toyota with a packet of Mission corn chips in hand, make of that what you will

Wilkie to stand up at their BnF and recreate a great moment from AFL history...

 

[Martyn_30_]

Bringing in unproven low ceiling midfielder makes as much sense as using high picks on ruckman and key defenders.There's always a surplus of mature tough inside midfielders if you need one, the Kennedy, Worpel types but list doesn't need one now so it's an odd move. But maybe the list management team will address the defensive chasm on the list, as well as moving around irrelevant parts of the list.

 

[DannyB4]

Hunter just happened to crash out the front of smith's girlfriends house if I remember correctly.

And Smith helped him cover up the fact that he was drink driving?

If Dunkley is half the professional that people claim he is, off field incidents like this would have certainly rubbed him the wrong way.

 

[TiAn_]

 

[DannyB4]

So for those putting themselves through the torture of watching the B&F... any Wilkie news?

 

[Testekill]

And Smith helped him cover up the fact that he was drink driving?

If Dunkley is half the professional that people claim he is, off field incidents like this would have certainly rubbed him the wrong way.

Yeah we should have honestly been looking at moving Hunter on at the end of 2020, doubly so know that we know how much he fell off the rails over the following seasons.

 

[weltschmerz]

I may have manifested Dev Rob to the Dogs with a poor photoshop job at the start of the year

 

[manutd/dogs]

I may have manifested Dev Rob to the Dogs with a poor photoshop job at the start of the year

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[Flags_In_The_Bag]

Robertson is one of those players we lack. Someone with some mongrel who gets the job done in any way they can. They're not gifted footballers by anymeans but they fight tooth and nail.

Players like Morris, Vlastiun, Oliver, Rowell, Maynard, Crisp, Collins etc. These aren't players you watch in awe as they achieve the improbable, they just refuse to be beaten. Libba, West, Bont, Darcy and to a lesser extent Naughton would be the players I'd put in that category.

Like Mitch Robertson was similar

 

[cleveland]

 

[MaxiBont]

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I know they don’t have to, but I’d be genuinely surprised if there is no confirmation that Wilkie is staying.

Seems like the perfect time to shut everything down.

 

[TiAn_]

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He spent 29 of his 30 minutes yelling at a cardboard cut out of Will Ashcroft

 

[cleveland]

I know they don’t have to, but I’d be genuinely surprised if there is no confirmation that Wilkie is staying.

Seems like the perfect time to shut everything down.

Maybe he isn't