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

 

[Bald]

Arthur's Cafe, Lobb's house, and a couple of properties for sale in Williamstown!

Ah this is the gun in Lobb's house everybody was talking about.

 

[Optimistic Dog]

Not sure why posters keep dreaming we are getting Zak in this trade it is not happening hopeful for 26 trade.

 

[TheSportingEyes]

Hear me out.

Zak Butters > Midfield

Bontempelli > Forward

Naughton > Defence

Mostly sarcasm buttttt...

I want Bont in defence ASAP. Agree we need to experiment to fix this defence up especially.

 

[Dogs_r_barking]

don't understand why you're having so much difficulty understanding the concept of best available.
I'm not literally saying go and find Tom Stewart, but at least recruit the best available defender instead of another small guy who can't kick.


if you read the post I replied to, it said weightman is due back in the middle of next year. That's about 2 years out of the game and two full preseason missed

Right so we drafted Naughton and he became a full forward, we drafted Marcus Adams, but Brisbane took him, we traded for Alex Keath, who retired last year, we have had good defenders, but they a highly sort after commodity at the moment. We have some coming through, but as we all know talls take time.

We don’t all have academy picks like Brisbane some of us have to play by a different set of rules.

 

[Munnez]

That’s all we’ll and good until the Saints offer him $1.4M .

Honestly though if the Saints are saying they will only trade Marshall for SDK then they are playing it very well.

Suspect Saints need Marshall out to balance the spending spree

 

[Bald]

Not sure why posters keep dreaming we are getting Zak in this trade it is not happening hopeful for 26 trade.

We're just a bunch of Optimistic Dogs

 

[adogsfan5]

At least we know the facilities will blow his socks off..

 

[BigFloppa]

It's Zak's dream to play with Sellwood

 

[Doggies7]

Not sure why posters keep dreaming we are getting Zak in this trade it is not happening hopeful for 26 trade.

The more you post, the less I am convinced that you actually are an Optimistic Dog

 

[House_of_Dahl]

Butters has toured the Dogs facilities.

You serious or baiting trade radio to see if they run with it?

 

[Ash1337]

GC now has pick 51 from the Rosas jr trade.

 

[BulldogMuscle]

You serious or baiting trade radio to see if they run with it?

Coming from someone who works at MWO. Zero bait unless I’m also being baited but I’m 99% sure I’m not.

 

[Hobdog]

The more you post, the less I am convinced that you actually are an Optimistic Dog

Pragmatic Dog

 

[BulldogMuscle]

Has he toured anywhere else?

Couldn’t say. This info comes from someone who works at MWO.

 

[Hobdog]

Coming from someone who works at MWO. Zero bait unless I’m also being baited but I’m 99% sure I’m not.

I’d feel better if you were 99.99%

 

[TiAn_]

I just don’t see why Port biting the bullet this year and making a trade

 

[BulldogMuscle]

I’d feel better if you were 99.99%

The only thing in life I’m 100% on is death, taxes and Bevos ability to be the weirdest unit in the league.

 

[MaxiBont]

I just don’t see why Port biting the bullet this year and making a trade

There’s no way they trade him this year

They’re going to do everything to try and convince him to stay after next year.

 

[Optimistic Dog]

The more you post, the less I am convinced that you actually are an Optimistic Dog

I am optimistic I said hopeful for 26 trade, however not delusional thinking 25 when it has already been put to bed.

 

[Scragger77]

Not sure why posters keep dreaming we are getting Zak in this trade it is not happening hopeful for 26 trade.

Wait isn’t your name OPTIMISTIC Dog??

 

[BulldogMuscle]

There’s no way they trade him this year

They’re going to do everything to try and convince him to stay after next year.

This. 100%.
Zak knows it, Port and the Dogs know it.

Port have one of the biggest contracts in afl history in front of him as of mid this year and he approached them a few months later asking to see if they’d be interested in trading him home.

They’ll hold him to contract and spend the next year convincing him to stay.

The only thing I’m confident on if it isn’t Port, it’s us. 50/50 right now.

 

[weltschmerz]

No, the best available player.
There's a difference between "random" and best available.
Your club in 2017 thought Tom Stewart wasn't better than what the club already had. Turns out they were wrong. Plenty more examples exactly like this: Sam Collins, Mark Keane, Luke Ryan, Jeremy McGovern, etc.

Your defenders got massacred by Fremantle in the final round and somehow you are still arguing against the idea of selecting the best available defender. This is under the pretext that they're not better than your current options, even though your club has probably passed on dozens of quality defenders over the past 10 years in the belief they didn't improve you enough. Strange rationale.

Who do you think is the best available defender?

 

[MaxiBont]

This. 100%.
Zak knows it, Port and the Dogs know it.

Port have one of the biggest contracts in afl history in front of him as of mid this year and he approached them a few months later asking to see if they’d be interested in trading him home.

They’ll hold him to contract and spend the next year convincing him to stay.

The only thing I’m confident on if it isn’t Port, it’s us. 50/50 right now.

There seems to be too much smoke for him not to leave at the end of next season. But I wouldn’t be totally surprised if he’s still at Port in 2027.

Surely if it’s another poor season from Port that’ll help us.

 

[Dogs Rule]

This. 100%.
Zak knows it, Port and the Dogs know it.

Port have one of the biggest contracts in afl history in front of him as of mid this year and he approached them a few months later asking to see if they’d be interested in trading him home.

They’ll hold him to contract and spend the next year convincing him to stay.

The only thing I’m confident on if it isn’t Port, it’s us. 50/50 right now.

I think it's past that point. I don't think anything will convince him to stay.

He's had that massive contract from Port for months and he's not signed and he's gone further to approach them enquiring about a move back to Victoria.

I would say the ship has sailed and Port are now in the denial/bargaining phase. Up to them how they want to play it but it's just delaying the pain.

 

[VitalDread]

How big are Butters hands?