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Getting a bit over your negativity champ.

Have some faith son!
Good for you. I'm getting over our clubs lack of aggression. Premiership windows don't hang around waiting. We are blessed with some of the most talented players I've seen in Richmond colours. Rance, Cotchin, Deledio, Martin and Jack are as good as a core group in the AFL but they will go to waste if we don't add to this stock.
 
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Correct me if I am wrong but next year we wouldn't be able to do a deal like the filth did for Trelor offering our first and next years first ( without relying on another team trading us a first rounder )
If we trade out a first and trade in a first can we still trade future years first rounder?
 

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Good for you. I'm getting over our clubs lack of aggression. Premiership windows don't hang around waiting. We are blessed with some of the most talented players I've seen in Richmond colours. Rance, Cotchin, Deledio, Martin and Jack are as good as a core group in the AFL but they will go to waste if we don't add to this stock.
You think being aggressive in a negotiation works?
 
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You know, I would prefer to hold the line. Even though I really want Yarran, if they dont accept 19 keep it. We could get a gem at 12 and Rioli at 19 for example.

Exactly! I love the fact that Carlton hates us. our position is not diminished by not getting Yarran. It is just not improved. Carlton's position is specifically diminished, because Yarran will be cancerous if still inside the club in 2016
 

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Correct me if I am wrong but next year we wouldn't be able to do a deal like the filth did for Trelor offering our first and next years first ( without relying on another team trading us a first rounder )
Yes we would, because we'd still be using one of 15 and 18 in the draft. That would only be the case if we traded both of those picks as well
 

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So as a paid up member I'm meant to be happy we are the most unsuccessful club of the last 30 and we are incapable of luring A grade talent as well as not looking like winning a final? Wake up.
Take a timeout Lids, we know you're passion but we don't need that thrown at us. We've heard it all before.
 

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Andrew McKay sounds so full of shit.

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You think being aggressive in a negotiation works?
Aggressive in general, not in negotiating. In the last 4 years our football department has continually stated how happy they are with our list and the confidence they have in our coaching staff. Sorry but this years loss should be a warning sign that we do need to top up with some talent. Natural development isn't going to springboard us from elimination finalists to contenders. It hasn't in 3 years and it won't going forward.
 

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People are missing two very important pieces of information regarding Astbury.
1- Have you been to Brisbane?
2- (and this is the main one) Greg Denham said....
Yep, just reporting what he said.

I can maybe imagine asking for 4 years, but stamping your feet & demanding it is so, so dumb
 

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Andrew McKay sounds so full of shit.
He is also an idiot, they need our pick so they get Tomlinson<sp>. We just hold firm, if they want Tomlinson that bad they will blink if not we keep our picks get good kids, they miss out on tomlinson or are forced to give a higher pick and we get Yarran for nothing next year as they wont get compo as its more then likely compo picks are scrubbed by the AFL
 

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By negative you mean realist, right?
There is a difference between being negative and realistic

Too many here have extreme requirements. We "must" have a doozy, we must win every trade, we must have every negotiation be a win

World isn't like that. We are competing in a world of 18 highly competitive clubs, with scores of managers, and over 900 potential players, and this dynamic is constantly shifting

If you approach this with rigidity in expectation, you are doomed to fail

We need to be accountable, but also realistic. People wanting BH sacked for failing to secure Bennell and treloar really are kidding themselves
 
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