Rumour Troy Chaplin

[The Rusty Trombone]

Heard a whisper today off someone highly connected with SA football circles that Troy has as good as signed with the Tigers. It will cost us our first round pick but will finish off the backline beautifully. Primus knows he has to rebuild that list from the ground up and anyone over 26 will be looked at in October.

If your reading Troy , "welcome to the club!"

 

[Barnzy]

Why would we blow our first rounder on a 3rd tall who can't defend an opposition key forward?

 

[Gentlemen]

Please no, 3rd rounder at best if we must.

 

[tugga]

Rusty is on the sauce. Don't drink and post Rusty!
God I hope this doesn't happen. 1st rounder? God forbid.

 

[ize_]

Why?

I honestly think we're right for KPDs. If someone young and decent like Trengove, Hansen or Frawley wanted to come then great, but other than that I have faith in Rance, Astbury and Grimes, and I even reckon something could be made of Gourdis...

First round pick, please no. He's a good player and played a very good game tonight but he isn't even rated that highly on the Port board.

I reckon most of these deals which are alleged to be "as good as done" this early in the season never come true anyway. It's just too early for something to be certain.

 

[Papa G]

Where do we sign?

 

[TOOs_Finest]

Why?

I honestly think we're right for KPDs. If someone young and decent like Trengove, Hansen or Frawley wanted to come then great, but other than that I have faith in Rance, Astbury and Grimes, and I even reckon something could be made of Gourdis...

First round pick, please no. He's a good player and played a very good game tonight but he isn't even rated that highly on the Port board.

I reckon most of these deals which are alleged to be "as good as done" this early in the season never come true anyway. It's just too early for something to be certain.

Yeah, even the ones that arise in trade week rarely get done, let alone the May ones.

Rusty, listen to Tugga... say NO to drinking and posting!!

 

[Tiger4Ever]

Heard a whisper today off someone highly connected with SA football circles that Troy has as good as signed with the Tigers. It will cost us our first round pick but will finish off the backline beautifully. Primus knows he has to rebuild that list from the ground up and anyone over 26 will be looked at in October.

If your reading Troy , "welcome to the club!"

I remember hearing maybe a month or so ago, John Ralph (on 'The Final Quarter', I think?) saying that we, along with Hawthorn, were still interested in Jackson Trengove from the Power and had a good chance of securing him. Apparently want's to come back to Victoria at the end of this season and I think would be a good fit a tigerland.
197cm 99kg, key position defender/utility and still only 20 years old.

 

[Rustof]

I thought we were using our first rounder for Scully though...

 

[tugga]

I remember hearing maybe a month or so ago, John Ralph (on 'The Final Quarter', I think?) saying that we, along with Hawthorn, were still interested in Jackson Trengove from the Power and had a good chance of securing him. Apparently want's to come back to Victoria at the end of this season and I think would be a good fit a tigerland.
197cm 99kg, key position defender/utility and still only 20 years old.

Has been mentioned on here. Now he would definitely cost us our first rounder and then some I reckon. Huge upside to him.

 

[Barnzy]

Don't get the Trengove love either. Rather base youngsters on what they show at AFL rather than any junior hype especially if hypothetically we were going to go all in to try and get him. Each to their own I guess though.

 

[Powerade 08]

You can have him. Just be warned he'll cost a 1st rounder or close to it and he's not very good.

Don't get the Trengove love either. Rather base youngsters on what they show at AFL rather than any junior hype. Each to their own I guess though.

Talking down any player on Ports list is a great way to sound like you know what you're talking about... but it doesn't make you right. Trengove played very well again tonight.

 

[Barnzy]

Talking down any player on Ports list is a great way to sound like you know what you're talking about... but it doesn't make you right. Trengove played very well again tonight.

I watched tonight and I've seen a fair bit of him. Not to say I think he's shit, I'm just not impressed enough to want us to give away around a top 10-15 pick for him. Not too sure about a few areas in Trengove's game, which I've pointed out in other threads.

 

[MightyTiger]

So first we are closely linked with Trengrove from Port and now we have basically signed Chaplin.

Doubt the club would be stupid enough to trade away a first round draft pick, considering one of the very first things the Club said when they appointed Dimma was that they would never trade away there 1st round draft picks.

Can't see it happening, bad call, premature call, you're out of your mind call.

 

[tugga]

Closing this thread.
Pretty sure Rusty is up to his old shenanigans again.
If he can produce decent evidence then I will re-open, but pretty sure no player would sign with a club (non GCS and GWS) at this stage of the season.