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Tonga Bob said:
F*CK THE FATHER-SON RULE.
F*CK THE NGA.
F*CK CONCESSION PICKS.
F*CK STEVEN F*CKEN SILVAGNI.
F*CK THE AFL.
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WilloTree said:
SOS must love Freo this time of the year. We just keep handing over our players for junk.

Bid on a player at Pick 9 - get him for an F2
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Well if we win the GF and St Kilda the spoon ....we've really moved that 4th round pick up.
 
WilloTree said:
SOS must love Freo this time of the year. We just keep handing over our players for junk.
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In hindsight we should have passed on drafting him in the first place. We would be in a much happier frame of mind now having seen how long Henry took to show much and then having to deal with this insulting p.o.s trade.

To be fair I thought Henry would be one of the players most likely to stick with the club.
 
This is more of a sob than a vent, but it is what it is.

I'm flat as f*ck over today.

With one person leaving, I see the rest of the competition getting father-son picks and Northern academy picks and high end NGA picks before they changed (for us before anyone else) and free agency compensation picks and just being an ass club compensation picks. We hardly ever get this sort of stuff, and when we do we can't keep them - the only one we've had in years leaves just when he's showing performances that match potential. We get bugger all, and what we do get walks out the door.

With the other person leaving, a speculative pick that comes good and again just when he's about to come into his prime he too leaves. He may not have that much more of a ceiling, but he should be able to at least maintain the bloody good player he is today. He also leaves just before the 100 game father-son eligibility limit. But on top of that I had a real emotional investment in him, as he was the player that came and did the Q&A session on our board that I helped facilitate. I know I shouldn't take that personally but man that really f*cken sucks.

These two, plus Hamling's departure for nish, is again perpetuating the narrative about us being a revolving door for players that are only good when they're not in purple. Don't worry about mentioning those players we retain, in fact deride us for handing out long contracts. Damned if we do and damned if we don't.

And what do we get in return? A strong hand at next year's draft, which isn't as compromised as this year's and probably not as compromised as the year after next (if the under 16 all-Australian team with half the players coming from Northern academies is any indication) but still quite compromised. We either get a bunch of talented draftees who will take at least two years to develop, or we trade the picks for some 'big fish' (where our track record isn't exactly crash hot) who will take at least half a season to adjust to a new team. So unless something unforeseen happens in the next couple of days, the only potential improvement that the team will have for next season is purely organic based on the remaining players being a year older and having more time to train & practice with each other. We may get an extra two wins in 2024 out of that, which would leave us in 9th or 10th place on the ladder. Yay.

Any new big fish will see us have real improvement in 2026, and if we go to the draft it's 2027 before we're in contention. That'll be the year that the Tasmanian concessions begin. All while the other clubs will see our good players as ripe for the picking, and will still get their father-son picks and Northern academy picks and high end NGA picks before they change again (for Quaynor's brother and the other Oakleigh kids tied to Collingwood) and free agency compensation picks and just being an ass club compensation picks. And if we have another underwhelming season then that means JLO's arse and yet another period of readjustment, so add another year onto the above estimates.

OK maybe this is a vent as well as a sob. But I'm flat as f*ck. Don't @ me, can't be bothered debating.
 
Tonga Bob said:
This is more of a sob than a vent, but it is what it is.

I'm flat as f*ck over today.

With one person leaving, I see the rest of the competition getting father-son picks and Northern academy picks and high end NGA picks before they changed (for us before anyone else) and free agency compensation picks and just being an arse club compensation picks. We hardly ever get this sort of stuff, and when we do we can't keep them - the only one we've had in years leaves just when he's showing performances that match potential. We get bugger all, and what we do get walks out the door.

With the other person leaving, a speculative pick that comes good and again just when he's about to come into his prime he too leaves. He may not have that much more of a ceiling, but he should be able to at least maintain the bloody good player he is today. He also leaves just before the 100 game father-son eligibility limit. But on top of that I had a real emotional investment in him, as he was the player that came and did the Q&A session on our board that I helped facilitate. I know I shouldn't take that personally but man that really f*cken sucks.

These two, plus Hamling's departure for nish, is again perpetuating the narrative about us being a revolving door for players that are only good when they're not in purple. Don't worry about mentioning those players we retain, in fact deride us for handing out long contracts. Damned if we do and damned if we don't.

And what do we get in return? A strong hand at next year's draft, which isn't as compromised as this year's and probably not as compromised as the year after next (if the under 16 all-Australian team with half the players coming from Northern academies is any indication) but still quite compromised. We either get a bunch of talented draftees who will take at least two years to develop, or we trade the picks for some 'big fish' (where our track record isn't exactly crash hot) who will take at least half a season to adjust to a new team. So unless something unforeseen happens in the next couple of days, the only potential improvement that the team will have for next season is purely organic based on the remaining players being a year older and having more time to train & practice with each other. We may get an extra two wins in 2024 out of that, which would leave us in 9th or 10th place on the ladder. Yay.

Any new big fish will see us have real improvement in 2026, and if we go to the draft it's 2027 before we're in contention. That'll be the year that the Tasmanian concessions begin. All while the other clubs will see our good players as ripe for the picking, and will still get their father-son picks and Northern academy picks and high end NGA picks before they change again (for Quaynor's brother and the other Oakleigh kids tied to Collingwood) and free agency compensation picks and just being an arse club compensation picks. And if we have another underwhelming season then that means JLO's arse and yet another period of readjustment, so add another year onto the above estimates.

OK maybe this is a vent as well as a sob. But I'm flat as f*ck. Don't @ me, can't be bothered debating.
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I’m hearing ya Bob
All I can say is its the Dockers

Next year they’ll likely have a good one just when you don’t expect them to

Hang in there Big Guy 👊
 

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why do we always bend over and take up the ass every trade period, we never ever get a good trade, even when we trade players in its always for a pile of picks that totally screw us. Sack the whole trade/draft team
 

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