List Mgmt. We Should Trade Robbie Gray

[NEGAN]

Macca19

Wasn't it two first rounders late in the piece?

I pretend that's not the case.


For my sanity will not withstand if it t'was.

 

[Visenfest]

If we're going to trade out a senior player to shake up the group, that player isn't Robbie.

 

[Forzaport]

Are you counting top 10-12 on form, or top 10-12 on importance to team structure?

Top 10-12 best players overall with obvious consideration to team structure.

 

[DPS72]

Current value calculations

Robbie = 2 first round picks
Chad = 2 first round picks
Jasper = 2 first round picks
Travis = 1 + 2nd
Ollie = 2 first round picks
All the Matthews = 5 first round picks
Im loosing interest in writing this post, hurry up and finish...

All those trades = Port GWS Power.
Lets do it.

 

[GreyPower]

I doubt we have 4 players who are worth 2 first round picks.

 

[PAFC66]

This is more embarrassing than our club atm

 

[PAFC66]

I would of been happy with lobbe and Hartlett out the door last year but Robbie? What a joke.

 

[cmpower]

How has this thread not been locked after 3 hours?

 

[Smithy7]

Hear me out please, I am the biggest fan of Robbie Gray (by far my favourite player) but I think it would be best for the club.

If you look at the demographic of our list and taking into account the emergence of GWS and our current performance we are not going to win a premiership or probably even be in the top 4 over the next 4 years. In 4 years time Robbie Gray will be 32 years old and I doubt he will be playing the football he is at the moment. Robbie Gray is in the top 3 players in the league for mine in terms of impact he can individually have on the game and he is worth absolute gold to a club who is closer than us to a premiership. If we could get 2 first rounders or something in that sort of ball park I think it would be best for our list management to trade him and aim to peak the list somewhere around the 2021,2022 mark. Obviously I am discounting players/kids I do not rate but here is what we could look like in 2021.

B: DBJ (25), Austin (25), Clurey (27)
HB: Broadbent (30), Hombsch (28), Pittard (30)
C: Polec (28), Wines (26), Hartlett (30)
HF: Wingard (27), Howard (25), Impey (25)
FF: Palmer (24), Dixon (30), Neade (26)
R: Snelling (23), Ryder (33), Amon (25)

Bench: Bonner (24), Toumpas (26), Jonas (30), Frampton (24)

Then you add the 2-3 first round draft picks who would be 22 by 2021 and I think if all progresses well we have a team who can actually contend for a premiership.

Geez what a post ... Robbie has signed up with the Club until the end of 2018.......
And, as he said .. he is not going anywhere... end of story ...........

 

[Sewer de Lance]

!!!

 

[PJ Power]

It's not the silliest option if maybe Hartlett or Boak were on the table however remember this......

We paid overs for Ryder a 28 year old.
We paid overs for Dixon a 25 year old.

We've traded for the 'now'.
We don't even have a 2nd pick this year.

We've gone all in, if we can't turn this around we're in big trouble long term.

The short term view we took of trading has backfired unfortunately.
I thought it was the right thing to do and still do, but WADA suspensions, injuries and the complacent malaise that has beset our entire squad have prevented us from seeing the benefits.
At best two years in the careers of Wines, Wingard and Gray have been lost without team success.

 

[MrMeaner]

Trrrrrraaaaadddeeee eeeeevvvvvveeeerrrrryyyyyyoooonnnnneee!

Amirite?

 

[StuMan]

Trrrrrraaaaadddeeee eeeeevvvvvveeeerrrrryyyyyyoooonnnnneee!

Amirite?

I read that in Mr. Bankrupt's voice.

 

[MrMeaner]

I read that in Mr. Bankrupt's voice.

I got the tone right then.

 

[philreich]

It'd be like the Crows trading Dean Gore.....

 

[Jim Dixon]

In all seriousness it won't matter who or what we trade while we have the football department we have.

Hinkley, Burgess and co aren't fit for purpose. You can bring in any good player you like and we won't get the proper output from them because the leadership from the football department (coaches, development systems etc) isn't going to get the best out of them.

So, first things first. Before we do trades, we have to fix the football department.

 

[charcolechaddy]

It all comes down to skills and we suck, we need to fix that. ATM Gray is one of few with those skills.

We are taking week options,we dont go low and hard this is why we fumble and over run the ball.

We are also mentally week.

 

[Us against the rest]

We are taking week options,we dont go low and hard this is why we fumble and over run the ball.

We are also mentally week.

Agree entirely.

 

[Jonts]

Trengove isn't on that untouchables list yet imo
Right price, inflated price due to circumstances I'd consider it

 

[LFC2010]

Hear me out please, I am the biggest fan of Robbie Gray (by far my favourite player) but I think it would be best for the club.

If you look at the demographic of our list and taking into account the emergence of GWS and our current performance we are not going to win a premiership or probably even be in the top 4 over the next 4 years. In 4 years time Robbie Gray will be 32 years old and I doubt he will be playing the football he is at the moment. Robbie Gray is in the top 3 players in the league for mine in terms of impact he can individually have on the game and he is worth absolute gold to a club who is closer than us to a premiership. If we could get 2 first rounders or something in that sort of ball park I think it would be best for our list management to trade him and aim to peak the list somewhere around the 2021,2022 mark. Obviously I am discounting players/kids I do not rate but here is what we could look like in 2021.

 

[LFC2010]

the one player i would put on the table is Westhoff!. He's reached his peak IMO, and he probably won't get any better.

Lets see what we can get for him. The draft is going to great this season so we really do need get 2 1st rnd picks if we can. I'm NOT saying we will get a 1st rounder for the Hoff, but it's at least worth exploring.

 

[Spadge]

im not even going to bother reading this thread but i will chuck my 2 cents in

Trading Robbie is probably the most stupid thing i have read on this forum for some time

 

[Rexie J]

im not even going to bother reading this thread but i will chuck my 2 cents in

Trading Robbie is probably the most stupid thing i have read on this forum for some time

x10.

 

[PAFC66]

There's no doubt Westhoff should be traded. Time to let him go..

 

[Janey]

Woke up this morning, checked BF, expected this thread would have died a natural death, nope