List Mgmt. Welcome Liam Baker (2024 Megatrade)

[Andyy]

Good luck Liam.

A fan favourite for good reason.

Hope he can show the WCE fans that he was worth it. P14 is still and unknown, but you definitely have a solid player with Bakes. Balls of steel and will always have a dip.

 

[Slash136]

If he spuds it up its going to be a rough 5 years.

 

[squashface]

I'm sure he'll be a good solid player but he will always have the stain of the loss of pick 3 on him when we are watching guys like FOS and Draper running around winning Brownlows while Baker gets 12 possessions from the HFF as a 30 year old in a mid table side.

 

[Off Tap]

Baker is a great pickup for the team and I welcome wish him all the best.

To our recruiting department, you're a bunch of Muppets with the price you have paid for an uncontracted player.

Baker is the type of player you bring in when you're a serious contender, not when you're rebuilding and looking for 250 game top end talents.

 

[Andyy]

Bloke is a good, tough player.

 

[FKASC]

more platitudes please Richmond fans

 

[Matele]

 

[Lia]

Ball butchering midget

 

[RookiePick]

Good player and has a lot of attributes that we have been lacking.

Stick it up us Liam!

 

[THE A5]

I actually have nothing against these two hobbits but will be taking my frustration out on em sadly

 

[random260]

Thanks Baker. I hope your career will be filled with the sentence I hope tigers will be well compensated be plastered everywhere

 

[greatwhiteshark]

He’s basically Duggan - cleaner by hand probably. Imagine if we made another team trade pick 3 to get Duggan

Personally I think he is a far better player than Duggan.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

I'm sure he'll be a good solid player but he will always have the stain of the loss of pick 3 on him when we are watching guys like FOS and Draper running around winning Brownlows while Baker gets 12 possessions from the HFF as a 30 year old in a mid table side.

Can we agree which player we were taking at 3 so we don’t melt about anything that every single player from 3-11 do?

Like if it’s Draper and Draper’s a star, we get to melt, but if he’s a bust we get to say bullet dodged.

 

[BartBart]

This guy will likely become whipping boy number one. Refused to nominate us and meant we got reamed and overpayed for him. Wait for him to be another Liam Duggan, tries hard but a ball butcher turn over merchant.

Should we bring helmets to the game to protect ourselves?

 

[blaisee]

No real Richmond fan will be happy that baker is gone

He is a heart and soul player , tough little bastard , glue guy The kinda guy Harley Reid will become mates with .

He is very underrated in this board , very very skillful goal kicker versatile gun .

You will love him and you will forget what you paid for him , what is for sure is that he really really wanted to play for the eagles that is a guarantee . He knocked back more money to go to you

Look after him

 

[THE_GUN]

Congratulation you blokes are going to love Bake's for the next 6 years

Not sure why this trade happened the way it did as i always thought #10 + Baker for #3 would have been the best result and could have gotten Owies as a DFA but it is what it is.

Good Luck for the rest of the trade period
trade picks are just a number and nothing to say #12 wont become as good a player as pick #3 would have been once in the system.

 

[Quinz]

Thanks for joining the club Bakes. It may not look like it but we were a real AFL team once.

 

[eaglespremiers]

This is about as flat as I could feel about a player coming in. Really didn't want him for any proposed cost, but particularly not what we ended up paying for him. Hopefully he's worth it, but he's going to have to play some AA-quality football for a couple of years to justify his inclusion now.

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[amazingjoshy]

Can we agree which player we were taking at 3 so we don’t melt about anything that every single player from 3-11 do?

Like if it’s Draper and Draper’s a star, we get to melt, but if he’s a bust we get to say bullet dodged.

That's not how it works

You get to cherry pick the best player in hindsight

 

[RookiePick]

I do love how Badge goes into full distract and dismiss mode whenever the club takes a massive shit in it's own nest.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

I do love how Badge goes into full distract and dismiss mode whenever the club takes a massive shit in it's own nest.

No, we got a good player but paid a price that could genuinely set the rebuild back in the order of half a decade. There’s no sugar coating it. Awful deal, bed status = shat.

Just can’t be bothered with a decade of melts about every single draft prospect we passed up, given we can’t draft all of them even if we had 3, or the melts we’ve seen with Sheezel who was never weaning himself off mum’s tit to leave the state. And also don’t want to see people bagging Baker like he did the deal himself.

 

[AsterixTheGaul]

What a disastrous trade. Nothing wrong about Liam but for pick 14, I expected a genuine star. Not an out of contract undersized jack of all trades but master of nothing role player.

The club has to seriously consider whether Matty Clarke is up to the challenge. Based on this trade, Clarke is going to ensure that the club have early picks for many years to come.

 

[hudson2006]

And also don’t want to see people bagging Baker like he did the deal himself.

Agree it's pointless bagging him, but that weird public statement he made of wanting to make sure Richmond got a good deal sours him greatly to me... like, just let the clubs sort it out, and maybe hope your new club gets the better deal?

Can't remember a time I was this soured on an incoming player. And I didn't mind the Kelly trade, given he was actually a gun at Geelong.

 

[THE A5]

Gonna be hard to get around him till he kicks a drop punt from impossible with 2 min remaining in the 2025 granny

 

[AsterixTheGaul]

Gonna be hard to get around him till he kicks a drop punt from impossible with 2 min remaining in the 2025 granny

Do you really think the Beagles will be in the WAFL grand final next year?