Originally posted by Kane McGoodwin
I agree, you could look it at like this:
Crows got done by the Roos over the Carey deal;
Roos got done by Port over the Pickett deal;
Port got done by Blues over the Stevens non-deal (though they can thank the Pies
); &
Blues got done by Crows over Massie-Eccles deal.
Swings & round-a-bouts...
Well, we got done on Bell deal aswell. We got Sinclair for Bell I think and whilst he is an okay player he aint no Bell. We definitely did not get market value for Pickett either, who did we get? M Stevens. He aint no Pickett either.
It doesn't bother me, Bell wanted to go home to Fremantle and Pickett wanted to go home and play with Port. I think its much easier to draw interstate players to the club when they know they are not going to be treated like garbage by the club if they eventually want to go home.
If I was an interstate player and was looking at clubs like Hawthorn, Port and others that do the dirty on the players then I wouldn't want to go there, wouldn't want to be part of deals that involves going to those kinds of clubs.
I do not understand the clubs that will not deal and end up losing the player and get nothing just our of spite.
I know alot of you guys think you got robbed on the Carey deal, and in hindsight it hasn't been as good as it could have been, I think it had potential to be a good deal because you needed some grunt up forward and he was an all-austraian captain. I think pick 4 and 14 at the time wasn't excessive, there was nothing in that range that would have been walk-in forwards for the Crows and that is something you really needed.
The rest is history, but I still think you can get alot out of Carey if you play him at FF and not at CHF. He just does not have the leg speed anymore or the spring to deal with that congested area of the ground. At FF he will kick goals and will contest and bring the ball down to the ground which will give the small forwards opportunity to goal.