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[FootyGuru]

It’s exactly the sort of thing we would do. We are Essington.

If he wants a big Melbourne club we have the best assets to trade Melbourne.

 

[Corleone]

Someone at the club needs to make sure Dodoro's pass has been deactivated, laptop and phone disconnected. If he gets a whiff of trading our future for the 29 year old Petracca Magic Beans he'd be all over it like a stray dog on a bag of leftovers.

 

[Skipper_]

The only way I wouldn’t be opposed to a Petracca trade is if we could recoup one of the first rounders we would lose by trading out someone like Parish for a future first (which is highly unlikely to occur in itself anyways).

Otherwise, taking a 2 year hit to our draft stock is not worth it for a 29 year old. You could probably argue that it still isn’t worth it even if we trade out Parish given the current list is quite far off doing anything of relevance.

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

Someone at the club needs to make sure Dodoro's pass has been deactivated, laptop and phone disconnected. If he gets a whiff of trading our future for the 29 year old Petracca Magic Beans he'd be all over it like a stray dog on a bag of leftovers.

He wouldn’t though, I think after getting burned with Shiel a few years ago he went a more cautious approach in recent years.

 

[Keystone agony]

I dont want to trade up from pick 8

Grab whoevers left

Jagga smith
Sid Draper
Finn Osullivan
Josh Smilie
Sam Lalor
Murphy Reid
Harvey Langford
Bo Allen

 

[Snake Charmer]

So at the moment we have...

Main list out: Heppell, Hind and Baldwin

Main list in: Menzie

Rookie list out: Hunter, Menzie and Wanganeen

Rookie list in: Saad

Is that right? So two spots free on the main list and two rookie spots if we fill out full quota?

Is Hunter a confirmed out?

 

[Nicholas61]

Petracca not in our window, plus I am not sure how well he recovers from that organ damage. Lloyd's was more mild and he felt like crap for 6 months. Petracca isn't the cleanest kick either, we need polish and with that injury not sure you are getting that bull he was.

 

[gillon]

Any Petracca trade would obviously involve our first and other assets. Doubt Melbourne are interested in Stringer.

Something like first + Parish + Jones may be close, but they’d still probably want more. I would happily give that up as well to be honest.

 

[Keystone agony]

Parish and 2MP would maybe make them consider it

Still think there forward line will be pretty good soon with Jefferson, JVR and obviousily Fritsch and Kozzie

 

[doug85]

Trading for Petracca would be as stupid as the Shiel trade.

 

[NYRB]

Parish and 2MP would maybe make them consider it

Still think there forward line will be pretty good soon with Jefferson, JVR and obviousily Fritsch and Kozzie

Im thinking more along the line of one of Caldwell/Parish and Caddy , Dons 1st round Pick in exchange for Petracca and Dees 2nd pick in the Draft .

Got to remember Dees have a pick 5 as their 1st pick .Their second is pick 25.

I see Caddy as a better forward than Harrison Jones, Wright, Langford and Stringer in the next year or two years. I believe that exchanging anything involving Caddy would be a tad overs for Bombers. The question is are the Bombers looking for short -term success? Petracca is 29 years old and he may be the difference between Winning a Final soon and breaking that dreaded drought and possibly going further and deeper with the possibility of winning a Premiership. Petracca is a proven winner, a Top 10 player in his prime.

The gap between teams 2nd to 14th in the comp isn't much. A decision here or there could be the difference between the Bombers going up or being where they are over the last couple of years/decade.

 

[Nifft]

Petracca not in our window, plus I am not sure how well he recovers from that organ damage. Lloyd's was more mild and he felt like crap for 6 months. Petracca isn't the cleanest kick either, we need polish and with that injury not sure you are getting that bull he was.

There would be the mental aspect as well. He might be a bit gun shy for a while with physical contact, and fair enough too, it was a pretty nasty injury.

 

[Nicholas61]

There would be the mental aspect as well. He might be a bit gun shy for a while with physical contact, and fair enough too, it was a pretty nasty injury.

For sure and with his age you want him firing straight away

 

[crackers65]

To sell the farm for Petracca would be foolish. He’s 28 yrs old, coming off some horrible injuries.
Of course Scott and the board probably think Petracca would open our premiership window. That’s the sort of delusional thinking we have every year.

 

[bombreys]

Is there anyone else who can (kinda) lock down a small forward? Wouldn't surprise me if he gets another year.

Which small forwards did he lock down again this year..?

 

[jdstorm]

A little bit opposing but to go into more detail I think slight bump to the overall talent pool is not worth the damage the acadamies do to the fairness of the draft process. The afl should fund the development in other states siginficantly but that process shouldnt lead to unfair draft access.

In practice I think they’ve decided to go full academies and then use the draft/point system to try and balance the talent distribution. It’s not perfect but fixing the points scale and even charging a premium for top talent evens the equation enough that it’s probably fair.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

In practice I think they’ve decided to go full academies and then use the draft/point system to try and balance the talent distribution. It’s not perfect but fixing the points scale and even charging a premium for top talent evens the equation enough that it’s probably fair.

I don't there is any balancing the talent distribution. The likes of Green, Heeney, Daicos, Darcy, Walter, Ashcroft, Ugle-Hagan are worth infinitely more than the points could account for. Harley Reid and JHF are the only number 1 draft picks since Hodge in 2001 that would compare to the value of these players.

 

[ghostdog]

Im thinking more along the line of one of Caldwell/Parish and Caddy , Dons 1st round Pick in exchange for Petracca and Dees 2nd pick in the Draft .

Got to remember Dees have a pick 5 as their 1st pick .Their second is pick 25.

I see Caddy as a better forward than Harrison Jones, Wright, Langford and Stringer in the next year or two years. I believe that exchanging anything involving Caddy would be a tad overs for Bombers. The question is are the Bombers looking for short -term success? Petracca is 29 years old and he may be the difference between Winning a Final soon and breaking that dreaded drought and possibly going further and deeper with the possibility of winning a Premiership. Petracca is a proven winner, a Top 10 player in his prime.

The gap between teams 2nd to 14th in the comp isn't much. A decision here or there could be the difference between the Bombers going up or being where they are over the last couple of years/decade.

What? Why are you here talking about 'you could trade Caddy'.
You could trade yo mama.
GTFO





That caused me so much angst that I culturally appropriated.

 

[ant555]

Is Hunter a confirmed out?

Not sure if the club has officially mentioned it but this was posted in his player thread.

 

[jdstorm]

I don't there is any balancing the talent distribution. The likes of Green, Heeney, Daicos, Darcy, Walter, Ashcroft, Ugle-Hagan are worth infinitely more than the points could account for. Harley Reid and JHF are the only number 1 draft picks since Hodge in 2001 that would compare to the value of these players.

Under the current system where it’s a 20% discount on 2500 points sure.

If they cost 4000 points? Would that how about 5000?

Especially with a points rebalance so later picks aren’t worth anything close to what they’re worth now to the point where teams would have to trade a significant player or give up 2+ firsts for this one player.

I think there’s a healthy balance there and think if every team had an academy it would make it more likely that these types of generational talent woii you L’s be more evenly distributed

 

[yodellinhank]

Not sure if the club has officially mentioned it but this was posted in his player thread.
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So he'll be back at Essendon?

 

[Snake Charmer]

Not sure if the club has officially mentioned it but this was posted in his player thread.
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It’s abit open ended.. nothing from the club yet either. Makes me think he’s getting another year on the rookie list

 

[div12ressie]

Imagining petracca in the midfield along with merrett, durham and cadwell is making me wet

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

Kelly, Laverde, Parish, Shiel, 2MP and Stringer for Petracca and Kozzie

 

[Keystone agony]

The absolute max im giving up for Trac is

Parish and HJ

Parish and 2MP

2 x 2nd Rounders

Can throw Stringer on the top of any of those

If they want more than that, which they should, then hell no