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Could use your thoughts in the #13 thread.Stay positive. Rory Sloane was a pick 44.
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Could use your thoughts in the #13 thread.Stay positive. Rory Sloane was a pick 44.
Quoting Scorpus I have deleted players who weren't elite or a level below.
Level below:
- Patrick Dangerfield
- Dayne Beams
- Shaun Burgoyne
- Chris Judd
- Lance Franklin
Also worth mentioning:
- Ryan Griffen
- Paddy Ryder
- Brian Lake
- Kurt Tippett
- Josh Gibson
- Eddie Betts
- Brett Deledio
- Lachie Henderson
- Bernie Vince
- Josh Caddy
- Brad Ebert
- Barry Hall
- Brendan Fevola
- Dale Thomas
- Jordan Lewis
- James Frawley
- Nick Dal Santo
Ok. He did look really good this year. Maybe I took less notice of him at the Giants. ( I never watched many of their games)I reckon Adam Treloar was definitely elite while traded
Jordan Lewis definitely better than worth a mentionI reckon Adam Treloar was definitely elite while traded
Dangerfield, Davis, Gunston, Bock.
Just in this trade period alone, I'd class O'Meara, Sam Mitchell and Deledio as elite players who have moved clubs. Tom Mitchell and Prestia in the next group down.
What about over the last 10 years. I want to see if there is any pattern there.
People are calling for us to add elite talent. I'm looking for who are the elite players moving? where do they go? do they help? Does nabbing a star in their prime really happen?
Two of the players you'd named as elite from this year are very much at the end of their careers. One will be 34 for the season, the other will turn 30 at the start of it. The other has missed two years in a row with injury and is really back to being an unknown quantity.
It would be interesting to compare with other elite players over several years.
Bringing in Gibbs wouldn't have got us a flag, and I'd argue even Gibbs and Rockliff would have been 50/50.
Who are the genuinely elite players who have moved clubs over the last 10 years? I'm keen to get an idea of peoples' thoughts on that.
Judd Ablett and Dangerfield obviously do. I'm not sure the others would be elite tbh.Judd, Ablett, Dangerfield - do they all qualify under your 10 year restriction? Not sure if Betts, Stevie J and Ward fit your elite category (they do mine).
Stay positive. Rory Sloane was a pick 44.
Two Angwins?Would we be happy losing two Milera's for 28 yo Gibbs
Doesn't really matter if he was or wasn't at the time, everyone knew he would be.I reckon Adam Treloar was definitely elite while traded
It's a really good point you make. There aren't many examples of clubs bringing in elite talent that carries them to a flag. There are, however, examples of clubs bringing in role players that have kept them contending. Hawks a classic example.
Generally speaking, clubs who have won the flag have a list that has, at its core, a group of players that have landed in 2 or 3 drafts, stayed together, and developed as or higher than expected. Further, just about every premiership team in the last 10 years has benefitted from a quirk in the system. Father/son, COLA, concessions, bottoming out.
The next era is going to be dominated by GWS, the Bulldogs and GCS if they can get their shit together. Watch Freo bounce next year and the following, after going from first to last (why no tanking investigation?).
This is why I believe that those who think trades are better than drafts are silly. The evidence suggests otherwise. It's why I supported holding our picks and am pissed about us not improving our position by trading players for picks. Losing Danger killed us, because we would be able to trade for role players now, rather than still needing to complete our engine room.
If we want to contend, we have 2 options. Stay competitive and aggressively manage our list to bring in top 10 picks, or bottom out to regenerate. Bringing in Gibbs wouldn't have got us a flag, and I'd argue even Gibbs and Rockliff would have been 50/50.
So was Scott Simpson, Alipate Carlisle, Mitch Morton, Brad Dick, Matt Dea, Viv Michie, Sam Rowe, Aliir Aliir, Liam Dawson, and Blake Hardwick.
Obviously Rory Sloane was a once in a 10 year freak from 44.
It's a lottery really.
I don't really get this, if there was something dodgy going on why would Hawthorn allow it?Nothing to see here says VFL I'LL bet...
http://www.triplem.com.au/melbourne...of-confusion-around-tyrone-vickerys-contract/
Damian Barrett has said there is a lot of "controversy" around the status of Tyrone Vickery's contract.
Vickery crossed from Richmond to Hawthorn as a free agent early last week on what reported as a two-year-deal.
But Barrett, speaking on The Weekend Breakfast with Seb Costello, suggests there's more to it.
"Even the dealing, Seb, around getting Tyrone Vickery in as a free agent - there was controversy around that," he said.
"The clubs aren't buying the release that he had a two-year contract from Hawthorn: they believe it's a three-year contract on less money than the half a million dollars it will be under a two-year deal.
"What it did by making it two years was allow him to pass as a Richmond player into a Hawthorn club...that allowed Richmond to get a second-round compensation."
He suggested a two-year deal is a "win-win" for the two clubs, in that Richmond get better compensation than a three-year deal would net them.
"In offering a two-year deal at, say, $500,000 for each of those two years; it's a million dollar offer which Richmond wasn't going to match," he said.
"Had it been the three years, which the other clubs believe it to be, of $400,000 times three - so $1.2 million over three years - Richmond almost certainly would have matched it, and Vickery wouldn't have got the easy and the smooth transition from Richmond to Hawthorn.
"Also, in believing or accepting it's a two-year deal, they do then get the second-round compensation. So it's win-win.
"I'll be really keen to see what happens to Tyrone Vickery at the end of 2018, because there's basically 16 other footy clubs that believe it's a three-year deal."
Barrett says Hawthorn may have trippe over their own feet in announcing it.
"T he Hawks put out a press release saying it was a three-year deal, and within 30 seconds of putting that out and that being reported, they were retracting their own press statement," he said.
He suggests the AFL has looked into it.
"That was being investigated by the AFL late in the week, and (we're) yet to see an answer on that."
They got vickery. They didn't want to trade for him. They "bought him" as a free agent, that's why the Hawks allowed itI don't really get this, if there was something dodgy going on why would Hawthorn allow it?
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They got vickery. They didn't want to trade for him. They "bought him" as a free agent, that's why the Hawks allowed it
Ah okay I'm with you now.They got vickery. They didn't want to trade for him. They "bought him" as a free agent, that's why the Hawks allowed it