Mega Thread 2018 List Management, Free Agency & Trade thread

[Allikat]

To those saying T Langdon gets exposed when playing on talls, guess what? If he came to Freo, lucky we have Pearce, Hamling, Logue, Cox and Kersten who can all take the talls and allow Ryan and Langdon to intercept and dish off to Wilson to play out the back.

He only gets exposed on talls because he's not tall himself. But he does a much better job on them than most players his height. As someone that actually watches his games pretty closely (you'd be disgusted how many pies games I go to a year, and I'll admit I'm a supporter of their VFL side), I actually think he gets exposed more playing on the smalls. Tom's strength is his reach and his intercept marking. He's not fast enough to catch a speedy small forward. I really see him playing the kind of role Ibbo did for us.

 

[FUS_RO_DAH]

Overall, the reality is that we don’t have the full story, we don’t have the medical reports, we don’t have the interview.

Only look back at our recent history of Bennell and Gumby - our record for picking up and getting value from injured players is not great.

Stop speaking sense dammit!

Nobody here has any idea what's going on behind closed doors.

Remember how the Bennell thread went when we traded him in? Hindsight is strong.

 

[Walshy1]

Well **** me

 

[Taylor]

Why bother with the medical if we weren't fair dinkum with the offer

The offer comes after the medical. Not the other way around.

Not much gymnastics required to see what could be going on.

 

[DMan 11]

Sorry Melbourne fans, no Steven May now .....

 

[Allikat]

Has to be for an unknown reason. Pick 10 and and a future second round is pathetic.

Edit: Unless they were straight up asking for 5 & 6

they were straight up asking for 5 & 6

 

[G Mus]

Cant be ****** being a member next year, I have better things to spend $600 on. Another 4 years of shit ahead

Imagine how many HSP's you can cop with that

 

[halalsnackpack]

He's a free agent next year, yeah? Much better for us to get him for free in twelve months and develop two first rounders in the meantime.

He's not a free agent

 

[Alfonz]

Something must not be right with Hogan. Surely we can't be that boneheaded if his medical was fine and there were no other glaring issues. If he comes out next year fully fit and kicks 50 goals, there should be hell to pay.

 

[Moist Biscuit]

When Hogan re-signs with Melbourne we'll regret this.

 

[DaveLister]

Good result, I'd rather Bell show a strong stance and reject a trade that costs too much than cave and sell the farm for a chance to be Judd era Carlton.

Still think Hogan will be on our list in 2020

Smith and Hill at the draft thanks.

 

[Antares]

He's a free agent next year, yeah?

no

 

[mayne iac]

Yep good on ya. Let's have a crack at a flag in another 7 years.

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Good on ya if you think we are going to be chance any earlier than that with Hogan.

 

[halalsnackpack]

Why the **** did we trade away pick 6? Sure we got some second and third rounders but they can easily be busts. I'm so disappointed by this, they should've just offered 11 and next year's first and try and get a future third back

 

[Allikat]

Overall, the reality is that we don’t have the full story, we don’t have the medical reports, we don’t have the interview.

Only look back at our recent history of Bennell and Gumby - our record for picking up and getting value from injured players is not great.

Exactly. A year or two ago, I would've been gobsmacked at us pulling out of negotiations, but Jesse, as amazing as he is, has never really fulfilled his potential because of family & health issues, and will be coming to us just off a type of injury that has killed careers before. I trust the club that what we were offering is what he's worth. If he really was 100% fit and ready to go, then Freo would know he was worth more than we offered.

 

[Grape Bear]

I'm not GB, I'm just saying we clearly have been desperately missed a forward and people keep saying go to the draft, but they don't grow on trees and they take ages to develop.

We will never win a flag if we just keep going to the draft and not getting the players we need. Do you know what I mean

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I do, and I feel your frustration. But at the same time, maybe those who do have all the information know better than us what they’re comfortable paying for Hogan. There’s paying overs and there’s paying OVERS.

The only way to know if we have done the right thing is to give things time. If we did get him and never got him on the park, people would still be baying for Bell’s blood a year or two from now.

 

[shiny_on_top]

This suck.

Unless we weren’t confident with the medical I have no idea what we’re doing here.

 

[trentjac]

He's a free agent next year, yeah? Much better for us to get him for free in twelve months and develop two first rounders in the meantime.

Nope. Uncontracted but not free agent. Can’t see him wanting to come to Freo next year after this debacle

 

[Joeltownsmith]

Yeh good call on hogan bell. He’s always bloody injured and before he got injured this year he was playing shit footy. No way he’s worth 2 1st rounders

 

[mayne iac]

Although he seems supremely talented he also seems a tad lazy. We don't need that, we already have one of them - see avatar

 

[beetz]

Something must not be right with Hogan. Surely we can't be that boneheaded if his medical was fine and there were no other glaring issues. If he comes out next year fully fit and kicks 50 goals, there should be hell to pay.

This.

If he did not have a history of a navicular injury Hogan is worth two first rounders any day of the week. Something is up behind the scenes.

Very good by bell.

Let's all be grateful that guys like Schwab and Bond are no longer making these decisions.

 

[Taylor]

I'm not upset if I can't buy a house I value at $500,000 but the owner wants $650,000 and the structural engineer's report won't get back to me after the deal is supposed to be finalised.

The real estate agent needs to work on the seller over the weekend, start talking about how the house will be a disruptive influence all next year and needs to be closer to it's mother.

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

Yeh good call on hogan bell. He’s always bloody injured and before he got injured this year he was playing shit footy. No way he’s worth 2 1st rounders

How was he playing shit footy, he was on track for AA

 

[ChimpaWompa]

The fact we at no point heard from Hogan or his management about his desire to get to Freo pretty much sums this up as an opportunity for Melbourne to get May and nothing more. The fact Hogan appears to not really care whether he's playing for Melbourne of Freo doesn't really bode well for his ongoing commitment does it?

 

[mike91]

Hopefully Melbourne sweat over this, knowing they won't get May and we both meet halfway - #5 and a future second.