List Mgmt. 2020 Trade Thread - Part II

[Winmar2Lockett]

Crows statement. Hartigan leaving too.

Crouch, Hartigan to pursue free agency

Restricted free agent Brad Crouch has decided to explore his options

www.afc.com.au

I'm probably reading too much into this, but interesting that Adelaide's statement made note of Hartigan's contribution and wished him well, while saying pretty much nothing about Crouch.

Hartigan would be cheap KD back up

 

[Joffaboy]

I’m absolutely amazed at the amount of negativity surrounding this Crouch news.

Should we rewind to when nobody wanted to come here at all? Now all of a sudden we are too good for a a guy who won a B&F a year ago.

Stop acting like we’re choosing Crouch over prime GAJ and be happy that this instantly makes our team better. Especially considering how little of the ball Hill was able to get this year, he and Billing’s are going to have a field day with Crouch and Steele in the middle.

I missed those heady days when we recruited Logan Austin

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[HarryZLA]

where is hartigan going?

To us. All the players can go St.Kilda.

 

[Dr Spaceman]

Thursday might be a good day

Partly cloudy and 18 degrees - should be ok

A very good day indeed

 

[Joffaboy]

If you are trying to bring up the hill trade as a victory it's falling on deaf ears. Now move along.

I see you did miss the trade period. I think we may have traded more than Hill

 

[ronnysnodgrass]

"The Saints are increasingly a destination club, having landed five players during a hectic trade period last season."

Saints primed to land Crouch

Adelaide's restricted free agent Brad Crouch has told the club he wants to move to St Kilda, while Hawthorn are poised to secure his teammate Kyle Hartigan as a free agent.

www.theage.com.au

 

[bird_man]

If you are trying to bring up the hill trade as a victory it's falling on deaf ears. Now move along.

Last year's trade period for us as a whole was a 10 goal win for the club

 

[Joffaboy]

Whisper on the street that although Heeney was keen to come to the Saints, he now thinks he wouldn't get a game and may have decided to stay in a bottom 8 team where he gets a go.

 

[Saintpav]

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More trades coming folks.

Just beautiful...

 

[D2D3]

I’m absolutely amazed at the amount of negativity surrounding this Crouch news.

Should we rewind to when nobody wanted to come here at all? Now all of a sudden we are too good for a a guy who won a B&F a year ago.

Stop acting like we’re choosing Crouch over prime GAJ and be happy that this instantly makes our team better. Especially considering how little of the ball Hill was able to get this year, he and Billing’s are going to have a field day with Crouch and Steele in the middle.

Spot on. Crouch is the best midfielder that is actually available and does not cost draft picks to get in. He's the perfect fit for us.

 

[NextYearPlease]

Forgotten Butler mate. Going to be much more competition for spots. Good position to be in.

He left out Marshall as well!

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[RWB4life]

Jay Clark saying around 600k

On SM-N985F using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[stavro#4]

"The Saints are increasingly a destination club, having landed five players during a hectic trade period last season."

Saints primed to land Crouch

Adelaide's restricted free agent Brad Crouch has told the club he wants to move to St Kilda, while Hawthorn are poised to secure his teammate Kyle Hartigan as a free agent.

www.theage.com.au

According to this. We would be offering crouch less then 700k per year.

 

[Sippa]

Surprised there’s been not much talk of a key back for us I would’ve thought it’d be a priority.. we were really exposed without Carlisle in the final and no suitable option to replace him we definitely need a back up / developing key back

 

[Veer Right]

Last year's trade period for us as a whole was a 10 goal win for the club

You don't say!

 

[SaintsSeptember]

IMO opinion, it is still too soon for most of that.

For me this is an upgrade on quality on the inside. Crouch takes Ross's center square role and rides shotgun with Steele feeding Gesh, Z.Jones, Hill, Billings etc. Ross moves into the Sincs role. Sincs out

If we want to move Billings to a permanent wing / HFF and Gresh to a more 50 / 50 split, (and even play Steele more forward) we are still AT LEAST one mid short.

For me, that is either Clark (and we find a replacement HBF), Bytel or Caldwell. Open to any of the above.

But even with Crouch, IMO we are still AT LEAST one mid short. Probably 2

Jones is not outside. He doesn't need feeding.
Gresh will still go through the midfield. I'm not sure that Ross is better at the Sincs role than Sincs is.

 

[Munga]

That's draft tampering as far as I'm aware.

It's not cheating if you don't get caught... or the AFL endorses it. C'mon... we don't have real estate companies or flashy cars to be gifting to players, at least let us do what we can with the trades

 

[Ducky Tie]

Surprised there’s been not much talk of a key back for us I would’ve thought it’d be a priority.. we were really exposed without Carlisle in the final and no suitable option to replace him we definitely need a back up / developing key back

Hopefully it's because Carlisle is staying. He's better than any of the options that anyone has mentioned anyway.

 

[Winmar2Lockett]

Surprised there’s been not much talk of a key back for us I would’ve thought it’d be a priority.. we were really exposed without Carlisle in the final and no suitable option to replace him we definitely need a back up / developing key back

Clav is the developing key defender so reckon we'll go for some veteran depth if Snake is moved on.

 

[Winmar2Lockett]

Hartigan to Hawthorn

 

[Sippa]

Hopefully it's because Carlisle is staying. He's better than any of the options that anyone has mentioned anyway.

I’m not suggesting at Carlisle’s expense I’m saying as back up to him .. if he gets injured would you be happy to go into another final let’s say against Hipwood Danniher McStay mccinerney with the same options we had at our disposal when Carlisle was ruled out of the Richmond game??

We need a back up / developing key

 

[LiterallyNobody]

Have I missed something? I could swear that jones was an inside mid not an outside mid. Same goes for Gresham. Why are we plonking him on the wing?

 

[The_Steadier]

Way too much under appreciation here for Sinclair - he’s been one of our best and CLEANEST ball users this year.

Opportunities went missing thanks to Hill fumbling in the middle of the ground instead of being able to pick up the ball... however Sinclair has been a first touch player ALL year.
His speed/link through the middle and creative kicking has set up so many goals this season. Literally every time the ball went to ground he didn’t fumble, he just scooped it up first touch.

If the Caldwell deal gets across I’d fight any idiot that thinks he slots in to Sinclair’s spot straight away. Play our own kids like Bytel before we start sucking off another unproven talent

And fu** it... bring some more mongrel players to the club. I wanna be a feared team come finals time instead of a bunch of soft ***** lucky to be there.

Rant over. Can go any club

Sinclair can comfortably slot into billings spot on the wing.

Billings and gresh both play fwd line fulltime next year (with little bursts in the middle from gresh so steele can have a stint fwd).

That leaves gresh's old midfield spot for crouch and caldwell can fight it out with ross for his midfield spot.

 

[Winmar2Lockett]

That’s annoying.

Means Crows will probably match and force a trade

And they don’t get pick 2 so we don’t see the flogs on other boards melt

My bet is that they posture and make noise about matching and then take the end of 1st round pick.

 

[Sippa]

Clav is the developing key defender so reckon we'll go for some veteran depth if Snake is moved on.

Don’t think he’s a key to be honest he’s a 3rd intercept tall. Carlisle goes down next year do you trust you could bring him in to play on Daniher or hipwood? I don’t think so