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Thanks for making this an awesome trade period peeps. Will be locking this thread later tonight
Game Day 2022 Trade Period Match Thread
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I've thought about it. Suspect its just the media making things up to keep interest. Who does he replace? He can only play midfield and is 29 in Feb. Meek is considerably more valuable to us for 2023.
Reckon its BS.
Reckon its BS.
Why so much for Sharp? 24 Is overs as it is.
24 > Sharp, 45
I reckon GCS will want F2.
Just no. Hasn’t been the same since his knee went. Surely just SEN filling air time.
Contract mate. Just like how we want 11 for Lobb and a second rounder for Meek
eh played a fair bit on the half forward this season, lost his pace and explosiveness but he is handsome so
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That’s why. They won’t do 24, for Sharp and 45, they’ll want something back. They need points for next year, we have North’s F2, F3, F4 + Carlton’s F3. IMO that would be the only one on the table, apart from maybe North’s F4. So if we want a natural winger who’s contracted we have to pay. They want points for next year, but we won’t be giving up North’s F2, and they’ll want as many points as they can get.
Sharp, 45 for 24, Carlton F3 = pick 30 (ish). About right imo.
But this all hinges on us getting 24 from Hawthorn in some pick swap deal for Meek, so it’s unlikely anyway tbf.
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He's great 5 games a year, average for 10 and terrible for the rest. I am guessing his body just doesn't let him maintain his standard.
Wouldn't go near him unless it was on 200k and for a 4th rounder as backup.
They've tried to play him elsewhere for sure, but he's bad at it.
Should we push hard for Sharp this year? If he’s not getting played, what are the chances we can pick him up for cheaper next year?
O’Meara….if only this was 10 years ago.
The risk is he plays well and stays or plays well and picks the Eagles.
If we're sure he's the guy, I think somehow swapping him for Meek is ok.
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We shouldn't keep Meek, we should trade him
Jackson will absolutely cover Darcy when he is Injured
I don't see why not, but like with all players it will come down to form.
Meek is handy round the ground and I don't think we've seen his best yet either in the ruck or as a forward - it's worth keeping him to see where that ceiling actually is.
But while I'd love our midfield to climb on top on its own, I think extra ruck support will be necessary to maintain it over a season, as right now we are a little on the small side there. Playing a ruck on a midfielder at a clearance is probably the biggest functional mismatch you can generate, so a two-ruck clearance is an interesting idea, it creates lots of blocking opportunities round the ball and is partially what motivated my earlier post. Meek would be very handy in such cases, as he's mobile.
Any decent mid will run rings around a ruck in the open field though on a quick transition, so that's where my earlier post breaks down a bit. Having the extra runner would be logical as other posters have suggested. You can have a spare one on the bench, but then you have to weigh up how your interchange cap will be affected by creating constant mismatches. A two ruck set up is very dependent on a stoppage heavy playing style, which is what other teams want to use to counter our open running game, and expose our smaller-bodied midfield..
It's really only the addition of Jackson that makes all this possible, as the guy can run AND ruck. Cox showed how damaging that can be back when he was playing for the Eagles.
Really this is all dependent though on there being five on the bench. Without that, I think fewer interchanges and more role players are favoured, and Meek will still struggle for games here a little bit more that he really should.
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O'Meara...?! I don't see what need he is with Ras and Johnson pushing through. Surely Fyfe returns to the middle if he's in tip-top nick..?! Replaces Dave (gulp!).
But I wouldn't understand the trading in of O'Meara if it were true. Let's hope it's just trade radio guff, they gotta fill in time somehow, get all you saddos "tuning in" every 5 mins to get rheemed and replace ya blown out tyres, metaforestedly speaking
But I wouldn't understand the trading in of O'Meara if it were true. Let's hope it's just trade radio guff, they gotta fill in time somehow, get all you saddos "tuning in" every 5 mins to get rheemed and replace ya blown out tyres, metaforestedly speaking
And if they’re both injured?
What happens if we keep Lobb and both he and Tabs are injured?
What happens if both Pearce and Cox are injured?
What happens if Andy and Serong are injured?
You find a way.
I want to draft meek and lobb if we can get good draft capital from them. Both are contracted so sell when the price is high.
Be nice to have some draft capital. Darcy and Jackson with Benning and another developing ruck should be ok.
Be nice to have some draft capital. Darcy and Jackson with Benning and another developing ruck should be ok.
Do what we did with Logue v Natanui. Just stick the player with the best vertical in the middle, don't expect to win the ruck and play off the oppositions ruck taps. We can pick up a good ruck late in the draft if Meek goes.
I think you mean you want to trade them, not draft them.
Your last sentence is the answer I was looking for. You need three possible ruck options in your squad, and at this stage, Benning ain’t ready to be that third.
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