Rumour 2024 Hypothetical trade and FA Thread

[Strapping Young Lad]

2024 Picks



2025 Picks

 

[SSSSSS]

Yeah but West Coast aren't complete dicks clearly. You're suggesting Dodo like moves - let's all be grateful we have one team willing to facilitate trades. If every team was playing like this Geelong are it would be even more tedious than it is now.

They aren't and good for them but when Owies and a few picks in the 60s are what gets you over the line from splitting a top end pick when you're screaming out for talent (and only recently split out of a top end pick to miss on Sheezel) questions rightfully need to be asked.

I would be ropeable if I was an Eagles supporter.

There is a big difference between being a professional operator and being a naive fool. Clarke is looking like the latter but watch him hold firm on the valuation of TB while they give away the goods.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

If the draft spread is as even as everyone suggests - swapping pick 3 for pick 12 is probably not as ludicrous as everyone thinks. In 2013 pick 13 gets you Patrick Cripps

9

Patrick Cripps

Age

29

Ht

195cm

Wt

93kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

25.9

5star

K

9.8

4star

HB

16.1

5star

M

3.4

3star

T

5.8

5star

CL

7.4

5star

D

21.0

5star

K

10.1

4star

HB

10.9

5star

M

2.5

3star

T

3.8

4star

CL

6.3

5star

D

12.6

4star

K

4.8

2star

HB

7.8

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

3.2

5star

CL

1.4

4star

, pick 3 gets you Jack Billings

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Jack Billings

Age

29

Ht

185cm

Wt

81kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

21.3

5star

K

11.5

4star

HB

9.8

5star

M

5.1

5star

T

2.9

4star

CL

1.3

3star

D

19.7

5star

K

11.7

5star

HB

8.0

4star

M

4.7

4star

T

2.9

4star

CL

2.3

4star

D

13.8

4star

K

9.2

4star

HB

4.6

4star

M

5.2

5star

T

1.6

4star

CL

0.0

1star

.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

They aren't and good for them but when Owies and a few picks in the 60s are what gets you over the line from splitting a top end pick when you're screaming out for talent (and only recently split out of a top end pick to miss on Sheezel) questions rightfully need to be asked.

I would be ropeable if I was an Eagles supporter.

There is a big difference between being a professional operator and being a naive fool. Clarke is looking like the latter but watch him hold firm on the valuation of TB while they give away the goods.

People were ropable here when we made draft night moves to get Weddle. If the player West Coast are eyeing in the draft is going to around the pick they now have anyway then they have lost nothing.

 

[danielG]

Pretty sure most felt Baker for 14 was ok or slight overs.

We paid 14 for Tom Mitchell.

WCE needing to split pick 3 to get Baker is the cause of mockery.

I watched a fair bit of Tigers.. My brother is a Tigers supporter and Baker is actually a very good player.. Tough, kicks goals, a ball winner.. will be very helpful protecting Reid which I’m sure is a consideration….He’s worthy of a pick in the high teens.. anything lower is a bit of a stretch…



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[HR Roughnstuf]

If the draft spread is as even as everyone suggests - swapping pick 3 for pick 12 is probably not as ludicrous as everyone thinks. In 2013 pick 13 gets you Patrick Cripps, pick 3 gets you Jack Billings.

Or Pick 3 C Judd
Pick 13 Jesse Lonergan

 

[TheFourPillars]

Cal you're letting your bias get in the way mate. Stick to following and commenting on your beloved bombers mate

 

[Suntory Boss Coffee]

They aren't and good for them but when Owies and a few picks in the 60s are what gets you over the line from splitting a top end pick when you're screaming out for talent (and only recently split out of a top end pick to miss on Sheezel) questions rightfully need to be asked.

I would be ropeable if I was an Eagles supporter.

There is a big difference between being a professional operator and being a naive fool. Clarke is looking like the latter but watch him hold firm on the valuation of TB while they give away the goods.

Mummy's boy Sheezel never wanted to leave Vic to be fair

 

[hawkinoz]

Pretty sure most felt Baker for 14 was ok or slight overs.

We paid 14 for Tom Mitchell.

WCE needing to split pick 3 to get Baker is the cause of mockery.

and as mentioned before Suns turned pick 4 into 6 first round picks in 2023

WCE should have been proactive and talked a deal out with Saints(7,8) or Demons(5,9) and then traded one of those for 12 & 14.

Hard to defend this deal, I am only hoping they are swapping 24 & 26 as well.

Then if they play tough on Barass a last gasp to offer both F1s for 24 and Eagles F2( or swap F2's).

 

[TheFourPillars]

Hold firm on Hawthorn absolutely laughable

 

[TylerDurden]

 

[TylerDurden]

Media pushing for us to get reamed now. Love it.

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

Poor Tom. We should be walking away, David Craig style

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

Media pushing for us to get reamed now. Love it.

Someone meme this up stat

 

[nickrebellious]

Did West Coast hire Adam Cooney

Adam Cooney

Age

39

Ht

187cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

21.7

5star

K

11.5

4star

HB

10.2

5star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.7

4star

G

0.8

4star

No current season stats available

D

10.2

3star

K

6.6

3star

HB

3.6

3star

M

2.6

3star

T

2.0

4star

G

0.8

4star

over the weekend?

 

[TheFourPillars]

Poor Tom. We should be walking away, David Craig style

Craig David?

Naah its done mate

 

[Toasted]

and as mentioned before Suns turned pick 4 into 6 first round picks in 2023

WCE should have been proactive and talked a deal out with Saints(7,8) or Demons(5,9) and then traded one of those for 12 & 14.

Hard to defend this deal, I am only hoping they are swapping 24 & 26 as well.

Then if they play tough on Barass a last gasp to offer both F1s for 24 and Eagles F2( or swap F2's).

This.
Turn 3 into 7&8.
Turn 8 into 12 and 14
Turn 14 into 19&22
End up with 7,12,19 and 22
Use one of those for Baker and still have a nice draft hand

 

[Yardie]

From what I've been reading is that the draft is deep with no stand outs. So you'll get similar quality all the way out to 20-25.

So why would I trade away 7&8 or 5&9 for 3 when I'll get basically the same player but have one less.

 

[daniel23]

Eagles are a rabble , long gone are the days of them being a dominant club. They folded, baker is a good player but isn't worth 14 , especially uncontracted. They desperately need players in the 25-30 year old bracket but you find them on the cheap. Baker is 27 next season and owies 28, I doubt Eagles are back in finals contention for a minimum of 4 years, definitely not when they're only taking 1 pick this draft in the top 20.

 

[burger09]

Carlton have made out like bandits.

 

[Fleabane]

I hate to be that guy, but I’m that guy. It’s not the entertainment value of trade week that dictates the length, but the utility of greasing conversations between clubs. Without a ten-day trade week, Big Boy never joins Hawthorn, for example. A lot of conversations and approvals are needed to take a trade from idea to complete.

If clubs are saying it’s a waste of time then I’m here to listen. Otherwise, we only see the announcements. We don’t see all the conversations that happened to make them possible.

Fair point. Makes a lot more sense than it being prolonged for the sake of drama.

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

Carlton have made out like bandits.

HORFON R BADDIES

 

[Billyc]

Outstanding bit of business by Carlton. Later first round pick and a role player for pick 3. Wild.

 

[TheFourPillars]

Carlton have made out like bandits.

No they haven't pick 12 is almost equivalent to pick 3 given how even this draft is for talent there are no standouts

 

[stevehawkington]

Everybody remembers that the West Coast list manager job was up on Seek during the year right?

They shouldn't have ignored my application.

I drafted Jack Ginnivan for us in a 2020 Phantom draft.
I also hitched my wagon to a young bloke called Jai Newcombe when I watched him play one half of VFL footy.

SOMETIMES I do legitimately believe us nuffies make better calls than some of the actual people being paid to do the job.

I'm coming for Kinnear Beatson next. You may know him from such draft nights as 2022, where he traded out the pick that we used on Josh Weddle, then subsequently selected now-delisted Cooper Vickery at pick 27 and said he had him '12th overall on our draft board'.

Did you attach screenshots of all your bf posts? Commuting to perth might be the reason you didn't get an interview.

 

[The Spirit of Cricket]

Cal you're letting your bias get in the way mate. Stick to following and commenting on your beloved bombers mate

The mental gymnastics required to justify this horrible move as some holistic attack on Hawthorn and Hawthorn alone is hilarious

As though West Coast wouldn't prefer to have a better draft hand and list than screw over Hawthorn