List Mgmt. 2024 Trade Thread - No.3

[joydivision22]

Push comes to shove in list spots, which it will, I would fully support the club backflipping in this crazy agreement with Sandringham.

An agreement which they have not held up their end of the bargain by providing any viable options. Is it worth losing a Membrey, Hayes, Crouch, Hotton, Paton who are very worthy of a list spot just for a fake 9 month contract? No, it is not.

Is it worth the vitriol we would cop for reneging? This year.. yes. And who cares about being disliked at this point..

People will say “build it and they will come” and sure I get it. But like any great policy or rule, there are regulations and checks and we need to have a minimum standard or some caveats to avoid the impending shotgun to the foot this year.

I understand the concept but it is just too detrimental and in its infancy to fully back it.

Think we should come out and say we’re not doing it this year and will reconsider next year. Looks far worse if we try and fudge it

 

[ThomasR]

Push comes to shove in list spots, which it will, I would fully support the club backflipping in this crazy agreement with Sandringham.

An agreement which they have not held up their end of the bargain by providing any viable options. Is it worth losing a Membrey, Hayes, Crouch, Hotton, Paton who are very worthy of a list spot just for a fake 9 month contract? No, it is not.

Is it worth the vitriol we would cop for reneging? This year.. yes. And who cares about being disliked at this point..

People will say “build it and they will come” and sure I get it. But like any great policy or rule, there are regulations and checks and we need to have a minimum standard or some caveats to avoid the impending shotgun to the foot this year.

I understand the concept but it is just too detrimental and in its infancy to fully back it.

Think we should come out and say we’re not doing it this year and will reconsider next year. Looks far worse if we try and fudge it

Agree with all of the above. Unfortunately there was an article in the HS only a couple of weeks ago that stated we would be honouring the commitment this year, and listed the potential candidates. It feels like we are in too deep to renege at this point, although it's never too late.

I can only hope we've had many expressions of interest in coming across next year to justify continuing the program - otherwise we surely would've binned it by now.

 

[akaifu]

Push comes to shove in list spots, which it will, I would fully support the club backflipping in this crazy agreement with Sandringham.

An agreement which they have not held up their end of the bargain by providing any viable options. Is it worth losing a Membrey, Hayes, Crouch, Hotton, Paton who are very worthy of a list spot just for a fake 9 month contract? No, it is not.

Is it worth the vitriol we would cop for reneging? This year.. yes. And who cares about being disliked at this point..

People will say “build it and they will come” and sure I get it. But like any great policy or rule, there are regulations and checks and we need to have a minimum standard or some caveats to avoid the impending shotgun to the foot this year.

I understand the concept but it is just too detrimental and in its infancy to fully back it.

Think we should come out and say we’re not doing it this year and will reconsider next year. Looks far worse if we try and fudge it

I hope there's some sort of clause in it that's protected us from being obligated to take one of their players despite them having zero quality

Something like a quota for minimum number of players to have participated in state combines or anything of the sort. Just feels unfair we have to hold up our end of the bargain when it feels like they haven't come remotely close

 

[stfan]

Not as bad as giving a first rounder for Brooks.

"Traded at the end of the 2002 season to St Kilda in exchange for picks 6 (Steven Salopek) and 31"

 

[Nutsngum]

So one of the reasons why we would have had less then stellar options sign up with Sandringham would have been questions on if we would actually go through with it.

Following through on these promises is what actually attracts talent.

 

[stfan]

So one of the reasons why we would have had less then stellar options sign up with Sandringham would have been questions on if we would actually go through with it.

Following through on these promises is what actually attracts talent.

Perhaps.....but next season any club can just as easily draft any player we attract. So there is absolutely no draft advantage to us.

The advantage supposedly is to improve Sandy so that our younger players will better develop.


What they really need to do is to hire in some quality VFL players now in order to improve the quality. Just hoping that some decent players may join us eventually just seems pretty nebulous and illogical to me.

Even more illogical is to commit to drafting one player from only one club every year, and Moreso one as weak as Sandy is.. This to me means that you will most likely just weaken our list every year (Remember, we have no draft priority over any Sandy player, if a gun joins us then he just nominates for draft for any club to pick).

 

[Mat Mann]

Fans are banging on about taking two mids with our first picks, later picks could become about needs, lose Hayes & Membrey, we are thin on key position. Cole becomes a thing because he's academy & easy. Ideal? maybe no.

we haven't had a decent mid since the last time Ross was our Coach, we've watched the Pies and dogs win flags with shit fwd lines and mediocre defensive units but yeah, lets keep drafting KPP's and HBF's.

we are banging on about them because mids are THE most important players in the game and ours are not that good

 

[MrFoster]

"Traded at the end of the 2002 season to St Kilda in exchange for picks 6 (Steven Salopek) and 31"

Dumbest trade ever