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Alex Morgan = The Francis York
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I am not sure what went on behind the scenes during trade week. I see a couple of Nth posters on the EFC board say they believe he asked for a trade to Nth during trade week and we knocked it back. I don't know, but I would have thought we would have been happy with any reasonable offer, given we have now delisted him at his own request, after he knocked back a 1yr contract offfer from us.
I would have thought the right thing to do would have been to trade for him, if North were interested in him, and we hadn't delisted him at that point. His trade worth was probably pretty low, although he could be compared with Harley Balic who wanted to leave Freo and was traded to Melbourne for pick 66 (both were drafted in 2015 Balic at pick 38 Morgan at pick 29, both have had injury problems and haven't shown their best, although Balic at least played a handful of senior games at Freo)
In any event, I don't begrudge North doing what was expedient for them, and I certainly don't have any ill feeling towards Morgan for taking what he thinks is a better opportunity at North.
I hope that North would see it as a gesture of goodwill by Essendon to delist him and make him available as a DFA, eventhough we wanted to retain him, and that North might take that into consideration in future trade dealing between the two clubs.
Good luck with him, he has some unfulfilled potential.
Number 17 for Morgan. The last famous player we got from * was number 17....
Technically yes, but who remembers that? loldidn't he come from Brisbane?
As speculative and cheap as a lot of our other movements.
Who knows.
We have a fair bit of who knows at the moment.
Fourteen first and second round picks over five drafts.
2013 - McDonald, Dumont
2014 - Ahern, Durdin, Nielson
2015 - McKay, Morgan, Clarke, Hibberd
2016 - Simpkin, Watson, Williams
2017 - #4, #23
His Footyology site.What exactly is it that old Supplements Saga RoCo does with his time these days apart from subtweet Rita Panahi?
Sudden urge to rewatch Underbelly.Heh Tony Tardio has been calling Alex Morgan 'Alex Moran' all day on radio news breaks.
We aint recruiting any 'Moran's at our club. I could understand he came from *Essendon, being the drug club....but come on Tardio.
Heh Tony Tardio has been calling Alex Morgan 'Alex Moran' all day on radio news breaks.
We aint recruiting any 'Moran's at our club. I could understand he came from *Essendon, being the drug club....but come on Tardio.
The workoutTardio = The Re
His Footyology site.
There's actually an article about his comments on the NMFC site where he says he expects us to do well next year with an easy draw and that we weren't as bad this year as many of the 'experts' suggest. He might be a * apologist moron, but in general he's always been very fair to us so it makes it hard to dislike him.I wonder how long it will take him to drink his very sizeable Fairfax redundnacy
There's actually an article about his comments on the NMFC site where he says he expects us to do well next year with an easy draw and that we weren't as bad this year as many of the 'experts' suggest. He might be a * apologist moron, but in general he's always been very fair to us so it makes it hard to dislike him.
Is there any particular professional reason for that or have you had personal dealings with him that have influenced that opinion?I find it very easy.
Plus EVW in 2014 so 15 and a average of 3Fourteen first and second round picks over five drafts.
2013 - McDonald, Dumont
2014 - Ahern, Durdin, Nielson
2015 - McKay, Morgan, Clarke, Hibberd
2016 - Simpkin, Watson, Williams
2017 - #4, #23
Is there any particular professional reason for that or have you had personal dealings with him that have influenced that opinion?