Past #21: Corey Jones - drafted w/ #60 in '00 ND - retired during '10 season - thanks CJ

[roosmad]

TRADE TRADE TRADE

later CJ, i love you mate but its like losing 100 bucks and finding 10 every time you play or more like a forest gump box of chocolates

what about this for a forward line

THOMAS/ WELLS / CAMPBELL

play wells at FF and leave only the other two inside 50 at the 50 arch running towards goal....would sure be exciting...

Wells does **** all IMO in the middle, you twats with your skilled outside crap piss off, wells last chance but i think it would be interesting to see

let the comments begin

 

[bellzy]

let the comments begin

How 'bout this one.

You're a ****wit.

 

[roosmad]

How 'bout this one.

You're a ****wit.

are Bellzy thanks mate , really thinking about your comments tonite....
but apart from that what else???

 

[bellzy]

are Bellzy thanks mate , really thinking about your comments tonite....
but apart from that what else???

I'm a lateral thinker. I guess it just comes natural to me.

How's this: Basically, you want to take our most skillful onballer, place him in the one position on the ground that he'd
a) be completely rendered ineffective
b) be unable to utilize his skill
and
c) have no idea how to play,
whilst trading away someone more than fully capable of playing that position, all on the assumption that CJ's finished, and Wellsy's a hack?

Yeah, definitely a ****wit.

 

[roobear]

The scariest thing for me is that roosmad and top4potential seem to be two different posters.

Two of them!

Two!

 

[coopers pale]

TRADE TRADE TRADE

later CJ, i love you mate but its like losing 100 bucks and finding 10 every time you play or more like a forest gump box of chocolates

what about this for a forward line

THOMAS/ WELLS / CAMPBELL

play wells at FF and leave only the other two inside 50 at the 50 arch running towards goal....would sure be exciting...

Wells does **** all IMO in the middle, you twats with your skilled outside crap piss off, wells last chance but i think it would be interesting to see

let the comments begin

With the midfield delivery he'd get from Rawlings, Simpson, Power, Harris etc?
A small FF only works with a highly skilled midfield like the Bulldogs, for us, the small FF would look like a twat.

Wells needs to be the guy kicking it to our FF, not the FF on the receiving end of an endless array of helicopters, scrubbers, mulligrubbers, wormburners and shanks.

But thanks for playing.

 

[roosmad]

I'm a lateral thinker. I guess it just comes natural to me.

How's this: Basically, you want to take our most skillful onballer, place him in the one position on the ground that he'd
a) be completely rendered ineffective
b) be unable to utilize his skill
and
c) have no idea how to play,
whilst trading away someone more than fully capable of playing that position, all on the assumption that CJ's finished, and Wellsy's a hack?

Yeah, definitely a ****wit.

thats fair enough Ballsy, I do not rate Wells as many here do, yes good player, our best mid?? argueably??, I would trade him in a heart beat for KERR straight swap no problem..
Why would he be ineffective, pace silky skills all the crap you Wells lovers go on about clear out 50 and hit him on the lead, that would not work for you?? OK

I was at the VFL prelim last week, interesting to see all the players down one end behind the goals with laids and bewick, where was Wells???on the grand stand wing next to my dad chatted for all the second half, really nice bloke i must say, my dad asked him why he was'nt hanging out with the others seemed to not want to answer, just my throught but said he prefered to watch by himself, O'k in the company of a complete stranger my old man and me?????????,

Also ballsy get off the angry pills , Ben Cabonaro always has great reports on the magoos and you cane him????????

sos whos the ****wit now bitch.....

 

[budge11]

You still are man.

 

[budge11]

I would trade him in a heart beat for KERR straight swap no problem..

So would I. But the Eagles would want that + 1st rounder + something else

 

[NICK_ROOBOY83]

Everyone here who wants him traded are silly.

I can tell you one thing & you can Bookmark it. But if we did trade him we will finish the worser off at the end.

He will be back to his consistent self next season. We will end up with a dud yet again after stuffing yet another first rounder.

 

[TitanicRider]

It's time to go - Corey Jones.

Would be a handy pick up for a team like Melbourne or St Kilda.

Could there be a straight swap - Dal Santo for Corey Jones?

 

[Juryduty]

If this is true it is terrible, one bad year and chuck him out to the wolves, wrong.

North Melbourne rethink this he deserves to stay and be given another chance, if he goes its a disgrace.

And what do the roos want from him more kids, I am sick and tired of hearing about playing more kids, Dean Laidley has been saying this since he got to the roos, you are in your last year coach and good riddance.

 

[Laz1521]

CJ could be traded?

Every player in the AFL COULD be traded if the price is right.

Personally I think CJ has a lot to offer next year if he can get a pre-season under his belt. When fit he has the ability to push up into the midfield ala S Johnson ... which given the lack of strength in our midfield might be a good thing.

 

[NICK_ROOBOY83]

It's time to go - Corey Jones.

Would be a handy pick up for a team like Melbourne or St Kilda.

Could there be a straight swap - Dal Santo for Corey Jones?

WTF?

Seriously, some people need to get there heads out from between there legs.

CJ is twice the player Dal is.

 

[The Zebra]

I would take Dal Santo for CJ in a flash.

 

[Z_K]

I would take Dal Santo for CJ in a flash.

Umm, yeah.

 

[numchuks]

And what do the roos want from him more kids, I am sick and tired of hearing about playing more kids, Dean Laidley has been saying this since he got to the roos, you are in your last year coach and good riddance.

 

[Thommo4pm]

I would take Dal Santo for CJ in a flash.

Same here. No longer would our forwards have to worry about helicopters and mulligrubbers etc.

In saying that Corey is still a very important player for us. If he has been injured this year then i dont think trading him for anything less than a top 15 pick or a ready-made gun midfielder is worth it.
We need him in our forwardline, i dont think we can rely on Hale too much (2006 anyone?) and with Grant gone theres 25-30 goals we have to get from somebody else next year. Get rid of CJ and we have to find another 30+.

 

[coopers pale]

To me CJ doesn't need to be traded, he just needs a solid pre-season (injury free) and a heavily performance-based playing contract. If we traded him now, after a poor season and he came back next year injury-free and ready to fire - we'd look like complete tools.

Having said that, our absolute lack of trade-able commodities does put CJ in the gun if we want more than a 4th round pick in return.

Running through our list, I wonder about trading Thomas (given he's similar to Campbell and less versatile) given his possible inflated trade value and Ross being on the radar. Hard to give up good young players, but if we trade him for a draft pick that we used to pick up a stronger bodied skillful mid then I'd do it in a blink.

 

[Ghostwriter]

To me CJ doesn't need to be traded, he just needs a solid pre-season (injury free) and a heavily performance-based playing contract. If we traded him now, after a poor season and he came back next year injury-free and ready to fire - we'd look like complete tools.

Having said that, our absolute lack of trade-able commodities does put CJ in the gun if we want more than a 4th round pick in return.

Running through our list, I wonder about trading Thomas (given he's similar to Campbell and less versatile) given his possible inflated trade value and Ross being on the radar. Hard to give up good young players, but if we trade him for a draft pick that we used to pick up a stronger bodied skillful mid then I'd do it in a blink.

You'll get flamed for posting that, I hope you've got a thick skin.

 

[Thommo4pm]

To me CJ doesn't need to be traded, he just needs a solid pre-season (injury free) and a heavily performance-based playing contract. If we traded him now, after a poor season and he came back next year injury-free and ready to fire - we'd look like complete tools.

Having said that, our absolute lack of trade-able commodities does put CJ in the gun if we want more than a 4th round pick in return.

Running through our list, I wonder about trading Thomas (given he's similar to Campbell and less versatile) given his possible inflated trade value and Ross being on the radar. Hard to give up good young players, but if we trade him for a draft pick that we used to pick up a stronger bodied skillful mid then I'd do it in a blink.

Id do it. But Thomas like players are dime a dozen really.

Thomas
C.J
Harro
Swallow

They are about the 4 most trade-able and i doubt we would get anything more than a 2nd rounder for any of them, despite how good we know they can be.

 

[Event Horizon]

You'll get flamed for posting that, I hope you've got a thick skin.

Yes in deed, he'll get "flamed" as it's a silly thing to suggest. Not because I love Thomas or Ross, but because players who have played under 50 games (or under 5 in Ross's case) don't have much of a value yet, so you're wasting one recent draft pick who is yet to hit his prime, for another.

FFS, some people just forget that the whole thing is not about draft picks but players who win you games and premierships.

No point getting orgasms over draft picks alone.

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

Same here. No longer would our forwards have to worry about helicopters and mulligrubbers etc.

In saying that Corey is still a very important player for us. If he has been injured this year then i dont think trading him for anything less than a top 15 pick or a ready-made gun midfielder is worth it.
We need him in our forwardline, i dont think we can rely on Hale too much (2006 anyone?) and with Grant gone theres 25-30 goals we have to get from somebody else next year. Get rid of CJ and we have to find another 30+.

The thing is that he really not essential to our side. Yes, he has the ability to be a 60 goal a year player, but with the structure up forward with Hale and others such as Edwards and McMahon being focal points, we don't really need him.

As it has been said before, the best trades that have been made in the AFL recently have involved one party giving away a lot generally but not really a lot to the team. take the Ottens trade, where a lot was given to Richmond. Geelong wisely understood what they were lacking and traded generously yo get what they wanted. We don't really need another leading half forward flanker, even if he is of Jones' calibre.

I think that Jones is an ideal player to be trading this year, as this year we proved basically in his absence, that we can stand up without him and his possible 50 goals. The problem within our side is definitely not the forward line, which I see as our strongest facet of our team. We have many players waiting to play in there, but we have found the right ingredients in Hale, Campbell, McMahon, Edwards, Harvey, Thomas, Lower etc.

As everyone is agreeing, we need to fix the middle and that means trading players that are not essential to our success to pick up draft picks/ready-made players that will make the middle stronger.

 

[The Filth Wizard]

Umm, yeah.

Yep.

With ya.

 

[Roos4eva]

CJ is twice the player Dal is.

Ridiculous call.