Recruiting AFL Trade & Free Agency XI - McKay. Goldstein. Gresham. Duursma!

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[Beerfish]

it’s the dumbest thing we’ve done as a club in 20 years,

Well...

 

[doug85]

If we give Gresham 750 a year it’s the dumbest thing we’ve done as a club in 20 years, I don’t care what pick we’re getting back.

 

[Ati Tude]

If we give Gresham 750 a year it’s the dumbest thing we’ve done as a club in 20 years, I don’t care what pick we’re getting back.

Wouldn't even make the top 10

 

[Call Me Cake]

St Kilda supporters are the most pompous, arrogant, undeservedly self-entitled flogs in the entire competition.

 

[andleanback]

Well...

Yeh and that’s saying something

 

[andleanback]

Wouldn't even make the top 10

Yeh it would player wise

 

[dank420_]

St Kilda supporters are the most pompous, arrogant, undeservedly self-entitled flogs in the entire competition.

and really stupid

 

[carnthedons]

St Kilda supporters are the most pompous, arrogant, undeservedly self-entitled flogs in the entire competition.

we are too tho

 

[Milanista28]

If we give Gresham 750 a year it’s the dumbest thing we’ve done as a club in 20 years, I don’t care what pick we’re getting back.

boncer34

 

[citizen-erased]

Wouldn't even make the top 10

Drugs
fighting AFL
fighting WADA/ASADA
Thorburn
knocking back Swans Daniher offer
Convincing Raz to stay in '19
McGrath over Club or Taranto
Chasing Clarko

 

[doug85]

Drugs
fighting AFL
fighting WADA/ASADA
Thorburn
knocking back Swans Daniher offer
Convincing Raz to stay in '19
McGrath over Club or Taranto
Chasing Clarko

Shiel

 

[Schnitzengruben]

St Kilda supporters are the most pompous, arrogant, undeservedly self-entitled flogs in the entire competition.

Fremantle supporters are strangely arrogant for a club that has never achieved anything.

 

[andleanback]

Drugs
fighting AFL
fighting WADA/ASADA
Thorburn
knocking back Swans Daniher offer
Convincing Raz to stay in '19
McGrath over Club or Taranto
Chasing Clarko

I’m talking about list management

 

[jdstorm]

We may only be taking 2 picks in the draft which makes pick 32 redundant.

If Sheil gets traded for a pick that’s likely 3 draft picks now

 

[doug85]

I’m talking about list management

There’s three examples of poor list management in that post….

 

[JT_the_Man]

Shiel

Which brings us to this situation…

 

[DapperDon]

I’m talking about list management

Justin Murphy

 

[andleanback]

There’s three examples of poor list management in that post….

They aren’t horrific decisions though
Mcgrath is still going to be a 200 game player. How many all aus etc do taranto / mclugg have - they aren’t genuine superstars, like passing over a bont or dusty
I can see why we wanted to keep Daniher didn’t have much notice of a trade request and he was in contract so we had the power. We still got a top 10 pick the following year. Hardly a bad result.

 

[doug85]

They aren’t horrific decisions though
Mcgrath is still going to be a 200 game player. How many all aus etc do taranto / mclugg have - they aren’t genuine superstars, like passing over a bont or dusty
I can see why we wanted to keep Daniher didn’t have much notice of a trade request and he was in contract so we had the power. We still got a top 10 pick the following year. Hardly a bad result.

Keeping Joe and Raz were bad list mgmt decisions. That’s what you’ve moved the goal posts to. Just admit your post was hyperbole, it’s not hard. We all make mistakes.

 

[andleanback]

Keeping Joe and Raz were bad list mgmt decisions. That’s what you’ve moved the goal posts to. Just admit your post was hyperbole, it’s not hard. We all make mistakes.

How have I moved the goal posts we literally got pick 7 for daniher the following year, we hardly lost out keeping him for another year.

Giving an average player 750k is a whole lot worse than that imo
Who knows what that does to the locker room as well.

 

[doug85]

How have I moved the goal posts we literally got pick 7 for daniher the following year, we hardly lost out keeping him for another year.

Giving an average player 750k is a whole lot worse than that imo
Who knows what that does to the locker room as well.

I’m getting too itchy from the straw men. This is where I leave it

 

[Bjchan13]

Sam Edmund

Dylan Shiel (Essendon) & Jade Gresham (St Kilda)

“The theory is, as reported in the Herald Sunyesterday, Essendon has an abundance of midfielders and Dylan Shiel turns 31 in March.

“He’s coming off a 12-game season and coming into the last year of his contract on a decent wage. This was his big six-year deal when crossing from the Giants when Carlton came hard for him.

“St Kilda aren’t interested in keeping Jade Gresham despite what they say publicly. He’s also well paid, and they need more midfield support.

“Gresham would leave as a free agent and because Essendon would pay him enough it gives St Kilda either a first-round or end of first-round compensation pick. It would be 13 given their first pick is 12, or at the end of the first round of course.

“Then the trade period sometime later, St Kilda send a pick back to Essendon for Shiel. The theory goes it could be that same pick that they use in the Gresham deal. List managers I’ve spoken to said they would be floored if the Saints gave up a first-rounder for Shiel.

“They’ve got 31 so it would be more likely that the Saints would give up 31, or that second-round pick for Shiel and Essendon allow it given the Saints would be taking on Dylan Shiel’s wage at the same time.

“Essentially it’s a pick buy. St Kilda will be buying a pick here.”

Edmund the hack quotes a theory reported in the herald sun but gets it completely backwards. Ralphs story is the og and the best. One of the finest journalists in the game

 

[eth-dog]

Edmund the hack quotes a theory reported in the herald sun but gets it completely backwards. Ralphs story is the og and the best. One of the finest journalists in the game

Both are terrible

 

[bomberlegend2007]

Edmund is the journalist version of a broken clock being right twice a day. And even then, his clock is sometimes a 24 hour one.

 

[doug85]

Edmund is the journalist version of a broken clock being right twice a day. And even then, his clock is sometimes a 24 hour one.

I’d be very interested in some kind of counter for every story a journo nails v ****s up. I’m too lazy to ever do such a thing

But the data would be interesting