Re: Re: Re: Re: Bleeding continues at Essendon
How about Bolton for Bolton??
How about Bolton for Bolton??
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Bleeding continues at Essendon
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Then again, the Bombers don't have Eddie and the ability for Channel 9 to pay some of your contract like Collingwood do.
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How about Essendon gets McVeigh jnr down to Windy Hill Swans fans, would you give us a first rounder for McVeigh, knowing that the pick is 16 or 17?
Swans fans, would you give us a first rounder for McVeigh, knowing that the pick is 16 or 17?
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You've noticed them making that excuse too?
Funnier thing is they actually lost 7 games this year, + one final ... to you guessed it, Collingwood!
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I have a soft spot for Crouch, and would hate to see him go. I don't know about Fosdike - he's had some shockers, but generally not too bad.
What about Scott Stevens? (I fear I'm being optomistic here).
I have a soft spot for Crouch, and would hate to see him go. I don't know about Fosdike - he's had some shockers, but generally not too bad.
What about Scott Stevens? (I fear I'm being optomistic here).
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Originally posted by Dave
Football history starting last year of course. On the way up? Heard that before. Geelong, Sydney, St Kilda, Melbourne. You wont win a flag with the list you've got and you haven't got the players or draft picks to radically improve it. Last year was your big opportunity and you blew it. Ah well, at least bucks got 1/3 of a brownlow
Geoff, not bad, better than some of your other recent efforts. Whilst we're on list management I'd been keen to get your views on who out of your mob 22 from saturday will still be there this time next year.
i will - i will Blakey just a little too soon yet. need to let the dust settle and the emotions calm. whereas you guys have had an extra fortnight for that . thus my questions about your list (which i noticed you avoided1)
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How about this: Considering that we may have trouble signing up other players (Solomon, Bolton, Hille), and if McVeigh wants to leave that badly, would you accept McVeigh for your first draft pick (I think it's #15, correct me if I'm wrong)?
I think with that pick, we might then look to use our first pick (#13) and Jacobs to tempt Port into trading Stevens to us. If we can't do that, at least we'll have an extra handy pick. You'll have a good running player who can play both ends of the ground. He's also still fairly young (23).
As for Stevens, sorry, I doubt that will happen. He's just not the sort of player we need.
How about this: Considering that we may have trouble signing up other players (Solomon, Bolton, Hille), and if McVeigh wants to leave that badly, would you accept McVeigh for your first draft pick (I think it's #15, correct me if I'm wrong)?
I think with that pick, we might then look to use our first pick (#13) and Jacobs to tempt Port into trading Stevens to us. If we can't do that, at least we'll have an extra handy pick. You'll have a good running player who can play both ends of the ground. He's also still fairly young (23).
As for Stevens, sorry, I doubt that will happen. He's just not the sort of player we need.
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I'll admit I don't know much about the draft, but I don't think we'd give up a 1st round draft pick for McVeigh. Like Nick Davis last year, McVeigh would be coming to Sydney because he wants to. This makes it much easier for us to get him cheaply. If my memory is right, we got Davis for a 2nd round pick last year, and Davis would be worth a lot more than McVeigh.
I think it all depends on how much McVeigh wants to come to Sydney. If he wants to come badly enough then we may get him, otherwise I don't think Sydney would bother. We need KPP much more than we need McVeigh (someone more like Jacobs or Solomon).
But hey, I don't make the decisions!
I'll admit I don't know much about the draft, but I don't think we'd give up a 1st round draft pick for McVeigh. Like Nick Davis last year, McVeigh would be coming to Sydney because he wants to. This makes it much easier for us to get him cheaply. If my memory is right, we got Davis for a 2nd round pick last year, and Davis would be worth a lot more than McVeigh.
I think it all depends on how much McVeigh wants to come to Sydney. If he wants to come badly enough then we may get him, otherwise I don't think Sydney would bother. We need KPP much more than we need McVeigh (someone more like Jacobs or Solomon).
But hey, I don't make the decisions!
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McVeigh is out of contract. We'll talk to Sydney and if we don't like the deal McVeigh will have to nominate for the pre-season draft and then he might not get to Sydney, so it would be in the Swans interest to not try and **** it up.
As for Davis, he may have still been under contract, so if he didn't go to the Swans and he didn't want to play for Collingwood, he would have to sit out of footy for a year. Coll would have to pay his contract and then when he left, they wouldn't get anything for him because no-one would want him during the trade period and Collingwood would have to delist him.
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Well, I did say I didn't know much about the draft.
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Always an excuse with you eh.
Whirl covered it pretty well. We aren't letting players go through cap pressure this time around. Mercs is the only decision that in hindsight was wrong. If he'd continued to play at the level he did in '99 it wouldn't be an issue. Who was to know what happened with his brother would happen?
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And life is so beautiful.
And life is so beautiful.
Anzac Day , 66 points, collingwood are the measuring stick, yeah, we`re ****ed.
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So fool, in the one breath you criticise Essendon's list management,and in the next offer your expert opinion that two of the three players are no good. On that basis they are right on the money.
Pretty sad attempt to deflect the light from your own sorry list I would have thought.
I think macpie pulls himself silly over Essendon, there has to be some explanation for his attraction to the club. Is it the 16 flags ?
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yep - i find it an bottomless pit of amusement
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