Rumour Bluemour Discussion XXXV - 'Loopy' Season has begun

[Dramoth]

He was good value. Thought he deserved more time on our list.

There were other players at the time we could have moved on really.

 

[Dramoth]

Sounds juicy. What happened specifically?

Got caught in the offices with a USB drive from what I heard. Tried to spin some shit, club told him to get the **** out and retire.

 

[Bletch]

What is wrong with you people !

I don't wish either good luck or best wishes - hope they absolutely fail miserably - same as I hope for every other player in every other opposition team.

Guess it's a factor of the reason players leave. If they're being pushed out of the club (aka Tuohy, Betts), I tend to wish them a whole lot better than if they abandon us to chase cash/success (Waite).

 

[Blue and Silver]

Hearing Pavlich trade is on the table, Goddard as steak knives should be done late with a future first coming our way.

*Sorry this post was for the last day of trade period, not the first

On Pixel 7 using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[Stamos]

Guess it's a factor of the reason players leave. If they're being pushed out of the club (aka Tuohy, Betts), I tend to wish them a whole lot better than if they abandon us to chase cash/success (Waite).

Ok, Waite should definitely be in the first category. Mick got rid of him.

 

[Forty3]

Think Dow and Fisher trades will happen late in the trade period

Makes sense.
No need for us to rush them.
Both north and the saints have a busy trade period ahead.
Fisher is under contract, and if we can’t get anything of value for Dow, we can let him go through the PSD. No love lost between SOS and the football department at the moment. And with the Dow family connection to North Melbourne, I’d like to see us test the saints nerves.

 

[RPCB]

Got caught in the offices with a USB drive from what I heard. Tried to spin some s**t, club told him to get the * out and retire.

Haha, that’s brilliant. I can’t help but find it funny when someone tanks their own career.

 

[Y Goat]

I spoke to Jed Lamb at a pre-season function one year. I asked him what he saw his role for the upcoming season.

He replied "To be an absolute pest to the opposition".

Won me over instantly...

yea Jed a good fella, met him aswell, he knew some guys i know from out east.

was a good HF who cracked in too, a bit underrated & unlucky not to play longer, id have kept him

 

[myblueroan]

I spoke to Jed Lamb at a pre-season function one year. I asked him what he saw his role for the upcoming season.

He replied "To be an absolute pest to the opposition".

Won me over instantly...

Gave you the good grass.

 

[ferrisb]

Thomas Bugg the phantom player, SOS could get him on the cheap

Makes sense.

St Kilda's membership mailing list wouldn't take very long to download...

 

[RPCB]

Makes sense.

St Kilda's membership mailing list wouldn't take very long to download...

Tom could even sit next to the team leader of the membership department, distract him or her while he put in the USB and started downloading the members contract information and got out of dodge before they even knew what had happened.

 

[BigFrizz36]

Haha, that’s brilliant. I can’t help but find it funny when someone tanks their own career.

The less charitable among us thought that he'd tanked his career previously by playing.

Shows how badly we were going at the time to consider taking him on. Thank God that he never actually played for us.

 

[bigdog43]

God that 2017 draft was a lucky dip down
into the 30's. A recruiters nightmare.
Top 10
Dow at 3, O' Brien 10 - Not playing 1's
Jayden Stephenson 6 - Barely playing 1's
Coffield 7 and Hunter Clarke 8 (St Kilda) both on the trading table. Raynor, Brayshaw, LDU, Cerra & Naughton the hits in the top 10

Below that Bailey 15, Oscar Allen 21, Gryan Myers 57, Fritsch 31, TDK 30, Ainsworth 32 to name a few.
This draft sounds a similar composition if the usual draft watchers are on the money. Getting a number of picks prob a better strategy than trying to trade up for 1 potential gun.

I like to tell myself we took TDK at 3, Dow at 10 and O'Brien at 30.

 

[Stamos]

I like to tell myself we took TDK at 3, Dow at 10 and O'Brien at 30.

I like to tell myself that Zac Bailey wasn't in that draft

 

[DangerousD]

Haha, that’s brilliant. I can’t help but find it funny when someone tanks their own career.

He didn’t tank his own career, hey started a business whilst at Melbourne that took off after his delisting from them and signing with us.

Bugg, who was handed an AFL lifeline by the Blues in last year's rookie draft, said his decision to step away was due to growing interests outside the game, leaving him with a lack of desire to play the game.

His company seems to be doing very well, so I’m sure he’s more than happy that he stepped away from a rookie deal to become CEO of a big company.

 

[ctwenty1]

Makes sense.

St Kilda's membership mailing list wouldn't take very long to download...

pretty big assumption they have gone digital...

 

[Forty3]

Crazy. Three first round picks for pick 4.

When you take into account there are 3 potentially 4 academy players that will be taken before pick 10, another 3 that are tassie boys that you wouldn’t be confident of keeping when their team comes into the comp and Croft at a potential father son for the dogs.
Getting an early pick 4 makes some sense

 

[Juice030103]

When you take into account there are 3 potentially 4 academy players that will be taken before pick 10, another 3 that are tassie boys that you wouldn’t be confident of keeping when their team comes into the comp and Croft at a potential father son for the dogs.
Getting an early pick 4 makes some sense

Any word on us trading up F3?

 

[sweethoney]

Croft means they want to get rid of 10 and 17, plus they get two 3rds back for points.

Will Croft nominate them though? They seemed stacked for tall forwards

 

[Stamos]

Will Croft nominate them though? They seemed stacked for tall forwards

You would assume so given the deal they just did.

 

[thylacine60]

Dogs now have Pick 4.

 

[Blue1980]

Good old Silvagni.

Loves to give his failed first rounders a second crack.

LOB and Philp?

 

[I bleed Blue]

What is wrong with you people !

I don't wish either good luck or best wishes - hope they absolutely fail miserably - same as I hope for every other player in every other opposition team.

JAB has baked Fish and Dow a farewell cake

 

[Blue1980]

Thanks for the detailed response JaB. I see valid arguments from both sides.

I am pretty sympathetic to keeping Dow given he offers a point of difference and has improved his game significantly in the last 12-24 months. BUT keeping him is only worth it if the coaches were willing to play him (subject to form). Which I don't think they are.

Given where Dow is in the pecking order and his request to be traded, Dow vs Kennedy vs Hewett discussions (and related midfield, gameplan, list mgmt chat) are about as practical as debate about whether we should have kept Ratten as coach in 2012. Is it valid, interesting discussion? For sure! Is it any more than a hypothetical, alternate universe thinking exercise? I don't think so.

I and the MC rate Hewett and Kennedy higher than Dow, so we’d be better off spending in an area of need instead of keeping Dow.

 

[Wickzki]

When you take into account there are 3 potentially 4 academy players that will be taken before pick 10, another 3 that are tassie boys that you wouldn’t be confident of keeping when their team comes into the comp and Croft at a potential father son for the dogs.
Getting an early pick 4 makes some sense

People vastly overrate pick numbers and fail to consider the context. All the time.

Dogs will walk away with one of the highest floor plus highest ceiling players in a very shallow draft and get another father son late first round caliber pick.

Suns would look at their haul solely as points.

To me it's a big win-win trade. GC walk away with more but it's not a stupid trade at all like some are saying.