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Why wouldn’t smith have nominated the cats as yet??
Rumour Bluemour Discussion XXXVI - 'Loopy' Season in full swing
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I like plenty of posts if the reasoning is sound, whether I agree or not
I have no issue if the club decided to hand out 1, 1st late ish pick for Houston, but nothing more unless it was steak knives, otherwise I would walk away
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That's fair enough, I've been wanting us to address that area as well. Just not keen on giving up that sort of trade capital.
2 first rounders won't solve our one paced midfield and lack of small forward options either. But they will go towards it a lot more than SDK will.
No chance we can sort all our problems in one off season unfortunately...
acting like houston is about to absolutely fall off a cliff in 2 years time while our spine (minus tdk and walsh) are the same age or older is funny. do we wanna potentially win a flag with cripps in the team by adding established players or wait for draftees that might come good in 2-3 years time when cripps is 33-34?
im all for keeping this years 1st and selecting a berry type, but if theres a deal that can be made with a F1 for houston or a deal for SDK that involves this years first im doing it.
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Not sure what part of NO DISCUSSION some don’t understand.
It’s in CAPS in thread title.
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I doubt anyone has an issue with you and others thinking some ready made types might not move the needle next year, but stating an 18 year old will, does seem strange wouldn't you say
In the PF, Cats got their rear ends handed to them in the midfield Smith and the Melb heartthrob will put them back into serious contention. SDK may be the solution to their problem. If so we need to go hard and not blink.
If Austin I would consider making a big time offer on both of them just to up their value and force the cats to offload some surplus talent.
If Austin I would consider making a big time offer on both of them just to up their value and force the cats to offload some surplus talent.
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It's a good point and indicates most of the onus is on our terrible gameplan killing the defence. Personally, I think it is then much more complicated than that one point. We still need a second defender who in the right weight division and defensive mindset for the 'role' of second key defender. Young/Kemp fall short of the 'role' for differing reasons.
Looking back over the last few years, the best balance of tall defenders is made up of 'Quality Key Defender', 'potato cheap big body defender' and then '3rd tall intercept defender'.
Moore, Murphy, Howe
May, Petty, Lever
SDK might help but as you rightly pointed out, Vossy and the MC have to lift their transition game multiple levels. Also, SDK bypasses the potato defender for another quality defender which just might be again the wrong mix and salary cost. Carlton are forever caught up in 'awesome player' rather than filling a 'specific' role.
We have Weitering...then missing the potato defender (Collins, Payne). We are then missing the intercept defender as McGovern actually doesnt do his role. Haynes however might do it.
Having said all that, i think SDK is a pipedream and there is more chance of JSoS ending up in the potato role.
Cats are clearly a fair bit of salary this year
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I didn't say Houston would fall off a cliff in 2 years... I said players usually fall off a cliff when in their mid 30's...
So unless Houston is currently 32 years old, you're twisting the facts...
I would offer no more than 11 for SDK... I was talking to a poster who would be happy to trade 2x 1st rounders for him... a move, imo which would be totally irresponsible list management...
As for trading for Houston, at no stage were Port ever going to accept just our F1 for him... or us trading our F1 to another club for another 1st this year... people believing that is the stuff of unicorns...
We would at the very least have to cough up our F1 and an early 2nd rounder... and the gymnastics we'd have to perform to get that additional pick was not worth it.
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With reports Melbourne are interested in Owies, how would a 3 club trade look?
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Yeh agree Scott has been earmarked for Tassie job but can’t see cats getting anywhere near it for awhile even if they land Smith/Oliver.
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Poor North…..
I'd do Houston for a future 1st in a heartbeat
ericpascoe going by your bluemour, if Port would accept that for Houston (shuffling later picks), would Austin do the deal?
ericpascoe going by your bluemour, if Port would accept that for Houston (shuffling later picks), would Austin do the deal?
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You're right that not one player would have made the difference for us this year.
If we were talking about Butters or Trac, then 2 first rounders would be more sensible.
I’d add Reid, Windsor, Mannagh and Humphries to a lesser extent Freijah McKercher and Caddy
That’s 8 to 11 players from 64 drafted. A fair way off 95%.
The team that won the 2022 Grand Final and were 2 goals away from playing in the 2024 GF? Lol.ok.
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