Rumour Bluemour Discussion XXXVI - 'Loopy' Season in full swing

[ESKIE]

 

[Robbo's my hero]

I have horrible news for people about the first few days of trade period.

Nothing much ever gets done. Well not formally anyway.

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[Sheephead]

Trade week should be about 36 hours long in total. Anything longer is pointless.

Exactly. A day of speed dating. Go home with your list of possibles. Throw official offer emails out overnight. Come back the next day, thrash them out, you have a 3pm deadline.

 

[Bamboo Harvester]

Exactly. A day of speed dating. Go home with your list of possibles. Throw official offer emails out overnight. Come back the next day, thrash them out, you have a 3pm deadline.

 

[bmaurizio]

I have horrible news for people about the first few days of trade period.

Nothing much ever gets done. Well not formally anyway.

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Agree initial few days are all about postering and setting the tone with plenty of nonsense too.
Trade period is far too long 4 or5 days is ample time , then the fireworks would start quickly.

 

[Its an amigo!]

Which one is the good one? Or better one?

I like them both. I've watched a bit of them at Glenelg. They are a little different to each other - Ben being more of a hybrid mid with an inside game and right foot dominate, and Lucas is more of outside running left footer. I think Ben is a bit stronger and probably has more tricks than Lucas, but I think Lucas will be a great specialty winger and can produce some great kicks at times, yet this is a little inconsistent.

There is something about Lucas that reminds me more of their dad (at least what I remember his dad being), especially in Scott's early years with us. Ben is probably more what Scott was like in his later playing years.

 

[Just Kreuzing]

In the U/16's lucas. in the U/18's Ben.

If either go past Scott by the end of their careers we will have been blessed….

 

[ferrisb]

I have horrible news for people about the first few days of trade period.

Nothing much ever gets done. Well not formally anyway.

My fax machine doesn't get out of bed until there's less than 10,000 seconds left in trade period...

-- Linda Evangelista, pretty sure

 

[Robertio]

If either go past Scott by the end of their careers we will have been blessed….

Both will make me happy, an inside and outside mid with Campos genes excites me.

 

[bmaurizio]

Agree both lads will do well, Scott was a very good footballer, speed , agility solid skill set. Very happy we will snare the Camporeale twins cheaply.
It’s such a shame just missing out on bargain price with Cody Walker reckon he’ll go as high as pick 2 or 3 in his draft year just like his dad.

 

[CrippaTheGoat9]

 

[myblueroan]

I have horrible news for people about the first few days of trade period.

Nothing much ever gets done. Well not formally anyway.

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[CrippaTheGoat9]

Austin provides trade and draft update

Head of List Management Nick Austin spoke with Carlton Media ahead of the Continental Tyres AFL Trade Period.

www.carltonfc.com.au

 

[carlton_99]

Targeting speed, run and key position depth down back in the draft - I like it

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

Creating pathways for Moir, Wilson, Lord etc by clearing out some names too.

It would be a beautiful thing

 

[CrippaTheGoat9]

Targeting speed, run and key position depth down back in the draft - I like it

Listening to Austin, doesn’t sound like Houston is a real priority and the draft is the focus which I like too

 

[juzza316]

if the pies outmanoeuvre us and land Houston, that would be extremely disappointing. Hope he stays at Port if we don't get him.

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

Listening to Austin, doesn’t sound like Houston is a real priority and the draft is the focus which I like too

Which is really what we're all wanting I feel. Only thing with the Houston deal is preventing the Pies getting him and flying back into premiership contention.

Hope Port just say we're holding him for another year and we can focus on the draft without worrying about the Pies

 

[Own The Future]

Listening to Austin, doesn’t sound like Houston is a real priority and the draft is the focus which I like too

Agree. But the reverse psychology tactic could be in play. Rarely do people reveal their true intentions - but in this case I hope it is 100% what we are planning to do. As so many have said, the draft will be heavily compromised soon with Tassie coming in - we need to stockpile younger players NOW, not overcapitalise in late 20s players who specialise in areas of the ground in which we are well covered.

 

[Blue and Blue]

Son of Curly giving nowt away, I like it.

 

[bmaurizio]

Meanwhile the remainder of the competition improves their list aggressively.
Cats, Hawks, Crows ,Power, just a few that will be much stiffer competition in 2025.
We’re in a jam, 4/5 monster contracts for our champions and a few not so good are strangling our mobility. Let’s hope we snare the Camporeale boys cheaply they’ll be good footballers and either a quality tall for defense or skilled small forward. We need a speedy midfielder too, but can’t address all problems in one trade period.

 

[Robbo's my hero]

‘You don’t tell the frogs anything before you drain the swamp’.

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

Meanwhile the remainder of the competition improves their list aggressively.
Cats, Hawks, Crows ,Power, just a few that will be much stiffer competition in 2025.
We’re in a jam, 4/5 monster contracts for our champions and a few not so good are strangling our mobility. Let’s hope we snare the Camporeale boys cheaply they’ll be good footballers and either a quality tall for defense or skilled small forward. We need a speedy midfielder too, but can’t address all problems in one trade period.

What did the Lions add last year to get over the hump this season?

Sometimes hitting the draft is the best option for a club. There's no feasible targets out there which fill our positional needs for a good price, but they are available in this draft around our picks.

Getting aggressive would be great and someone like Houston or Bailey Smith would be awesome... but we have 3-4 gaps in our list and selling the farm for mature agers just isn't going to possible without giving up all our draft capital and blowing our cap out the water.

 

[Lukeblueboy]

Very interesting times this trade period imo
All the rumours have all of a sudden dried up over the past couple of days.

Very keen to see what Austin produces

Might here some tid bits out of tonight if anyone is going.

 

[juzza316]

What did the Lions add last year to get over the hump this season?

They weren't as far off the pace as we are. They were 4 points off a flag and added Will Ashcroft.