Brad Green has yet to re-sign

[Keele]

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/sport/afl/story/0,26633,24450921-5016215,00.html


Mention in the Melbourne threads that Colingwood are amongst the interested

Another silky left-footer is also expected to dominate discussion today with Melbourne star Brad Green weighing up his future.
The Demons last week lifted their offer to Green, 27, from two years to three, but he is yet to re-sign.

 

[dodgeball]

no thanks, not quick enough, and is 27, by the time we are challenging strongly he would be in his 30's. nice skills but no thanks.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Should have asked for a trade three years ago when he was a quality footballer.

Green needs to to the right thing by the Demons and stick with them and try and be one of the men to lead them out of the wilderness.

 

[jerry springer]

dont need any forward/mids,I love his kicking but we need pure "in and under" midfielders

 

[dodgeball]

Should have asked for a trade three years ago when he was a quality footballer.

Green needs to to the right thing by the Demons and stick with them and try and be one of the men to lead them out of the wilderness.

agree, what a dog if he says he wants to leave. it really annoys me when players don't show loyalty. i'm glad borwn/kerr etc re-signed. and i'm disappointed an AA/premiership player like o'keefe wants out.

 

[Pennypacker]

Should have asked for a trade three years ago when he was a quality footballer.

Green needs to to the right thing by the Demons and stick with them and try and be one of the men to lead them out of the wilderness.

I would give up pick 11 for Green in a heart beat and make him captain as soon as he walked in the door. He would be rated in the top 20 players in the league if he played at a top club. Absolute gun.

 

[dodgeball]

I would give up pick 11 for Green in a heart beat and make him captain as soon as he walked in the door. He would be rated in the top 20 players in the league if he played at a top club. Absolute gun.

that is crazy talk, pick 11 for green???!!!! he is an outside player with good foot skills, we don't need him. that post has to be a joke

 

[SIDE BY SIDE]

that is crazy talk, pick 11 for green???!!!! he is an outside player with good foot skills, we don't need him. that post has to be a joke

I wouldn't say we don't need him. Last time i looked we don't have a great deal of players with great foot skills. Pick 11 is crazy and would not give it for Green in a Million years but if we could work something out for him then i would be in favor of it. It all depends on what we have to give up and what Melbourne want for him.

 

[dodgeball]

there are far too many better options out there than a 27 year old brad green. his skills are no doubt awesome but he doesn't have enough zip and i think where out list is at the only player over 25-27 we should be targetting is cousins. i'm saying that though because i believe we aren't going to seriously challenge for a premiership until 2010 onwards and a guy like green or even o'keefe/harris will be late 20's early 30's by then and we wish we had gone with youth before all the draft picks dry up becuase of GC17 draft concessions

 

[SIDE BY SIDE]

Its hard i don't know what i would give up for him. I want to keep the first 2 picks but we will need to give Melbourne something if we went after him. Might be to hard in the end and as much as i like him I'm not prepared to give away too much for him. If he wants out and Melbourne cant get what they want for him then maybe a player swap might do it but what player would we be willing to give up for him?

 

[Yahoodle]

The top 30 this year is exceptional, can't give away picks 1 or 2 for 28 year old flankers like ROK and Green

 

[3066]

Mention in the Melbourne threads that Colingwood are amongst the interested

I have an old Camry that I was thinking of getting rid of.... maybe I should call Collingwood because apparently they are keen in buying it??

Not having a go at the poster ... just the fact that every player that is having a sniff seems to be linked to Collingwood. Collingwood going for Brad Green IMO is a joke .... a few years ago he would been good but not now. We don't need him. He should do the right thing by his club and stay anyway.

 

[shawthing09]

His more too our need then say R.O.K but still not too our need enough IMO. I still think we are a couple of years away from being a REAL contender. I think our first couple round draft picks as risky as they are will be worth more to us then Green. So I think the cost to need will not be in our favour. Especially because I can't see Melbourne accepting anything other then a high draft pick for him. I also agree that it would show a lack of character on his behalf if he just decided to walk out on Melbourne.

 

[Axl the great]

Green suffers playing in such a poor side with little help around him in games.
He is pure quality and would go to another level at collingwood with good players around him, Id give our second rounder for such a good player in a heartbeat.

 

[unplugged]

I swear every player, whoever they are, supposedly has interest from Collingwood when it comes to the media. I never know what to believe

 

[Jabso]

I would give up pick 11 for Green in a heart beat and make him captain as soon as he walked in the door. He would be rated in the top 20 players in the league if he played at a top club. Absolute gun.

 

[Jabso]

Apparently we're one of 4 clubs asking about him including Sydney, Hawthorn and Port. Wouldn't be bad if the price was right. Even so his age is a bit too close to 30 for my liking, he is a quality mid that we need but he is hardly a future replacement for O'Bree and Burns as an inside mid.

 

[stickman11]

I would give up pick 11 for Green in a heart beat and make him captain as soon as he walked in the door. He would be rated in the top 20 players in the league if he played at a top club. Absolute gun.

He was playing in a top club at one stage! Everyone bagged him for being soft.

 

[Kirby]

He was playing in a top club at one stage! Everyone bagged him for being soft.

True....lol!

 

[Jabso]

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,24463926-19763,00.html

"Collingwood is chasing Melbourne's Brad Green, with a decision expected today.

The Pies said last night they were interested in the midfielder, but the 27-year-old was yet to decide whether he would leave the Demons.

"I don't think he knows what he's doing yet," Collingwood football operations manager Geoff Walsh said. "He has to say I want to leave and I'm interested in you.

"But at this stage none of those things have happened."

Hawthorn, Sydney and Port Adelaide have also sounded out Green.
"

 

[FIGJAM]

I am unsure of our strategy...if we even have one. I am actually thinking that we don't, other than to chase the bigger names (who are usually using us to get a bigger number) and to hoard onto our allocated draft picks. Plus the fringe trade that benefits nobody.

Derek Hine said this:

http://afl.com.au/News/NEWSARTICLE/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsId=68692

"We will potentially look at players that can FILL A NEED, but we WON'T COMPROMISE our position in the draft," the club's national recruiting manager Derek Hine said.

"We've demonstrated in the last few years that we've been prepared to go to the draft and develop players.

"Last year, we got Cameron Wood to address a specific need in the ruck. The year before we traded out Chris Tarrant for an early first-round draft pick and that allowed us to get Ben Reid and Paul Medhurst.

"In this particular climate, all clubs are mindful that the new franchise is coming in, so they're all very keen to hang onto their draft picks.

"So for that very reason, there probably won't be a lot of exchanges of picks, but there may be more player-for-player trades. So we're open to everything and we're investigating everything, but at the same time, we're protecting our early picks."

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Now Green is a fine player. Arguably a bit soft, but he has performed better in this regard to anyone stoopid enough to watch a Dees match. But he is still essentially an outside player. 1.2 clearances a game is evidence of this.

And on a needs basis, we do need players who can kick. But just who is going to be getting the ball out to these players?

In terms of clearances, who wins the ball out cleanly and purposefully for us?

http://www.pro-stats.com.au/psw/web/player_rankings?yr=2008&sp=SE&rt=LA&fc=E3

I guess it depends on the trade to Melbourne, but they will be after a high pick and / or a good young player that they (and probably we) rate.

Perhaps Norf are simply asking too much for Harris.

Perhaps we simply don't rate his bad years as anything other than being indicative of his maximum ability.

Perhaps we are banking on Didak, Swan, Thomas, Leon, Wellingham and McCarthy (maybe Stanley if he's ever played in the guts!) to offer some added numbers in the clearance stakes. Maybe even an abstract thought of a fit Rusling releasing Medhurst to the senna square, or play Green off half back to plonk Heath in the senna square (very un-MM though!).

In terms of money in the bank clearance specialists though, I can't see one "natural". J-Mac would be the closest, but then I see him as a Burns style fighter rather than a Kerr/Black/Mitchell style magnet. Same with Stanners.

I don't mind having a year of nothing. I don't mind taking a knee and trading into the draft. I don't mind us purposefully trading into a stronger team for a tilt. But I get concerned if we humm and ahh about it, and want our cake and eat it too.

 

[dodgeball]

you have to think long term when looking at trading for a guy that is 27 and averaged like you say 1.2 clearences in the wooden spoon team. i'm not denying he has good skills but at 27 and not an inside mid with a whole lot of pace, i would rather we held onto any draft picks and went for mids in the draft rather than a 27 year old who will be nearing the end of his career when our list is really starting to peak, i have said it alot in the last few days but i think there is only one player over 25 years of age the pies should look at recruiting and that is cousins, we need to get a some good mids in the draft and then set ourselves up for the next few years. GC17 have strangle hold on the draft in coming years so now is not the time to be getting rid of picks/or young players on our list. we have the potential at collingwood to really be an exciting YOUNG team for many years. lets keep it that way.

 

[Didak2Dawes]

Pass.

 

[magpie_militia]

So what would everyone offer for Green?

A mate of mine (Dees supporter) suggested our 2nd rounder and Rusling. I replied with our third rounder and R.Shaw.

 

[didaka]

Green is a very good footballer. Is he what we need, in some ways yes. He moves the footy inside 50 and his foot skills are nice. It would be a fair upgrade from Rhyce Shaw because he can his the chest going forward.

His age, I'm not concerned, we need players around 27 to add experience. My only concern would be what do we have to pay.

We definitely need 1 or 2 players that can use the footy going forward, but I'm more keen on a player that can win the footy in contested situations, and a mature bodied one. So the type of player Green is would be my second option.