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List Mgmt. Dan Houston requests trade to Victoria - will stay if deal can't be done
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This. We should be treating Dan Houston's trade request like we did Nick Stevens.
Another team that is around the mark for contending for a flag should be made to hurt to trade in Dan Houston.
- Mar 17, 2014
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Very much a cake and eat it too situation. He's not leaving for opportunity. It's "I want to live in the city of Melbourne because reasons, oh and if you do let me go I only want to play for a half decent team in front of big crowds and finals". Should go to the highest bidder if moving home is the prime motivation. **** I sound like a crow fan lol.
RossFC
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Carlton will get it done for their 2 firsts. They need him.
I don't think its an amazing deal for us, if we aren't getting a top 10 pick we are doing poorly.
I don't think its an amazing deal for us, if we aren't getting a top 10 pick we are doing poorly.
PortAdelFC1997
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North give us Pick 2 and F1. If they really want Houston, cough that much up.
Yeah there’s no way we should be taking less for Dan that Richmond get for Bolton.
If it’s norths future 1st I want another very good pick with it. That could easily be pick 8 next year, and for a player of dans quality to let him go for pick 8 in a years time and hoping that player doesn’t bust would be a risky move.
Malibu#27
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I’m not a trade negotiating expert and I know there’s games played and in reality player managers do a lot of the grunt work but I’m of a similar opinion.
If we could lock away soldo going out and luko in in the first half of trade week, I’d be telling Dans manager that we don’t care who it’s from but our compo needs to match the best of Bolton/Rioli or we aren’t considering it.
- Jan 14, 2008
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Powell is an established midfielder who is boring and vanilla, doesn’t shift the needle towards winning a premiership. If he was going to play as a back pocket I may be interested. Just a Kane Cornes accumulator. I would rather one of the lads mentioned above who could develop and become a top 5 player in our squad. Powell ain’t ever going to be that, losing Houston I want the potential top 5 player, not a safe 15th picked bloke.
Powell is not vanilla. If he was an accumulator like you say he’d be a top 10 player in the comp. For whatever reason he finds it hard to get the footy every second week.
His running torp was one of many highlight kicks across the season. He signed a 2 year extension and doesn’t seem to have any desire to return home.
The one I’d look at as a tie breaker trade would be goad.
Powell is a “mid only” mid and does not fill a need. If we had a 2011 midfield, maybe. With our stacked midfield- no, find me a goal kicking pressure forward instead.
- Sep 29, 2012
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If Carlton are trying to push players out to get picks maybe they think Port will be open to a 1st and 2 second round picks?
Dan has certainly played his last game for the club, it’s now just about getting the optics right so that members & supporters don’t feel duped in what’s likely to be a less than favourable trade.
- Jan 5, 2013
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Why are you so sure, every year, literally every year there is 1 or multiple contracted players fail to get their desired club. If we don’t get a good deal he will literally stay. It’s not a wingard situation where the club clearly doesn’t really want him at the club anymore.
Houston is clearly a better/ more useful footballer than Rioli, Bolton is line ball.
I get the impression in that circumstance Port would say it's up to Carlton to turn those 2 second round picks into a first round pick
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