Darcy Say Fev's Gone
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thylacine60
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Lot of people getting sick in here today. Place smells like a Parmesan cheese shop.
I'm sure we'll re-sign Fev mid-to-late in the year on the same money. The only reason we wouldn't is if Fev messes up again or if we look to have a real shot at Jonathan Brown, Andrew Embley or Daniel Kerr. I get the sense that Brown is very open to moving.
You never dispose of a talent as great as Fev's. Full Forwards of his calibre do not come along often
The time to trade Fev would have been 2 years ago, when he was coming off his coleman medal in a losing team. His value was sky-high, he was just entering his prime years, and it was the 'superdraft'. I wrote at the time that Geelong were a prime candidate (coming off a horrendous year), and we could have got 2 picks and 2 players for him back then.
Now he's two years older, and a real conundrum. If he stays clean, plays well and improves his trade value - we want to keep him. He'll be a valuable asset as we rise up the ladder. If he doesn't stay clean, gets in trouble, then given his age and history we'll have to trade him for far less than he is worth; in which case, we might as well keep him!
Basically, the only circumstance we would want to trade him would be if our team had no prospect of success for 2-3 years, AND he was playing AA calibre football. We were in that position 2 years ago, but I doubt we will be again.
Now he's two years older, and a real conundrum. If he stays clean, plays well and improves his trade value - we want to keep him. He'll be a valuable asset as we rise up the ladder. If he doesn't stay clean, gets in trouble, then given his age and history we'll have to trade him for far less than he is worth; in which case, we might as well keep him!
Basically, the only circumstance we would want to trade him would be if our team had no prospect of success for 2-3 years, AND he was playing AA calibre football. We were in that position 2 years ago, but I doubt we will be again.
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I heard Darcy say it on the radio yesterday too. Pickering put him back in his box straight away.
Fev is a match winner and as we all know the draft is somewhat of a lottery. Fev may well be around another 5 or 6 years. I believe we have a chance to win a flag in this window, and you need a match winner to do that. Especially a gun full forward who can put the goals on the board.
Fev is a match winner and as we all know the draft is somewhat of a lottery. Fev may well be around another 5 or 6 years. I believe we have a chance to win a flag in this window, and you need a match winner to do that. Especially a gun full forward who can put the goals on the board.
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I reckon we'd hope to be challenging for a flag in 4 years. By this time Judd's 28, Murph's 25 and Gibbs and Kreuzer are 23. Fev will be 32 which could be pushing it (older than Hall is now, same age as Gehrig).
I'd prefer to keep him still, he's basically our whole forward line and is a matchwinner who could bloody win us a GF himself but...if we get offered the world for him we'd have to consider.
I'd prefer to keep him still, he's basically our whole forward line and is a matchwinner who could bloody win us a GF himself but...if we get offered the world for him we'd have to consider.
Why would Fev, who's suffered along with the rest of us through the worst of times, suddenly want to up and leave when there is now a genuine chance of playing finals football in one or two years?
He could have put up the middle finger and persued a goalkicking career in the NFL, which is something he himself has hinted at, and I think if Carlton did want to release him at the end of the season, that's what he'd do. But he instead chose to get off the piss and focus on his game and I can't ever remember him having as good a game as he did on Sunday.
He's got three years at least left in him and I'd hang onto him as long as I could if it was up to me. He is a match-winner and a big-occasion player, and when we do get to the finals, he'll be one of our key players.
He could have put up the middle finger and persued a goalkicking career in the NFL, which is something he himself has hinted at, and I think if Carlton did want to release him at the end of the season, that's what he'd do. But he instead chose to get off the piss and focus on his game and I can't ever remember him having as good a game as he did on Sunday.
He's got three years at least left in him and I'd hang onto him as long as I could if it was up to me. He is a match-winner and a big-occasion player, and when we do get to the finals, he'll be one of our key players.
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Oh fantastic ... and we'll have Jake Edwards/Adam Hartlett kick 80+ goals and fill the void at FF instead right? 
You need you good players around to build the bridge between inexperienced, shit and a premiership, even if they're not there at the time when he flag is one. The transition doesn't happen just like that. Hawthorn got kids a few years ago but they have blended nicely with the experience they have there. Hence their development was quicker. That's the building of the bridge. We don't havemuch of that experience. Let's not give away one. You need your best there to get to that point.
For those reasons, anyone who says to trade a player because they won't be a part of the next flag is a knob. Maybe we won't a flag for 10 years. Let's trade the whole team!
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When Luke Darcy goes through a car race without making a ________ of himslef i willlisten
callers today ripped into darcy & co in the box on the radio.
look at the dogs, best midfielders are mid 30's in aka & west, best forward is real old too & they havent won a premiership.
then theres kevins tiges, done nothing for 27 years, why havent they traded richo ?
cos you dont take away the best players that the others look up to & learn from.
fev may be a tool sometimes but none of us see his charitable nature with sick kids etc, the stuff he does that doesnt get publicity.
i bet we've all done silly things that we could be embarassed by.
darcy & co, talk about how crap your own teams are before you try deflect attention elsewhere cos it makes you look like hypocrits.
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look at the dogs, best midfielders are mid 30's in aka & west, best forward is real old too & they havent won a premiership.
then theres kevins tiges, done nothing for 27 years, why havent they traded richo ?
cos you dont take away the best players that the others look up to & learn from.
fev may be a tool sometimes but none of us see his charitable nature with sick kids etc, the stuff he does that doesnt get publicity.
i bet we've all done silly things that we could be embarassed by.
darcy & co, talk about how crap your own teams are before you try deflect attention elsewhere cos it makes you look like hypocrits.
ctacp
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What a (m/p)uppet! There's nothing controversial about this statement, All Darcy has done here is steal David Parkin's thunder to try and make himself sound like he's the voice of reason.
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A Bulldogs player giving us advice on what it takes to make and win GF's is absolutely hilarious.
im still laughing hes idiot
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22 goals in 3 game.
He aint going anywhere.
He aint going anywhere.
Haha @ SEN going at it again, no surprises Darcy leading the charge. We would be stupid to trade someone as valuable as Fevola. If you keep on trading your best players for a pick or picks that may or may not work out (and will take years to blossom), you will always been in that rebuilding phase instead of actually aiming for the big prize.
