Rumour GFC 2025 Player Trading, Drafting FA, Rumours and Wish lists Pt 1

[allrighty]

Both those players look way to competent to have one of them be Melb

Better?

 

[foxdog50]

It's amazing Ajang Kuol Mun has been invited.. he only played a handful of games for us

 

[calder_daddy]

Neal-Bullen is a bloody ordinary footballer.
With pick 28, they will find a better player in this year's draft.

With all due respect you obviously haven’t watched the guy play footy
Very underrated and would play in every side in the competition

 

[Lana]

Trade period isn't long enough.

They should just call it "trade year" and have trading available always.

Hutchy could have a 24/7 trade radio show.

We know what awaits him on the otherside

 

[Play it Sam]

They've treated him like something stuck to the sole of their shoe..... he'll have no intense love for the jumper, no drive to play for the jumper.....if he plays there next year it'll strictly be a business transaction whereby he'll present at the workplace, just do his thing, and collect his pay at the end of each week.

His incentive to excel as a representative of the MFC has all but been extinguished you'd think. A very awkward situation.

I don't know so much, he's so skilled he'd be very competitive, can't see him wanting to sit around with his hand out on payday. Plus he seems to love his team mates and it's reciprocated. Mates, but all cool on the Club. If Melbs have any sense they'd reassure him-patch and pray.

 

[My Tilly]

With all due respect you obviously haven’t watched the guy play footy
Very underrated and would play in every side in the competition

Brad Close would get us a first rounder then if you rate Neal-Bullen that highly

 

[Footy Smarts]

It's amazing Ajang Kuol Mun has been invited.. he only played a handful of games for us

Reckon we're interested and we hid him? He was extremely raw but also did a few things that were mouth watering.

 

[Cataholic]

I don't know so much, he's so skilled he'd be very competitive, can't see him wanting to sit around with his hand out on payday. Plus he seems to love his team mates and it's reciprocated. Mates, but all cool on the Club. If Melbs have any sense they'd reassure him-patch and pray.

Maybe.....but 'wanting out' tells me he senses no enjoyment or fulfilling playing for the MFC anymore, and it'd therefore be hard for him to put his heart into it.

Not sure how the club would reassure him now.....anything they say would sound hollow and he wouldn't be trusting them any further than he could kick 'em.

 

[cats_09]

Get your point, but there'll be nothing to hear around these parts but crickets for the next couple of weeks otherwise.

This also

We could always request that all Smith chat be taken to the dedicated Smith thread, and with Mackie shooting down Oliver chat, that we moved on from that lime of discussion and then suddenly it's thumb twiddling time

I think "we" (collective mind) look at trades being made between other teams and then use that to help form trade values or re-evaluations of players as we go through this time period, and also how difficult it may be to deal with certain clubs at the trade table

 

[Cataholic]

And they have 6 years of it to go.

It'd be the worst level of job dissatisfaction for him, and bloody awkward for the club.

 

[calder_daddy]

Brad Close would get us a first rounder then if you rate Neal-Bullen that highly

Don’t be ridiculous.
Close wouldn’t get a game in every team.

Again your under selling ANB massively

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Brad Close would get us a first rounder then if you rate Neal-Bullen that highly

Think he's a little bit better than what you described though. Would say he's been a good role player.
Probably worth a late 2nd rounder in trade. Something in the 30s. Useful player that will help you win games but not be the reason you win games. If that makes sense.

 

[My Tilly]

Don’t be ridiculous.
Close wouldn’t get a game in every team.

Again your under selling ANB massively

A walk up starter at any club, are you serious?

I think only the teams battling mid table could find a spot for him.

 

[Tony Barber]

Get your point, but there'll be nothing to hear around these parts but crickets for the next couple of weeks otherwise.

And that will be the next 5 months.
Some people are right into this. I'm not.

I dont mind trade talk when it effects us directly. i.e. compo picks that push our first rounder out.
I have little time for the draft. With the exception of where I think future holes need to be filled. And they are KPB, KPF, Ruck.

each to their own.
This trade period will explode with $36 million more dollars on the table per year. We dont need to hear it all. Bigfooty has a place for that.

 

[calder_daddy]

A walk up starter at any club, are you serious?

I think only the teams battling mid table could find a spot for him.

Why so stubborn

 

[Cataholic]

And that will be the next 5 months.
Some people are right into this. I'm not.

I dont mind trade talk when it effects us directly. i.e. compo picks that push our first rounder out.
I have little time for the draft. With the exception of where I think future holes need to be filled. And they are KPB, KPF, Ruck.

each to their own.
This trade period will explode with $36 million more dollars on the table per year. We dont need to hear it all. Bigfooty has a place for that.

Yeah, I'm not interested in the minutae of other deals, but I do find some interest in the chat about our potential trades, and others that may have some knock on effect to our dealings.

It's quite possible there'll be nothing concrete on any deals we make until the very last minute, so I can see some more generalised chatter here to pass the time.

 

[ShadowCat]

And that will be the next 5 months.
Some people are right into this. I'm not.

I dont mind trade talk when it effects us directly. i.e. compo picks that push our first rounder out.
I have little time for the draft. With the exception of where I think future holes need to be filled. And they are KPB, KPF, Ruck.

each to their own.
This trade period will explode with $36 million more dollars on the table per year. We dont need to hear it all. Bigfooty has a place for that.

Lol so not to be too flippant, but, if most people do want to hear it and they think it's the place for discussing it...why not just tune out or take time away if it's not what you want to hear?

This is a place for everyone to discuss, not just Tony Barber. You said it yourself 'some people might be right into this... I'm not.' if you're not, that's cool. But respect that others might be and don't try and shut down the conversation because it's not what you want to read. There are other perspectives/other viewpoints that matter too.

 

[dont stop me meow]

Is there any chance that we can leave out trades that have zero relevance to Geelong?

You were heaps more fun on Sale of the Century

 

[Pure_Ownage]

Anticipating 17 + 38 for Smith + 47.

Dogs can argue they got early teens ‘equivalent’ for Smith which is about right and is theoretically better than our original pick 15 by itself.

Both teams can manage optics that they had to adjust the trade given the afl surprised everyone by giving 8 to StK for Battle and pushed our R1 pick back, etc.

Then by the time bids come at draft, 17 turns into early 20s - so it’s ultimately ok for us anyway, and at the time the trade was done, all parties get to save a little face and get Smith to the Cats.

Also has the side benefit of retaining maximum flexibility for next year’s picks if something continues to bubble away, or we want to trade back in to this year’s round 1 on draft night.


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It will be 17 + future 2nd and both clubs supporters will argue that they don't like the deal.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

It's amazing Ajang Kuol Mun has been invited.. he only played a handful of games for us

He's still a rookie pick only for me but there's a lack of ruck depth in the comp. Someone will take a flier on him.

 

[cats_09]

We know that North has already completed a trade for Darling, Luke Parker

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has requested a trade, but they're also connected to Caleb Daniel

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and reportedly made an approach to Dan Houston

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I know North hasn't had the best of times over recent seasons, but they have some decent kids - wonder if any are of their players looking at the trading spree who may be wanting to consider their own future

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Scotty Gullen thinking it's not dead is a little eye brow raising given he's hays got a pretty direct line to the Cats, I think he's spitballing here though

 

[Art Vandelay_]

We know that North has already completed a trade for Darling, Luke Parker has requested a trade, but they're also connected to Caleb Daniel and reportedly made an approach to Dan Houston

I know North hasn't had the best of times over recent seasons, but they have some decent kids - wonder if any are of their players looking at the trading spree who may be wanting to consider their own future

Doubt it. They have a lot of replaceable footballers currently playing.
Getting 3-4 good trades in would only see them be the one's squeezed out. Who are hardly the one's to be interested in.

 

[Max Rooke]

Trade period isn't long enough.

They should just call it "trade year" and have trading available always.

Hutchy could have a 24/7 trade radio show.

12 month trade period and the AFL still arranges for 50% of trades to take place within the last hour so they can sell a years worth of ad space

 

[Grimoz]

Scotty Gullen thinking it's not dead is a little eye brow raising given he's hays got a pretty direct line to the Cats, I think he's spitballing here though

Everyone needs to stop reaching, the Oliver thing is dead and buried, its not happening