Free Agency Jack Graham - Heads to West Coast as FA

[Rich01]

Kind of feel the situation is as basic as

If McQualter is our coach Baker/Graham choose Eagles, if Steven King is the coach Baker chooses Fremantle and Graham stays at Richmond

Richmond fans be praying McQualter is our coach

Why would we have been praying that?
I wanted both Graham and Baker to stay.
We need senior players that set standards on and off the field to drive a new culture to a younger group.
Two of our best at this have just announced they are going to WC and will do just that there.

 

[stallon]

Agree.
Not sure why Eagles fans are so against this one?
He doesn’t cost them anything in draft collateral and they have oodles of cap space to play with.
Will set an example to the younger players and do the grunt defensive midfield work to allow others to shine.

Idk why either tbh. We need a defensive mid, and hes free. Guys like DevRobertson and Parfitt would be alternatives that can fill the same role. Parfitt doesnt have leadership and Dev is unproven at this point and would cost a very late pick.
id prefer a guy like Dev but Graham is completely fine

 

[Rich01]

Idk why either tbh. We need a defensive mid, and hes free. Guys like DevRobertson and Parfitt would be alternatives that can fill the same role. Parfitt doesnt have leadership and Dev is unproven at this point and would cost a very late pick.
id prefer a guy like Dev but Graham is completely fine

Not sure Parfitt is a defensive mid? Wins more contested ball, esp at stoppages than Graham. For me his more of an inside mid that’s perhaps not at the level required. Dev is unproven. Hard to get a game in that Brissy midfield.

Prefer Graham over them both, but you’re right, you could get all three for virtually nothing. Not sure you have the luxury of list spots for a couple of potential list cloggers though. Might have to settle for 2 of the 3.

With Graham sorted I’d go Dev as we know what Parfit brings.

 

[THE_GUN]

Matty Clark will be sniffing up Blair's backside trying to use the Graham compo to get a better price on Baker

Pay Graham more to get Band 3 and you will get some later pick like #39 back for #13 or if we get #29 you get #50 back for #13

 

[stallon]

Not sure Parfitt is a defensive mid? Wins more contested ball, esp at stoppages than Graham. For me his more of an inside mid that’s perhaps not at the level required. Dev is unproven. Hard to get a game in that Brissy midfield.

Parfitt can tackle a lot and can play accountable. Close enough haha

Prefer Graham over them both, but you’re right, you could get all three for virtually nothing. Not sure you have the luxury of list spots for a couple of potential list cloggers though. Might have to settle for 2 of the 3.

With Graham sorted I’d go Dev as we know what Parfit brings.

Def prefer Graham and Dev tbh over Parfitt. Like the potential ceiling of Dev considering hes not had much AFL midfield exposure

 

[THE_GUN]

Parfitt can tackle a lot and can play accountable. Close enough haha

Def prefer Graham and Dev tbh over Parfitt. Like the potential ceiling of Dev considering hes not had much AFL midfield exposure

Is there anybody really interested in Parfitt ?

Graham atleast has 2 x 4 year contracts for him to decide

 

[stallon]

Is there anybody really interested in Parfitt ?

Not really, but I do think hes an AFL quality mid, not a high level player but he can play at the level and would come cheap. Hes the type of guy we need, either as depth or to play the low TOG midfield rotation. Low priority over other mids floating around

Graham atleast has 2 x 4 year contracts for him to decide

 

[The Nostradamus]

Anything mentioned about his decision at the bnf last night?

 

[stallon]

Anything mentioned about his decision at the bnf last night?

The Richmond president gave the blokes leaving a bit of a drive by but nothing else AFKAIK

 

[The Nostradamus]

The Richmond president gave the blokes leaving a bit of a drive by but nothing else AFKAIK

No as in I don’t think Graham has officially announced what he’s doing yet?

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

The Richmond president gave the blokes leaving a bit of a drive by but nothing else AFKAIK

Drive by? It was a assassination and then a kick of the dead carcass on the way out

Much more unprofessional then St Kilda not inviting Battle to the event itself. Imagine inviting someone along to call them a shit human...

 

[bzparkes]

Drive by? It was a assassination and then a kick of the dead carcass on the way out

Much more unprofessional then St Kilda not inviting Battle to the event itself. Imagine inviting someone along to call them a shit human...

WCE showed class with Barrass and Darling.

These minnow Vic clubs losing their shit when players leave are an embarrassment, especially when they're trying to get opposition players to do the exact same thing from other clubs during trade week.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

WCE showed class with Barrass and Darling.

These minnow Vic clubs losing their shit when players leave are an embarrassment, especially when they're trying to get opposition players to do the exact same thing from other clubs during trade week.

Especially true when you have the campaigners like Taranto and Hopper sitting at a table clapping like trained seals

 

[TigerTime88]

Jack Graham

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Jack Graham

Age

26

Ht

181cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.7

4star

K

8.0

3star

HB

6.8

4star

M

2.1

2star

T

6.3

5star

CL

1.8

4star

D

11.8

3star

K

5.3

2star

HB

6.5

4star

M

2.8

3star

T

4.2

5star

CL

1.2

4star

D

14.0

4star

K

6.0

3star

HB

8.0

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

7.0

5star

CL

3.2

5star

doesn't make sense to me for West Coast. He's slow and injury prone. I honestly was thinking we might let him go in another 12 months.

Having said that I hope he goes well and I thank the Eagles for the compo.

 

[stallon]

No as in I don’t think Graham has officially announced what he’s doing yet?

Ah, nothing yet I believe.
I think he was touring the WCE facilities yesterday or today

 

[bzparkes]

Jack Graham doesn't make sense to me for West Coast. He's slow and injury prone. I honestly was thinking we might let him go in another 12 months.

Having said that I hope he goes well and I thank the Eagles for the compo.

Need a defensive mid and he's free, I guess.

 

[stallon]

Jack Graham doesn't make sense to me for West Coast. He's slow and injury prone. I honestly was thinking we might let him go in another 12 months.

Having said that I hope he goes well and I thank the Eagles for the compo.

Hes free, we lack 2 way runners, and hes in an age bracket we dont have many players. We also have awful midfield depth. If he can play even 18-20 games a year while doing what he does thatll be a big win imo

 

[TigerTime88]

Hes free, we lack 2 way runners, and hes in an age bracket we dont have many players. We also have awful midfield depth. If he can play even 18-20 games a year while doing what he does thatll be a big win imo

Fair enough. His running ability has really dropped off the last two years.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Fair enough. His running ability has really dropped off the last two years.

He better get 2x better. Gut feel is he ends up Year 3 and 4 in the WAFL picking up grass clippings.

Atleast we are not giving up draft capital is the only saving grace here

 

[Drunkcat]

Pick above 45 would fair

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Pick above 45 would fair

He is a free agent. Most Eagles fans hope here is we give the 4 year 2.4 mill like deal and AFL go "yeah thats worth pick 22 and not pick 41". Give them pick 23

Combination of them not getting pick 22 + our 23 for Baker does that deal

 

[Obeanie1]

Drive by? It was a assassination and then a kick of the dead carcass on the way out

Much more unprofessional then St Kilda not inviting Battle to the event itself. Imagine inviting someone along to call them a shit human...

So what was actually said?

Edit. Read it.

Think you are overreacting a tad. It was a not so subtle dig at players leaving by talking about Broad being loyal.

Not a drive by assasination.

 

[Rich01]

Ah, nothing yet I believe.
I think he was touring the WCE facilities yesterday or today

Contract was agreed to a week ago but can’t be formally signed and approved until Friday.

His appearance in Perth is just a meet and greet and welcome to the club.

 

[dean33]

So what was actually said?

Edit. Read it.

Think you are overreacting a tad. It was a not so subtle dig at players leaving by talking about Broad being loyal.

Not a drive by assasination.

I didn’t like it myself, best to keep those things in-house but your fellow poster is exaggerating things just a bit.

 

[Morro]

So what was actually said?

Edit. Read it.

Think you are overreacting a tad. It was a not so subtle dig at players leaving by talking about Broad being loyal.

Not a drive by assasination.

Clearly some massive overreacting going on that's for sure.

Broady had a significant offer on the table from North and chose to stay loyal, we should be able to celebrate that without upsetting those that didnt do the same.