News Jack Hombsch Retires

[tribey]

Because he had any trade value?

The IQ of bigfooty over this trade period has hit rock bottom.

Y'all just salty you didn't get to break any news, Salter Cronkite.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Jack who??

 

[DaTBird187]

So let me get this straight. All the posters in here wanted us to play hard ball over a defender who was no longer best 22 and had bung hips?

 

[Launchpad McQuack]

lol.

Praying for an AFL imposed Sydney--esque trading ban.

 

[raman]

In this thrd ppl pretend that Hombsch had trade value

In this thread we pretend that other clubs don’t ever manage to find value out of non-required players.

 

[Forzaport]

All the best Jack. We've lost a high quality individual, shame his hips have slowed him down.

 

[Dylan8]

In this thread people pretend that Hombsch wasn't contracted and we didn't have the choice of just keeping him rather than now having literally zero KPD options outside our first 22

We will simply jig the stats on the website to show that Dan Houston is 197cm ala Cam O'Shea

 

[Malibu#27]

Its always hard, we seem to be very willing to help players leave for opportunities. A case in point Hombsch for a future 4th.
However this isn't always reciprocated - A case in point, Mayes for 35.

Now I understand there's more to the Mayes, but, just once I'd like to trade out a fringe for sub 50.

 

[badbeats]

Y'all just salty you didn't get to break any news, Salter Cronkite.

Your sources are better than my 2nd hand recycled info.

 

[Doctor Feel]

So let me get this straight. All the posters in here wanted us to play hard ball over a defender who was no longer best 22 and had bung hips?

We wanted the club to do something good I guess. Anything.

 

[Schulzenfest]

So let me get this straight. All the posters in here wanted us to play hard ball over a defender who was no longer best 22 and had bung hips?

He was contracted. He wanted to stay. He may have been no longer best 22 but he was literally our only KPD option outside of it. I didn't want us to play hard ball, I wanted us to take our ball and go home.

When Jonas or Clurey or Howard gets injured next year and we end up with some poor bugger like Riley Bonner playing at full back I bet we'll be super grateful for that future 4th rounder though.

 

[DaTBird187]

We wanted the club to do something good I guess. Anything.

LACHIE WELLER!!

 

[Enviable Tradition]

In this thrd ppl pretend that Hombsch had trade value

Yeah hes banged up.

Like Scully.

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[ctpower]

In this thread people pretend that Hombsch wasn't contracted and we didn't have the choice of just keeping him rather than now having literally zero KPD options outside our first 22

Yep. Nicely put.
4th rounder. **** me.

 

[OneGreatClub]

All the best to Hombschy! Gun defender but injuries have been cruel to him. He was a great personality to have around the club as well and one of the nicest blokes in footy.

All the best to a top guy but ffs will we EVER get a fair trade deal??.

 

[Doctor Feel]

LACHIE WELLER!!

M A V W E L L E R

Delisted today by St. Kilda, get him so we can go W E L L E R.

 

[tryonthis]

Chris Davies at the trade table...

 

[JayPea14]

Toumpas taking the piss outta his former employer

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[DaTBird187]

He was contracted. He wanted to stay. He may have been no longer best 22 but he was literally our only KPD option outside of it. I didn't want us to play hard ball, I wanted us to take our ball and go home.

When Jonas or Clurey or Howard gets injured next year and we end up with some poor bugger like Riley Bonner playing at full back I bet we'll be super grateful for that future 4th rounder though.

Did you see what he'd become in the back half of the season? Two moments in the Showdown alone had me thinking 'Poor Jack, I think he may have to retire. His body is completely shot'.

 

[David Puddy]

Let's get real people, seriously.

Hombsch is a great club man and was our number one defender a few years back, but he has dropped off massively in the past couple of years. Do we not remember the bath that seagull Jenkins gave him in the last Showdown?

It's a win-win trade, as no fringe players have been going for good picks this year.

I hope he gets a few more years out of his career and establishes himself in the GC 22, but he was never getting in front of Dougal, Jonas, Clurey, Lienert, Burton, etc.

 

[Schulzenfest]

**** me, it's the Crows 4th rounder too. We didn't even have the balls to ask for their good 4th rounder. What a joke.

 

[Schulzenfest]

I hope he gets a few more years out of his career and establishes himself in the GC 22, but he was never getting in front of Dougal, Jonas, Clurey, Lienert, Burton, etc.

Lienert and Burton aren't key defenders, and there is no 'etc'. It's Dougal, Jonas, Clurey. That's it. He didn't need to get in front of them, he needed to be there in case one of them is unavailable.

 

[David Puddy]

Lienert and Burton aren't key defenders, and there is no 'etc'. It's Dougal, Jonas, Clurey. That's it. He didn't need to get in front of them, he needed to be there in case one of them is unavailable.

I don't think Hombsch was ever a key defender either, more of a third man up.

He's basically the same size as Burton and Lienert so I can't see why they couldn't play the same role that he did.

I'd honesty rather draft a KPD in this draft and let them develop in the Magpies than have Hombsch. I think he's finished, but just my opinion.

 

[Macca19]

Watch us over look Rankine on draft night to draft Ben King. Then the melts will really start!

 

[TeeKray]

Always loved Hombsch and think he did a decent job as a back up this year, albeit with a couple of howler games thrown into the mix. Looked like becoming an absolute star defender but injuries got the better of him unfortunately. Hope he does well at the SUNS. He might even get to extend his lead on the venues played at leaderboard given the SUNS play in Cairns where he's never played.