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Just "announced" on Crows website.
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Only days behind we are
Punchy Bassett
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Um yay I guess.....
This is a horrible take
Feels like he’s their Keays - heart and soul guy, puts in 110% effort every week, and is a damn effective fwd-half role player, to boot
That said, different type of role player to Keays, which works well for us
jackster83
Save Ken!
He'll be an upgrade on McHenry/Murphy and shouldn't cost a lot, so no complaints from me.
Yeah my mistake. The 29-year-old should be an important player when our premiership window opens in 2025.
If he was 25/26 or younger next year I would be giving this trade a B or B-.
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Look at it this way: he didn't want to go to Port.
Being so close to retirement his main role will be giving financial advice to the younger players.
He makes us a lot better side if he’s replacing Murphy and his complete lack of impact
He probably has 3 or 4 years left in him, it allows us to put someone that’s more than competent in that pressure HF role for a few years, whilst we find a younger replacement
It’s not an A+ recruit of course, but it’s certainly something we should be happy about
It really feels like both to me.
I think it’s legit he wants to come back here and Melbourne have probably said the deal will be easier to get done with adelaide.
How well we've done depends on what we have to give up to get him.
Given his age, if it's anything more than a third rounder (and I suspect it will be more than a third rounder) then I'd rather have taken it to the draft. He'll be retired by the time we're contending.
Would only be guessing, there’s really no reason to choose us though currently.
Wouldn’t he just retire, or force a move to Port, if we were THAT bad to be a part of?
Hopefully we have also identified our small/medium forward stock is terrible outside of Rachele (not including Rankine going forward) and we also have a gaping hole in that experience demographic.
Experience/leadership is a good thing if they're still playing well.
Experience/leadership is a good thing if they're still playing well.
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Nixs still wont drop Murphy.
Ingeniokinetic
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Melbourne fan here
Club needs some work no doubt, but I wouldn't have thought a Crows fan site would be drinking Cornes/Purple's bathwater about the state of Melbourn; Gawn, Viney, ANB, Lever (remember him), Melksham, Rivers, Trac (regardless of current controversy) are great leaders for Melbourne, losing Brayshaw was a kick in the guts though. ANB first raised a trade months ago in private and got burnt with the news recently, there is no angst there at all, but hey if you want to snort Melbourne's a bin fire garbage from the media go for it. We've won more games over the last 4 years than any other team bar Brisbane but we have a flag. Do you think that sustained performance really comes from being the Shakespearean tragedy narrative given by talk back radio?
ANB is a role player, no doubt, one of the things he does is all his own defensive work, and about 16km of running a game to cover Trac's defensive obligations, freeing him up to be in more dangerous positions (I'd be dark if I was Trac, because ANB literally rides shotgun for him every game) Our club has some challenges, but ANB is king of the 1%, sets awesome training standards, is a truly lovely bloke to talk too, no FIGJAM or false modesty in the media. You guys are getting a great deal. There was a time about 5-6 years ago where his disposal was iffy, but since '21 he has continually improved, like a Barossa shiraz, rare to see a mature player continue to grow in terms of execution, and don't be surprised if he is still running like De Castella at 35, he's from the Daniel Cross school of fitness. To give you an idea I rate losing ANB on a par with Brayshaw. BTW Kozzie has committed clearly to 3 more years at Melbourne Port is getting didly.
Club needs some work no doubt, but I wouldn't have thought a Crows fan site would be drinking Cornes/Purple's bathwater about the state of Melbourn; Gawn, Viney, ANB, Lever (remember him), Melksham, Rivers, Trac (regardless of current controversy) are great leaders for Melbourne, losing Brayshaw was a kick in the guts though. ANB first raised a trade months ago in private and got burnt with the news recently, there is no angst there at all, but hey if you want to snort Melbourne's a bin fire garbage from the media go for it. We've won more games over the last 4 years than any other team bar Brisbane but we have a flag. Do you think that sustained performance really comes from being the Shakespearean tragedy narrative given by talk back radio?
ANB is a role player, no doubt, one of the things he does is all his own defensive work, and about 16km of running a game to cover Trac's defensive obligations, freeing him up to be in more dangerous positions (I'd be dark if I was Trac, because ANB literally rides shotgun for him every game) Our club has some challenges, but ANB is king of the 1%, sets awesome training standards, is a truly lovely bloke to talk too, no FIGJAM or false modesty in the media. You guys are getting a great deal. There was a time about 5-6 years ago where his disposal was iffy, but since '21 he has continually improved, like a Barossa shiraz, rare to see a mature player continue to grow in terms of execution, and don't be surprised if he is still running like De Castella at 35, he's from the Daniel Cross school of fitness. To give you an idea I rate losing ANB on a par with Brayshaw. BTW Kozzie has committed clearly to 3 more years at Melbourne Port is getting didly.
Ingeniokinetic
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On the other hand McAdam.... you can have him back.
