List Mgmt. Official 2016 trade period discussion

[Cattas_21]

I feel so flat right now...

 

[CatTricks]

So by all accounts Josh got a call from his mate Dion who asked if he wanted to come and play with him at Richmond next year. They must be bloody good friends. Although maybe less so after Josh has actually played for Richmond for a year...

They've been best mates since they were kids...

 

[wcadams88]

So by all accounts Josh got a call from his mate Dion who asked if he wanted to come and play with him at Richmond next year. They must be bloody good friends. Although maybe less so after Josh has actually played for Richmond for a year...

They live an hour away from each other absolutely rubbish

 

[Baudolino]

To see some people blindly dismissing the article in The Age on the basis of absolutely nothing annoys me greatly, and speaks to a broader problem I have with the way journalists are perceived on BigFooty.

BigFooty is a microcosm of everything wrong with the general public's over-generalised, uncompromising attitude of contempt towards the media. While it makes sense to be healthily critical towards the media, the level of distrust the public at large harbours towards the industry is so completely disproportionate that it borders on absurdity. In the context of the AFL, all AFL-related news stories, particularly trade stories, seem to be read through the prism of this deluded, spurious narrative that all sports journalists are muckraking scum, and people seem willing to resort to obscene depths of confirmation bias to support this idiotic agenda; any time a journalist breaks a story, the media as an industry never gets any credit for it or any enhancement to its reputation, no matter how often this phenomenon occurs, yet any minor detail that turns out to be mistaken, is held against the media as if it were evidence of systemic incompetence. To me, the self-righteous, elitist, condescending way the majority looks down on the media reflects more about the ignorance of those attempting to critique or deconstruct it than it does about the media itself.

Now, I'm no apologist for the media - obviously, there are major flaws within the industry - but personally speaking I put far more stock in the credibility of stories broken by those whose professions it is to break stories than the blithe, over-confident dismissals of those aforesaid stories by anonymous members of the general public, most of whom are in thrall of an irrational, anti-establishment conviction that all journalists do is make things up, despite the mountain of evidence - namely, the fact that literally every single trade that has gone through thus far was reported on by journalists before it went through - to the contrary. Call me crazy. The media may be imperfect, but most of the information they report is still broadly accurate. To acknowledge that fact is to be in touch with reality, which is certainly preferably than continuing to perpetuate hoary old myths about the incorrigible untrustworthiness of sports journos.

...aaaaaaaaaannnnnnndddddd the journalists were correct about the details of the Caddy deal. I guess that means that once again the professionals with sources were more informed than the amateurs with literally no sources who wrote the former's reporting off on the basis of absolutely nothing. What. A. Shock.

 

[CatTricks]

Can we get all Cats officials out of the building so we don't do any other stupid trades?

 

[year of the cat]

Where the hell are Biggy_Boy and BlightysCats ? - this is a wet dream for these guys. Perhaps the news of today has been too much and they're brains have exploded with the serotonin surge they are experiencing.

 

[CatTricks]

Where the hell are Biggy_Boy and BlightysCats ? - this is a wet dream for these guys. Perhaps the news of today has been too much and they're brains have exploded with the serotonin surge they are experiencing.

They are both randy marshing

 

[Topper]

It's like this trade period is the 5th qtr of the disappointment that was the prelim final

 

[Boxhead_31]

Were they playing senior football or not? Yes they were. Did Hamling play in a premiership team? Yes he did.

Would he have if Adams didn't get hurt? No he would not.

 

[catman2006]

I feel so flat right now...

Why we swapped Tuohy for Caddy got rid a bunch of deadwood, made cap saving and still have draft picks in hand...

 

[bigblackboz]

So we still look like trying to do Black and Vardy trades I assume...

 

[Grimoz]

No cap space to bring anything decent in even Black would be a stretch for the club

I dont believe that for a second unless we are paying Tuohy 2 million a year.

 

[SydneyMalakellis]

So surely we are nowhere near paying 95% of the cap now... they gotta spend the cash somewhere. But on what?

 

[Tristan34]

we are having a garage sale!!! woohoo!!!

 

[CaptainJayho]

They live an hour away from each other absolutely rubbish

Josh' words not mine. Don't shoot the messenger.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

Black is ok but north better be paying 90%of his salary and pick 64 only.

Will be filthy if we traded caddy for cap space to get black in.

 

[Ricketz]

Were they playing senior football or not? Yes they were. Did Hamling play in a premiership team? Yes he did.

Fair enough under those goal posts, but these were the goal posts that I replied to:

"More worrying is two of those are regular senior players at other clubs" and then you inferred that it was due to their superior development.

Mitch Brown barely improved any of his stats playing all year in a team full of spuds, his goal average went from .8 to .95 goals a game. And Hamling was not a regular player for the dogs playing similar numbers over two seasons and bailing the club after a grandfinal win - I just can't see the development you are talking about?

 

[wcadams88]

Josh' words not mine. Don't shoot the messenger.

Haha i know mate just a general observation

 

[bigblackboz]

Fair enough under those goal posts, but these were the goal posts that I replied to:

"More worrying is two of those are regular senior players at other clubs" and then you inferred that it was due to their superior development.

Mitch Brown barely improved any of his stats playing all year in a team full of spuds, his goal average went from .8 to .95 goals a game. And Hamling was not a regular player for the dogs playing similar numbers over two seasons and bailing the club after a grandfinal win - I just can't see the development you are talking about?

I wouldn't take Hamling and Brown back in a million years. Not worth anything.

 

[year of the cat]

Shit just looked on afl.com.au for the latest news and thought we'd traded Guthrie to GWS. After looking at it more carefully, it's Pat McKenna going to Melbourne.

 

[STP18]

Vardy deal still yet to be completed. Geelong FC putting on their big boy pants now!

 

[Pure_Ownage]

But he can't kick can he?

Nah he can just talented but injured.

Think smedts as a kpf.

 

[Cattas_21]

Why we swapped Tuohy for Caddy got rid a bunch of deadwood, made cap saving and still have draft picks in hand...

I'm one of the few that actually rates Caddy and I don't rate Tuohy as high as some here seem to. I agree he fills a need, but I feel we should have got him for a bit less. The Caddy deal I'm shattered with. No other club would have settled for a trade as pathetic as that.

We had a very easy fixture this year, and we will have a much harder one next year. We have lost most of our depth, and the young guys on our list who are our new depth are mostly late draft picks who are taken that late for a reason. I just don't have the same optimism for next season as a lot of you guys, but I'll be happy to be proven wrong.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Black is ok but north better be paying 90%of his salary and pick 64 only.

Will be filthy if we traded caddy for cap space to get black in.

Looks like that 63 from Freo would have been used. 6 out and only 1 in. So down to 33 senior players right now.

 

[Farmer2Goggin]

So by all accounts Josh got a call from his mate Dion who asked if he wanted to come and play with him at Richmond next year. They must be bloody good friends. Although maybe less so after Josh has actually played for Richmond for a year...

Are they both Auskickers?? Has to be more to it than that , surely