Strategy Trade and List management Thread Part 6 (opposition supporters - READ posting rules before posting)

[Golden_6]

With zero substance. Desperate

Well to be fair it might be accurate. If he stays with us it will be on a long term deal as well.

 

[TMoney22]

We really need to hit some late draft picks, our depth ain't getting better by trading 3 firsts for 2. Suns took that pretty quickly. With our game plan we may as well play VFL forwards and should be loading up on gun defenders and mids. Can't see us improving next year, even with a new game plan, it will take half a season to implement. And by then we will probably have a new coach

 

[TiAn_]

For those that have watched Croft is it possible he'd work in the backline?

He said himself he was a defender in juniors up until his two NAB League seasons.

 

[Sentinel]

Duursma and Gresham both just seem like perfect Essendon type players. Something about them both.

 

[Charlie Bucket]

Well to be fair it might be accurate. If he stays with us it will be on a long term deal as well.

Not sure about that. Surely he only signs till free agency and then signs the big one. Financially better off than signing 7+ years now. Particularly with a larger salary cap over the next 3-4 years.

 

[weltschmerz]

Duursma and Gresham both just seem like perfect Essendon type players. Something about them both.

Duursma already has some Stringer tendencies

 

[Doggy]

Duursma and Gresham both just seem like perfect Essendon type players. Something about them both.

Flogs?

 

[Dogs Rule]

Duursma and Gresham both just seem like perfect Essendon type players. Something about them both.

The classic Essendon move of getting a bunch of 'names' for the kudos of 'winning' trade week before the buyers remorse kicks in midway through the next year.

 

[TiAn_]

Would much prefer Schultz to Ginnivan. Great get for the Pies if it goes through.

Wouldn’t turn down Ginnivan as a cheap add, though. Still only 20 years old, playing in one of the hardest positions on the ground. Already a proven goal kicker, just needs to put in the hard yards.

 

[Bulldogs85]

Some bloke on trade radio saying hawks chasing JUH on 9 year deal

I remember some hawks fan mentioned it last week only on trade radio

 

[perro_loco]

Well three first rounders for Watson or Sanders is a bloody terrible deal all around, plus with our first rounder out we can’t trade any other future picks.

Not really! We are getting a top 5 pick (max) plus enough points to get Croft, who would be a top 20 pick. So it is a good deal in my book. Giving away the future first pick is the price you have to pay to go up the ladder to access pick 4 or 5. I think I am correct and stand to be corrected.

 

[adogsfan5]

Essendon never learn.

Duursma and Gresham lol.

Two guys that are soft and fade out of games very quickly.

 

[Testekill]

He was switched forward though... I wonder the reason

Sometimes the coaches throw a tall kid forward or into the ruck due to not having enough options and it ends up working really well.

 

[Libbaaaa]

Duursma isn't soft, has given himself multiple concussions going back with the flight, but he is the ultimate utility, no real position where he can excel. Happy we aren't going for him.

 

[CaptainMurphy]

Craig McCrae's line about him after the premiership win was ominous.

What did he say?

 

[Dogs Rule]

What did he say?

That he needs to grow up.

 

[bobs head soup]

I agree logically, but the confusing part of this is that we actually can't match a bid inside the top 10 currently. Sweet out of course, but then Coffield & maybe Harmes in - so without some more trading, it's hard to see how we get the points.

That's fair, but we'd have a pretty good idea of where a bid will come, and a single figure bid seems at the very high end of likelihoods.

Most power rankings/phantoms have Croft around 15.

If that's where a bid comes, we will need 890 points to match. Our picks (outside of 4) have a cumulative value of 1172 points.

I reckon that's roughly what we'd be working with at present in terms of net trade capital.

 

[jdz101]

Ginnivan seems exactly the type of personality we just got rid of. Stringer/hunter

 

[bullish23]

Confused.

Traded the farm this morning for a small forward, and yet we are still talking to Ginnivan?

 

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

That's fair, but we'd have a pretty good idea of where a bid will come, and a single figure bid seems at the very high end of likelihoods.

Most power rankings/phantoms have Croft around 15.

If that's where a bid comes, we will need 890 points to match. Our picks (outside of 4) have a cumulative value of 1172 points.

I reckon that's roughly what we'd be working with at present in terms of net trade capital.

I think this is Zgope's point though. If we expect a bid at 15ish, we would end up with pick 10 and a future first, and could trade 17 back for points and a future asset. That doesn't sound half bad. This trade seems to foresee a bid in the first ten, but we aren't covered off for that situation. Will see how it unfolds.

 

[stevieg1969]

He said himself he was a defender in juniors up until his two NAB League seasons.

When he was a top-age junior at Marby he was always a forward. I’m not sure where he played when he was a bottom-ager as these teams were far stronger teams.

 

[Snarls Barkley]

Shame Schultz nominated Collingwood

Exact type of player we’re screaming out for. Think he’d be a great fit anywhere, rather him highly

 

[MaxiBont]

Confused.

Traded the farm this morning for a small forward, and yet we are still talking to Ginnivan?

I agree we shouldn’t go for Ginnivan but in no way did we “trade the farm” this morning.

 

[ScragCity]

Ginnivan strikes me as one of those early-flash-in-the-pan-then-fade-into-irrelevance-like-jaidyn-stephenson types. No thanks.

 

[TiAn_]

Ginnivan strikes me as one of those early-flash-in-the-pan-then-fade-into-irrelevance-like-jaidyn-stephenson types. No thanks.

Bit of Brad Dick about him, you reckon?