A good trade, as long as we don't have to pay any of his contract!
I honestly don't care what round they are in Greystache we moved up 6 places with one and gained another. 3 weeks of negotiating and caved on Day 1 with the first offer. It's pathetic!
will posters stop referring to him as an AA full back!!!
He no longer outputs at an AA level and his body and ongoing injuries will see that his output declines further in the coming two years. No great loss as far as Im concerned.
Im happy the club is being shrewd with this one.
See it as payback for the hawks getting rid of rawlings when they knew his knee was screwed.
Another way you could look at it is it sends a clear message to the playing group that if you want to leave and don't value the direction the club is going, then it doesn't matter who you are.
His wage is ridiculous considering his output and anything around the 40 pick mark is speculative at best so i'm not to fazed by the shuffling of later picks.
I hold my position that this is good for the club. It's a real paradigm shift away from appeasing individuals whio think they can hold the club to ransom, it doesn't pay to have a bevvy of club champions over a generation and only one premiership to show for it.
I've been waiting for someone with balls big enough to do something like this for 20 years. Team first, even if it means losing one of your best players who doesn't want to be there anymore (albeit a slow broken down one). Im backing Macca on this one.
Sure our performances have been rancid this year, but building a team and culture from the bottom up is a slow process that opens up many cracks and reveals many white elephants.
Great chatting Sedat, you are a sage on this board my friend!
From a PR perspective it suits the club's argument that we traded Lake for a 1st round draft pick. The truth as always is somewhere in between - we get a 6 spot upgrade in the 20's and we also get a pick in the early 40's for Lake. In terms of actual new draft picks that we didn't previously have, the only one is pick 41.
Posters, go back to the tapes and watch all the games where we copped hidings and watch how bad Lake was.
I vividly recall the Sydney game where he was very very ordinary.
If the Hawks are taking over his contract, I will be happy.
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Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.