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    Who would you have JMac target this year?

    We have salary cap banked, and sooner or later an increased salary cap with a new EBA. Imagining that the trade currency and spare salary cap we would've used on Hurley is still around, who would have Jason McCartney chasing hard?

    Here is the smorgasbord of uncontracted 2017 players:

    http://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/o...yers?year=2017

    Josh Kelly would be a great get, but GWS trading him is not something they're going to want to do.
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    Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

    First two that come to mind are Fyfe and Shiel, both are long shots and knowing a few of Shiels relo's and they say he is pretty entrenched at GWS.
    Tom Barrass would be a decent pick up and ready made replacement if we lose Adams.
    It's better to die on our feet than live on our knees.

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    Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

    Quote Originally Posted by KT31 View Post
    First two that come to mind are Fyfe and Shiel, both are long shots and knowing a few of Shiels relo's and they say he is pretty entrenched at GWS.
    Tom Barrass would be a decent pick up and ready made replacement if we lose Adams.
    So Adams & Barass swap clubs if Adams requests a trade to WCE.
    Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023

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    Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

    I read or saw somewhere only this morning that Josh Kelly is about to recommit to GWS. He's happy there and isn't interested in playing for a proper footy club.
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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    Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

    Quote Originally Posted by bulldogtragic View Post
    So Adams & Barass swap clubs if Adams requests a trade to WCE.
    Would be happy if this was the outcome.
    It's better to die on our feet than live on our knees.

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    Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

    I want JJ signed up as a first priority.

    Then Caleb Daniel.

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    Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

    Locking away all our guns would be a good starting point.

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    Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

    The thread has another assumption that we've signed up everyone we want to.
    Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023

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    Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

    Quote Originally Posted by Twodogs View Post
    I read or saw somewhere only this morning that Josh Kelly is about to recommit to GWS. He's happy there and isn't interested in playing for a proper footy club.
    Didn't he and The Bont holiday together over Summer?
    I'm sure Bonty has been in his ear about coming to play for a real club with recent Premiership sucess and a rich history of suburban roots?
    If he wants to keep playing for The Plastic Fruit Bowl Oranges then stuff him!!

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    Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

    Quote Originally Posted by redders70 View Post
    Didn't he and The Bont holiday together over Summer?
    I'm sure Bonty has been in his ear about coming to play for a real club with recent Premiership sucess and a rich history of suburban roots?
    If he wants to keep playing for The Plastic Fruit Bowl Oranges then stuff him!!
    Precisely. I know there's money and the prospect of playing in a gun team and that but I just don't know why you'd choose to play for GWS over doing all that at a real club. Whether it's us or one of the other clubs with a history and a culture. That you meet legends of the club from. That have a supporter base.

    I don't see how you'd stand out on the field after the prelim thinking that playing for GWS any acheivment is just going to be incremental and expected. Not celebrated and lionised. Surely some of them thought "get me to St Kilda or Melbourne, I want a chance at some of this"
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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    Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

    Sure they might,MIGHT be able to say that they were clubs very first premiership players but who is really gunna give a shit when they are funded and endorsed to succed by the AFEL.

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    Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

    Quote Originally Posted by redders70 View Post
    Didn't he and The Bont holiday together over Summer?
    I'm sure Bonty has been in his ear about coming to play for a real club with recent Premiership sucess and a rich history of suburban roots?
    If he wants to keep playing for The Plastic Fruit Bowl Oranges then stuff him!!
    Love this, I'm gonna refer to them as plastic fruit bowl oranges too. Thanks Redders.

    I despise quite a few GWS players, however I think Lobbe is/will be a gun and admire his overcoming a tough teenage/young adult period. Would be delightful if we could prize him free and would actually prefer him over their much vaunted midfielders. Also agree re-signing our young guns is first priority and confident our club is doing all it can to extend this amazing successful time.

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    Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

    Quote Originally Posted by redders70 View Post
    Didn't he and The Bont holiday together over Summer?
    I'm sure Bonty has been in his ear about coming to play for a real club with recent Premiership sucess and a rich history of suburban roots?
    If he wants to keep playing for The Plastic Fruit Bowl Oranges then stuff him!!
    Seem to be mates - see here

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    Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Seem to be mates - see here

    Chef will like seeing The Bont in a Chelsea jumper

    What's that? The Bont has signed with Chelsea? Noooooo!
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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    Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

    Quote Originally Posted by Twodogs View Post
    What's that? The Bont has signed with Chelsea? Noooooo!
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