End of Season - Trade Targets

[LostDoggy]

Regarding trading, I think it's all solid body potential key backs.

Markovic and Austin aren't up to AFL standard
, Morris may not have long and Roberts\Talia are speculatives.

Roughy and Young look the types to build around.
I'd be happy to go into the trade period looking to find more surplus types like Tom Young.

Use the draft for best available, geared towards key forward.

[LostDoggy]

I don't think forwards are the problem. The problem is with defenders and mids who can't kick 60 metres and kick pinpoint passes to advantage. We've got to get one top liner in the mould of Suckling, and a pacy mid player in the mould of Atley (who has, from memory, taken 3 or 4 years to develop).

[Twodogs]

One seems a dud, one is always injured and one is unknown and mostly played as a defender at Willi.

Talls always take time to mature. It's far too early to make a definitive call on Cordy yet. In fact I'd say he's shown more signs that he will make it than he won't.

Regarding trading, I think it's all solid body potential key backs.

Markovic and Austin aren't up to AFL standard
, Morris may not have long and Roberts\Talia are speculatives.

Roughy and Young look the types to build around.
I'd be happy to go into the trade period looking to find more surplus types like Tom Young.

Use the draft for best available, geared towards key forward.

Yep. Good assessment. Especially re Markovic.

I don't think forwards are the problem. The problem is with defenders and mids who can't kick 60 metres and kick pinpoint passes to advantage. We've got to get one top liner in the mould of Suckling, and a pacy mid player in the mould of Atley (who has, from memory, taken 3 or 4 years to develop).

Again good assessment.

[w3design]

We already have more than enough "handy"players on our list.
Spend up big only on silk or cream, and I don't much care if that is in the draft or trade.
Pace, and 'natural footballers' who can kick with precision only need apply.

Watching some of our kids, there is heaps of potential coming through, but a bit more class around them will both bring them on quicker, and make them and the team a lot stronger.

As for it being a risk that should Grant be traded, he might come good some where else. Well so be it, and good luck to him, and whoever might have taken the gamble to pick him up. But I don't see how we can continue to clog up a place on the list in the forlorn hope that he will somehow miraculously start performing to his potential after so many years of not doing so.

I don't see how we need to promote him to the seniors in order for him to prove his worth or otherwise, as he has not exactly been banging the door down at the lower level to force his way in. And if we give him weeks in the seniors just for the sake of it, that only keeps a kid from getting a senior go.

[Ghost Dog]

Anyone who can play and who wants to come to us.
ANYONE. Holes all over the ground.
Except for in and under midfielders.

[Throughandthrough]

Jarryd Lyons, crows.

[Remi Moses]

You'd have to go think one of Essendons talls, probably Gumby would be squeezed out. Wouldn't mind him

Noticed the other Night Gumby got his hands on a lot and dropped them.
Went to ground often as well.

[Ghost Dog]

Carlton will lose a few. Melbourne too.

[bulldogtragic]

Carlton will lose a few. Melbourne too.

Would we look at Luke Mitchell from Carlton. 198cm, 100kg former teammate of Libba and Wallace. Has had a lot of shoulder issues, but looked a likely junior up forward.

[bornadog]

Would we look at Luke Mitchell from Carlton. 198cm, 100kg former teammate of Libba and Wallace. Has had a lot of shoulder issues, but looked a likely junior up forward.

Gee he must be getting on in years

[anfo27]

Matthew Watson from the blues or Tayte Pears. I know Watson is a little slow & that probably wouldn't work well with Roughie being slow but he has a hell of kick on him.

[The Cowshed]

Anyone who has two legs, two arms and can kick, mark and handball...seriously!

I'd trade to get Tom Boyd (U18 CHF). Trade our first pick & Higgins...we must make sure we bring in quality and here you have a future premiership key forward. The club needs to go all out...

[stefoid]

We should rookie a mature gorilla forward form the secondary comps. A pack marker, not a leading forward like Redpath. I think Redpath is gone.

Oh, thats not a trade target.

[The Cowshed]

They should groom Redpath as a key defender (CHB) he has agility and height and a ripping build- just needs to get some games consistently under his belt, Stringer as FF

[Remi Moses]

Matthew Watson from the blues or Tayte Pears. I know Watson is a little slow & that probably wouldn't work well with Roughie being slow but he has a hell of kick on him.

Great kick, but a bit undersized for a key back.
Not overly nimble either.
What on earth happened to Laidlaw of Carlton?
Looked a good pick up under Ratten.