The Buddy Franklin Trade 4 Years On

[macca]

Great analysis BT. Here is brief observations:
Summary :

8 good players leaving, thats almost half of team on the park! The other argument is would they have found so many young kids in the draft? I guess further analysis may be needed with the draft picks.

7 fringe players leaving: this is good trading or list management

Good players left:
Shane Mumford: whether you like him or hate him, his a good ruckman. Called out of retirement twice and his just keeps on serving.
Played in 2019 GF, and now playing in Semi-Final in 2021.

Nick Malceski: could he have played on another year ?

Shane Biggs: 2016 premiership , brillian pickup for the doggies

Lewis Jetta (Callum Sinclair): 2018 GF, important year . Lost for sydney

Tom Mitchell : brownlow medalist , Lost for Sydney, deserves to be on good coin at Hawks

Toby Nankervis : Gun ruckman, Why they hell we did not pick him up in 2016??? (rhetorical question)
3 time premiership ruckman 2017,2019,2020. Was he perceived to be behind Sinclair???


Gary Rohan: flat track bully, I want to put him in the expendable bucket but his type of player who will kick a bag in burst of 5 mins

Aliir Aliir: gun , shake my head how we did not know he was available.

Players on decline or expendable:
Craig Bird: could not get enough games with essendon. I always thought he was relatively clean user with the ball, but did not seem to click at Essendon.

Zak Jones;: a few Injuries, on the decline
Dan Hannerbery: his knee injury in 2016 GF has not really recovered
Nic Newman: fringe player for carlton in 2021, in a crap team, heading towards being delisted.
Darcy Cameron: can't get enough games at struggling pies. Behind Grundy. Threatening to be a great Eker.
Andreajs Everitt (who looked good up there): got worst at carlton, could have been anything if he applied himself.
Jed Lamb: went to GWS then Carlton where he played 44 games and got delisted in 2018, in a crap team.

Overall, I think after the losing the second GF and losing players , I think thats where the Buddy deal has really hurt them. Once Buddy retires, their forward line will need to find more power forwards to replace him. Also losing the Sydney living away from rest of Australia allowance has not helped.

They lost by 1 point tonight against GWS and they threaten to overun them in the last 2 mins of 2021 First week of final. So Sydney are not that far off at the moment, and their list looks pretty healthy.

I still never understood that Tippett deal, it was massive money to pay for someone who was a temporary ruckman and just really tall and an ok mark. He did get them into a few GF, and allowed Goodes to be that roaming mobile forward who could play anywhere. Tippet deal really requires further analysis on his stats.