2018 AFL -Trade Rumours and Discussion

[The Adelaide Connection]

That was my understanding too. Once again the AFL make a decision and don't think of the consequences.

Is there anyone of potential value to us that we could look at throwing Carlton or Gold Coast a pick in the 40's or 60's for?
Sam Collins?
Mitch Grigg?
Cut Adelaide's lunch and get Shane McAdam?
Hayes with one of our 60's picks if we don't think he will last?

[The Adelaide Connection]

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[bornadog]

The GIANTS have confirmed Rory Lobb and Will Setterfield have requested trades.


Lobb has chosen Fremantle as his club of choice while Setterfield has nominated Carlton.

[Sedat]

Setterfield has just nominated Carlton. McGovern already has. Shiel highly likely to. And they poached Andrew Russell from Hawthorn, who is their F&C guru. Blues are going to climb the ladder a lot quicker than people think.

[GVGjr]

Which means he will be traded. Do you want a player that keeps indicating they want to be traded?

He was never going to say 'Yes he has the whip hand'
This is about trying to maximise the best deal we can get for him if we decide to let him go.

[Mofra]

Is there anyone of potential value to us that we could look at throwing Carlton or Gold Coast a pick in the 40's or 60's for?
Sam Collins?
Mitch Grigg?
Cut Adelaide's lunch and get Shane McAdam?
Hayes with one of our 60's picks if we don't think he will last?

I'd engineer Hayes for a 60s pick, absolutely yes. Running depth - last year we had Porter as the only running player not listed in the senior team or as an emergency for at least one round.

Having West helps in that regard but we've already committed to Hayes at some point if the rumours are to be believed and our last Footscray VFL prospect turned out better than ok.

[bornadog]

He was never going to say 'Yes he has the whip hand'
This is about trying to maximise the best deal we can get for him if we decide to let him go.

Exactly. Noble mentioned they had a meeting with the club yesterday, so it is happening.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Setterfield has just nominated Carlton. McGovern already has. Shiel highly likely to. And they poached Andrew Russell from Hawthorn, who is their F&C guru. Blues are going to climb the ladder a lot quicker than people think.

Why is a long term basketcase like Carlton seen as a 'destination club', yet we struggle to be seen in the same way?

[Testekill]

Setterfield has just nominated Carlton. McGovern already has. Shiel highly likely to. And they poached Andrew Russell from Hawthorn, who is their F&C guru. Blues are going to climb the ladder a lot quicker than people think.

How do they intend on getting everything?

[Testekill]

Why is a long term basketcase like Carlton seen as a 'destination club', yet we struggle to be seen in the same way?

Brown baggers

[bornadog]

Here are the Suns intentions with mature aged players:

West Adelaide's Chris Burgess and Werribee's Josh Corbett are set to become Gold Coast's first two mature-aged recruits signed as part of the special assistance granted them by the AFL Commission last week.

The Suns are expected to announce their signings no later than Wednesday, with the club still having access to one other mature-aged selection ahead of the draft under the AFL's package.

[The Adelaide Connection]

Why is a long term basketcase like Carlton seen as a 'destination club', yet we struggle to be seen in the same way?

Maybe we are courting the wrong players? Setterfield is seen as risky due to his injury history (coming back from an ACL and had ankle issues prior to that) but he is actually Isabel Huntington's cousin so surely we would have been in the box seat if we wanted him.

[Ozza]

Setterfield has just nominated Carlton. McGovern already has. Shiel highly likely to. And they poached Andrew Russell from Hawthorn, who is their F&C guru. Blues are going to climb the ladder a lot quicker than people think.

Forgive me for not getting too excited about the Blues' chances of turning it around. They won 2 games this year, have been hopeless for nearly 2 decades despite year after year of top picks, and still a fair bit of water to go under the bridge on Shiel.

Even if they do come good in a few years, its a bit like Melbourne coming good this year....in that - you've been dreadful for a decade, you SHOULD be good by now!

[EasternWest]

Why is a long term basketcase like Carlton seen as a 'destination club', yet we struggle to be seen in the same way?

Because they're a club with Visyon.

[Remi Moses]

Is this what was meant to be, by AFL?

Couldn’t agree more . The whole exercise was for the navy rabble and GC to bring in senior experience.
Apparently the other clubs are dirty, ave rightly so .