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Rating the 2021 Trade Period
In:
Tim O’Brien
Draft Points
Out:
Lewis Young (3rd Rounder)
Pat Lipinski (3rd Rounder)
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Re: Rating the 2021 Trade Period
The curse is dead.
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Re: Rating the 2021 Trade Period
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
In:
Tim O’Brien
Draft Points
Out:
Lewis Young (3rd Rounder)
Pat Lipinski (3rd Rounder)
Did we get enough Draft Points for Sam Darcy (if he goes at #3)?
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Re: Rating the 2021 Trade Period
Originally Posted by
WBFC4FFC
Did we get enough Draft Points for Sam Darcy (if he goes at #3)?
Yes.
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Originally Posted by
Grantysghost
Yes.
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Re: Rating the 2021 Trade Period
Hard to rate really. Depends on our objectives which were probably along the lines of:
1. Ensure enough draft points for Darcy. ✅
2. Intercept defender. ✅
3. Ruck. X
4. Key defender. X
Thus maybe a B-.Neither good nor bad.
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D.
Reality is we lost two depth players, didn't improve our rucks and didn't improve KPD.
I like TOB but he should effectively replace Wood.
If any of Martin, English or Keath get injured we're stuffed.
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Re: Rating the 2021 Trade Period
Originally Posted by
The Bulldogs Bite
D.
Reality is we lost two depth players, didn't improve our rucks and didn't improve KPD.
I like TOB but he should effectively replace Wood.
If any of Martin, English or Keath get injured we're stuffed.
+1 This
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Re: Rating the 2021 Trade Period
Originally Posted by
The Bulldogs Bite
D.
Reality is we lost two depth players, didn't improve our rucks and didn't improve KPD.
I like TOB but he should effectively replace Wood.
If any of Martin, English or Keath get injured we're stuffed.
Hard to improve rucks atm not too many candidates available and we kept Sweet. TOM helps if Keath goes down.
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D-.
Again it’s hard to judge from the outside but fact is we got worse in the ruck department, lost depth and didn’t add coverage for KPD. The idea of this time of year is to improve our list and we’ve done the opposite IMO.
There wasn’t a lot of activity and we weren’t the only club to have a quiet trade period. But we’re right in our window so would’ve liked to have seen us go harder now.
Yes I’m definitely harsher given Bonts in his prime. He’s a one in a generation talent and I don’t want us to piss it away.
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I think it's a fail.
Didn't address our biggest issue at all, and in fact go into next season worse in this regard.
O'Brien sort of addresses the key defender need but is hardly an established quality key defender and despite playing nearly 100 games is completely unimpressive. I'm hopeful he can be good and am not writing him off but he is a marginally better recruitment than when we got Joel Hamling as a DFA.
Lipinski and Young out for mediocre draft picks was basically expected, Darcy positioning was always going to get done and don't think we under or over performed in this regard.
I should leave it alone but you're not right
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Originally Posted by
bulldogsthru&thru
D-.
Again it’s hard to judge from the outside but fact is we got worse in the ruck department, lost depth and didn’t add coverage for KPD. The idea of this time of year is to improve our list and we’ve done the opposite IMO.
There wasn’t a lot of activity and we weren’t the only club to have a quiet trade period. But we’re right in our window so would’ve liked to have seen us go harder now.
Yes I’m definitely harsher given Bonts in his prime. He’s a one in a generation talent and I don’t want us to piss it away.
I agree with most of what you’re saying but I’m unsure how we have got worse in the ruck department. From my understanding, it hasn’t changed. Sweet, Martin and English remain … no ruck left ??
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Originally Posted by
Scraggers
I agree with most of what you’re saying but I’m unsure how we have got worse in the ruck department. From my understanding, it hasn’t changed. Sweet, Martin and English remain … no ruck left ??
Young gone. Martin even older and more cooked. Could mount a case for Sweet and English being better but neither performed in the ruck at all in the second half of the year and despite the 2 year contract we have never given off he impression we rate Sweet highly.
I should leave it alone but you're not right
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Pretty much delivered what I expected.
I will never see #16 the same!!
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Originally Posted by
soupman
Young gone. Martin even older and more cooked. Could mount a case for Sweet and English being better but neither performed in the ruck at all in the second half of the year and despite the 2 year contract we have never given off he impression we rate Sweet highly.
I just said in the other thread, Young is not a ruck and neither is Dunkley. We lost depth, but we didn’t lose ruck-stock. If anything we will gain it with Darcy.