Early Trade Rumours 2023

[Axe Man]

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Bloody internet - his wiki page is out

I stick with official club pages because heights can be all over the place from other sources.

[Bornadog]

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I stick with official club pages because heights can be all over the place from other sources.

I normally do, but was lazy

[Dogs 24/7]

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you know he is only 187cm

Does a few cm here or there really matter that much? Can he play is the biggest consideration.

[jeemak]

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Does a few cm here or there really matter that much? Can he play is the biggest consideration.

Not to BAD in his heart of hearts.....height is just a segue to weight and fat shaming.

[Bornadog]

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Does a few cm here or there really matter that much? Can he play is the biggest consideration.

Depends which player you are matched up on.

Play on King brothers, Lynch or Hawkins and cms do matter.

Not to BAD in his heart of hearts.....height is just a segue to weight and fat shaming.

Ha ha you caught me out

[Dogs 24/7]

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Depends which player you are matched up on.

Play on King brothers, Lynch or Hawkins and cms do matter.

Is there even a remote chance we might be interested in recruiting Tom Doedee to match up against the bigger forwards?
Are we still talking about Doedee?
This means that someone like Caleb Daniel would never arrive at the Kennel and if he did he couldnt play anywhere other than as a forward.

[Vred]

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I got a mate who's a recruiter/talent scout at another AFL club, this is all according to him, as always, grain of salt:
-Doedee was 50/50 on either us or Geelong, Geelong won out (no surprise there)
-Dogs are one of several clubs seeing if they can pry Barass out, the rumours of us going after him last off season are true, we asked the question.
-Dogs have also asked the question of Liam Ryan and Cam Rayner, sounds like we're looking for someone who can play that HFF/Midfield role
-From what he can gather from rumours floating around the industry, we are after a speedy mid, a winger and another developed defender, and are happy to use our draft currency to get it, Dogs very much see themselves ''in the window''.
-Eagles are more interested in Naughton than English, they see him as their future number 1 KPD, want him sooner than later and will wait for the right time to get him.
-English wants his next contract to be his last
-Neither SA club very interested in Williams hence the wanting to stay on with us statement released this week.
-Webb is back to WA at the end of this season, no contract extensions have been offered to Bubba or Spang, could see all 3 of them changed over this off season.
-Our salary cap is in a really good space, we have cash to splash and plan to throw it at what we need to get it through the door. He 100% confirmed to me that Hunters contract was re-negotiated and we aren't picking up a cent of it, coupled with the Dunkley money, Bruce/Keath front ended contracts winding down, JJ re-signed on supposedly half of what he was on, it's been managed really well. He also said that Naughton has been the second highest paid at our club for awhile now, just behind Bont.

Personally, no idea who to target to fix our list needs, there's a few players we could go after to fix holes but until our coaching is taken care of I don't care, that's the biggest problem for me, not the list.

[bulldogtragic]

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Some interesting discussion in that.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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Some interesting discussion in that.

Tiem to do what you do best BT. crunch those numbers.

How do we get Barrass and or a Liam Ryan, Rayner type, maybe Lohmann is more an option? and keep enough capital to get Croft at draft time.
Also I want my cake and eat it too. No trade on Naughts or English!

[bulldogtragic]

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Tiem to do what you do best BT. crunch those numbers.

How do we get Barrass and or a Liam Ryan, Rayner type, maybe Lohmann is more an option? and keep enough capital to get Croft at draft time.
Also I want my cake and eat it too. No trade on Naughts or English!

To get Pick 1 (Harley), Barass, Rayner & Lohmann plus Croft - I’d happily hand over the firsts, a Future something & Naughton.

Dogs: Pick 1, Pick 19 & 53 (Port), Barass - for - Naughton, Pick 12 & 16 & 34

Dogs: Rayner, Lohmann, Pick 26 (GWS) - for - Pick 19 & F1

Dogs: Picks 26 & 53 to secure Croft (as high as about pick 12 if needed)

Dogs: Cash for Ben McKay as FA if we wanted a full back


But that ain’t never, ever, ever, ever happening. But if we are prepared to splash picks and cash, then it might be a fun off season.

[bulldogtragic]

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More over I find the ‘we are still in our window’ most interesting. I think it’s time for a rebuild, but clearly (if true) the club thinks we are a few tweaks and a few new players off a flag. I’m not so sure.

[mjp]

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But that ain’t never, ever, ever, ever happening. But if we are prepared to splash picks and cash, then it might be a fun off season.

Thoughts on Bergman?

[jeemak]

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-Our salary cap is in a really good space, we have cash to splash and plan to throw it at what we need to get it through the door. He 100% confirmed to me that Hunters contract was re-negotiated and we aren't picking up a cent of it, coupled with the Dunkley money, Bruce/Keath front ended contracts winding down, JJ re-signed on supposedly half of what he was on, it's been managed really well. He also said that Naughton has been the second highest paid at our club for awhile now, just behind Bont.
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Add the Hurley money to this and we should be big spenders!

[bulldogtragic]

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Thoughts on Bergman?

I like him personally. My musings with Gary yesterday were if a Croft bid interferes with the Brisbane first (circa pick 15-17 after matched bids) it might pay to trade that out for someone or something (as one on many options). That seems to be around a few early phantoms/power rankings. So I’d look at who we might get that is still young enough but talented enough to improve the list with a late first rounder. I’d think Bergman would be on the short list.

If you had to move on the Lions 1st for strategic reasons hypothetically, who would you like to realistically acquire with the pick?

[Mantis]

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More over I find the ?we are still in our window? most interesting. I think it?s time for a rebuild, but clearly (if true) the club thinks we are a few tweaks and a few new players off a flag. I?m not so sure.

There isn't too many holes in the team to get us up at the pointy of the ladder and from the players mentioned, or the type of player mentioned it seems we know where those gaps are.

If only there was a fix for shoddy goal-kicking!