Who would you have JMac target this year?

[The Doctor]

Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

If the finals continue this way for the Giant Wankers from Shitsville then Kelly will be glad to get out of there me thinks

[G-Mo77]

Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

Yeah fair assessment Doc. The Hurley deal really got us on the back foot IMO. If Stringer does decide he wants out he is contracted so we have hand, we'll get something out of it. Personally I think nothing will happen and he'll stay next season and beyond

[Eastdog]

Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

Could we trade out JMac for bulldogtragic? Now that's a deal I could get behind!

bulldogtragic and Mofra both are pretty good I reckon in this area.

[The Doctor]

Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

Yeah fair assessment Doc. The Hurley deal really got us on the back foot IMO. If Stringer does decide he wants out he is contracted so we have hand, we'll get something out of it. Personally I think nothing will happen and he'll stay next season and beyond

I hope you're right G-Mo

He is arguably and potentially as good as anyone on the list. We have to find a way to manage that.

[1eyedog]

Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

Something like North's 4 & 21 (and a player we want, an achievable trade like a Goldstein which saves us trading for Martin) > for Our 9 & Stringer > Picks 4 & 21 for Kelly (GWS get a high first and second rounder despite the Whitfield affair)

Essentially Pick 9 & Stringer for Kelly & Goldstein* (* for example)

Kelly is really one of the only scenarios I'd consider for Jake.

[ratsmac]

Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

I agree his retention policy has been excellent. Credit is certainly deserved there with a caveat on the players we let go last year.

It is his skill at negotiating with other clubs that has me concerned. I think he gets pushed around. We received a very poor return for the players we traded out last year. Stevens trade was ordinary. Had Norf finished above us we would have paid them to take Hrovat. More should have been done to retain Hamling especially when you consider the $$ we were prepared to pay Hurley. I fear we would get unders for a player every club would love to have. We/he should take note of that.

Totally agree. J Mac lacks the salesman craft. If Stringer is on the table we need a salesman who could sell ice (the frozen water type) to an Eskimo to make sure we don't cop a you know what up the you know where

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

Kelly is really one of the only scenarios I'd consider for Jake.

I agree whole heartedly. The Stringer situation has two end games to me, or that I'd only accept:

1. Josh Kelly, which probably comes through North
2. Jake Stringer stays and knuckles down to become the player he should be

Either sounds ok from what we've heard in the media in the past 24 hours.

[Twodogs]

Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

Motlop and Catters first pick for Jake????

He's worth more than that. If that's the type of offer we are getting then he stays. If we give a contracted Jake Stringer away for that type of compensation I give up.

How can we turn Jake Stringer into Josh Kelly?

That's the question.

[always right]

Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

For those who want Jake to stay (I'm one of them) some good news is that none of the interstate clubs will be of interest to him. Although I guess that also reduces the pool of players we could get for him. It would take some creative trading.

[kruder]

Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

Stevo going with that he will be traded and Geelong leading the race. I just cant see how Geelong gets it done.

[Sedat]

Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

Stevo going with that he will be traded and Geelong leading the race. I just cant see how Geelong gets it done.

Credit where it's due, Geelong gets things done in trade week. If they are desperate to get him, they'll find a way.

[Bornadog]

Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

Stevo going with that he will be traded and Geelong leading the race. I just cant see how Geelong gets it done.

He has lost the plot like many journos hungry for any old gossip.

[kruder]

Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

Credit where it's due, Geelong gets things done in trade week. If they are desperate to get him, they'll find a way.

If he goes to Geelong I'll spew up.

[Rocket Science]

Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

Want him they may, but what've the Handbaggers got of comparable calibre that'd be of remote interest to us?

Forget it.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Who would you have JMac target this year?

Stevo going with that he will be traded and Geelong leading the race. I just cant see how Geelong gets it done.

Baffling. They need serious cap space, I'm not sure where enough will come from. We'd want players and/or picks they don't have. There just doesn't seem to be anything supporting this idea. Maybe Bulldogs Stevo is throwing out disinformation to Kangaroos Damian Barrett. That's the best defence of it I've got, but It just doesn't make sense.

Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this trade? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this trade! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a woofer defending baseless trade talk, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.