Stringer Trade Worth

[Doc26]

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BTW ths is a terrific post from Fronkalicious on BF that pretty much sums things up I reckon;

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/sports-greatest-riddle-what-is-a-dickhead.1180602/

Thanks to Dry Rot for the link.

Pretty good post.

Does this guy post on Woof under another name as he/she almost seems worthy?

[KT31]

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Not sure where the Las Vegas stories come from. JJ, Stringer, Suckling and Koby Stevens are all together in New York.

So not in Sodom but still in Gomorrah.

[Twodogs]

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Pretty good post.

Does this guy post on Woof under another name as he/she almost seems worthy?

Does seem good.

[Doc26]

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Does seem good.

I can't say I'm familiar with BF at all but it alludes to the poster having some inside knowledge e.g

I'm not going to be explicit about exactly what Jake has done.

He leaves the club with MASSIVE debts owed, both literally......

Anyone on Woof aware of his/her credentials?

[bulldogsthru&thru]

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I can't say I'm familiar with BF at all but it alludes to the poster having some inside knowledge e.g





Anyone on Woof aware of his/her credentials?

The poster is known to claim himself as an insider in footy ranks. Not at the club though. He has got things right in the past but also some things wrong. Was onto Schache before the media were. But has also claimed T Boyd was hated by Bev and that JJ was as good as gone earlier in the year. Who knows, as things do change a lot of the time, but certainly one of the better posters on BF.

[Twodogs]

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I can't say I'm familiar with BF at all but it alludes to the poster having some inside knowledge e.g





Anyone on Woof aware of his/her credentials?

Yeah. That's a problem for me too. I haven't posted on BF for ages-the last time I tried I got a message saying that I hadn't enough privelages to post a post which given its been so long wasn't surprising-so I don't really know a lot about the other posters.

This site sort of evolved from BF. Gary and I were modding the Bulldog board and decided that if we were going to do it we may as well have an independent site rather than just running a board on a larger site.

[Mofra]

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Trengove and Crozier were unrelated to the management of the Stringer outcome. It appears a salvageable outcome based on the 'hope' that a troubled Schache might bring otherwise we've largely lost Jake AND our 2nd round 2018 pick for pick 16.

If you rate hope in Schache then we've parred the course.

Trengove is as solid a citizen as you could find, the anti-Stringer.
Crozier is a natural footballer with flair working within the Ross Lyon system. I'll be very surprised if they aren't playing round 1.

We've lost one best 22 player (Stringer) who was disrupting the rest of the group and adding two, with Schache developing and pushing for selection this year.
I'm not happy we lose the 2018 2nd rounder but for the quality we get in and adding two first rounders to our list at the draft all's well that ends well.

[Mofra]

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Sad about how this has played out, but not so much about the end result. I am peeved that we've made EFC a better football team and grieving the loss of what I felt would be a Charlie to Bontempelli's EJ. Obviously he has issues and some demons to sort out and we weren't prepared to, or he wasn't prepared to confront them within our network. I'll stop short of wishing him ill, he is by far the most electrifying player I have seen in RW&B, but I can't wish him all the best either.

Stringer's behaviour, his slime ball manager and the circus that ensued served us up a dirty big turd. We've had a decent crack at polishing it and despite how the saying goes, looks like we might have made a good fist of it.

Essendon's trade period is the sort that looks great on paper.

But the three they've brought in have massive question marks on them and if one turns out to be a bust they've traded themselves out to a pick in the 40s or 50s as their first pick.

Saad - looks great streaming out of defence but can't actually defend. Might be better where he takes the 6th best forward but in some teams that's actually a good player.

Dev Smith - Good kid but very small with a ruined knee. He's young but won't get to the standard he promised early in his career, he's about Honeychurch size when they already have a midget midfield but their rationale is to get him in the midfield.

Stringer - Big risk to give him 4 years and I doubt he'll ever have the tank to play significant midfield time. Keeps saying he'll be the next Dusty, Dusty entered the system with a mid 14s beep and played midfield/forward in his first year
Additionally, Stringer is a gun small forward but is soft no doubt about it. I mentioned it before but he wont; crash a pack and bring the ball to ground and his spectacular goals all come from avoiding body contact not grunt.

The draft sucks after the first 25-30 picks according to the experts so they're stuck with at least 3 kids for two years who are against the odds to make it. I'm not buying the hype - Port had a much better trade period than they did and it's 50/50 that our three acquisitions play more games than Essendon's trades except we have 2 first round picks and they have nothing.

[Throughandthrough]

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I posted this a few weeks ago, but still relevant, younger players at the dogs were warned to socially stay away from Stringer when they first joined the kennel. Take that sentence as fact. (And a few other players as well)

[westdog54]

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BTW ths is a terrific post from Fronkalicious on BF that pretty much sums things up I reckon;

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/sports-greatest-riddle-what-is-a-dickhead.1180602/

Thanks to Dry Rot for the link.

I normally don't read BF but DR sent me the link last night and I just thought "yep, nailed it"

You took the words right out of my mouth.

[Grantysghost]

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You don't effectively sack a 23 yr old with that much talent unless there's some serious issues. That is a great post.

[Dancin' Douggy]

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One thing that surprised me about the Stringer trade, was that none else wanted him. Geelong made a bit of feeble noise, but seriously.

I was thinking St. Kilda are crazy for not trying something with pick 8. Hell on sheer talent you'd give pick 8 in a heartbeat.
North and Collingwood should have at least had a sniff but.......nup.

So that's the main reason we couldn't negotiate that killer trade, we had only one customer.

The wider football community must really see him as a liability if Essendon had absolutely no competition for him.

Been a really heartbreaking one to come to terms with...... It was so exciting to think that the Dogs finally had 'the one'.

In 2015 when he was out running out leaping out muscling out everythinging everyone I had it penciled into my diary.

April through September for the next 10 years 'Gloat as Stringer tears the league apart in the red white and blue'

He was the most exhilarating talent I believe I've ever seen playing for the dogs.

Been really hard to digest and accept the dream was but a passing vision of glory. And like sand through the hourglass, he is gone.

Been sickening to imagine the future where he tears the league apart in a stinking foul Essendon jumper.
I have LITERALLY lost sleep over that thought.

So now I give thanks for 3 things.

We won the goddamn flag.

We have the Bont.

And........in the last 30 seconds of trade week, suddenly the sun came bursting through with the Schache deal.
Not often you get a number 2 pick key position player for two reasonably late picks when he's still only 20.
Been looking at him on Youtube. Beautiful set shot. Maybe just maybe we've actually upgraded in more ways than one.

[macca]

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I posted this a few weeks ago, but still relevant, younger players at the dogs were warned to socially stay away from Stringer when they first joined the kennel. Take that sentence as fact. (And a few other players as well)

I am relieved his not there , efc problem now

[Dancin' Douggy]

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Essendon's trade period is the sort that looks great on paper.

But the three they've brought in have massive question marks on them and if one turns out to be a bust they've traded themselves out to a pick in the 40s or 50s as their first pick.

Saad - looks great streaming out of defence but can't actually defend. Might be better where he takes the 6th best forward but in some teams that's actually a good player.

Dev Smith - Good kid but very small with a ruined knee. He's young but won't get to the standard he promised early in his career, he's about Honeychurch size when they already have a midget midfield but their rationale is to get him in the midfield.

Stringer - Big risk to give him 4 years and I doubt he'll ever have the tank to play significant midfield time. Keeps saying he'll be the next Dusty, Dusty entered the system with a mid 14s beep and played midfield/forward in his first year
Additionally, Stringer is a gun small forward but is soft no doubt about it. I mentioned it before but he wont; crash a pack and bring the ball to ground and his spectacular goals all come from avoiding body contact not grunt.

The draft sucks after the first 25-30 picks according to the experts so they're stuck with at least 3 kids for two years who are against the odds to make it. I'm not buying the hype - Port had a much better trade period than they did and it's 50/50 that our three acquisitions play more games than Essendon's trades except we have 2 first round picks and they have nothing.

Man I hope you're right.

[Ghost Dog]

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Essendon's trade period is the sort that looks great on paper.

But the three they've brought in have massive question marks on them and if one turns out to be a bust they've traded themselves out to a pick in the 40s or 50s as their first pick.

Saad - looks great streaming out of defence but can't actually defend. Might be better where he takes the 6th best forward but in some teams that's actually a good player.

Dev Smith - Good kid but very small with a ruined knee. He's young but won't get to the standard he promised early in his career, he's about Honeychurch size when they already have a midget midfield but their rationale is to get him in the midfield.

Stringer - Big risk to give him 4 years and I doubt he'll ever have the tank to play significant midfield time. Keeps saying he'll be the next Dusty, Dusty entered the system with a mid 14s beep and played midfield/forward in his first year
Additionally, Stringer is a gun small forward but is soft no doubt about it. I mentioned it before but he wont; crash a pack and bring the ball to ground and his spectacular goals all come from avoiding body contact not grunt.

The draft sucks after the first 25-30 picks according to the experts so they're stuck with at least 3 kids for two years who are against the odds to make it. I'm not buying the hype - Port had a much better trade period than they did and it's 50/50 that our three acquisitions play more games than Essendon's trades except we have 2 first round picks and they have nothing.

Making me feel good today Mofra.