Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith
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Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith
North landed pick 3 and perhaps they should have had to given something back.
I'm not sure ladder positions should play into it.Western Bulldogs Football Club "Where it's cool to drool"Comment
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Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith
I don't mind the suggestion that clubs should have to give up something else with these FA plays. The AFL have a silly compensation approach that looks at the dollars not the players true ability and the compensation can be both excessive or insufficient.
North landed pick 3 and perhaps they should have had to given something back.
I'm not sure ladder positions should play into it."I'll give him a hug before the first bounce and then I'll run into my pack and give them orders to rip him apart."Comment
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Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith
For me, the more I mull over this, the problem isn't return for us, it's the fact we're likely making Geelong better and ourselves worse.
Whatever else you say about Smith - and I do think we'll be better off without his obvious mental health issues - he was talent we scouted and drafted and developed to fill a specific need. We were clever and it paid off, and now we're not reaping the benefits of that. There is no possible compensation for that, because there are no available ready-to-go pacey outside mids/wingers available to us. Same as there was no reasonable compensation available for the Dunkley trade because there were no ready-to-go available defensive mids, but worse this time because we drafted Dunks as a forward.
The issue is the team who needs him least is going to get him cheap. It's my hope that his downsides stay downsides for them, as cruel as that sounds for him (I wouldn't wish mental health struggles on anyone).
Thank heavens for Ed Richards, is all I can say.Comment
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Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith
For me, the more I mull over this, the problem isn't return for us, it's the fact we're likely making Geelong better and ourselves worse.
Whatever else you say about Smith - and I do think we'll be better off without his obvious mental health issues - he was talent we scouted and drafted and developed to fill a specific need. We were clever and it paid off, and now we're not reaping the benefits of that. There is no possible compensation for that, because there are no available ready-to-go pacey outside mids/wingers available to us. Same as there was no reasonable compensation available for the Dunkley trade because there were no ready-to-go available defensive mids, but worse this time because we drafted Dunks as a forward.
The issue is the team who needs him least is going to get him cheap. It's my hope that his downsides stay downsides for them, as cruel as that sounds for him (I wouldn't wish mental health struggles on anyone).
Thank heavens for Ed Richards, is all I can say.Comment
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FFC: Established 1883
Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.Comment
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Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith
I am once again asking us to blow this deal up on purpose.- I'm a visionary - Only here to confirm my biases -Comment
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Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith
Say Pick 21 & 20 - for - Smith & 36.
That’s a great deal for them. That’s my fall back.Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith
Annoying as **** how Geelong and Baz have played us with this deal. Only thing to be determined is how hard they screw us.
We should have been trying to push him out 12 months ago.The curse is dead.Comment
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