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This seems to be the trend on BF at the moment that we need to trade away some established players and get an earlier draft pick to select a tall. Some of the suggestions I've seen floating around have been terrible.
Does anyone seriously believe that we would trade Cooney or Griffen (both top 3 draft selections) plus our first round pick to secure a higher first round pick? To me, this just seems so far off the mark.
Certain people have used the example of Akermanis and Everitt being traded for mid 30's picks, and all of this sort of thing. Surely the reason both these players were so cheap was because they were wanting to move, and their both the wrong side of 30.
There is no way that we would ever trade a #1 pick such as Cooney, as well as our first round selection for a #1/2/3 pick! Stupidity. Why trade away a #1 draft pick who has now played well over 50 matches and is in fact closing in on 100, who we have put 4 good years of work into, for 'the chance' of 'possibly' getting a tall player who 'may or may not' develop into the star key forward that we so desire.
Tarrant was traded to Fremantle last year - one of the AFL's more highly rated KP forwards, and a top 10 choice and a fringe player. Certainly someone like Cooney by himself would warrant a top 10 draft choice, plus a reasonable quality fringe player.
I know the club would never undertake such a deal (well, I hope anyway, at least with the current regime.), but still people continue to suggest such terrible, terrible ideas.
Anyway, I just wanted to vent somewhere.
The signs with Walsh and McDougall are also very promising from the weekend too. That's two top 5 selection KP forwards who kicked goals. Keep them coming guys, and you won't be far off!
Does anyone seriously believe that we would trade Cooney or Griffen (both top 3 draft selections) plus our first round pick to secure a higher first round pick? To me, this just seems so far off the mark.
Certain people have used the example of Akermanis and Everitt being traded for mid 30's picks, and all of this sort of thing. Surely the reason both these players were so cheap was because they were wanting to move, and their both the wrong side of 30.
There is no way that we would ever trade a #1 pick such as Cooney, as well as our first round selection for a #1/2/3 pick! Stupidity. Why trade away a #1 draft pick who has now played well over 50 matches and is in fact closing in on 100, who we have put 4 good years of work into, for 'the chance' of 'possibly' getting a tall player who 'may or may not' develop into the star key forward that we so desire.
Tarrant was traded to Fremantle last year - one of the AFL's more highly rated KP forwards, and a top 10 choice and a fringe player. Certainly someone like Cooney by himself would warrant a top 10 draft choice, plus a reasonable quality fringe player.
I know the club would never undertake such a deal (well, I hope anyway, at least with the current regime.), but still people continue to suggest such terrible, terrible ideas.
Anyway, I just wanted to vent somewhere.
The signs with Walsh and McDougall are also very promising from the weekend too. That's two top 5 selection KP forwards who kicked goals. Keep them coming guys, and you won't be far off!
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