A.F.L. Thread II

[vic_orthdox]

Guess its a fine balance between making sure that they are competitive to start with, without providing them a premiership on a platter.

 

[Jono]

Hale gone to the Hawks.

Interesting whether he plays ruck, or if he'll play forward and Buddy will have more time on the wing. Or both.

 

[superkingdave]

Will play 2nd ruck with Renouf you would think but spend plenty of time forward with the new interchange rules. Will be a good get for the Hawks i think, could run riot if he's getting a smaller defender with the other two up there.

Mckinley for pick 86 seems an ok trade, weren't going to use that pick and Mckinley's lost his way a bit after a good start, be interesting to see what role we see for him given he is pretty similar to Warren and Edwards on the face of it.

 

[Jono]

Looks like Bachar Houli wants to come to the Tigers

 

[Matt79]

Gavin Brown gone to Carltank. So disillusioning.

 

[benchmark00]

So stoked with our trade activity so far.

Effectively we traded a North Ballarat player for a first round draft pick. Score.

 

[Matt79]

Yeah, done well there.

 

[superkingdave]

That **** Sheedy better keep his dirty hands off Andrew Swallow

 

[howardj]

$900 000 / year (reportedly in the paper today) will be easy to swallow.

 

[Matt79]

So they'll have Swan and Swallow? Any other players named after birds, or starting with "Sw" that they're going to target? Tom Swift from the Eagles?

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Yeah, totally need a guy to make Folau look better by foot.

 

[pasag]

Andy Collins from Richmond for Grigg confirmed.

Win for us, seeing as we could have lost Grigg for nothing.

Hopefully the Jacobs deal doesn't turn sour and it'll be a good week esp with the coaching pickups.

 

[Matt79]

Unbelievably poor work from Richmond. You want to be doofuses that's fine, but don't help those ****s in the process.

 

[Jono]

I don't understand why the **** we got rid of Collins.

What the **** are we doing?

 

[Matt79]

Can only think it's part of some masterplan to get Houli in the PSD that meant you wanted the Grigg thing done now.

Great plan.

 

[Jono]

Nah it's not that bad then.

I figured we'd trade for Houli and get Grigg in their PSD.

If we trade for Grigg and get Houli in the PSD, same result.

 

[Matt79]

The Sherman-Doggies deal done, my spies tell me. The pick the Dogs got for Harbrow going back north. Loins are going to have quite a few picks now - barring Voss trading them all for a handful of beans tomorrow.

 

[Jono]

Lol at Brisbane going the exact opposite trade strategy 12 months later.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Sherman is an OK pick up. At his best he kicks goals and provides some dash, so I'm not too displeased about it. It is pretty much a direct Harbrow-Sherman trade which doesn't look so good, but he's a known quantity unlike anyone in the 19-25 range.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Hale gone to the Hawks.

Interesting whether he plays ruck, or if he'll play forward and Buddy will have more time on the wing. Or both.

Pelchen (Hawks' list manager) came out and said that he'll be playing mainly in the ruck.