Just thought you'd reply two years later?
Sick bastard. Save that Carlton praise for the missus
Juddy is a SUPERSTAR
one of the all time greats
Masten, Notte & Kennedy shizzle the bedizzle
Depends on what stage of development your club is at. Chris Judd would have done nothing for our club to get us towards a premiership as he will be retiring before we get to that stage. I said I'd like the picks, not the players that West Coast took with those picks. Kennedy would be a very good forward teaming up with Jack plus at Pick 3 we could have had picked a player like Jarrad Grant, Patrick Dangerfield, Cyril Rioli, Jack Grimes or Callan Ward along with Pick 20 getting us Tayte Pears, Andy Otten or Levi Greenwood, etc.
Are you telling me you would prefer Chris Judd for 5-6 years when we are nowhere near ready to play finals instead of Cyril Rioli, Tayte Pears & Josh Kennedy for 10-12 years? That's a quality key forward, key back and freak midfielder/forward, you can build your side around that, not just one player.
I was also talking about the mentality too, these are only the players from that draft. If we are talking about using the 1st round picks we have instead of trading them away for one player, the logic still applies. I was just using the Judd trade as an example.
totally agree with this post. it all comes down to what stage you are at.
i know for fact that wce were desperate to get their hands on cotchin. its why they pushed so hard for carltons #1 pick and dealt so amicably with us.
just imagine if they did get pick 1 and cotchin. they would have potentially gone a long way to replacing judd. and with kennedy a robust strong underrated chf.
kruezer and cotchin were the two out and out standouts in that draft.they went with notte because they were chasing key forwards also.
imo the 07 draft hurt them a bit. they could only use 4 picks because of having to place cousins salary into their cap. those picks 3 13 20 22 and kennedy a pick 4 in 05. they basically traded pick 35 the pick we gave them for morton and pick 30 for pick 22.
imagine if they did get pick 1 and used those other picks really well. cotchin, ward, pears, selwood and kennedy.
if we had kept our pp in 07 pick 19 that we traded for mcmahon my preference was cotchin 2 rance18 and pears at 19. i had a kid called collier originally pencilled in at 19 but when rance slipped i thought him a neccesity because of needs so the pecking order for me changed .
i was one who believed we should load up with talls this goes back a long long time.i dont believe we have ever truly loaded up with talls. in 07 i was also heavily into another tall defender from my local club in cale hooker.
in 06 i was adamant we should take mackenzie in front of edwards. we traded out of pick 42 that yr and there were some decent players to be had still. colin garland anyone.
anyway i digress for where we were at in 07 to go out and trade for judd at the expense of our early picks would have done untold long term damage. to get judd we would have had to give away pick 2 18 and in all likelyhood a decent player.with judd we would probablyu win more games than we currently do but that woukld mean higher finishes and less likely picks. we would be in limbo imo sniffing around the 8 but never good enough to compete with the big boys. probably no martin or conca and possibly one or two others.
we supposedly now have recruiters who know what they are doing even with the advent of gcs and gws what early picks that are available will be invaluable.
while we are down, now is the time to add to the likes of cotchin martin deledio conca jack you obviously do this with early picks.
for us depth and good structure is now the key while getting games into a decent core.
our footy club should not be trading early picks away until it has a thing called good depth good structure and nearly all the building blocks are in place.
to me we must get some experienced players into our system im sure we can do that without selling our souls and our long term future.
