Adelaide Crows want compo pick Jesper Fjeldstad
From: Sunday Mail (SA)
September 17, 2011 10:00PMADELAIDE is talking to Richmond about trading Ivan Maric with the compo pick they used for Richard Tambling.
Maric, a Victorian who has slipped in the pecking order at West Lakes after the recruitment of ex-Blue Sam Jacobs, is understood to want to play for a club where he has more opportunity and Richmond is one of the suitors.
The biggest hurdle with all potential trades is agreeing on how the club that loses a player is compensated, but it is understood an option of trading Maric for a compensation pick is being explored. It's the pick that keeps giving - potentially being used as currency for the third time.
The Crows initially received the end-of-first-round draft pick from the AFL in compensation for Nathan Bock's departure to the Gold Coast last year and then traded it to Richmond to acquire the services of Tambling.
The Tigers, in turn, banked the pick, which can be used up until 2015, and now the Crows will consider it as full or partial payback for Maric. Richmond is understood to be seeking a No. 1 ruckman to work alongside Tyron Vickery and Maric, 25, has been identified as one who can make up for his lack of height (he is listed at 200cm but was listed at 198 cm in 2010) with his competitiveness and second efforts.
If the Maric deal goes through, the Crows will keep an eye out for a ruckman but they are not desperate to find one, knowing they have both Kurt Tippett and Shaun McKernan who can be used as pinch-hitters behind Jacobs.
On top of Adelaide's wish list for the trade and draft period is to find another key defender - because of the departures of Bock and Phil Davis - and more midfielders.
The Crows have put a contract offer in front of Tony Armstrong, who returned to the side late this season after a rich vein of form in the SANFL, and hope to retain his services.
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