On one hand you tell us that the deeper you go into the draft, the harder it becomes to get quality, which is pretty obvious really, and that ii trading you have to give up quality to get quality, which again is correct.
Then, you turn around and say you want to get rid of 10 of the list ( aprox 1/4).
so how do you envisage replacing 10 blokes with upgrades in one hit?, considering these two points of yours?
surely you cant be expecting us to get 5 or 6 free agents?
oh dear wasnt i arguing that we need to use 3rd round picks. amazing how you can take one comment and place it out of context.yes the very obvious comment was made that it gets harder to find good players the later the draft but the 3rd round was worth staying in. i think i said it was fraught with danger to forgo 3rd rnd picks as some wee espousing.
geez it seems im going to have to keep things real simple when commening around here.
we use 4 nd picks 11, 28, 46, 64,id like us to trade into an earlier one if possible a pick from 20 to 30 would be ideal. we will use three nd picks no matter what.
the nd is obviously all about developing players and looking to the long term.
every club will use possibly 4 nd picks or take a minimum 4 juniors one way or another. it aint hard to see or figure.
to use those 4 nd picks we will do what is obvious delist/trade/retire the following
tuck - retired
nahas - hack
derickx - has to be gone.
mcguane - another long term hack. what do we lose if we are honest absolutely nothing.
then once again do what we have done in the past target a f/a plus try to do a trade. and ffs this time around look at some of the very good state league players running around. easy enough to find two decent players this way.
so thats two more from the list proper take your pick theres an awful lot who to date have done nothing or are very limited
king,white griffiths, dea helbig batchelor edwards ohanlon must all be very much under pressure to keep their spots.
thats 6 how hard would it be to cut rookies like
petterd - bloody hell what a hack.
verrier - cant kick,
sam lonergan - is clearly not up to afl standard with pace skills and decion making hes another hack.
stephenson - if we get a decent back up onto the list.
mate dont kid yourself all up we could easily cut 8 or 10 players and not blink.
ask yourself apart from the odd game what real contribution did any of the players mentioned above make to our season. simply put we have to be better than them
