Trade week rumours and innuendo

[Francois Jackson]

welcome to Punt Road Matty De Boar, you will fit in nicely with your pace

you will have a good career in 2015 before we delist you

In all seriousness, Matt De Boer is a very good player. Good small forward who can lead up and has a good defensive side to his game. Could do worse than look at him IMV

yeah na il pass. No more slow spuds who cant kick

[WilliamPowell]

welcome to Punt Road Matty De Boar, you will fit in nicely with your pace

you will have a good career in 2015 before we delist you

In all seriousness, Matt De Boer is a very good player. Good small forward who can lead up and has a good defensive side to his game. Could do worse than look at him IMV

yeah na il pass. No more slow spuds who cant kick

He's a very good kick. Would be an upgrade on a few others we have 

[big tone]

and why aren't we targeting him ?

What is the point of "targeting" someone who clearly doesn't want to come to your club?

Unless of course you want to pay way over what he is worth

He wanted to go to the Cats, no other clubs had a chance no point in targeting

Seems strange that he is meeting other clubs now?????????
Maybe they think they are a chance if they offer him something Geelong cannot.  Weird!!
Strange times these! 

[Darth Tiger]

welcome to Punt Road Matty De Boar, you will fit in nicely with your pace

you will have a good career in 2015 before we delist you

In all seriousness, Matt De Boer is a very good player. Good small forward who can lead up and has a good defensive side to his game. Could do worse than look at him IMV

yeah na il pass. No more slow spuds who cant kick

He's a very good kick. Would be an upgrade on a few others we have 

The Pig !!!

Cannot kick a jam tin, although rumours persist that the preference is for apple sauce.

[WilliamPowell]

and why aren't we targeting him ?

What is the point of "targeting" someone who clearly doesn't want to come to your club?

Unless of course you want to pay way over what he is worth

He wanted to go to the Cats, no other clubs had a chance no point in targeting

Seems strange that he is meeting other clubs now?????????
Maybe they think they are a chance if they offer him something Geelong cannot.  Weird!!
Strange times these! 

Not really

Does it prove the other theory and that is only about the money with him? Would appear so; someone silly enough to offer him the $800k and he'll become a pollie = flip flop

As I said in a previous thread which you've somehow managed to avoid

Only chance other clubs had was to offer him more, a lot more and hope he'd be seduced by the $$$ signs ala Mitch Clarke going to Melb 3 years ago

But wants to go to the Cats and that's where he'll end up

Who cares, he ain't worth $800k a year   

I still reckon he'll end up at Geelong and that he aint worth $800k a year

And I really don't care 

And BTW....

Interestingly it would seem the RFC isn't interested either. Maybe good 'ole Blair doesn't rate him. Because if Blair doesn't rate then we don't chase them 

 

[Phil Mrakov]

WP do you even want anyone to come to Richmond? Always with the "this guy will end up here, that guy there" talk

[WilliamPowell]

WP do you even want anyone to come to Richmond? Always with the "this guy will end up here, that guy there" talk

Plenty I would want but Frawley isn't one of them at the price he is putting on his head to other clubs than Geelong 

I am not an advocate of saying let's get a FA simple becuase there are Free Agents out there.

This year's crop wasn't that inspiring.

But there are plenty of players I would want if they were available, reality is the ones I'd like to see are unlikely to leave there current clubs.

Would love to see the club chase a top liner at the trade table but history tells me the RFC aren't big on that either 

[Rampstar]

Only Tom Mitchell interests me from that list. Would be a great help to Miles who will have a lot of work put into him next season by opposition clubs. If Mitchell would accept say 250k-300k a season I think he would be a good get.

[tony_montana]

Mitchells on 4-450k per season already - no way he'd drop that low,

Word is he's pretty much set on carlton - but yeah I'd love to get him, think thats the type of player we should be going after, why pay higgibs 350-400k when you can get mitchell for 4-450k?

[WilliamPowell]

Only Tom Mitchell interests me from that list. Would be a great help to Miles who will have a lot of work put into him next season by opposition clubs. If Mitchell would accept say 250k-300k a season I think he would be a good get.

Yeah but Mitchell isn't a free agent. You'd need to do a trade and I can't see us giving what would be needed yo get him

[dwaino]

Isn't Mitchell contracted until 2016?  I know he's up for leaving for game time but you would have to take over his current contract (unless he accepted less but I doubt it would be by much) and satisfy Sydney with a pretty decent trade.

[Dice]

I think we should look at Lowden.  Been in the Hawthorn system for a while and would be an upgrade on Hampson and Stephenson.
Tom Mitchell would be a good get.
As for the rest ?
Leuenberger can play but he's always injured.
Liam Anthony is just a player
Butcher is exactly that.
De Boer has less ticker than Grigg and Houli combined. Absolute pea heart.
Frawley is massively overrated.
Lamumba and Mitch Clark are head cases
Ryder ? Everyone's saying Port or Brisbane but my mail is Sydney or GWS. Will laugh if Sydney gets him.

[Chuck17]

I think we should look at Lowden.  Been in the Hawthorn system for a while and would be an upgrade on Hampson and Stephenson.

Can you pump him up any better than that?

[tiga]

I think we should look at Lowden.  Been in the Hawthorn system for a while and would be an upgrade on Hampson and Stephenson.
Tom Mitchell would be a good get.
As for the rest ?
Leuenberger can play but he's always injured.
Liam Anthony is just a player
Butcher is exactly that.
De Boer has less ticker than Grigg and Houli combined. Absolute pea heart.
Frawley is massively overrated.
Lamumba and Mitch Clark are head cases
Ryder ? Everyone's saying Port or Brisbane but my mail is Sydney or GWS. Will laugh if Sydney gets him.

Dice I can't see Ryder going to GWS. They have a stack of forward and ruck options. If he did go there then lets see if they would be willing to offload either Giles, Downie or Lobb for Batchelor. Even Phillips would be an upgrade on Hampson. I say we need to focus on GWS as there are a ton of quality players not getting a crack in such a top heavy side.
Apart from Frost who is a regular in the 1sts, Here is a list of players sitting in their Magoo's that I would be interested in
Sumner
Giles
Hampton
Lamb
O'Rourke
Phillips
Lobb
James Stewart
Downie

[one-eyed]

Apparently, Brisbane are offering Paddy Ryder $2.5 over 4 years. Port, GWS and Sydney are the only other clubs interested in Ryder.