I must be the only one who thinks trading Astbury for pick 21 in this weak draft or just to get that pick to pass it on for Yarran is way too cheap. I'm also not a fan of trading a tall for a small if he is part of the Yarran trade. Relying on an unproven Elton as a back-up key defender is a major concern too.
Astbury's problem has been he's twice suffered season-ending injuries. Prior to each of those two injuries, he was in good form in our backline. When were struggling in the first half of 2014, he would've been one of the few Tigers playing well.
Agree.
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I dont understand why people want to trade these big guys that take years to really come good. People complain about Chaplin but we really only have Astbury and Elton as our back up tall backs, we need one of these guys to stand up and take his place, not get rid of them.
You also need to be able to judge weather players will be good enough and will stand up inside a reasonable time frame. Astbury is yet to get anywhere near Chaplins standard except on the odd occasion and most people want to see the back of Chaplin.
Surely 6 years is long enough to make a sound call either way the club obviously thinks Astbury will stand up, they have far too often got this wrong though for any sane person to have confidence in their decision making.
Personally i think pick 21 is more than fair for Astbury based on his six year history and what he has done to date. Obviously we would then use pick 21 to facilitate the Yarran trade. It seems to me it would be a reasonable outcome for all clubs involved.
The only trouble is we obviously have not looked at tall players in this off season which is damning and shows list management is still not working well, It may mean if we traded Astbury it would only leave Elton in the wings and i dont think we can go into a season with only three kpds on the list.
Imo they have backed themselves into a corner where they have made it very hard to do a trade involving any of our talls.Ah richmond and list management eh.
