The more i put myself in the opposition shoes the more id be taking him in the psd.
The bottom line for me is he has played just 9 games in 4 years just 1 in his first three. Apart from one 4 goal game which atm is a bit of an outlier he has not done a whole heap. North are not imo taking him on performance but more on potential that may or may not come to fruition.
The main reason NM are going after him is because he is OOC and they dont have to pay thru the nose to get him.
In our situation if we really want pick 20 and we want some good compensation it will come down to us to offer something up to North for their pick 20 because as sure as all our arses point to the ground CC-J to NM is likely a free agency pick
Reckon we will have to do something like this to get #20.
CC-J 26 44 for Tarrant 20, and 69. Remember the way its going we may not even use pick 44 in the draft.
Finally to finish if they offered pick 38 id take it in a heart beat because it could help us get pick 17 out of the dogs and could even help get Collingwoods 2022 first round pick if we go down that path.
No one in the league is giving up a top 20 pick for CC-J based on what he has done to date. I also think clubs run the risk of him being a bit of both that is reasonable ruck option and reasonable fwd option but not great at either.
Also why go mad at CC-J. The reality is we have played both Riewoldt and Lynch in front of him as a fwd and rightly so. to date he is miles behind both them and the question is can he get close to them?? 4 yrs in i really have my doubts on that question. To date he is not playing in front of either.
He now has Nankervis and a returning Soldo in front of him as a ruckman and to date in this role he is so far far behind the two it aint funny.
Its in this role though that i think he has the best chance of becoming a good player.
This smells a bit like the Houli to us in the psd although Houli had done way more than CCJ.
Also the Shaun Grigg trade where we had the option of him in the psd but ended up trading Andrew Collins as a token gesture.
People are crazy if they think NM in this situation have an obligation to help us out they don't their only priority is to do the best possible thing for themselves.
Leading candidate for dumbest post of the year?
Lol some just cannot handle the truth.
I can just see it now if the roles were reversed you would be screaming we take him in the psd.
The reality is we are not going to get a whole heap for ccj regardless of how low or high people rate him.
Opposition clubs are not in the business of giving opposition clubs a leg up and neither are we.
We will take our medicine and down the track when its our turn to have a win we will grasp the opportunity with both hands its what happens.
They have pick 1, 20, 38, and 69 thats just 4 picks put yourself in their shoes your not trading out of the first three picks and fmd you are hanging onto the first two at all costs they DONT have to do anything to get CC-J THATS THE REALITY but hey you continue to bathe in ga ga land and pretend we have some sort of strong hand in all this. Talk about wishful thinking and not letting the facts get in the way of a good story.
What you need to realise is they have all the aces and have no obligation to help us in anyway.
