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Re: Tom Lynch [merged]
« Reply #2415 on: September 14, 2024, 03:28:06 PM »
Lynchy turns 32 next month.
I have long been in the keep him camp. I still am. My concern is the injuries and i ask myself how many more years will we have him for? and is he just one injury away from the end.

If the answer is one year to q1 and one injury is the answer to q2 then you have to at least ask is it worth our while looking at a  trade if he was up for it. Only if he wanted it. A circumstance of say he is going to a club that will give him a shot at a flag one last hurrah if you like.

Keep Lynch as we need the structure he brings ( it has been sadly missed )

We also need to get him to 100 games. (11 more)

Sadly that structure he brings may only be for one year.

With his age and injuries we do need to find and get games into  two quality key forwards.

Might mean we are a bit tall fwd but it needs to be done imo.



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Re: Tom Lynch [merged]
« Reply #2416 on: September 14, 2024, 05:58:04 PM »
Lynchy turns 32 next month.
I have long been in the keep him camp. I still am. My concern is the injuries and i ask myself how many more years will we have him for? and is he just one injury away from the end.

If the answer is one year to q1 and one injury is the answer to q2 then you have to at least ask is it worth our while looking at a  trade if he was up for it. Only if he wanted it. A circumstance of say he is going to a club that will give him a shot at a flag one last hurrah if you like.

Keep Lynch as we need the structure he brings ( it has been sadly missed )

We also need to get him to 100 games. (11 more)

Sadly that structure he brings may only be for one year.

With his age and injuries we do need to find and get games into  two quality key forwards.

Might mean we are a bit tall fwd but it needs to be done imo.
If Cumberland Bauer and Fawcett were any good they would be a compelling front structure…..

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Re: Tom Lynch [merged]
« Reply #2417 on: September 15, 2024, 06:52:03 PM »
I've had the idea in my head for a while that a new forward structure may be useful.

In contrast to the usual forward line of only one or two key forwards we could, with our current list, put out a forward line that has two bigs across half-forward - say Fawcett, Armstrong and Bauer, Lefau and one small like Mansell, Clarke or Campbell. Then a full forward line with one big - currently Lynch but later a draft pick like Whitlock and two smalls like Coulthard, Rioli, Green and O'Sullivan.

What would be different is the half forward line plays with the bigs on the outside funneling to the corridor and goals.
The smalls go anywhere including into midfield on turnovers with the hope they can stretch slower backs with endurance and speed.

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Re: Tom Lynch [merged]
« Reply #2418 on: September 17, 2024, 03:39:37 PM »
Lynchy turns 32 next month.
I have long been in the keep him camp. I still am. My concern is the injuries and i ask myself how many more years will we have him for? and is he just one injury away from the end.

If the answer is one year to q1 and one injury is the answer to q2 then you have to at least ask is it worth our while looking at a  trade if he was up for it. Only if he wanted it. A circumstance of say he is going to a club that will give him a shot at a flag one last hurrah if you like.

Keep Lynch as we need the structure he brings ( it has been sadly missed )

We also need to get him to 100 games. (11 more)

Sadly that structure he brings may only be for one year.

With his age and injuries we do need to find and get games into  two quality key forwards.

Might mean we are a bit tall fwd but it needs to be done imo.
If Cumberland Bauer and Fawcett were any good they would be a compelling front structure…..

IF IF IF. If this and if that freakin ifs everywhere.
We might not be so iffy if we actually took some talls earlier in the nd.

What are the odds of a pick after pick 40, or rookie psd or msd drafts.
We could have 8 kpfs on the list taken there and only find if we get lucky two okay types.

Cumberland is 24 and has not done anywhere near enough be retained.

Bauer well he shows some good attributes but like so many draftees we have drafted he hardly touches the ball. It seems that is also the case when in the vfl.

Fawcett who the hell knows what was he pick 43 or something been injured but how many picks in the 40"s make it.

Our list of key/Tall  forwards lets not put our head in the sand about where we have taken them.

Lynch   32 pick 11
Lefau   26 ssp rookie
Kossie  24 pick  52
Ryan    24  pick 40 ruck/fwd
Bauer   22 msd rookie.
Gray    21  msd rookie
Fawcett  19 pick 43

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Re: Tom Lynch [merged]
« Reply #2419 on: September 17, 2024, 05:11:07 PM »
Lynchy turns 32 next month.
I have long been in the keep him camp. I still am. My concern is the injuries and i ask myself how many more years will we have him for? and is he just one injury away from the end.

If the answer is one year to q1 and one injury is the answer to q2 then you have to at least ask is it worth our while looking at a  trade if he was up for it. Only if he wanted it. A circumstance of say he is going to a club that will give him a shot at a flag one last hurrah if you like.

Keep Lynch as we need the structure he brings ( it has been sadly missed )

We also need to get him to 100 games. (11 more)

Sadly that structure he brings may only be for one year.

With his age and injuries we do need to find and get games into  two quality key forwards.

Might mean we are a bit tall fwd but it needs to be done imo.
If Cumberland Bauer and Fawcett were any good they would be a compelling front structure…..

IF IF IF. If this and if that freakin ifs everywhere.
We might not be so iffy if we actually took some talls earlier in the nd.

What are the odds of a pick after pick 40, or rookie psd or msd drafts.
We could have 8 kpfs on the list taken there and only find if we get lucky two okay types.

Cumberland is 24 and has not done anywhere near enough be retained.

Bauer well he shows some good attributes but like so many draftees we have drafted he hardly touches the ball. It seems that is also the case when in the vfl.

Fawcett who the hell knows what was he pick 43 or something been injured but how many picks in the 40"s make it.

Our list of key/Tall  forwards lets not put our head in the sand about where we have taken them.

Lynch   32 pick 11
Lefau   26 ssp rookie
Kossie  24 pick  52
Ryan    24  pick 40 ruck/fwd
Bauer   22 msd rookie.
Gray    21  msd rookie
Fawcett  19 pick 43
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Re: Tom Lynch [merged]
« Reply #2420 on: September 17, 2024, 06:07:49 PM »
The glass is half full if it you just poured it and half empty if you just drank it... :shh
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Re: Tom Lynch [merged]
« Reply #2421 on: September 17, 2024, 08:08:30 PM »
The glass is half full if it you just poured it and half empty if you just drank it... :shh
😂😂

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Re: Tom Lynch [merged]
« Reply #2422 on: September 17, 2024, 08:59:34 PM »
The glass is half full if it you just poured it and half empty if you just drank it... :shh
😂😂

Or you were a miserable burger & didn't fill the glass. :snidegrin