Claw I just wonder what you think of this:-
We trade in Koschitzke for maybe Ralphsmith.
We trade out Soldo and Graham for Marshall and Lord.
I think Ralphsmith would add a bit of midfield pace that the Hawks seem to lack atm.
While Soldo is probably worth less than Marshall, I would say Graham is more valuable than Lord.
While Soldo is 27, he was a late starter and is only in his 5th year of seniors with a premiership in 2019. I actually think Soldo is a better ruck than Nank judging on this year but we cant trade out our captain and Ivan and Port seem interested in each other.
While Graham is 25, he has two premierships (2017, 20) and was 2nd in our 2021 B&F. This year was very poor from Jack but going back to SA might well ignite him to get fitter. I think he would, at his best, add a bit of hardness to Port's midfield replacing Boak.
The whole point of trades is to give up what you have in abundance to get what you lack.
We have probably too many rucks and small mids but we lack tall forwards.
Win - win for both clubs I think.
The main problem with this is I doubt Port would trade out TWO key forwards.
Doubt port would do that for soldo and Graham.
Dixon is cooked and all they have left is georgiades
Hmm Port do it different to us when it comes to talls most clubs do.
Their future set up would be Marshall, Lord and Georgiades.
They will not be trading any of them unless one of them wants out and why would they. Dixon is getting on and all three are better options than Finlayson imo.
So they have Dixon who may have another season or two in him, Finlayson who was a stop gap imo while the first three develop and last they have a kid i like in Scully also developing. All are genuine forwards.
Maybe we need to take a leaf out of their book and just draft more genuine tall forwards as its going to take awhile before we really challenge again.
