Now the dust has settled after trade week poll

[feisty tige]

I have selected so so.

I hope that the rookie draft will be heavily used to blood any possible rucks.

I hope we draft a taller young player in the PSD.

We will find out soon who will be delisted, Adelaide has made the chop already surely we wont be too far behind?

I will be renewing my membership for next year as soon as I get my stuff in the mail.

 

[ssstone]

morton for 35 im happy with but pick 19 for jordy and 1 mill 4 3 years? ullhair my worry is our ruck if simmo goes down again we are rooted.i know king is getting on but he would of been a handy back up.flanked if i know what messers wallace and co are thinking

 

[GEDS1]

Quite happy. 2006 for McMahon was a good year like most WB players. He is really quick and can't wait to see him and King zipping around the backline.

What could we have got for pick 19 who knows ? Maybe another Shultz, Meyer, Meeson or name another name from a club picked in the top 20 that hasn't made it there are plenty. At least with McMahon we know he can play and be rest assured he will play and we will enjoy him.

Morton was seen as a forward at West Coke and I would prefer him over Priddis as Priddis is actually slow. Get some miles into his legs and he will be very good and people will look back and say sh!t how did they get him for #35.

Word on the street today is Cotchin is coming which surprised me because my info was C Morton.

 

[checkside]

1 mil for 3 years isnt that much really. Most players are on about 300,000 arent they?

 

[IrockZ]

Quite happy. 2006 for McMahon was a good year like most WB players. He is really quick and can't wait to see him and King zipping around the backline.

What could we have got for pick 19 who knows ? Maybe another Shultz, Meyer, Meeson or name another name from a club picked in the top 20 that hasn't made it there are plenty. At least with McMahon we know he can play and be rest assured he will play and we will enjoy him.

Morton was seen as a forward at West Coke and I would prefer him over Priddis as Priddis is actually slow. Get some miles into his legs and he will be very good and people will look back and say sh!t how did they get him for #35.

Word on the street today is Cotchin is coming which surprised me because my info was C Morton.

lol at preferring morton over priddis

yep one bloke was single handedly carrying the eagles midfield in the final against the pies picking up close to 40 possesions while the other couldnt get a touch in the wafl grand final

whatever dude

 

[jb03]

"What were they thinking" for me. Patsy's all powerful post convinced me. McMahon's deal is laughable if it were not us taking him, and agree totally with Patsy's ruck assessment.

OK with the punt on Morton for 35 though, at least we don't know the he can't play.

I'm also assuming we have someone stashed for the PSD else we wouldn't have traded for both McMahon and Morton, surely?

 

[GEDS1]

IrockZ time will tell a story my friend - catch up with you in four years on this one.

 

[Tambling Man]

Not an unmitigated disaster.

We kept two top twenty picks. I am pretty happy with Morton. Although I am stunned by the McMahon decision, I reckon we paid overs for a type we don't need.

I think we have improved our list and Morton is likely to be a better player than anything available at pick 35.

To be honest I am glad TW's fetish for skillful flankers has only cost us 1 top 20 draft pick. He could have done a lot worse.

 

[Tygrys]

Morton as a speculative bid at 35 in a weak draft is bearable (so long as it isn't part of a deal with WC that compromises who we select with pick 2 - if so it's a disgrace). McMahon for 19 is a joke for the all the reasons outlined by so many others. But I think we all knew even before the trade period began with Wallet and Miller running the show that there was no way that all of our top 20 picks would remain intact. And of course we got no extra picks - again because they don't value the draft and also because we weren't prepared to offer anything other than unmitigated duds (they still seem to overrate the playing list and even a wooden spoon hasn't changed that fact). Again more proof (if any more was needed) that the Wallace era is proving every bit a disaster as the Frawley one that preceded it.

 

[BrisTiger24]

Check out Morton's highlight package from round 22 on the AFL site....he kicked 5 goals (4 in the second quarter I think)...and looked like he really read the ball well...pooed all over LOvett-Murray.

 

[Rockster]

this is what i cant understand , all of you have said we should have done this and got that , but reality is we have nothing that we can afford to give up and indeed that others would want, to get us that extra top 10 or 20 pick , miller and walletts cant pull miracles from nothing , but many of you seem to think you can , so just stop blowing hot air , and apply for jobs at the recruiting dept .

 

[AstuteTiger]

Morton was seen as a forward at West Coke and I would prefer him over Priddis as Priddis is actually slow. Get some miles into his legs and he will be very good and people will look back and say sh!t how did they get him for #35.

lol at preferring morton over priddis

yep one bloke was single handedly carrying the eagles midfield in the final against the pies picking up close to 40 possesions while the other couldnt get a touch in the wafl grand final

whatever dude

so im guessing priddis 2 yrs ago as a 20 yr old was burning up the midfield...I think not! give the young guys time to improve, look at alwyn davey was nowhere to be seen 2 yrs ago.

Morton looks good and as kevin sheehan said was expected to go in the 1st round had he not gone father/son in 2004....

He has improved priddis good on him, a tad slow but wins his own ball.

 

[Robbo1]

Selected So-So. would have loved a big bodied player but not that easy to get. Would have upgraded to "Happy" with a trade of Schulz to Power for pick 28, on-traded to Doggies for McMahon, which was an option. this would have retained picks 2, 18 & 19, but we paid too much for McMahon.
Just make sure we dont upgrade Cam Howat from rookie list - he is exactly the same player as Jordy.

Still get my membership next year as always.

 

[johnson2richo2003]

Matthews was not a big rap of Wood - heart the size of a pea (apparently).

Good that you picked that up Phar.I know there was one occasion[That i seen but kept it to myself and thought it might have been a one off]where Wood went for the mark but knew someone was coming.He took the mark but his didnt watch the ball[Expecting to get hit.In other words *smile* himself].Might have been a one off because of his age but it certainly didnt look good.

 

[Col.E.Kurtz]

That is true, but he is a far more promising prospect that some than the ruck you are talking about.

Moran was listed in the best in 8 of 14 VFL games this year and the only games he's played in the AFL were pretty good including one game of 22 touches and 11 hitouts. He was blocked by two very good young ruckmen at North and was looking for more opportunity. At 21 years old, 200cm and 104kg I'd call that quite promising and doubly so for a team with ruck options like Richmond's.

Look I know, I really wanted Moran too, but both the kids we got still have more potential than Moran. A lot of other clubs passed on Moran too, but I am going to be very disappointed if he turns out to be a player.

 

[Yellow n Black!]

My membership will not be renewed in 2008.

Our list management is a joke and Wallace and Miller are not up to standard.

Bye Bye!!


Cya back on board when we start playing finals...

Typical *smile*ing front runner!

 

[U2Tigers]

My membership will not be renewed in 2008.

Our list management is a joke and Wallace and Miller are not up to standard.

Bye Bye!!


Cya back on board when we start playing finals...

Typical *smile*ing front runner!

front runner is such a stupid term in this instance.

Remember the last 27 years at all.

we're more aptly back runners then.

 

[brigadiertiger]

Morton maybe he can do well admittedly would have been hard to go past the Eagles midfield and if he was able to break in we wouldn't have got him. Hopefully a change of scenery and he can step up. Some more time in the gym as well. Came out about even on this trade as of right now.

McMahon for 19 I bet the Bulldogs couldn't sign that deal off quick enough would have been hard for them to keep a straight face whilst doing. Big losers in that deal. Not like we really need another skinny kid. His skills are so-so disgusting though he was not the best skilled player at the Bulldogs yet will be one of our most skilled players.

Couldn't get anything else done now need to hope Schulz has a better year so his trade value next season goes up.

Overall with one even and one loss would have to say we did not come out in front or even.

 

[IrockZ]

so im guessing priddis 2 yrs ago as a 20 yr old was burning up the midfield...I think not! give the young guys time to improve, look at alwyn davey was nowhere to be seen 2 yrs ago.

Morton looks good and as kevin sheehan said was expected to go in the 1st round had he not gone father/son in 2004....

He has improved priddis good on him, a tad slow but wins his own ball.

priddis was winning sandover's at 20 so yeh i think he is a bit ahead of morton at the same age

 

[WesternTiger]

Think at the end of the day if we could not have addressed our ruck, KPP or inside mid requirments during trade week I would have been a lot happier if we had done nothing and we had just kept picks 19 and 35.