sssh - don’t tell anyone but if we are helping GWS salary dump, then what has been stated - 3 first rounder, 12, 19 (I know technically a 2nd) and F1 and 30 is way to high.
In the same articles, they are saying Grundy is a late first rounder or 2nd at best, but not both - what did the pies get for Treloar, stuff all as it was another salary dump trade.
Cameron was one of GWS best players and is a premier forward in the game. hopper and Taranto are nit in the GWS best player bracket (Kelly, Greene, Cogs etc). They are very good players but not at that top end talent. Prestia in his prime is a much better player than these 2.
hang tough tigers - we are paying enough in their salary, let’s not over pay in the trade as well.
As I understand GWS have to trade them - they just come out and blurted the fact like the suns and pies have done in the past.
Too many of our supporters are underselling how good Taranto is, and Hopper for that matter. Taranto a pick 2 and Hopper a pick 7.
Taranto won their B&F in 2019 "GWS GF year", and Hopper made AA in 2021 "top 40".
Put them into our environment, also playing in front of big crowds watch them excel even further.
Both these players are beasts around the contest, add them with Prestia as starting midfield and watch us climb back into the top 4 next year!
If we had these two top 10 players and they were bout to leave, we would want to be duly compensated. I hope we can do the deal with this year's first-rounder and next year's first-rounder and add in a player, i.e Soldo or Collier Dawkins. But something tells me they will want more. Over to you Blair.
Pick 19 is so valuable, start of the second round, we could potentially trade pick19 for two late 20 picks on the night.