Shopping.

[aardvark]

With Mattner, Morton,Bolton and probably Goodes and LRT all retiring its time to look for the next lot of bargains. Colless said earlier this year we still have room in the cap for one more experienced player. With the retirements we are cashed up and ready to splurge.
So the question is,"What do we need and where do we get them?"

[DamY]

BUDDYYYYYYYYY haha

[jetts32]

Goodes and LRT have signed on to the end of next year I'm pretty sure.
I don't know what else we need really, it's pretty hard to choose! We have a great back line, a promising forward line, an outstanding midfield - what do we need?

[aardvark]

A really classy KP defender would be top of my list.

[BillyRayCypress]

A really classy KP defender would be top of my list.

We have him already, Jesse, who can play back or front.

Trade Bighead McVeigh to GWS for a player(s) and or draft picks. Similar to the Schwass/Grant swap we did.

[Cressakel2]

Goodes won't retire for 2-3 years or more. W

e need a defender and another small forward type would be great.

[Triple B]

...and another small forward type would be great.

Milne is apparently available...

[undy]

Goodes and LRT are going nowhere next year.
Listen to Goodes in this interview indicate that he is still enjoying footy so much he doesn't want to contemplate life after it.

[Ruck'n'Roll]

SPEEEEEEEED!!!!!

[Bloodthirsty]

Yeah I think it's a good idea to pick up 2-3 ready-to-go players and add them to our home-grown players, so that they're all in their prime for the next few years. Can you imagine the Melbourne media if we pick up a couple of huge KPP defenders and some blistering outside pace?

Shaw might retire too.

[mcs]

We have him already, Jesse, who can play back or front.

Trade Bighead McVeigh to GWS for a player(s) and or draft picks. Similar to the Schwass/Grant swap we did.

Maybe you weren't being ironic in the other thread!

To me, our needs are:

Key Position defender - LRT/Teddy/Grundy aren't getting younger. Xavier is young but with bucketloads of potential. If it was me, I'd be looking at taking someone in the draft for that position and working him through with X, so that in 2 or 3 years time, we have 2 ready made replacements ready to go.

Midfield - there is stacks of talent in there, but as always you need to look to replenish. My focus would be on finding another guy with good skills and lots of speed, as we have badly been shown up when Jetta has been out and Rohan is still a work in progress (and to me is not necessarily going to be a midfielder going forward - he has a lot of potential up forward as well I feel).

Forward - need a small, crumbing type forward. If we are going to have a bucketload of big guys up front, we need little guys to feed off the crumbs. Mcglynn is not that sort of forward - we need to find someone to bring through that complements the forward line.

In terms of an experienced player to bring in - I'd be looking at the midfield issue, if there was someone available with legspeed and good skills to complement the group. Otherwise, I'd look for a small forward before I'd take another defender.

[royboy42]

We have him already, Jesse, who can play back or front.

Trade Bighead McVeigh to GWS for a player(s) and or draft picks. Similar to the Schwass/Grant swap we did.

I'm taking this as a joke?

[BillyRayCypress]

I'm taking this as a joke?

If you want good players, you need to give up good players. Bighead McVeigh is the one I'd least be upset to see go.

GWS will need senior players for next year and you won't have a better time.

Naturally, Mc Bighead won't be traded but rather him than Mitchell or Parker.

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Milne is apparently available...

He's announced he's being retrialed, I mean retired.

[rojo]

Whoever we go shopping for I think they have got to have speed, skills and a footy brain but that is not enough. They also have to have determination to excel and to take it up to the opposition. It is curious but one headline after Sat. was that the Cats 'bullied' the Swans (whatever that means) and I recall that that same phrase was used after another match recently (can't remember who it was against), that the Swans were 'bullied' by the opposition. It seems that without Goodes and LRT and maybe Shaw out there protecting, some of our players are getting pushed around far too easily. I think that Mummy and Benny have not learned, as have the Geelong players, how to be imposing and hard nosed, within the rules. For such a young player AJ was superb in letting his opponent know that he was not going to be physically pushed around!

[ScottH]

Shops don't open till October 7.