List changes and trade bait

[RogueSwan]

We really need a "silky" skilled mid, one who can hit a target in the clear....

ala Paul Williams?

[Ampersand]

I'll take your word for it Melb, personally I can't face anything to do with footy at the moment except this site as I know we are all hurting together.
Since the debacle I have not opened a newspaper, deleted all the footy shows I had IQ'd before I went to Melbourne and I have not looked at either the Swans or AFL website - I am an ostrich!

Haha me too. As soon as the final siren went the AFL app came right off my phone.

[Doctor J.]

I'd prefer Ben McGlynn to play small forward, I reckon it's his best role. Mitchell can have his midfield spot.

Yep. Benny to be our Ballantyne

[Mel_C]

I'll take your word for it Melb, personally I can't face anything to do with footy at the moment except this site as I know we are all hurting together.
Since the debacle I have not opened a newspaper, deleted all the footy shows I had IQ'd before I went to Melbourne and I have not looked at either the Swans or AFL website - I am an ostrich!

Same here. All programs were deleted after I came home on Saturday. I haven't turned on the radio to SEN. Today was the first day I read the newspaper...just had to avoid the HUGE hawks poster.

Can't bring myself to watch the game either.

[Conor_Dillon]

We really need a "silky" skilled mid, one who can hit a target in the clear.
A Pendlebury style player. I've watched him drag the pies across the line a few times but winning the ball in traffic and getting to the free target. Player like him always amaze me.
Whilst we have some great midfielders, not many of them have that "silky" skill. They are more a bash, crash and kick to any one type.
Maybe young Tom is the answer I'm looking for. Maybe he can be that player.

Higgins?

Reports today that North and one other club are interested...perhaps it's us.

[ernie koala]

cant we let it go. the hawks and the swans have both recruited well.

we had an advantage with the cap. we did. to the extent that it was an advantage it will shortly go.

forwards always command bigger salaries than defenders. its the way of the world in nearly every sport. maybe the hawks have just had a great salary scale for an extended period. who knows ?

I generally agree, but....

The part that most of us here find galling, is that the Swans get singled out as cheating/manipulating the salary cap. With no mention of the players/cap space cleared.

Another example of the double standards.....I hear that Geelong look like getting Clark, and are still in the hunt for Frawley.

They would cost collecively much more than Buddy, but this doesn't, and shouldn't, raise an eyebrow with the commentators.

[ScottH]

I don't think that is necessarily Mitchell, but it might be one or both of heeney or Hewett, if they can do at AFL level what they have shown at NEAFL level.

They are still a few years away though??

[aardvark]

Another example of the double standards.....I hear that Geelong look like getting Clark, and are still in the hunt for Frawley.

Missing the point I know but I hope they pay overs for both. They are both duds in my opinion.

[andy0414]

If you get the chance watch the game again.[B] We won the contested ball but fed it again to a contest. Our spare men were never damaging. They used the ball to the spare man and then fed it to the man playing on Goodes and Parker. Mcglynn would then chase until he blew up and then there was no pressure. The four tall forwards were exploited defensively horribly. Ie it wasn't workrate at least not initially. It was us having talls like Reid Goodes and Tippett who couldn't put any pressure on their exits and them having Puopolo Rioli Breust who did the exact opposite.

Totally agree with this.

[Mountain Man]

Nah, Leroy recruited would ruin he thread about how little the Melbourne media know.

[tasmania60]

Anyone that doesn't want to be there let em go doesn't matter who they are ,there all tainted and de valued . The fans have more heart than some of the players !

[Flying South]

We also need a true crumbing forward to rove our tall forwards! Leroy Jetta worth a go? Would not cost much?

Agree we need a permanent small forward. But I don't think we need to trade one in as we have our own Jetta and I think Cunningham is being wasted as a run with player. Both have speed that can provide defensive pressure. McGlynn has come on in leaps and bounds as midfielder so I would leave him there as he gets more involved.

[dimelb]

We really need a "silky" skilled mid, one who can hit a target in the clear.
A Pendlebury style player. I've watched him drag the pies across the line a few times but winning the ball in traffic and getting to the free target. Player like him always amaze me.
Whilst we have some great midfielders, not many of them have that "silky" skill. They are more a bash, crash and kick to any one type.
Maybe young Tom is the answer I'm looking for. Maybe he can be that player.

I think we have the makings of one in Jake Lloyd.

[Matt80]

This is my latest thinking.

- Trade Hanners to St Kilda for pick one. Draft Petrecca. This saves some salary cap. Petracca is also acknowledged as a very strong and capable half forward

- Trade Craig Bird for an early 2nd round pick. This saves some salary cap and gives Tom Mitchell greater opportunity.

- Only trade Jetta if a good offer from Ross Lyon is revived. We still need his pace.

- Trade Grundy for a 2nd round pick. Saves some more salary cap.

- Recruit James Frawley as a key defender (free agency).The money saved through the trading of Grundy, Bird and Hanners should be enough.

- Recruit Sharrod Wellingham from West Coast for a 3rd round pick. This is a special Buddy project and we back Wellingham to rediscover his Collingwood form.

- Goodes and Shaw retire and Malceski exercises free agency.

This leaves us after the recruitment of Petracca and Heeney in the 1st round with three 2nd round picks.

This is the round one 2015 team.

B Reid Richards Smith
HB Rohan Frawley Rampe
C Jetta Kennedy K.Jack
HF Cunninham Franklin McVeigh
F Membrey Tippett Petracca
Foll Pyke Parker Mitchell

Inter Lloyd Heeney Jones
Sub Towers

[churry]

Well that's extreme... Only thing I can see happening in that is Wellingham.

If frawley goes anywhere other than hawks I think he will get a very good deal, more than he is worth