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But nevertheless, you have just reminded me to go and watch Garry Lyon squirm for the next hour while he is given the blowtorch due to his role in appointing Neeld
doggerel wrote:yeah, not sure it is very likey mate.
But nevertheless, you have just reminded me to go and watch Garry Lyon squirm for the next hour while he is given the blowtorch due to his role in appointing Neeld
the "on the couch mob"...healy i think said that watts won't be at melbourne next year and that frawley had been looking for an out for a couple of years...is it all bullsh!t..????..who knows???...not i....
.everybody still loves lenny....and we always will
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doggerel wrote:yeah, not sure it is very likey mate.
But nevertheless, you have just reminded me to go and watch Garry Lyon squirm for the next hour while he is given the blowtorch due to his role in appointing Neeld
the "on the couch mob"...healy i think said that watts won't be at melbourne next year and that frawley had been looking for an out for a couple of years...is it all bullsh!t..????..who knows???...not i....
Frawley is possibly too old, and its probably telling that we didn't chase him with any sort of conviction in the trade period even though we desperately needed a backman.
But Watts is still a kid with a huge upside. I mean, he was touted to be the next Roo... The recruiters can get it wrong, but they rarely get it this wrong.
Think Watts will be seen as a very good footballer by seasons end! Melbourne are not as bad as we saw Saturday night and Watts will be one of the guys to prove that!
Just a feeling!
rexy wrote:Think Watts will be seen as a very good footballer by seasons end! Melbourne are not as bad as we saw Saturday night and Watts will be one of the guys to prove that!
Just a feeling!
Hope not I love a bargain.
Id get him for sure.
fits the profile and with a decent side around him and some wise older heads lead by Hayes he'd love it.
Hecould play alongside Roo Stanley down back.......load up on mids.....off we go.
rexy wrote:Think Watts will be seen as a very good footballer by seasons end! Melbourne are not as bad as we saw Saturday night and Watts will be one of the guys to prove that!
Just a feeling!
Hope not I love a bargain.
Id get him for sure.
fits the profile and with a decent side around him and some wise older heads lead by Hayes he'd love it.
Hecould play alongside Roo Stanley down back.......load up on mids.....off we go.
bigred wrote:If it looks like a cabbage and smells like a cabbage....
Can do a lot with a cabbage....stews, stir fry, chow miens.....very versatile the old cabbage......now a bargain basement cabbage......that's even more useful....
Besides, GT told us this kid had Jnr Riewoldt written all over him..
Is it right that the Dees have the worst training facilities in the afl?
And another point, they were beaten by a team whose players had 40 to 50 shots of something last year.
Maybe there is some hidden class there!
FQF wrote:
Frawley is possibly too old, and its probably telling that we didn't chase him with any sort of conviction in the trade period even though we desperately needed a backman.
Frawley is 25 in September.. Perfect age to recruit a solid full back for the right price I'd say.
Im pretty sure Frawley was under contract last year during the trade period and was regarded as an 'untouchable player' by melbourne so there was no way of getting him..
doggerel wrote:yeah, not sure it is very likey mate.
But nevertheless, you have just reminded me to go and watch Garry Lyon squirm for the next hour while he is given the blowtorch due to his role in appointing Neeld
the "on the couch mob"...healy i think said that watts won't be at melbourne next year and that frawley had been looking for an out for a couple of years...is it all bullsh!t..????..who knows???...not i....
Frawley is possibly too old, and its probably telling that we didn't chase him with any sort of conviction in the trade period even though we desperately needed a backman.
But Watts is still a kid with a huge upside. I mean, he was touted to be the next Roo... The recruiters can get it wrong, but they rarely get it this wrong.
Frawley too old?? The guy is 24......he wold be perfect for us. I know my track record on big calls isnt great but i KNOW the Saints talked to him last year and I think that if he wasnt contracyed for 2013 h would have come over. Frawley and Brown would be two great pickups for us at seasons end IMO!
resaintlee wrote:Is it right that the Dees have the worst training facilities in the afl?
And another point, they were beaten by a team whose players had 40 to 50 shots of something last year.
Maybe there is some hidden class there!
Slightly off Watts topic but....
Good point about their opposition! There's all this fallout now in the papers and talk of AFL intervention after the Bumers flogging but no mention of these b@$td$ who cheated the system to get themselves where they are currently in the physical development sense!
the "on the couch mob"...healy i think said that watts won't be at melbourne next year and that frawley had been looking for an out for a couple of years...is it all bullsh!t..????..who knows???...not i....
Frawley is possibly too old, and its probably telling that we didn't chase him with any sort of conviction in the trade period even though we desperately needed a backman.
But Watts is still a kid with a huge upside. I mean, he was touted to be the next Roo... The recruiters can get it wrong, but they rarely get it this wrong.
Frawley too old?? The guy is 24......he wold be perfect for us. I know my track record on big calls isnt great but i KNOW the Saints talked to him last year and I think that if he wasnt contracyed for 2013 h would have come over. Frawley and Brown would be two great pickups for us at seasons end IMO!
How do you know we talked to him? SS or BF? We may have talked to 200 players anyway so it means jack. You should also know he is under contract till the end of 2014. Forget him because he will cost a fortune to break a contract.
Now on Jack. he is certainly worth the punt but a lot of clubs would be thinking that so why would Jack pick us unless we paid well over the odds. Still may be worth it though. Lets see how big his heart is in the coming few months.
And dont get me started on Brown. What has the guy ever done?
These are the sorts of risks that can accelerate a climb up the ladder quickly.
Riewoldt near the end... A 195cm talent to bring in.... He haven't delivered...
Fraser Gehrig was also a whipping boy at WCE we got him for a SRP (18) if we could get a similar deal (pick 22) I'd definitely do it.
Their still needs to be another trade or two for quality and or position
Brown (zero), Frawley (big trade) and
Out
Gilbert, Milera trade
And a heap of others
Agree we can be bold and accelerate our climb - but let's not lose first round picks
Cats/Pies have kept a stream of talent trickling through we need to do same, but 195cm key forwards don't grow on trees so yeah Watts worth a look. If you add him, Frawley and possibly a Brown IMO midfield is all that's left to hammer.... got to be bold though so start talking with these guys ASAP
Get a bit of Ross Lyon cunning about us.... U bet he's watching Frawley/Brown too
On the topic of taking risks in regards to recruiting like we did with Gehrig, Hammil, Lawrence and Co. I wonder how we'd look adding two avail midfield free agents - Thomas and Sylvia....Then make a couple of trades like Brown/Frawley and Watts...? Suddenly we've added 5 players in the 21-26 y/o age bracket....Some quality.....Along with some risks.
Melbourne made a mistake getting rid of to many experience players in a short time under Bailey. Players like Watts were thrown in the deep end with know experience to guide them.
If he w could get him at a reasonable price them that could be really good for is and him, and I think we will be very active in this years trade period.