Booney wrote:daysofourlives wrote:Grahaml wrote:Spargo wrote:List not improved one bit, lost Lyons...
You know that trading isn't the only way clubs improve, right? Trades can be great, but you don't just go around sending blokes and picks to clubs just to satisfy those who want to see action. If Adelaide wasn't able to get any players at a price that made us a winner in that trade, then so be it. Sometimes the best decision a list manager can make is to say no.
You dont always have to be the winner in a trade, we clearly lost in the Mitchell, Lewis trades and thats why the Hawks get things done and will continue to do so. You become easy to trade with you get good deals like the exchange of draft picks with Carlton late. Trading pick 48, 66 and 70 this year for next years 2nd rounder, likely to be about pick 19-23 is an unbelievable trade and even more so that Carlton would have known it was going to get the O'Meara trade done for us. No doubt we probably have a handshake agreement to look after them in the future but would they have trusted any other club to do a similar deal?
Too many clubs are worried about getting one over the other club.
In the end how much of a goose does Cochrane look now, leave it to the list managers. He was never going to the draft, whats better than 3 top 10 picks? Give me 4 top 10 picks anyday. Gold Coast might have missed the boat 1st time round with their list but they wont this time, should be a real contender when these 4 top picks become a graders within 3 years to go with their current spine which is up there with the best in the comp
I think you lost in the trade period, full stop. Vickery is the laughing stock of the KPP world, you know it, but Hawks fans are telling me you'll make him a player. You're not ******* magicians, by the way. O'Meara is the biggest gamble any club has taken this trade period, period. His knees are well and truly under a question mark and you've lost Lewis because of that roll of the dice. The only "win" I see is Mitchell for Mitchell. Tom type is a very good player and one who will be so for many years.
But, with the likes of Hodge, Burgoyne, Gibson, Birchall, Frawley, McEvoy all with their best football behind them to go into this draft with 88 and 1,307 as your only picks is very interesting. A heap of the kids on the list have seen very little senior football in the last 3 years and they won't all stroll into the "one soldier down one soldier" in philosophy of the angry little man in charge.
Interesting times for Hawthorn and Geelong, I reckon.
Yeah its a gamble bringing in OMeara for Lewis but one that could pay huge dividends. Vickery cost nothing in terms of a trade and I think he will play his role, at Richmond he was expected to kick 5 take 10 contested marks and find time to go in the ruck and hit it down Cotchins throat 15 times a game. With Hodge, Burgoyne and Gibson finishing up next year should coincide nicely with Fyfe coming into free agency. Reckon we are to prove you dont need any decent draft picks to be successul
