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Re: Trade Rumours 2024
Soldo looking at a trade just one year after joining Port.
Saints keen
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Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.
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Re: Trade Rumours 2024
Originally Posted by
chef
3 key forwards is a luxury no other team bothers with and it doesn't work. Naughton and Darcy would be fine
I'd trade him for Butters in a heart beat.
Naughton is never going back sadly.
Sydney run with McDonald, Amartey and McLean. Geelong used Hawkins (replaced by Neale), Cameron and Henry. Port used Dixon, Marshall (replaced by Ratugolea) and Georgiades. Brisbane had Daniher, Hipwood and Morris.
All prelim finalists had 3 tall forwards as their main structure. The difference between them and us? The presence of elite smalls.
Sydney have Papley (plus Hayward). Geelong have Stengle and Miers. Port have Rioli. Brisbane have Cameron, Rayner (plus Lohmann).
We have Weightman, though he plays more like a medium marking forward than a small crumber. Our other smalls in the qualifying final were McNeil, VDM and Daniel.
3 tall forwards is the default structure of every team in the competition. I genuinely can't think of anyone who doesn't use that set up. What we lack is quality smalls, which also happens to be Carlton's issue (a big part of why they missed finals despite having McKay and Curnow)
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Re: Trade Rumours 2024
Originally Posted by
GVGjr
He's a small forward who relies on marking so I'm not convinced he's a great fit for us.
I thought he was 190cm?
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Re: Trade Rumours 2024
Originally Posted by
kruder
I thought he was 190cm?
I haven't checked but maybe 183cm
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Re: Trade Rumours 2024
Originally Posted by
GVGjr
I haven't checked but maybe 183cm
He looked tall when I checked some highlights but supposedly something like the 183cm you mention
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Re: Trade Rumours 2024
Originally Posted by
kruder
I thought he was 190cm?
I just saw something on Code sports that said he was 190cm so I'm not sure now.
If he is 190cm then he is the same height as Bedendo and only kicked a couple of goals more than he did in the VFL this year.
If we need a marking forward then perhaps we run the ruler over him but I'd prefer someone who is more competitive when the ball hits the ground.
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Re: Trade Rumours 2024
Originally Posted by
GVGjr
I just saw something on Code sports that said he was 190cm so I'm not sure now.
If he is 190cm then he is the same height as Bedendo and only kicked a couple of goals more than he did in the VFL this year.
If we need a marking forward then perhaps we run the ruler over him but I'd prefer someone who is more competitive when the ball hits the ground.
Yeah exactly thats the player that came to mind and it was always hard to see how Bedendo could fit in our forward set up.
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Re: Trade Rumours 2024
My colleague is a mad Tigers fan and she said he was 191cm last week.
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Re: Trade Rumours 2024
I'm guessing I saw this profile of a different Sam Davidson
https://central.rookieme.com/afl/player/sam-davidson/
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Re: Trade Rumours 2024
Derkson (fake name) has requested trade to Demons.