Trade Rumours 2024

[bornadog]

Soldo looking at a trade just one year after joining Port.

Saints keen

[Virgin-Dog]

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)

[kruder]

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?

[GVGjr]

I thought he was 190cm?

I haven't checked but maybe 183cm

[hujsh]

I haven't checked but maybe 183cm

He looked tall when I checked some highlights but supposedly something like the 183cm you mention

[GVGjr]

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.

[kruder]

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.

[Rocco Jones]

My colleague is a mad Tigers fan and she said he was 191cm last week.

[hujsh]

I'm guessing I saw this profile of a different Sam Davidson

https://central.rookieme.com/afl/player/sam-davidson/

[Grantysghost]

Derkson (fake name) has requested trade to Demons.

[Uninformed]

The three talls in the forward line has absolutely worked and is not a problem.

We were the second highest scoring team and the three pronged attack kicked 116 goals between them.

I can't see the issue.

With Darcy and JUH on the improve and Naughton playing more of a CHF role up the ground abit, they are going to be even more dangerous in the future

Agree. But would we be an even better team swapping JUH for Gulden or Butters?

[bornadog]

Agree. But would we be a better team swapping JUH for Gulden or Butters?

Just add Butters anyhow