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

[Mofra]

We are in an interesting dilemma.

Does 3 KPFs work? In the EF vs a running machine, we clearly second guessed it because the 3 talls were rarely on the ground at the same time.

Bevo talks about trends of the game, well, 3 big forwards ain't it.

I think we need to persist and see if it can be our POD. They are 3 supremely talented players, all match winners in their own right. We need to build around them and find accommodating pieces. It wasn't exactly their fault we had sub 30 F50 entries deep into the EF.

Having said that, when Croft is in the wings (though I don't get why we wouldn't position him as a CHB) and a few F/S's may yet be coming, we would be foolish not to have ongoing discussions around list balance.

Any way you dice it, trading it Marra now would be idiotic.

We play 2 KPFs and a forward/ruck, and Naughton plays very high up the ground.
Plenty of teams play a similar set-up.

For all the talk of our forwards, it was our midfield that was smashed in the Elimination final. And in 3 Adelaide Oval games.

[Mofra]

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

Stevie J was 190cm wasn't he?
"Small" forwards can get pretty tall, and if we can upgrade our pressure HFs I say we go for it.

[chef]

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)

I guess I see Weightman more as a marking target, him plus 3 KPFs isn't a great mix imo. We seemed to be squeezing one on the bench most games so maybe we'll just have to keep rotating them.