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Re: Sam Power, List Boss - From Start to Now
Now it might be that we are covertly progressing our way to a major trade, to cover or known deficiencies.... but nothing I can see on any major trade news sites would indicate that this is the case.
What do you think, are we flying below the radar, or are we just not in the hunt ?
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Re: Sam Power, List Boss - From Start to Now
Originally Posted by
Jeanette54
Now it might be that we are covertly progressing our way to a major trade, to cover or known deficiencies.... but nothing I can see on any major trade news sites would indicate that this is the case.
What do you think, are we flying below the radar, or are we just not in the hunt ?
I think Sam is not one to let any journos know what we are up to.
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Re: Sam Power, List Boss - From Start to Now
Sam said on the Road to the Draft podcast earlier this year that initially the focus was on drafting and now it’s flipped to trading owing to where the list is. I hope he follows through trading for list improvement in the last days of the trade period. Starting with the easy stuff like TOB and building up to more meaningful trades to improve the list.
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Re: Sam Power, List Boss - From Start to Now
Sam is a tough nut to crack - good on him. The other list managers must hate dealing with the iceman
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Re: Sam Power, List Boss - From Start to Now
If Sam can pull off 5 worthy trades in under the last hour of the trade period he deserves a raise.
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Re: Sam Power, List Boss - From Start to Now
So are we happy with how the Iceman has gone?
I think I am.
The BS position was unteneble and not a place you want to negotiate from, but the club had a couple of clear secondary objectives being creating cap room for deals next year. Sad to see Caleb and Jack go, but both were fringe in a year where statistically we should have gone deeper into September.
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Re: Sam Power, List Boss - From Start to Now
Originally Posted by
FrediKanoute
So are we happy with how the Iceman has gone?
I think I am.
The BS position was unteneble and not a place you want to negotiate from, but the club had a couple of clear secondary objectives being creating cap room for deals next year. Sad to see Caleb and Jack go, but both were fringe in a year where statistically we should have gone deeper into September.
He's done okay but are we missing out of getting more deals done by holding back to so late in proceedings?
We had no real hand to play so we had to move on players to give us a better chance.
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Re: Sam Power, List Boss - From Start to Now
Thought we'd try to trade in to the first round of the draft so we could at least avoid the threat of Geelong walking Smith through the national draft.
Not a conventional play but better than just stonewalling for a better pick imo
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Re: Sam Power, List Boss - From Start to Now
Originally Posted by
ShibbyUp
Thought we'd try to trade in to the first round of the draft so we could at least avoid the threat of Geelong walking Smith through the national draft.
Not a conventional play but better than just stonewalling for a better pick imo
But there was no way we would waste the currency of a first round pick on him, in that situation. Cats would have called our bluff there 100%.
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Re: Sam Power, List Boss - From Start to Now
Originally Posted by
GVGjr
He's done okay but are we missing out of getting more deals done by holding back to so late in proceedings?
We had no real hand to play so we had to move on players to give us a better chance.
I don't think so.
Holding out on the Daniel and Macrae deals got us better value.
Not for the first time, we were flexible during the period in selecting a player who became available in Kennedy, at a fair price.
I think Power uses his time effectively and remains fluid and flexible - if he can utilise picks (the Macrae to Kennedy transition a good example) across a number of trades he will do it.
My issue with him would be that he doesn't let a star who has shown interest in leaving fall out of contract again. We had a very weak trade hand because of decisions made last year.
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Re: Sam Power, List Boss - From Start to Now
I think Sam did very well to get pick 25 for Daniel.
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