While I agree with your logic there, Ludwig, it was reported that Essendon tried to negotiate with Daniher to extend his contract earlier this season but he suddenly backed out in the latter part of the season. This was when they started to be concerned that something else was afoot. A copy of the said report is attached for your interest. Taken from The Age last Sunday. If this report is true then we cannot definitively say that the Bombers were so worried about his body that they would not offer a new contract.
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The Ed Langdon deal to Melbourne looks to net out at a trade for a pick in the low 20s. I think Langdon's value is a bit higher than Jones', so this trade may push Jones' value into the mid 20s if comparisons are valid.
Dedoro was recently asked if a new contract was presented to JD's management and he said no.
From the outside (and maybe simplistically), the BATNAs for both look quite obvious. Don't trade Papley (he is still contracted as is for a while yet). Don't trade for Daniher (he doesn't fill an urgent list need).
Jones is a harder one because he could be lost for zilch.
The Langdon trade is essentially a four pick upgrade towards the start of this year's second round, plus next year's second round pick. (The future 4th is just mucking around at the margins.) That future second could be pick 19 or pick 36 given Melbourne's form fluctuations over the past two seasons. Impossible to predict. Though they've done nothing to address their forward line woes so suspect it will be closer to pick 19 than to pick 36. It's impossible to put a value on without taking a punt on where the Dees will finish next year.
I agree with you both. Especially that Daniher and Papley don't have to be connected, that Daniher is not worth picks 5 and 9, and that it would be just fine if both deals "fail". Also with your point, Ludwig, that useful role players can be in cheap and the Hawks do a good job of it and it is generally easier for VFL clubs to do because of the much larger pool of players (conversely they have to compete with each other for those players but there's a much bigger market whereas we have to seriously consider any halfway decent player just because they are willing to come rather than being able to target those we most would want so easily).
I'd happily have both Lewis Taylor and Papley in the same team. There's definitely room for 2 quality small forwards and both can rotate through the midfield to add speed and xfactor. However it'd probably put ronke further on the outer.
I don't pay much attention to Essenscum and their players... and please pardon my disinterest, BUT... when they say Kurt Daniher has played 11 games in two years, when were those 11 games? At the end of this season? At the beginning of the season? Is he still injured, or has he played recently?
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He played rounds 1-7 in 2018 and rounds 5-7, 9 in 2019. Averaged a little over a goal a game for those games.
Question is, can he get back to anything like 2017 which really was very good.
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To me, Essendon's attitude is a bit like, 'Do you want this stuff that I found at the back of the fridge? I'm only going to throw it out if you don't have it. Oh you do. Well, since it originally cost me twenty bucks and it's now got all that healthy mould; you can have it for thirty'.
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