No to trading AA. I bet the dissenting voices were nowhere to be found when he was in stellar form on the way to the 2016 GF. The guy is a serious talent. The key for him is to have a consistent pre-season, and to have a stable core around him for AA to flourish. He hasn't had that for a while.
Anyway, like others I will wait with baited breath to see how Dodoro tries to get all the deals done.
From what I heard on SEN, it appears that the AFL is less likely to be handing out good quality picks for FA. So hopefully that means we aren't going to be impacted too much by additional picks being thrown in. The key one is Crouch. The fellow who was speaking (didn't catch his name) said that it is likely that the Crouch compensation pick will come after the Crows second pick which is at the moment pick 8 (which they received from a trade with GWS last year)
I actually tend to agree to an extent, but given we're now 4 full seasons down the track, you would have to say we've probably mismanaged him then if all he's done since is be tried forward a few times and been used as a makeshift ruck when we've got desperate.
Those games in 2016 between Rd 16 to the SF were really good - but they were games 3-12 of his career. He'd done a reasonable apprenticeship in the reserves prior and was playing with confidence, which we've only seen in the briefest of glimpses since.
In 2017-18 we were at least still playing finals so you could argue that we couldn't afford to persevere or experiment in trying to nurture him into form, but the last two years would have been the perfect opportunity to give him a proper extended run at being a key defender. He has to hold down one role and be a second ruck option, but I think in Longmire's eyes he is behind other players in every other area.
The FA compo picks don't work like that. Compo pick that are tied to the club's picks in each round of the draft would be after those picks no matter who holds them. For Adelaide, the FA picks would be after pick 1 (1st round), pick 20 (second round) and so on.
Picks after each round of the draft work a bit differently.
See here: Free Agency
"Unbelievable!" -- Nick Davis leaves his mark on the 2005 semi final
Thanks for digging into this. It's an interesting topic given the prevalence of concussion in sport.
I was thinking that it would be unusual for an important protein, like the tau, to develop folding or tangling problems in young healthy people without an agonist. So the question relating to footballers is whether concussion is such an agonist, and to what degree? And is there a contributing genetic predisposition?
If we return to the original query concerning Paddy McCartin, how can we make a determination if he is safe to continue his football career. If his physician says he's okay to play, can this be reasonably challenged based on other data available?
After your research, have you formed an opinion on recruiting Paddy?
I thought I should let you know that I've added you to my will. I'm going to leave you my Drosophila melanogaster collection. You'll love the ones with iridescent green eyes.
For me it’s No to trading Allir unless a good deal presents. Apparently they’ve ruled out all of their ruckman so it seems unlikely a good deal will present. But if one did, as a pre agent’ (as webbos accurately puts it ), now is the time to entertain it. Ollie Wines would work
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While I would rather keep Aliir we also need to learn from history. In the past, we allowed players with significant go home risk like Membery, Jones and Mitchell to get into their final contract year and when we could not convince them to re-sign we lost them for nothing or unders. If Aliir is considered a significant flight risk then be ready to trade him given his extra currency (he is still in contract for another season) assuming a good deal comes. This is the new normal of trade period.
It seems we need extra points so a draft pick 20 to 30 might be very useful to us and avoid future points deficits. His market value is probably in that range. We are not in the window yet so let's recruit the best #3 available and the two Academy kids.
PS Like others I don't think Adelaide will receive an extra early draft pick for Crouch.
Last edited by Aprilbr; 22nd October 2020 at 09:34 PM.
That’s exactly my point too. If other teams are coming for AA then we should get something of value while we can, rather than wait until he’s out of contract and get shafted again ( Mitchell , Jones .. ) Jones was worth a pick 22 at worst , we got 31.
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