Cripps requests trade to West Coast

[Pwoit]

Who is Stevens ? What club does he play for are we trying to get him??

[gringo]

I'm pissed off, he will be a very good player and it is the final nail in the coffin for recruiting during the Lyon reign. We pretty much got two players from the draft that we developed in that whole time. Steven and Armo. Although Armo may have already been there. He pretty much didn't develop anyone and we wasted our picks. Koby has another year on him and shows less. Mitch Brown hasn't done much either. I'm really annoyed and hope they can talk him around. He will really struggle to get a game there- long term I guess he thinks Embley and Kerr are gone so will open a spot.

I want Gaff as a straight swap.

[Richter]

Koby Stevens, west coast inside mid. From Gippsland originally.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/afl/ko ... 6482772467

[mad saint guy]

I'd be happy with an early/mid second round pick for Cripps. Don't particularly want Stevens; he's done nothing at West Coast in three years and they have been very generous to kids for senior games.

[SaintSimmo]

Koby Stevens and Jack Steven would provide a nuisance for the commentators, especially considering some of them say Jack Stevens already

[St Ick]

From the little I know of him he is an inside mid from Vic who has quit WC. Highly rated by WC supporters and was expected by many Dreamteam/Supercoach experts to have a breakout year this year, which never eventuated. I think he has had his share of injuries and was sub most of the times he played.

Is far from a sure thing but is as promising as Cripps IMO especially if Ledger doesnt come on and Lenny retires in a year or so. Either way he wants Vic, Cripps wants WC so somehow they will all be involved in some sort of (possibly 3 way) trade. An extra pick from Cripps at the start of the second round could always be the piece in the Caddy/Toy/Hickey puzzle if we dont want Stevens on our list.

Over to you Pelchin!

[CURLY]

I'd be happy with an early/mid second round pick for Cripps. Don't particularly want Stevens; he's done nothing at West Coast in three years and they have been very generous to kids for senior games.

He can play Stevens and is a pure mid fielder not just the occasional run in there player our list is littered with. Hasnt been given the chance behind Priddis Kerr Selwood Shuey.

[gringo]

Koby Stevens and Jack Steven would provide a nuisance for the commentators, especially considering some of them say Jack Stevens already

At least they can pretend they confused them. He looks a bit bigger in the pic than I remembered, maybe he isn't such a bad swap.

[saintbrat]

Koby Stevens and Jack Steven would provide a nuisance for the commentators, especially considering some of them say Jack Stevens already

from Lucknow - can BT get his name around that as well as Torquay?

plenty of Gippy boys in the team over the last few years too.

[SaintSimmo]

Stevens:
Tough, inside midfielder with ferocious attack on both ball and player. Contested ball winning ability and strong hands overhead are strengths. Vic Country U18 representative in 2009. Recovering from minor knee surgery so was unable to participate at Draft Camp. Averaged 26 disposals in nine games for the Gippsland with 75 per cent efficiency, 12 contested. AIS-AFL Academy graduate.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/ ... fault.aspx

I reckon Stevens is more what we need then Jamie Cripps

[magnifisaint]

Eagles have big wraps on Stevens. is meant to be Kerr's replacement.
nothing to lose with this trade

[gringo]

Stevens:
Tough, inside midfielder with ferocious attack on both ball and player. Contested ball winning ability and strong hands overhead are strengths. Vic Country U18 representative in 2009. Recovering from minor knee surgery so was unable to participate at Draft Camp. Averaged 26 disposals in nine games for the Gippsland with 75 per cent efficiency, 12 contested. AIS-AFL Academy graduate.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/ ... fault.aspx

I reckon Stevens is more what we need then Jamie Cripps

Cripps will become a good player and possibly excellent player, we need to get lots of different players in but Cripps was taken to fill a speedy running back role. Pacy small defenders with strong ball carrying ability sounds like something we need especially with goal sense.

Cripps actually rated really highly in the overall at the draft combine -top few which measure all their strengths put together. He will be a quality player. Hopefully he gets back over here and the sun will be shining and he won't be missing WA so much.

[noob]

What pick is West Coasts first round? If you want to trade him people give him positive thoughts not weaknesses ! lol I'd go there first round pick for cripps and our 3rd rounder if it were to happen?

[saintbob]

Brown, Stevens or Sheppard will do

[gringo]

Jason Cripps broke my heart when he never got back now this little turd is leaving I want a black-ban on anyone with Cripps as a surname. We had better at least keep Ledge or I wonder what the f*** our academy and crap is good for.

[bigcarl]

Talk him out of it. He's quick and has a lot of potential.

[bobmurray]

Another spud for a spud deal looming here me thinks...lets not progress otherwise we might win a flag

[SainterK]

That's a shame.

We need some depth, and you can't expect first years to be that yet.

[St Chris]

Thanks Jamie for "Luke Balling" us, publically nominating a single club for a trade completely screws over the player's current club, and hands all of the aces to the future club. I'd be surprised if we saw an offer for anything better than pick 100 to be honest. West Coast know he can walk into the draft for nothing, and they can use their 3rd or 4th pick on him, without another club going near him.

[SydneySainter]

Doesn't sound like the Eagles are all that keen, so I doubt we would be offered much.

[clarky449]

Jee supporters turn on players quick. Suddenly he has shown nothing and is pretty bad. Of coursr though, if he does end up staying, that will all change.

[avid]

I saw Stevens on telly earlier this year. He did something extraordinary and courageous. I though this guy is about to hit the scene -- and put him in my dreamteam.
Nothing came of it, but I reckon he has some sort of extreme talent there, and I'd be very happy to take a chance on him.
I'm not sure WC would really want Cripps. Look how little they want Swift, who they've already got, and who seems a similar sort of player.
But as someone's just said, WC could offer us just about anything and we'd probably have to take it.

[tweedaletomanning]

Is there any danger of a player ever nominating US as the team they want to go to?

[st_Trav_ofWA]

First off the story I'm hearing here in WA is a bit different ... Cripps was keen to stay but the club floated the idea to him of possibly trading him to west coast .. It was St Kilda pushing the move .. Not Cripps after being home he has decided that he is now keen on staying in Perth so he has told the club to trade him .. This talk of him not being loyal and being ungrateful to us is very much misplaced ....

On top of that Koby is suddenly turned into Chris Judd ... Fact is Tom Swift was getting games ahead of him so if we are thinking a straight swap is fair we are going to be sorely mistaken if we trade Cripps for Koby we will be the loser in this

[Con Gorozidis]

Waste of a draft pick, miss out on Jack Darling to draft him to then find out he has diabetes.

Gets compartment syndrome writing off his first season, then wants out after the second.

Might be handy playing at Subiaco, but from what I have seen he needs to toughen up and work on his decision making.

If we'd drafted darling, he'd be doing exact the same right now, he never wanted to leave Perth so flunked his interviews apparently.

i believe it. darling was a child prodigy and always going to be a gun.
this why i am extremely DUBIOUS when recruiters clubs (and fans usually ape this crap up) talk about subjective nonsense like 'character'.
so darling, stevie j, buddy,swan etc etc etc go overlooked for supposedly someone from a 'good family' with good 'character' at age 17. its just total BS!!!!

as for cripps - im very very disappointed. was making nice progress - similar trajectory to joey (who remember was no world beater until his mid 20s). people bagging him are off the mark, Same people who said Beames was a hack when he was only 19. Just nonsense.
But if he goes - lets grab Mitch Brown. Just what we need. Large framed defender with heaps of mongrel (which we lack).

Remember Mitch brown is often kept out of the side by darren glass who is an absolute gun.