Worried

[plugger66]

if the press reports are to be believed our prospects of getting anything decent out of the free agency period are looking decidedly glum. I know it is early days. And maybe Pelchen and Watters haven't shown their real hand ( I hope). But.....we are shaping up to be the big losers. If we are genuinely interested in Josh Caddy then it appears the Cats have stolen our thunder. Although I am a bit confused about how they can be ahead of us in the race to get him given what they are offering the Suns is very much an unknown quantity and dependent on where the Cats finish on the ladder as opposed to a definite first round draft pick of 13. Eagles defender Mitch Brown is another mentioned in dispatches but Brown is a) contracted to the Eages b) reportedly doesn't want to leave Perth and c) the Eagles aren't interested in trading him. So....according to my calculations that leaves us with a big fat zero and a big fat hole that had been occupied by one Brendan Goddard. It's leaving me a little anxious.

point 1 we are in free agency week and unless we are very stupid we are not going to touch a free agent.
point 2 as the trade period starts and goes for another i think 3 weeks why are you worried now 2 day before we can actually start making waves.
point 3 both club list mangers and coaches have all came out and said they are going to be very active in the "trade period" and i for one believe them considering the abundance of rumours and links to various players that regardless off caddy and brown sound as good if not better in some cases.
point 4 we are not the coach or the list managers and our memberships help pay there wages so im sure they are out there doing there job to best serve the club so trust in them and asses after[/quote

that's the point though, supposedly they are compensating our loss but it seems like they are making it so it seems to disadvantage us instead. I would rather of put him up for trade as we would have got a higher pick and we would have a definite position to negotiate for someone else. We not only don't know what we will get we are also disadvantaged in that any attempt to pick up a free agent ourselves would see us punished by losing the Goddard compo for something not fitting of the scope of the player.

it's so flawed currently that it will need fixing by next year and we will be the ones screwed by it.

Poor us.

[saintsRrising]

This is the main time of year for Pelchen and his team to earn their pay-cheque....or not!!!!

Last year we had an out-perfom by an large. Though a black-mark for lack of a true FB and some depth in theruck - though Pelchen may be takinga long-terms view in restructuring the list. These both need to rectified this perod though.

Losing Goddard is a fag that the club is focussing on being better in the long-term.

As such I would expect the recruits to be no older than mid-twenties...except maybe a back-up ruck.

With Goddard gone..we will need to see some good trading to end up on the postice side of the Ledger as pick 13 in iteself is not enough to offseta proven player like BJ

If one takes a longer term view if we do hang onto both 12 and 13 it will not be such a bad thing.

But if one believes even some of the rumours on the players that the Saints are inteested in then we may lose at least one of those picks.

A scenario of keeping: 12 & 13 and then trading away our next several and or players like Raph, Ray for players like Hickey would be a go0d result IMO.

Who our next FB is will feature large in these deals.

[kosifantutti]

Goddard is a fag

You read it here first.

[dragit]

Goddard is a fag

You read it here first.

That's what Milney said.