crackers oval office

[stinger]

in this weeks inside football crackers keenan just happens to mention that the ex-coach's manager colin young has been hawking another of his clients...one tommy lee around perth , attracting the interests of freo.....good...i thought lee would just be dumped eventually with no upside for the saints.....

...less amusing however was his story that the lions will make a big play for david armitage and try and lure him back to the state of his birth.......we can't really afford to lose david,....lee..??????.who cares..???..not i....

[saintbrat]

The armo innuendo has been around for a while

[Eastern]

Even though I wouldn't like it, the Armo to Brisbane thingy would fit in (in part) with our strategy of getting 3 picks inside the first 20 again this year. He would be worth a pick around 20 !!

[thequarry]

Realistically, Armo is the best (though not necessarily likely) chance of us being able to trade our way to a top ~20 pick.

I'd actually been thinking about Tom Lee and potential trade value over the past couple of days. Pelchen said the focus this year is the first three rounds of the draft, so he might be a smokey to come into calculations? The way things are going you'd think he'd jump at the chance if a club told him they'd give him some good game time.

[Spinner]

in this weeks inside football crackers keenan just happens to mention that the ex-coach's manager colin young has been hawking another of his clients...one tommy lee around perth , attracting the interests of freo.....good...i thought lee would just be dumped eventually with no upside for the saints.....

...less amusing however was his story that the lions will make a big play for david armitage and try and lure him back to the state of his birth.......we can't really afford to lose david,....lee..??????.who cares..???..not i....

Thanks for sharing!

To be honest I'm not worried about losing either.

DA is never going to be an AA midfielder, nor even close. And Lee doesn't look up to it.

[WinnersOnly]

Be happy with a second round pick for Lee or work in a trade for Mundy. I wonder if he has been told or is wanting to get home to his mum?

Armitage be happy with late 1st/early 2nd round.

[stinger]

gotta laugh...lee..who we gave up a top 20 draft pick and got some change.....is not even worth steak knives these days.......pick 50+ imho......david on the other hand is worth a top 20 draft pick plus some change......but he is worth more to us than to the bears.ffs....as crackers pointed out the saints have a "drastic shortage of blokes in the 26-27 year old age bracket and can ill aford to lose a hard edged midfielder like armitage, particularly when lenny hayes is likely to retire at the end of the year and leave a big hole in the midfield ranks......"

...if the powers that be down at seaford think like some of the posters on here, it's no wonder we have gone backwards to 18th spot on the ladder.....

[magnifisaint]

in this weeks inside football crackers keenan just happens to mention that the ex-coach's manager colin young has been hawking another of his clients...one tommy lee around perth , attracting the interests of freo.....good...i thought lee would just be dumped eventually with no upside for the saints.....

funniest thing I've read in a while

[citywest]

If Freo want Lee then they can have him plus our third round pick (pick 38 approx.) in return for their first pick (pick 14 approx.).
If Bris want Armo then we want their second round pick (pick 20 approx.) plus upgrades of lower picks.

[bobmurray]

Does anyone really think an AFL club would call Pelchen and tell him they'd like to take Lee off our hands.

[Spud02]

I love how you can tell Lee will be no good after a grand total of 13 afl games....

[bobmurray]

I love how you can tell Lee will be no good after a grand total of 13 afl games....

I love your name whilst we are talking about Lee.....

[PADDLEPOP1001]

Lee has had three years in the AFL system first year he got the arse after not showing enough ,2 nd year played about 4-5. Promising games. This year he has shown nothing all things considered 24 years old ,shoulders shot , not much going for him!

[Spud02]

Shoulders shot? Thanks doctor

[stinger]

I love how you can tell Lee will be no good after a grand total of 13 afl games....

not hard...can't read the play...slower than my mother, ...and about half as strong,,,,,drops his marks...and his head...can't hit a target with his handballs...can't win his own ball...besides his kicking has dropped off...that exaggerated kicking style is actually embarrassing.....

[bobmurray]

I love how you can tell Lee will be no good after a grand total of 13 afl games....

not hard...can't read the play...slower than my mother, ...and about half as strong,,,,,drops his marks...and his head...can't hit a target with his handballs...can't win his own ball...besides his kicking has dropped off...that exaggerated kicking style is actually embarrassing.....

Well said stinger, good to read a post from someone who has watched this spud play.

[mr six o'clock]

Why would the lions want armo ?

If they were challenging for finals i'd agree but there in the same shite as us !

[PurpleHayes]

I love how you can tell Lee will be no good after a grand total of 13 afl games....

not hard...can't read the play...slower than my mother, ...and about half as strong,,,,,drops his marks...and his head...can't hit a target with his handballs...can't win his own ball...besides his kicking has dropped off...that exaggerated kicking style is actually embarrassing.....

No one was criticizing Lee last year.
Maybe he has gone backward. Maybe 2 shoulder reconstructions effected his fitness and confidence this year.
And maybe it's a tough gig in our forward line at the moment too.
We have the luxury of being able to afford him some time, given we are rebuilding.

Stinger - Tell me who lines up at FF round 1 next season instead of Lee?
You seem so go at picking out Lee's obvious flaws. Who have you then identified as a suitable replacement?

[saintspremiers]

Does anyone really think an AFL club would call Pelchen and tell him they'd like to take Lee off our hands.

We can only hope!