It was a great result for us, but as I said it ignores that every team was offering crap for those picks, they weren’t allowed to keep them, and that may have been the best deal. Fremantle is unfairly criticised for the deal as everyone forgets they weren’t allowed not to deal, so they just had to accept the best of the rubbish offers they got.
They do in the wet in the last quarter when they’re 6 goals behind, and half their midfield were underdone.
we were like 10 or 15 points down halfway through the 3rd werent we? pretty decent fight for an underdone team versus a very experienced team, all fell away though obviously
SPS is at West Coast.
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ironically as predicted, I saw in some of the voting from media oliver indeed did get votes ( i can remember he got some on the sunday footy show)
this is why i hate stat watchers who crap on about oh player x had a great game cos 40 disposals.
oliver had 40 pretty much nothing disposals, as you say when the game was over. it’s a great sign for his endeavour and commitment to continue working no doubt, but jesus anyone rating his game as in the top 10 or so for the game, should not EVER get to have an opinion on the game esp in the media.
sadly it’s the media wankers who just keep spriuking players cos of numbers on a stat sheet.
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SPS has been decent for West Coast.
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SPS? I have been underwhelmed by him from day 1.
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Awesome trade
“It was done. Carlton had agreed to trade the big-bodied midfielder and pick No.68 to Essendon in exchange for a future fourth-round pick.”
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I was under the impression there was a cap reason the offloaded him for that price?
More likely he was seen as surplus to their needs with Cripps and Kennedy and the other high priced recruits they bought in.
He takes Pendlebury, this man gets better with age and is a catalyst forward of centre for setting up their goals.
Stick on him like a glove and will impact their ways to score.
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I’m pretty sure he was out of contract.
My understanding, and i could be wrong as there wasn’t much info at the time, but we had a good offer for him when he went to Carlton from GWS, but Carlton put a larger amount of money on the table, hence he took it. At the end of his contract he wasn’t played in his preferred position for others and wasn’t seen as effective on the wing/HFF so his next contract offer was a lot less, but they still could have been happy to keep him on a discount, hence we pounced as Carlton were not willing to match what we had offered.
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i dont think we would have even had a draft hand to trade for him by the time we were done with the Shiel trade.
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I thought the bigger issue was we didn’t have the draft currency, or necessarily the need, for both Shiel and Setterfield.
Hence he was out of contract.
I dont think it had anything to do with money, Setterfield just wanted out and Carlton didnt value him very highly.
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Pendlebury is the most dangerous player on the ground; I know everyone is talking up Daicos but Pendlebury is the one we need to stop. If the game is in the balance in the 4th quarter, he invariable puts himself in the right spots and sets up plays.
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Would have packaged him up with the Shiel deal.
Would have been 2 firsts for Shiel and Setters and not getting the 2nd round back
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From what I have seen of him recently, he mostly sits outside stoppages and lets his mids get the ball to him. But its similar with Daicos. I think those 2 are the main goto players, because of their vision and execution.
But they are down one of their top mids so roles may change, I still don’t think Pendles will be at the coal face, whereas we might want Setterfield in there given that our other mids are on the smaller side
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