Regarding Taranto. We still have the list gap that motivated the Dunkley trade. The development of Parish and Stringer has made it less critical, but we could still benefit from a strong contested player.
I don’t think it’s a critical need, drafting probably solves the problem, but we would get value from the mythical Taranto trade.
That’s a rookie list age for the cats
No Stringer? 
No to Taranto for me.
Why would we break up Stringer, Merrett and Parish as our main CBA group? It was one of the best CBA groups of the year
I tend to agree.
I’m more old school in that the clubs should have more power than the player…. I used to curse at Sheeds for trading my favourite players. But it was often best for the club.
The argument is always “the players should be able to choose their work place.”
This bullsh!t. The AFL is the employer. If you choose to enter the AFL system, you’ll lose the right to choose which team you play for.
This also doesn’t happen in the real world. I can’t decide who I work for. I can’t decide to walk up to an Apple store, and say I’m working for you…. But I can choose where I live.
This is the content I am here for!
Straight swap, Toranto for McGrath.
lots of people don/t want to see a successful Essendon,.
But imagine you were the best mobile phone seller in Melbourne and for whatever reason everyone knew it. You’d be able to walk from your job in the Telstra store to the Apple store and say ‘hey I want to work here now and here are my terms’ and if they could afford it they would employ you.
Don’t know enough of about parts of Taranto’s game that will annoy me. Better the devil you know.
I wonder if Sammy Edmund would be tweeting this ■■■■ if Hill had nominated Fark Carlton…
…hmmm…I just wonder
Yeah except this is a false equivalency since there is no competitor employer in the footy industry that you can go to if you don’t like the terms laid out by either party.
With footy, it is the AFL and if you don’t like it then tough ■■■■
Good point, so I think it is appropriate/good that the 800 best players negotiate as a unit and if the AFL tries to take away some part of the CBA then they can all say tough ■■■■ back to the AFL.
Sam Edmund trying desperately to wrench the title of Greatest Bottom Feeder off Scoop McClure
Aren’t there any more mature rucks available for the Cats? He’s only a kid!
Sammy seems surprised that players change their mind
Shock horror
Mumford has retired again.
They could lure him with a few sausages. and a coaching gig…
Right you are. For some reason I thought he was Dogs but I think that was ol’ ‘put your house on it’ Stevo
Whose really been kicking goals since left AFL sports writing …. From today’s HS
Shiel for Taranto
Seeing as GWS seem to be a boomerang club now
Won’t help any speculative salary cap issues though
would need to be us paying part of his salary too.
but they dont really need any more mids, makes zero sense.
