At best weāll have pick 10 this year. That and next yearās first for Kelly is a steal.
Weād have possibly that best young midfield in the comp. Merrett, Parish, Kelly and McGrath. Not to mention Heppell. That is an AA midfield.
Begley becomes our bull.
Seriously this whole āpreferred destinationā is crap
9/10 times itās who will offer the juiciest contract for their current situation. Do you think plowman and marchbank went to Carlton because their looking like a destination club, Lyons to Gold Coast, Wells to the pies, hrovat to norf etc ect
Nah, too often a club comes in with more money and doesnāt even get a look in.
Which is to say, timing counts for a lot, too. Make a good money offer early in the piece.
Kelly yes. Looking at the Giants they are pretty awesome everywhere. Their preferred currency will surely be great draft picks with maybe an experienced player as some steak knives to cover a key position.
Deledio has been brought in to take Stevie Jās spot. They might look for an experienced ruck, Mumford doesnāt have a lot of games left.
If we want Kelly we need to do a hawks and trade away our 2018 first rounder for another first rounder this year. After convincing him to nom us. Reckon Oāmeara was in the bag for the Hawks a long way out. We just forced his price up.
Iād be suprised if we werenāt under serious consideration for any decent mid on the move. We are very good everywhere else and have a very old profile in our midfield group that create opportunities (Jobe,Goddard,Kelly,Hocking,Stanton all arguably very close to wrapping up).
We should be targeting guys who are on the fringe of cracking into their clubs midfield group and guys like Kelly.
Obviously iām in the same boat as others, hope we can land someone decent for the midfield. If it was kelly obviously heād push someone out no questions asked.
It does become a sticky situation next year though.
Watson will youād assume play on.
Goddard has now hit his minimum games requirement to get another contract
So as it stands you still have the midfield rotation next year of
watson
goddard
hepp
zerrett
myers
Zaka (more than likely)
Iād also think Parish would probably move into the midfield more next season, after a development season this year ( unless we go full essendon and try and develop one of the very few genuine mids weāve drafted, as a HFF)
Some serious discussions about a few players futures will have to be made at seasons end, if they are legitimately chasing a top line midfielder.