Or maybe we let Sydney run all over us when we bent over and presented our rump to them.
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Bit of both I reckon.
What about Kelly?
So we part with Jerrett?
We werenāt good enough to make them play badly.
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We have a free spot up for grabs because of Eades.
But trading Jerrett would be a good way to go and what about throwing in that Smack guy as well.
We had a ā2nd quarter picnic in the park.ā
I agree.
But fair to say both swans and cats were very different teams week on week.
Swans would have beaten everyone last weekend regardless. Today they were diabolical.
Amazingly different.
B Gleeson . Trengove . Baguley
HB McKenna . Hurley . Redman
C McGrath . Heppell Ā© . Merrett
HF Stewart . Hooker . Fantasia
F Begley . Daniher . Tipungwuti
FOL Bellchambers . Langford . Parish
I/C Goddard . Kennedy . Miles . Zaharakis
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Yeah and I forgot Wines aswell.
If we walked out of the post season withā¦
First rounder traded for Stringer.
Second and third rounder traded for Kennedy and GWS second rounder.
Pick a developing midfielder with that second rounder and another with our next, and then elevate Draper.
I get the sentiment of this piece. Parts of it are true.
However itās reads like some negative/disillusioned comments picked up from Blitz and thrown together to make an article.
Might be just me but I always give more credit to opinion pieces when the writer puts their name to it.
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Fark I hope we donāt get Trengove
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Sorry but thereās no way Adelaide are offering him that money. I donāt know what it is but itās higher than that (Unless they actually want him to leave of course)
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Itās obvious what we need to doā¦
Put a premiership caliber midfield in front of Joe Daniher, We do that we win multiple flags.
How to do it is the harder part. Iād start with offering Rockliff a great deal, He instantly makes Merrett Parish and Andy better players.
Rocky, M.Kennedy and Stringer can be done I think.
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Be interesting to know what you would expect to get for a player who barely managed a game in 2016 in probably the worst Essendon side since 1933, and who didnāt even come remotely close to getting a game in 2017. Donāt think he was even once named as an emergency.
Iād suggest that trade value of J Merrett would be zero.
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Yeah sorry, got him and McGovern mixed up.
McGovern offered $450k.
Lever has a $600k a year offer on the table, Pies and Dees are closer to $900k. A lot of money to pass up but Adelaide could be on the verge of something special or put up with Bucks or Goody.
Yeah thatās more likely.
Imo he is going because he would have signed by now if not.
I have him in my keeper league so have watched him closer than most and while he is a good player he still has a long way to go and makes some fundamental mistakes.
The real reason for the hype is all the commentators labeling him as a star long before his time and it therefore just gets parroted and becomes fact.
Heād be a good pickup but not exactly what we need.
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I donāt know whether youāre being sarcastic or not, but iād expect J Merrett to be cut this year.
The idea of not selling (trading out) players for draft picks less than what we paid because āthatās what we paid!ā and because āweāve put lots of development time into them!ā is what inadvertently leads to decade-long list management disasters like Mark Bolton and David Myers. Anchoring perceived value with reference to sunk costs (i.e. draft order and ādevelopment timeā) is, quite simply, wrong, albeit itās a reflection of inherent psychological biases we tend to suffer from (being commitment bias & anchoring).
In the stock market (to continue with the prior analogy), if i buy a stock at $10 and then two years later itās trading for $5, the worst way to rationalise my buy/hold/sell decision is: āi paid $10 so no way am i selling for $5ā. The only rational way to think about the decision is: āwhat is a fair assessment of the future value of this stock?ā. Youād attempt to derive that by doing a DCF, and if your DCF analysis shows the stock to be worth $4.99 or less, then the rational decision is to sell even though itās at an emotionally painful 50% loss.
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But of unrest at Port.
Wonder whether some of their players are gettable. Ollieā¦