Trade talk - from October 2024 (Part 7)

[Tagger]

Barham can’t spend all offseason saying how “brave” Scott was for not willing chasing Houston and then next offseason going all in on Harley. It almost makes less sense

[Chris_1993]

@Tagger

It almost makes less sense

If something makes no sense, it’s the most likely thing Essendon are to do.

[Milanista28]

The Hawks gave the Eagles a choice between the 2 1st rounders Theirs or Blues for Barrass, Eagles chose the Hawks, should’ve gone with the Blues pick.

[Houli_Dooli]

@Tagger

Barham can’t spend all offseason saying how “brave” Scott was for not willing chasing Houston and then next offseason going all in on Harley. It almost makes less sense

Reid Age 19 - Means were backing in Kako, Caddy, Caldwell, Martin, Duursma, Perkins, etc to be good in 5+ years

Houston Age 27 - means you think our prime movers are McKay, Parish, Merrett, Langford, Redman, etc and we will push for flag in next 4 years.

[kingofthehill]

Reid’s 19 and will be 20 at the end of the year. You’re still backing the youth

[user_name]

@Finding_Nino

I think we are that far down the track if he decides to leave it will be for essendon imo

Hawks will try to scoop but came too late

It’s March.

[Finding_Nino]

March premiers.

[Stressed_out]

Maybe Reid is the reason we didn’t give Stringer a second year? We knew we had his younger version coming next year.

[Fozdog]

@handypoint

@RTBC

@Tipp-a-the-iceberg

No shes a well to do lady just very good friends with receptionist, also of vintage age.
I’m 50, got enough life exp to tell the truth from BS.
What does it mean?
Simply we’ve been in talks,who knows who else might be.
We’ve known over the years plenty of players we’ve ‘talked to’ , but end up staying or moving elsewhere.
It doesn’t mean this idea he wants us, just that the dialogue has been ongoing I guess.

You’ve told us exactly what has been repeatedly on the public record for months and thrown a receptionist on the front of it.

At least add a little mayo - like “apparently Harley is in a group chat with Caddy, Kako and McPhees Dad”

Reckon he’s been upgraded to the Duursma Family Chat?

Duursma circle of trust Greg?

[Tipp-a-the-iceberg]

[Tipp-a-the-iceberg]

Just joined bud…havent the time to spend hours going through the thread from october last year.
But receptive to your post …receptionist.

[Tagger]

Spending 3 first rounders on a single player indicates you think your list is sorted and you just need that cherry on top. It is no way consistent with thinking we’re over 5 years away

[Tyler]

@Tagger

Spending 3 first rounders on a single player indicates you think your list is sorted and you just need that cherry on top.

It indicates that you think that single player will likely get you closer to a premiership then all 3 players you would likely get with those picks.

[jamesm]

If the trade is we use our two second rounders to swap for one first rounder and then trade two first rounders for Harley and keep one for our own pick I’d be okay with that. If it’s three first rounders total that’s really poor for Essendon. 2 is okay and three is total theft.

[wimmera1]

@Houli_Dooli

@Finding_Nino

How did Hawks ger Carltons first rounder?

So Hawks only have Blues first rounder this year, as they have traded theirs to Eagles.

I’d absolutely do 5, 8, 25 for Reid and 21.
Gives WC 3, 5, 8, 13 which is plenty for a whole draft, and they can package up 25, 31, 49 however they like.

We still have 21, 26 and whatever we can trade in, and it doesn’t mess up next year’s draft.

Edit: and I don’t see how Hawthorn offers better.

[Barnardlives]

@jamesm

If the trade is we use our two second rounders to swap for one first rounder and then trade two first rounders for Harley and keep one for our own pick I’d be okay with that. If it’s three first rounders total that’s really poor for Essendon. 2 is okay and three is total theft.

I think it depends on where those first rounders are and what players we would likely get with them. If we and Melbourne finish mid table and say we have pick 8, pick 9 and say pick 15 by trading two second rounders away then that’s very different to trading pick 3, pick 4 and pick 15.

The club needs to just see where it finishes, assess the draft pool and make an informed choice. I’d say 2 firsts and a second is pretty close to fair value for a guy with as much raw talent as that.

[noobermensch]

Another factor here is that the WA crop this season is looking to be a bumper one, possibly the best draft crop they’ve had in a decade. I have 2 WA kids in the top 5, with another two or three in first round contention.

[kingofthehill]

That’s potentially good news

[Bully]

Assuming we bring in Reid, what’s our starting midfield going to be? and would each player compliment one another’s game in there?

Essendon have struggled with recruiting in the past with getting the mix right. In fact it seems they never really cared about the mix of players. In my opinion:

• stringer threw out our f50 balance coz he didn’t overhead mark, but was like a tall as he refused to defend.
• smith was another small midfielder adding to the over abundance of small mids we already had.
• sheil was a midfielder with terrible foot skills and no inside hardness in years when we lacked a big body in the centre. An issue for about a decade under dodoro.

These examples are going back a bit, but it’s another time in history where we added good players from other clubs, that didn’t help us move up the ladder one bit. The reason being, they didn’t plug the holes we needed to and gave us too much of the same type of player.

[Barnardlives]

I’d say it’ll start with Caldwell, Durham and Reid. With the likes of Merrett, Parish, Perkins, tsatas, Hobbs rotating through their as well.

Now that’s a midfield that will dominate the contest but doesn’t have a huge amount of skill by foot. That could be complimented by Merrett rotating through the midfield off half back and Martin through the wing. But overall we would still need to improve our kicking ability as a full side