Blue Vain wrote:
Nah. If they pay Coniglio $2m, they won't be keeping Kelly, Green etc for long. There will be plenty falling out of the tree.
If he can't come as a RFA, I wouldn't bother. Get Papley and Ellis.
With Doc hopefully returning next year and Marchbank, possibly Williamson, we can push Walsh and SPS into the midfield rotation and possibly Setterfield. Play others like Ellis and O'Brien on the wings. Papley was very good in the midfield for Sydney earlier in the year as well.
Put another pre-season into Walsh and SPS and they'll take another big step forward.
Coniglio is a gun but not worth selling the farm for.
Totally agree.
My point is the GWS can do what Crows did the Dangerfield as FA to force a trade of picks/ player(s). Crows matched Geelong's offer forcing Geelong to trade for picks.
If Carlton didn't agree to send picks for Cogs (assuming he wanted to come to Carlton), then there would be a fire sale for Cogs to avoid losing Kelly, Green...and GWS would get picks/ players for him. Why wouldn't they? I'm sure it would be better than AFL's compensation, unles Gil and his corrupt Commission continue to interfere.
We wanted a mature mid to help out Cripps last year. Shiel was the target. We missed him.
Did we or Cripps really miss Shiel? I'd say not since Teague put our existing experienced bodies Ed and Murph in there next to Cripps.
Since then the kids have had another season and another preseason coming up to get up to speed. Walsh is already better than Shiel.
I want Papley for the reasons you make, plus some, Ellis because he is the mature experienced quality player at the right age, and versatlile to play HB or a wing.
If Williamson is right to play next year and steps into the role then that's a bonus. If we get Martin too....we have done extremely well to get players to fill an age group amiss on our list, plus they add quality.
Get Brad Crouch too and with the natural progress of SPS Walsh and Cuningham I expect this group, with Cripps Ed and Murphy to be tough to beat.
I also expect Fisher, Dow and OBrien to have a breakthrough year next year. Stocker could be anything under Andrew Russell, along with Setterfield in his 2nd year back from a knee.
If Cogs doesn't want to come to Carlton I say, like the Shiel experience, it may be a blessing in disguise and his loss.