Blueboy if you keep making sense we will have to ban you from this board

+1

Gotta trade em all.

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Patrick Keane ‏@AFL_PKeane

Carlton has placed Robert Warnock on the long-term injury list, with no replacement named from the rookie list at this time.

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"You are being watched. The government has a secret system. A machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it." - Finch

Just watch us become the laughing stock of the competition, (if we aren't already).
We will lose our only decent KPP in Henderson and sign up Warnock.
I just don't understand what is going on.

Pokemon TC style.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

..too much recent history of buying in the best, over developing our own..

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..if you can't be good, be good at it..

Go to the draft for the next 3 years and get kids kids and kids. It will also help solve our Salary Cap issues and allow us to recruit top players when we are back near the top.

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#NewBlues beginning 25th August 2015

Great post! +2 &

Absolute CRAP Post............. It makes way way WAY too much sense.

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- Aristotle

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dane's trolling again

Don't worry about what John "Einstein" Ralph says.

Carrazzo will go out on his own terms, and do what's right by the club.

I think the fact that his interest in umpiring has been made so public is a pretty sure sign that he's ready to hang up the boots.

Good post.

The problem is not that these genius media gurus are giving us advice ....

The problem is that our club is too spineless and clueless to make up its own mind.
And these vultures know that & feed off it.

I would love to see Giles and Rainbow get a run some time soon

Yes kids, kids & kids, but its important to have "good players" in the side too because the kids need to learn their trade from someone ...

This is why it was so important to get Chris Judd to Carlton. I'm all for building and playing the youth, but make no mistake, wins are important too.

Fill a side with nothing but youth who get flogged week in week out with the hope that one day it'll all come good isn't the way forward. As much as we find and draft good young talent, their development is the be all and end all of our success or failure.

This is why it is SO important that our club from the top down is on the same page. We must retain senior players who are good examples both on field and off. Hence the many faceted values of getting Chris Judd to Carlton.

If we gut our club at the expense of some youth policy, we will swing too far from a balanced approach. Yes, get kids, play them frequently, give them every opportunity to learn, and develop them into seasoned contributors. I'm all for it 100%

But if we start trading the sparse talent we do have (lets face it, drafting #1 to #20 is no guarantee anyway) for kids, in the hope that we'll develop them without good on field (and off field) examples, including confidence boosting wins, then we've really just swung from one extreme (of shit recruiting and development) to another extreme, and will be in the same position in 10-15 years time.

The fans have just as little of an idea as the club. We've been trying to be 'rational' at the club for years; in fact - the club 'thrives' on it. You can rationalise anything and you still know bugger all! The club needs to visualise and carry out that vision not "take a deep breath". We've been hearing that same crap for years on end.

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Just because I'm offended, doesn't mean I'm wrong.

We have 3 number 1 picks, a couple of number 2's , and a raft of first rounders on our list now.

Early picks don't matter, recruitment and development do.

good post

also goes to highlight SOS's value at GWS. Sure focus on the picks at his disposal. However, do not dismiss the success gained by complimenting a young list with the right seniro players.

When I say Kids kids and kids it means what we need to recruit and go down the draft route. It won't mean we play 22 kids each week.

Over the next three years we need to introduce around 20 -25 new kids to our group. Hopefully we will get more right than wrong. That is only half of our list in 3 years.

If things go well this trade period I expect us to trade 1 or 2 players for picks. For example, let's say we trade Henderson & Menzel for first round picks.

That leaves us with 3 picks inside top 20 plus another 3-5 picks plus rookies.

On our list we will still have Murphy, Gibbs, Simpson, Yarran, Docherty, Rowe, Jamison, Thomas, Casboult, Kruezer, Everitt, Bell, Walker, Tuohy as the senior group for the next 3 plus years.

Add to that emerging youngsters Cripps, Graham, Buckley, Byrne, Sheehan, Jaksch, Whiley, BB, Smith, DVR and our balance is okay.

The key is getting our young draft picks over the next 3-4 years right!

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#NewBlues beginning 25th August 2015

And holding onto our best players (Henderson, Yarran, Menzel etc) because this draft is considered a very weak one.
And yes, they need to learn from more experienced guys too.
Rome wasn't built in a day. And all that.

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Essendon-Only team to have ever been found guilty of salary cap breaches in a premiership year!

my view is that it will depend on what is offered for players such as Yarran or Menzel. In our situation, you can't afford to discount anything

obviously if the offers are really good ones then you would take it, otherwise you keep the status quo and use your draft picks (wisely)

the point has been made previously but you need a blend of good experienced players and youth to develop into a good side

otherwise, it will make it more difficult to develop young players if the team is losing comfortably every week