toddkurnski wrote:
Blue Vain wrote:
toddkurnski wrote:
Hang on, everyone seems happy with both the recruits including myself, and I'm not even mildly concerned about Essendon**** getting 8, they will just Parish and Francis it anyway.
What some and myself are saying, and this is something also good to think about from a business sense, is always extract the maximum value from your assets. There is no harm in discussing and having different opinions on whether that was accomplished or not.
Did Stephen Wells get maximum value for pick 30 by selecting a 32 year old Shaun Higgins? I wouldn't think so yet Geelong are being lauded as one of the biggest winners of there trade period. Why? Because they got their targets. Just like we did. Failing to get Tom Papley quite possibly cost us a finals campaign this year. That's the difference one player can make and the impact a failed outcome can have.
We went in with a strategy. We came out with the players we wanted, 2020 second and 3rd round draft picks to use and all of next years selections intact. How anyone can find fault in that amazes me.
Pretty sure I was just told not to worry about what competitors were doing... I care as much about what Wells has done as what Dodoro got. I can see your point of view, get in, get what you want, get out and look to the finals in 2021.
Blue Vain wrote:
How anyone can find fault in that amazes me.
A shame that you can't acknowledge that others just see it differently.
Go Blues.
It amazes me that we ALL agree we got our targets, and glad we did, but some can't (wont) see that its 'normal' and reasonable to see, clearly, there's 2 sides of seeing the cost of trading Pick 8. No ones wrong imo.
We got in 2 targets and they are worth every cent, andaffordable given we had a war chest going into this, but we didn't spend all of our 105% TPP and there was still money on the table we didnt use on a third target, if we could.
What some believe, (and it doesn't matter any more), if we Front Loaded the Saad contract, I'm, and some others are reasonably sure North would look foolish taking a player who didnt want to be there and have to cough up a $MIL, ditto Effendrugs*, therefore Saad would get to where he wanted. Effencheats* also threatened to use the PSD, such is the power of the PSD.
Austin doesn't owe us an explanation why he didnt use the PSD and keep pick 8 for the draft, but it does look, from the otside Austin blinked. There's no problem thinking that. Austin didnt make it public Effendumb* would take Saad in the PSD. We will never know.
Its done. We've got our targets. We aim for Finals in 2021, and more. Lets enjoy the ride. We are comin' babeeee
GO BLUEBAGGERS