Trade Targets ~ Free Agency & MSD player discussion

[Gerry Cooper]

Is Rachelle a 192cm key defender? No? We dont need any more small forwards. The club is awash with them.

[shawthing]

KPPs. Trouble is we don't have much to trade and zero draft capital.

Thank you goose Derek Hine!

[piffdog]

He’s got an attitude problem. Anyone who was happy to see Ginnivan go should have the same view on Rachele in the name of locker room harmony.

Agree with others - we have an abundance of small forwards.

[SLORT]

Can't understand how the club hasn't been able to get a sniff of Battle. Why is Hawthorn suddenly the place to be? Smashing the Roos btw, 80 to 14, 4mins till half-time.

Actually, probably just shows how confident we are in Keane coming home.

[Presti35]

But Rachele, Schultz, Elliott AND Hill in same F50 may not gel; one small too many?

Elliott is 32, so 2025 may be his last year. If he were available, 100% go for it.

[Presti35]

Is Rachelle a 192cm key defender? No? We dont need any more small forwards. The club is awash with them.

Mark Keane is a 194cm Key Defender. He is in our sights.

[swooper]

What's the deal with Bailey Smith? Now he is apparently going to Geelong... ??

[Johnno75]

He has been a Geelong target for a while now, no hope he gets to us.

[K]

Will Schultz trade help Freo get Shai Bolton? Maybe we just trade all our first round picks for the next decade to get Petracca and Bolton?

No Bolton, thanks. Fails the character test. (Of course, there's no risk of getting him anyway. But just saying...)

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Mark Keane is a 194cm Key Defender. He is in our sights.

Wonder what we'll hafta pay to buy back what used to be ours... Sheesh... Only at Collingwood...

[Jen2310]

He has been a Geelong target for a while now, no hope he gets to us.

Been like that for the last 2-3 months I'd say. We fell out of the race pretty quick.

[piedys]

...
Mark Keane is a 194cm Key Defender. He is in our sights.

Wonder what we'll hafta pay to buy back what used to be ours... Sheesh... Only at Collingwood...

Is Keane suddenly a magical improvement on Frampton? Then why bother?
I'm actually sick in the guts any time a hot ball is anywhere near either of them...

[piedys]

But Rachele, Schultz, Elliott AND Hill in same F50 may not gel; one small too many?

Elliott is 32, so 2025 may be his last year. If he were available, 100% go for it.

Correct on Elliott re age, and his battered frame just about being kaput.
But pretty sure Rachele was an early pick, which we are no hope to offer any such compensation to Crows for, as things stand in 2024.
As he is also thick as thieves with Saligo, I doubt he will depart Crows. I expect this to be simply another media beat up over a late season disciplinary omission.

[piffdog]

Tom Lynch...

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/shock- ... 922871f304

Dont know about this. Mechanically I could understand how it happens - you take all his $1.5m he's due next year (in the last year of his contract) and spread it out to $2.5m over 3 years (for arguments sake). Lynch is happy, because he's locked in for two extra years before footy mortality. Richmond are happy as they have $1.5m off their books for season 2025. We would probably be happy because we get a key forward and he costs an average of $830k/y and you can potentially back end it once a few veterans retire at the end of '25.

BUT, we are arguably making the "age cliff" even more precipitous when it eventually arrives? He is also injury prone AND I don't know who would fall out of the team with Checkers and McStay also fully fit. Ideally we could find Tom Lynch aged 29 instead...

The article also says Melbourne would be into him. Logically that makes a lot more sense for them. But its just ringing in my ears that the coach is expicitly on the record stating we want a key forward... (I'm just not sure he's the right one)

[warburton lad]

A few thoughts:

* The coach has indicated that we are in the market for a key position forward.
* Tom Lynch would be excellent- but he is 32 at the end of October- is he able to play three years??
* Peter Wright would be very good- 28 in a fortnight and at 203cms a pinch-hit second ruck- Replacing Cox??
* The Whitlock twins are exciting prospects but young and would require draft capital we do not possess currently.
* Bernie Quinlan and Plugger Lockett are just a tad too old...

I think that Lynch will be in black and white in 2025- and he will be an unstoppable force as we drive towards Flag number 17...

[Gerry Cooper]

I wonder if McRae's comment about a key forward was a misdirection. We do need a key defender however to fill the gap we havent been able to fill in 2024...
As for Lynch - too old and injury prone for me.