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Pick 29: Shai Bolton
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I am wary of trading Rioli.
Baker is overrated. There, I said it. I’ll continue that in his thread.
Bolton is a jewel that will never be as valuable as it is now. We don’t need the jewel, he is not contributing to our next push anytime soon.
That still leaves us with Balta, Rioli, Taranto, etc
There’s still plenty there, we’re not tearing a hole in the space time continuum lol
Facts, logic and reason drives the debate, gaslighting is obnoxious and irritating.
You are overly sensitive
Me saying that keeping our eminently tradable players is “conservative” is hardly antagonistic
Get your hand off it
I'll cut Shai a bit of slack for the "truckload more work on the ground" that he does. I watch Stengel closely, he doesn't just hang around the forward pocket, he gets a up the ground a lot, it doesn't seen to effect his accuracy.
he's been doing it all day!
That was just one in a conga line of irritating gaslighting dismissals. By pretending it was a single case, is just more of it. But to be clear, its annoyong
Carter and the Baron are the same glorious entity
Pumping out gaslight bullets with gleeful abandon
I guarantee you Bolton does a lot more gut running than Stengle in a typical game due to his position. Below is heat map of their last couple of games. You can also see typically many disposals are quite close to goal for Stengle which also aids with accuracy. I think you'll find most of the mids have poorer conversion rates for the reason of fatigue in the moment. I just don't think it' s a fair comparison acknowledging that Bolton does need to do better in that area.
Stengle
Bolton
If Baker, Bolton, Graham & Rioli leave (which is what I was referring to) this is what we're left with in the 23 to 27 year old age group. God help us.
So be it.
With an influx of good kids you are forgetting that we will have cap space for astute FA.
When the time is right.
Like we did with Meatball, Nank and Caddy
No I'm not forgetting. I just don't think the Tigers are going to offload 4 players of similar age to only leave us with 2 of the same type of midfielders on 7 year contracts and a gun backman being turned into a forward as our only half-decent representatives in that age bracket. I don't think our contracted players are going anywhere. I can possibly see Baker or Graham moving on. We'll know in time. 21 players uncontracted for 2025 to make decisions on.
Fair enough TL. If this is all that happens it will be a huge opportunity missed IMO
What are you hoping to trade Shai for and which players are you hoping to draft with those picks?
I am not across the pool but I would hope our recruiting staff would start building the list back up
I reckon we'll go big-bodied mids but who knows
yes and you can add trades to the toolbox, the point still stands FFS
folks around here trying to sagely nod and say "well drafting isn't the only way"
if it was up to them we would use picks 1 and 21, recruit 2 x collier-dawkins and call it a day
