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Welcome to the Tigers Jacob Hopper
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Gee Whiz wanted to keep Hopper.
Suns want Bowes and that ridiculous contract off their books.
Bowes? Interesting player. At GCS ball stupid abounds. Handdumb is abundant but stupefy kick exceeds any historic number.
The dumby stupe by foot is humiliating. Bowes is infallible in the dumby stupe.
There is nobody in he AFL as dumby stupe as Jack Bowes. And relentlessly.
In the end you have to ask yourself if Stuart Dumby Stupe is the reason so many players are so dumby stupe for so many years.
Is Bowes worse than Jayden Short? Yes. Much worse.
The dumby stupe by foot is humiliating. Bowes is infallible in the dumby stupe.
There is nobody in he AFL as dumby stupe as Jack Bowes. And relentlessly.
In the end you have to ask yourself if Stuart Dumby Stupe is the reason so many players are so dumby stupe for so many years.
Is Bowes worse than Jayden Short? Yes. Much worse.
Good player when fit but Hopper has had some issues with his knee & repeated surgeries on it so a 7 year deal doesn't come without some risk.
I'd hope we're not selling the farm despite him being in the age window.
I'd hope we're not selling the farm despite him being in the age window.
The Herald Hun are saying that the Hopper and Taranto trades will be done separately, and that the trade for Taranto could be completed today.
Just wondering whether Jack had given the club notice that he was considering going back to SA. Just speculating, but now that Jack has committed to staying, might we now be re-considering the option of trading in Hopper?
Just wondering whether Jack had given the club notice that he was considering going back to SA. Just speculating, but now that Jack has committed to staying, might we now be re-considering the option of trading in Hopper?
GWS will want picks for next year so presume something like this will get it done with a potential swap of later picks
I don’t think they’ll want a player in if they’re happy to get two of their best players off the books due to TPP pressure
I reckon the separation is because Taranto looks to be straight forward (12 and 19 and OOC) whereas Hopper may prove to be a bit trickier.
Worst case we still get Taranto, if we miss out on Hopper, rather than missing out on both if the trades are combined.
Is picking up duds like Higgins Lennon Ellis Coleman Jones called 'selling the Farmer??'
Tell GWS they can have the next 5 yrs worth of 1st rounders, they can I have shot at the next Higgins Ellis or Collier Dawkins or Ellis & Dow
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Hopper is a very good player & the right type. It's the 7 years after injury I've got my eye on.
Still think it gets done. They need him off the books, told him to look around and he’s picked the tiges. Under those circumstances it’s just working out what is a fair trade all things considered.
Club would have completed a medical and wouldn’t have concerns offering a deal like that if they thought there were issues. We pulled the plug on the Trengove move when his foot was much worse than thought.
Backing the club on this one
So long as the medical checks out I'm ok with it but still he has had recurring issues. You'd just hope they don't linger cause 7 years is a long time if it does.
I got the sense listening to the GWS List Manager this morning that a deal for Hopper isn’t far away.
The issue oldie for me and my health I can't bare another 5yrs of poor 1st rounders.
We have given it a crack, it's tome to off load them and select what we need.
What's to say that pick 12 & 19 this year were Conca or Vickery types.
Even the experts say it's a really hard draft to pick from.
*smile* it, let's stick what we are kings at Rookie and preseason selections.
Tony Braxton-Hicks
There are no stupid ideas, just stupid people
What was the original knee injury? It seems there was an issue with the surgery that just needed a clean out rather than it being a second injury.
What recurring injury issues ? He only played 7 games this year but apart from that it was 23 in 2021, 17 in 2020, 23 in 2019 and 21 games in 2018. That doesn't look bad to me ??.
