Trade Sidebottom & Fasolo

[inxs88]

The following players should be put up for trade, delisted or are on the edge:


Trade Currency:

* Fasolo: not a clutch player despite his popularity. Surely Freo would pass on a second rd pick for him. We lost a second round draft pick for Hoskin Elliott so we need to recoup another. Too many fans are seduced by his upper level performances but outside the Richmond game in 2016, when has he really performed in "clutch game winning moments" when the "heat is on"??

* Sidebottom: superfluous to our needs. With Treloar, Adams, Greenwood, Varcoe we have enough 180cm mids with flaws in their game. Steele would command a first round draft pick from a contender. 27 next year and ask yourself one thing: "is he going to get any better"? Thankyou for the service but he has become Dinky kick central in my opinion

* Ramsay: would elicit a 3rd round draft pick at best

Delisted:

* Blair: surely has to be his last year
* Sinclair: allergic to football

Playing for their careers:

* Goldsack: playing well currently
* White: last year of contract and needs to respond better than today
* J Thomas: shall need to make an impact
* Keefe: hard to see him getting a gig in 2018
* Sier: needs to get on the paddock and repay the speculative faith
* Oxley: like him and would hope he gets a run at it.

Imagine the following:

* We finish 14th and have pick 5 in the National Draft
* We secure another first round pick for Sidebottom eg. pick 10
* 2nd round pick for Fasolo eg. pick 25
* We have two 3rd round picks this season (1 for Frost trade and 1 regular)

With a draft full of key talls we could use pick 5, 10 on two excellent talls and start the "rebuilding" of our tall stocks!

PS: am sure I'll be hated for proposing the above!

[Tannin]

Sidebottom kicks OK when there are some goals to aim at. Why we persist in playing one of the league's best small forwards as a midfielder I don't know.

[hermie]

Sidebottom is the softest player on our list,does my head in with weak tackle attempts and blokes just brush him off and kick goals,i know every team needs outside players and he is up there but as a leader sometimes you have to be the one to go and he consistently isn't the one

[inxs88]

[stui magpie]

[qldmagpie67]

INXS I agree Faz isn't the type of player you build forward lines around. He's hot and cold in a matter of minutes. His best is very good but it's so infrequent
I hate seeing him just standing there waving his arms around instead of being on his bike
He gets to far away from goals to often and that's not were we need him
Second round pick might be on th high end

Sidey has that ability to make you cry and smile in the space of 2 possessions. I've been a harsh critic for a long time but I don't totally blame the player. He's been allowed in fact rewarded with inconsistent performances with a new long term contract on the basis of a hand full of games a year.
Long term contracts are for the top echelon of player not average players which is what he is most of the time. When he's on so he's brilliant but it's never for a whole game or every week. It's patchy brilliance coupled with rookie errors and poor basic skill errors
I agree with Tannin in part he's a small forward not a midfielder been saying that for years but he would need to show a lot more of a defensive mindset to make it to the top tier of small forwards in today's game. He's definitely not Betts but he has good game sense so should make it as a small forward.
I said when we drafted him we paid huge overs. Prior to the TAC final he was rated a mid to low second round pick by most phantom drafts and some had him in the 3rd round. We drafted him on the back of 1 very good game. The rest of his last season in the TAC was barely average for a small forward or midfielder (memory tells me he averaged high teens in possessions and less than a goal a game and not much else)
It was a mistake to use pick 11 on him he would have been available later with a second round pick. We wouldn't get anyone to part with a 1st round pick IMO unless someone was desperate for midfielders and nothing was available in the draft.
Right now we have little trade value on our list so it's either clean out the list and go to the draft or trade players out and go to the market

[inxs88]

[Raw Hammer]

[The Boy Who Cried Wolf]

I like him forward. Stuff his engine.. its a distraction.

[hermie]

[quote="inxs88"][quote="hermie"]Sidebottom is the softest player on our list,does my head in with weak tackle attempts and blokes just brush him off and kick goals,i know every team needs outside players and he is up there but as a leader sometimes you have to be the one to go and he consistently isn't the one[/quote]

Correct. His limp tackling and coughing the ball up with equally limp handball yesterday cost us big time![/quote]

he plays his role perfectly and he isn't our worst user of the ball but he isn't hard enough at the ball sometimes and being a vice captain he has to put his head over it or lay a tackle

[GreekLunatic]

so far people want nearly half our list traded

[duke750]

Keep Sidebottom as a forward (still remember how well he played in both GFs) but Fasolo is not the sort of small forward we need at this time.

Throw the kitchen sink at Tom Lynch

[Jpies]

[duke750]

Agree that Sidebottom and Pendles are untouchable. But we should look at what type of forward line we need to win a premiership. We cannot afford to have 2 small forwards who try to take hangers over the key forwards. Keep Elliot, but jettison Fasolo for whatever we can get.

[stui magpie]