Evaluating the trade period: how did we go?

[MatthewBoydFanClub]

So by my estimation we have about 12 going out if we include Wyatt and Goodyear and the following players coming into the team:
Mayne, Wells, Hoskin-Elliot, Dunn, Keeffe, Thomas and most likely Brown and Daicos.
We have preserved our pick 28 and lose next year's second round pick.
The first four are first 22 for me although Dunn will have his work cut out for him against monster full forwards. If Keeffe comes good, keeping Dunn in the VFL, that's still four additions to our first 22, making this trade period a productive and successful one.
Swan is the killer loss for me, who is irreplaceable, but Wells offers something Swan doesn't, namely sublime kicking skills. Hoskin-Elliot will give De Goey some competition on the half forward line. Mayne will add some defensive pressure to the forward line, which will hopefully make it harder for opposition defenders to take the ball out of our forward zone.
None of the players leaving apart from Swan are first 22 players any more, sadly even Cloke.
Our weakness are our talls in defence. We need Reid to play all 22 games next year. Keeffe is an unknown and Dunn is a bit of a plodder who knows how to do a job.
Our number one priority in the national draft will be to produce a key tall who can play in defence or attack. Hope we can do that with pick 28. Also our recruitment of experienced tall defenders is not finished yet. Let's see who gets delisted by the other clubs and maybe we can still score somebody in the national draft with a late draft pick.

[robevpau1]

Dekka just made these comments on the AFL site.

Here's a selection of what Collingwood list manager Derek Hine said post the trade period. (Marley was on the way out so any pick a bonus)
On Lynden Dunn:
“We were mindful with Nathan (Brown) going out and Jack (Frost) going out and he’s proven that he can play tall and small, so we’re really pleased to bring Lynden in.
On Marley Williams:
“From our perspective, it was just doing the right thing by Marley. Otherwise, we were in a situation where we probably weren’t going to go on with him.
“We’ve had a lot of small defenders out with injury, guys like (Jackson) Ramsay and (Matthew) Scharenberg and I think that Marley realised he was a little down the back end of that group.
On Hoskin-Elliott:
“I think he’s going to be a lot more balanced back home, amongst family and friends. One thing that really stood out to us with Will was his performances on the MCG have just been really consistent and at a high level.

[GreekLunatic]

so who we select with pick 105

[MagpieBat]

[WhyPhilWhy?]

Would you not use Pick 28 on the best available KPF at that point?

[Piesnchess]

Not bad I suppose, pretty good, Wells and Hosin -Elliott, are going to be great, and thank the Lord we did not get Vickery, biggest spud in the history of spuds, Clarkos first and biggest, mistake of his footy career. LOL

[5150]

[Cam]

I think Dunn will give us something and keep Keefe out of the team tbh, if they are competing for the same position that is.

[MightyMagpie]

[qldmagpie67]

[MightyMagpie]

[thompsoc]

I reckon it was a crap trade week for us.
Got nothing for a whole raft of players.
Picked up some more duds.
Picked up on a ageing rock star in Wells.
Pity it is not 2009 again.
Picked up Hoskin who didn't play the last 20 games
for GWS.
So that is a stab in the dark pick.
All i seem to see about him is that he went for pick 4 a whole 5 years
ago.1
He has done nothing else since.
Now the mongrels Hawthorn have got 2 top midfield players and a big man in Vickery that fits the hawks plan of drafting tall players ...that they can mark.
So Hawks are streets ahead of us ...again!
Still got marsh and blair who nobody wanted to trade even
pick 103!
So as I said before.
2016 ...a waste of a year.

[qldmagpie67]

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[MightyMagpie]