Remaining FAs

[Lazza]

[Presti35]

[Dave The Man]

We won't take any De-Listed Free Agents

[K]

[Jezza]

[Rd10.1998_11.1#36]

[Cam]

For mine, we either have something up our sleeves in the short term future [ie two years or less] to solve our forward line lack of target, or we are in the belief that we can get it done with Coxy, Checkers and this 1 game ex-Swan.

Just don't know what to think at the moment. But we *seem* to be a bit stagnant on this front, may not be true of course.

[neil]

Those players are all very underwhelming
List improvement is vital but doubt they add much to us Bennell excepted and he far too injury prone
Buzza has eye problems apparently

[Presti35]

[Presti35]

[Pies2016]

[Presti35]

I say go for him.

Ready to go if needed, lower pay, fills KPP depth, no injury issues, 21 goals in 2019....

Sure, he'll be behind Mihocek and Cox, but what a fkn great depth option!

Younger and fitter than Jenkins and way better than Buzza.

[stui magpie]

If he'd come as a depth option i wouldn't say no. Plays the same game style as checkers but taller, having experienced depth in the VFL to act as role models and on field coaches is good for development and our young KPP need development.

[35forever]

There's quite a few kids well worth looking at, I'm devoed about Crocs, I love a kid whose been a lifelong pies tragic, but I sorta get it, well, if they have players in mind, but I don't see who we're likely to get who would be an exciting pick up. Last season we had Izzy, Kelly & Boz to look forward to, then Beamer & Roughy after the rookies. this season we have... Shit, not much! Our first pick is about 753. Not that we can't pick up a champion way down the list, see our last Brownlow winner, but still. Other clubs are heavily excited about their draft prospects, or pickups from other clubs, I hate that!

But there's one guy I'd LOVE to see at our joint for a coupla years. I know I'll get abuse for even thinking it, & a couple of you already know who I mean.
Yes, a guy who Lee Matthews once, not that long ago, called "arguably the best player in the game". A guy who is a premiership player, & was voted player of the finals series last time we won a flag. He was our most beloved player while he was with us, but moved to a club where he's hardly missed a game, & been among their best every week the last couple of years, finishing his tenure with 150FF points in his last game. He's incredibly fit, extremely talented & we could get him for almost nothing. He would also play better than any kid we pick up in the draft, guaranteed.
So Why on Earth are we not jumping on the incredibly talented Dale Thomas?
It would be criminal to leave him because He didn't get on with Buckley. Beamer came back, he left for the same reason. And both are old enough to be over such silliness. No doubt.
He's also extremely good for the mood & morale among the boys, many of whom are still close friends. He would lift us in 2020, I'd bet my House on it.

[35forever]

In all seriousness, I don't see a single guy on the list more "ready to go" in R1 2020 than Daisy. You don't forget an extremely good player because you didnt like how he left, especially when you don't know the actual story.
The fact is that in his last season he was in great form, regularly on the 'best' list, & I do believe he could only be 'serviceable' to Carlton, who never treated him well. He basically followed a man who had become a father figure to the kid from the bush, & they dumped that man the next year in sad circumstances. Since then no one could doubt his commitment & determination, he became one of their top defenders, but Dale was never a defender. One only need remember 2010/11. He was as exciting a player as we had in the most exciting Pies side I ever saw.
And his fitness is undoubted. He's said he's fitter than 5 years ago. Dumb to let him go. If he's not in our best against the filth, BOTH times, I'll eat sh*t & die!