Carlton's Strange Trading Strategy
"I want to keep all our picks. I want to keep all our players." This was Carlton coach Denis Pagan's line during the first day of AFL trading.
He also indicated that Carlton would take Thornton at pick 1 in the preseason draft.
Carlton finished last this season, last also in 2005. A big cleanout, stocking up on draft picks, might have been the way to go.
Pagan has brought players like David Teague to the club, and kept players like Lappin, and that is not working.
Carlton should be chasing an uncontracted player, like Polak, and trading away older players and also players who do not want to be there. Thornton would be an example of the player who does not want to be there.
Even a 2nd rounder from Hawthorn could get Carlton Mitchell Brown, Kurt Tippett or Andrejs Everitt.
This could be Carlton's way of negotiating, and by Friday they might have done something to improve their team, but right now it looks like they will draft Gibbs and then put the same players they had last year on the field with him. Not a good outlook for Gibbs, or Carlton fans.
He also indicated that Carlton would take Thornton at pick 1 in the preseason draft.
Carlton finished last this season, last also in 2005. A big cleanout, stocking up on draft picks, might have been the way to go.
Pagan has brought players like David Teague to the club, and kept players like Lappin, and that is not working.
Carlton should be chasing an uncontracted player, like Polak, and trading away older players and also players who do not want to be there. Thornton would be an example of the player who does not want to be there.
Even a 2nd rounder from Hawthorn could get Carlton Mitchell Brown, Kurt Tippett or Andrejs Everitt.
This could be Carlton's way of negotiating, and by Friday they might have done something to improve their team, but right now it looks like they will draft Gibbs and then put the same players they had last year on the field with him. Not a good outlook for Gibbs, or Carlton fans.
