On Trade - if we come out of all this with McCabe, Duursma, Liam Henry and some smokies in later rounds while preserving our 2024 picks we will have done very very well.
FEEDBACK: as a follow on from my last comment my ONLY WISH for this is for Ash to get better recording gear specifically a microphone. Ash your audio is consistently much lower than everyone else’s. I am forever turn your bit up and then lowering it again for the others. It makes listening much hard and definitely not hands-free! It’s worse during spaces recordings but the other podcasts have the same issue.
Hi team thanks for the year/season as a first year subscriber I’ve loved it and feel I’ve caught this wave with you just at the right time. My most enjoyable of my almost 50 years supporting the hawks have been like 2005-8 when we were coming and when it was all upside. Even better in my book than periods of dominance where anything less than a premiership was failure. Feels like that now.
I agree, the best players available in a trade period are the best players for that trade period, therefore “not necessarily the solution”. I would never want the Hawks to pay overs in terms of picks or tenure as we could actually go backwards long term, eg Sam Frost. I hope we have started targeting players coming out of contract in 2024 & 2025 behind the scene. The likes of Jeka, Long, Ryan & Ramsden need to improve their skills & strength over the pre season and have an injury free year to take the available key positions and own them, otherwise it will be another tough year. I want to keep pick 3 (or whatever) for the draft and grab a premiership GUN.
On Trade - if we come out of all this with McCabe, Duursma, Liam Henry and some smokies in later rounds while preserving our 2024 picks we will have done very very well.
FEEDBACK: as a follow on from my last comment my ONLY WISH for this is for Ash to get better recording gear specifically a microphone. Ash your audio is consistently much lower than everyone else’s. I am forever turn your bit up and then lowering it again for the others. It makes listening much hard and definitely not hands-free! It’s worse during spaces recordings but the other podcasts have the same issue.
Hi team thanks for the year/season as a first year subscriber I’ve loved it and feel I’ve caught this wave with you just at the right time. My most enjoyable of my almost 50 years supporting the hawks have been like 2005-8 when we were coming and when it was all upside. Even better in my book than periods of dominance where anything less than a premiership was failure. Feels like that now.
McKay is a good player. He's a grade above Blanck, who will be better over time.
McKay played 19 games this year and takes as many intercept marks as Sicily does.
Five years for McKay will extend Sicily's effectiveness into his 30's and allow Blanck to mature properly.
They will be better together.
We have a similar problem at the other end of the field but fix the backs first.
As for North, a Top 10 would be fair compo NOT Pick 3 (other lowly clubs need assistance not a penalty. “Buddy Franklin = Pick 19”
I agree, the best players available in a trade period are the best players for that trade period, therefore “not necessarily the solution”. I would never want the Hawks to pay overs in terms of picks or tenure as we could actually go backwards long term, eg Sam Frost. I hope we have started targeting players coming out of contract in 2024 & 2025 behind the scene. The likes of Jeka, Long, Ryan & Ramsden need to improve their skills & strength over the pre season and have an injury free year to take the available key positions and own them, otherwise it will be another tough year. I want to keep pick 3 (or whatever) for the draft and grab a premiership GUN.