De Goey, Grundy and Moore, time to perform

[Mr Miyagi]

You wanted the megabucks, several players who didn’t want to leave got pushed out so you could get the $$$. Now it’s time for you to show why you’re worth the megabucks and the trade fiasco that’s caused so much angst.

[The Boy Who Cried Wolf]

Won't be enough - expect years of pain

[shawthing]

Nope. We've massively overpaid for them too. The morale at Collingwood will be very low. Grundy is not a good tap ruckman and not a good leader.

The mismanagement of the club is momentous. I want heads to roll for for this!

[Presti35]

If only we held on in 2018

[gurugeoff]

good point, you want your mega buck players to be the best in the league, and match winners

unfortunately for us, whilst these three are all very good players

Grundy - best attribute he had was that he was very mobile and played like an extra midfielder. Ruck work / marking never been his forte. As he gets older, his midfielder attributes likely to wane.

De Goey - has had some great moments, but body of work over his whole career underwhelming

Moore - good player, but more likely to impact games if he was a gun forward

[woodys_world69]

De Goey is now due to appear in court on April 22.

hope he plays well in his first few games...will we have him after april 22?

[Mr Miyagi]

[magpieazza]

FMD and now we have to wait for the JDG saga !!!

Does anyone know if JDG has a chance of being innocent ??

[inxs88]

Yep. Taking the cash means taking the responsibility. Put them ALL in the leadership group and earn their Bux

[Boot]

I'm still in a state of shock over the disaster of this trade period, but trying to work out how Collingwood can line up for Round 1 in 2021 and end up with the following;
Backs: B.Maynard, J.Roughhead, J.Howe
H.Backs: I.Quaynor, D.Moore, J.Crisp
Centers: S. Sidebottom, T.Adams , J.Daicos
H.Forwards W.Hoskin-Elliot, B.Mihocek, T.Brown
Forwards: J.Elliott, M.Cox, J.DeGoey
Followers: B. Grundy, B.Sier, S. Pendlebury,
Interchange: W.Kelly, , D.Cameron, C.Brown, J.Noble
Emergencies:, J.Madgen, N, Murphy, T. Ruscoe, M.Keane

That team looks competitive but unfortunately it looks a bit "one paced" to be kind. Lots of challenges awaiting in 2021 not least of which will be how to rebuild the culture of team required to be successful which may be difficult given that Treloar and Phillips were popular amongst the team.
By my calculations we have traded out $1.5M from our salary cap, but we still have ~ $1.2M in the cap to be played to players who won't be able to play a single game for us in 2021 i.e. Beams, Langdon, Treloar ($300K) and Phillips ($150K).

[Mr Miyagi]

[Lazza]

[Woods Of Ypres]

2 of the 3 are injury prone, I'm not optimistic

[Mr Miyagi]

[Dave The Man]

Why would they want to even Stay at Collingwood?