From the AFL Blog: The silly season gets underway…
The mejar (as the boys over at www.footytalk.com.au would say) are at it again. The trade rumors have started and the AFL Blog had a post all about it.
The silly season gets underway…:
“Trade talk usually goes hand-in-hand with the finals, but this year it had taken a back seat. Until today.
Thursday’s papers are full of trade talk, with the preliminary maneuvering under way ahead of the official trade week from 3-7 October.
Hawthorn is front and centre of trade speculation once again, with The Age, the Herald Sun and The Australian all tipping that full-back Jonathan Hay, an All Australian as recently as 2001, is headed out the door.”
There is much talk from the Hawks fans (I am a Hawks fan) at the Hawk Headquarters message board that they would be happy for Hay to go but want Crawf to stay. I am not going to come out and say that this is total crap and neither will be traded (as I had egg on my face when Croad was traded in 2001) but surely we would only be in listening mode and it would take a lot to get the Hawks to part with two plays that have both been All-Australians in the past.
Probably the biggest surprise to me is that one of the teams that gets named is Essendon. I really find it hard to see what benefit getting Crawf would have to their side. It might push them back into the finals for a year or two but I hardly think that it will take them to a flag! Surely they would be better server shopping around some of their older players in the hope that they could inject a big helping of youth! Getting Crawf would not only add his age to their list but Hawthorn would surely want to get young players (Keppler Bradley would be who I would be pushing for) and/or early draft picks. Crawf being under contract, I wouldn’t let him go for nothing even if he isn’t happy at the Hawks.
That’s just my two cents. I am sure more rumors will follow. What do you think? Heard any good rumors (I doubt it, most are normally crap).
Happy Blogging and GO HAWKS!
Molly
