NOBLE: “I’m pleased without being ecstatic,” “We were happy to be able to secure a pick early in the second round. We knew getting back in the first round would be a stretch, but we think pick No.23 will allow us to bring in a talented young player. “We were pleased to bring in some coverage for our talls in James Podsiadly and also add to our firepower up forward. Eddie covers a need for us, so we’re pleased with what we’ve done especially given the circumstances.” “It was a tough decision to allow Bernie to go, but we’ve been able to keep our core group of young players together,” “There was media speculation about several of our players during the trade period. We didn’t put those names out there because that’s not how we like to do business. “It’s just an unfortunate result of this time of year, but as we’ve seen all those guys have stayed.” “We had a real dip at trying to get Jared Polec. It wasn’t like we sat on our hands. We created a second-round pick to discuss that option with Brisbane but by the time we’d secured that pick Jared had made his decision on where he wanted to go,” Noble said. “The Shaun Edwards trade was disappointing because we targeted him from a long way out. We saw him as an underdeveloped talent we could work with, but that’s the way it goes in the trade period sometimes.” “Trading for James (Podsiadly) means he becomes our player today. We know he’s on our list rather than waiting another week or so. We saw Essendon and GWS do the same thing with Paul Chapman and Josh Hunt,”
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 04:34:33 +0000
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