Trade Week - Mitch Clark

[MTTY]

Huge get for Melbourne. Allows us to play a team IMO of (when all fit)

B - Tapscott, Frawley, Garland
HB - Bartram, Grimes, Rivers
C - Jones, Bail, Trengove
HF - Sylvia, Watts, Howe
F - Jurrah, Clark, Petterd
R - Jamar, Moloney, McKenzie
INTER - Blease, Martin, Green, Davey(Sub)

EMER- Gawn, Gysberts, Bate

[8-6 Suited]

Bate will be gone so that is unlikely to have him as an emergency :p

[ossie85]

You know,  rate Bate ( lol ) as a player.

Wow. Thought after Clark's statement that that was it. Amazing back-flip really, perhaps the Demons offered more.

[Ziplock]

well, the first contract was for what, 600k a year for 4 years? I think this one must be pushing a mil for him to throw in reverse so suddenly.

[ossie85]

I'm fairly sure the Demons are below the minimum of the salary cap (every club has to pay 92.5% I think of the salary cap), so they need to pay someone! Especially with the massive Scully salary they were going to pay now off the table

[FisherSaints]

They've got him, traded pick 12 after they couldn't make a deal with Fremantle, great news for Melbourne supporters.

[roo boys!]

Wow big backflip! Great job by Melbourne!

Also, this would almost certainly cross them off the list of clubs who may go for Fevola.

[Purple 77]

I! AM!SO! EXCITED! As a die hard melbourne supporter, I couldn't be more excited and happy! SERIOUSLY! I couldn't have woke up to better news! Well done Tim harrington (list manager)! I admit, I have been pretty angry about you over the years but Its all good now lol.

[Nails]

I! AM!SO! EXCITED! As a die hard melbourne supporter, I couldn't be more excited and happy! SERIOUSLY! I couldn't have woke up to better news! Well done Tim harrington (list manager)! I admit, I have been pretty angry about you over the years but Its all good now lol.

Clark hasn't done a thing for 2 years... Don't get too excited.

[Maca24]

He had one freak year in their somewhere..
But I agree Nails, a bit overhyped.

[MTTY]

I think it is a fact for Demons supporters like myself to get excited. It's not the fact that we are saying Clark will be a superstar and kick 50+ and have hi best year cause he most likely won't. It's the fact that he hugely improves our structure. Without him we would have say Watts and Jurrah kicking a combined total of say 70-75 next year as our key forwards but with Clark there it not only adds say 25-35 goals from him but with one of Watts or Jurrah taking the 3rd best defender now we can expect around another 10-15 goals from that pair. This is why I am excited about finally getting a big forward because Watts is clearly a CHF and Jurrah isn't a CHF or FF but a third tall.

[Voldemort]

Clark's signing with the Demons will release the pressure of Brad Green, could play more in the mids in 2012

[Windigo]

That;s the right move. I really didn't see Clark fitting in at Perth.

Big Sandi, Big Cox, Big Nat, Big Q-Stick etc. No way.

[ossie85]

True Windigo, but the Jamar-Martin combo was working well IMO.

Jamar/Clark through the forward line, Martin off the back now I guess.

[RiOtChEsS]

perhaps he realized he wasnt going to get to Freo no matter what so took the best available contract