BXV Birmingham Dragons History

[Football Factory]

Day could win the golden fist  ;D

[Justin Bieber]

Day could win the golden fist  ;D

This is actually realistic lol

[kilbluff1985]

Trade 10
Werewolves give Chris Dawes
Bombers give NAT pick 26
Trade approved

Trade 11
Bombers give NAT Pick 18 + Dom Tyson
Leeches give NAT Pick 5 + NAT Pick 23
Trade approved

2 trades seen the Bombers give up Tyson, Pick 26 and Pick 18 in return received Dawes, Pick 5 and Pick 23

Reasons are fairly simple although we were reluctant to give up Tyson there is somebody we want in this years NAT Draft and will hopefully be there at Pick 5 one of the players on our list wont shutup about him to be honest ::)

Dawes we felt we needed some more forward depth and slightly worried Lewis will lose DPP our midfield is young enough and our defense and Rucks we just wanted some not old forwards hence trading in Hall and Dawes we were going to target forwards in the draft anyway felt this just made more sense

[kilbluff1985]

Trade 12

Swindon trade: Jed Lamb and Pick 56
Birmingham trade: Picks 23 and 67
Trade approved

Just after another young forward with this one and was very keen on Lamb after his move from Sydney to GWS which should see him get more game time which would be why he moved

[kilbluff1985]

Matt Suckling (knee) Suckling missed the 2013 season after rupturing an ACL during the NAB Cup. The defender began running midway through the season, and is hopeful of completing most of the pre-season.

Chris Dawes (knee) Expected to run just before Christmas after undergoing knee surgery in late October. The positive is that he will have time to recover from niggling calf and hamstring issues.

Tom McDonald (shoulder) Underwent a post-season shoulder reconstruction to guard against future problems. Back running now and will need to avoid contact in the early part of the pre-season.

Andrew Swallow (Achilles) Swallow will be restricted to walking during the Utah trip, as he continues to rehabilitate the Achilles he ruptured in round 18. Coach Brad Scott has forecast the Kangaroos skipper may not be back on the field until the second half of 2014.  :'(

was aware of Swallow's injury but thought it was more like round 5 or something he'd be back but oh well was a long term trade

[kilbluff1985]

Well the coach is bored as usual thought i'd do a run down of our picks in the NAT draft which is 2 weeks away

The list has been through a massive overhaul this trade period as the coach was trying to trade out the oldies for youth traded who we could and delisted the ones we couldn't some were forced and there were some young players who just couldn't make it to the big time

Currently our senior list has 31 players out of a required 41 :o and rookie list has 2 out of a required 4

NAT Picks are as following

#5
#47
#50
#52
#54
#56

And will have 4 picks in the "Subsidiary picks to bring lists to 41" 2 of which will be used to promote Sutcliffe and Michie two very good young players then i guess we will pick up which ever spuds are left lol :o

after promoting Michie and Sutcliffe we'll have 4 vacant spots on the rookie list

Rookie picks are as following

#14
#16
#34
#52

We are probably going to be targeting a few forwards and defenders with our picks as we feel our midfield is young and strong enough as it is

Admin Ringo is fairly concerned about Birmingham's list as there may not be enough players to fill the required spots :o

[kilbluff1985]

Trade 13
Owls give: Tom Mitchell + NAT 25
Bombers give: Andrew Swallow + NAT 47

fairly controversial trade here and for good reason we are giving up a proven premo for a young potential superstar very highly rated but still a pretty big risk but list management are confident it will pay off it's well known now that Swallow may miss half of next season before he returns this could even turn out to be longer as there may be set backs which happens often with LTI's this along with Zaharakis being a bit injury prone and Ziebell being a bit suspension prone we were not really comfortable going into the season knowing this 

Not only that whilst Swallow is not old at all we feel Mitchell is better for us long term with our other young gun mids

Some may question why Swallow was traded in to the team in the first place twice in one year i think btw lol but he was still better for us long term then Mackie and Vince and he had better currency on the trade table and we feel Mitchell is even better long term for us we highly rate him and thing he'll be as good as Dane Swan  :-X

[kilbluff1985]

in the end we turned

Mackie + Vince + NAT 72 + NAT 47

into

Tom Mitchell + Rookie 14 + NAT 25 + NAT 50

I think we did well considering Vince has bugger all value 

[Justin Bieber]

Wow does Vince have bugger all?

4 year contract at the Demons. Should score well.

[kilbluff1985]

Wow does Vince have bugger all?

4 year contract at the Demons. Should score well.

that's completely unknown at this stage more chance of him staying the same then improving why you think he will improve so much is beyond me is a very average player

[kilbluff1985]

Draft and Rookie picks have changed a bit we now have

NAT 7
NAT 25
NAT 50
NAT 52
NAT 54
NAT 56

And will have 4 picks in the "Subsidiary picks to bring lists to 41" 2 of which will be used to promote Sutcliffe and Michie

And in the rookie draft we need to draft 4 players with

Rookie 7
Rookie 14
Rookie 16
Rookie 52

[kilbluff1985]

Proposed Best XV for 2014

Def Suckling, Atley, Hansen, Lester/Clisby
Mids Murphy, T Mitchell, Zaharakis, Ziebell
Rucks Clarke
Fwds Lewis, Schulz, Hall, Belly
Utilities Crouch, M Jones/Caddy

[kilbluff1985]

Breaking News

Birmingham Bombers would like to announce FanFooty member "Dayze" has joined the Coaching Panel as an Assistant Coach we're very happy to have him on the team

[Dayze]

Humbled to be joining the bombers coaching panel and look forward to learning from KB and the rest of you coaches.
I'm very fresh to the XV so any advice or direction is appreciated.
Am impressed with the youth direction KB has taken and think our list appears very healthy.
Bring on the draft and 2014..

[kilbluff1985]

Breaking News

To Bolster our Coaching panel even more we are pleased to announce "its me lads" will be joining us as an Assistant Coach

#dynasty