Oppo Camp Oliver Henry (Traded to Geelong 2022)

[Brad Goodman]

 

[jathanas]

Ok - now I'm officially triggered.
jathanas please record this in the annals of BF

Stay strong mate. Sending you thoughts and prayers.

Grammar abuse duly recorded.

 

[NMBB]

Stay strong mate. Sending you thoughts and prayers.

Grammar abuse duly recorded.

Tks mate - it's tough here most days

 

[DERKADERRR]

Stay strong mate. Sending you thoughts and prayers.

Grammar abuse duly recorded.

I'm not usually one to make a fuss about grammar but I legitimately could not read that post.

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

Please, for the love of God, can you use basic grammar?

I'm not sure if I'm alone here and it's just my ADHD, but it's extremely difficult to read stuff like this. I had to stop after the first two lines.

I just don't read it. In fact, I am at the stage where I just skim over posts that are not reporting a trade. Which accounts for just about all the posts, including mine. I have also not listened to Trade radio once, despite the high pitched annoyance of Terry Wallet being long gone. I am not in the market for a new set of tyres and would go out of my way not to buy anything advertised in their broadcast if I did listen.

 

[NMBB]

Stay strong mate. Sending you thoughts and prayers.

Grammar abuse duly recorded.

This guy contacted me about an editor's role on BF - I'll pm you his details - seems quite affable accept about bad grammer.

 

[neilk]

Ok - now I'm officially triggered.
jathanas please record this in the anals of BF

Fixed it for you.

 

[NMBB]

Fixed it for you.

Been waiting for something along those lines

 

[NMBB]

 

[Anzacday]

There’s quite a few triggered Cats fans on the Main Board, (they’ll deny it but the numbers don’t lie).
PieLebo87 is almost fighting them on his own.

 

[PieLebo87]

There’s quite a few triggered Cats fans on the Main Board, (they’ll deny it but the numbers don’t lie).
PieLebo87 is almost fighting them on his own.

I thought we were all collectively obnoxiously stubborn wowee they’re a different breed the handbaggers.

 

[Bear Nectar]

I thought we were all collectively obnoxiously stubborn wowee they’re a different breed the handbaggers.

try being a collingwood supporter living in Geelong

 

[PieLebo87]

try being a collingwood supporter living in Geelong

I can honestly feel the frustration having spent abit of time in that thread during this trade period. There are so many nuffies. I feel for ya!

 

[Bear Nectar]

I thought we were all collectively obnoxiously stubborn wowee they’re a different breed the handbaggers.

I also lol'd at their attempt to compare the Luke Ball situation with the Henry one.
it's like their argument that Henry isn't worth a first rounder because he didn't play finals.
both arguments are pure nonsense

 

[Jen2310]

try being a collingwood supporter living in Geelong

Yeah ive got a couple mates that live there. Its hell they tell me.

 

[Markfs]

I'm not too sure how ethical it is to push grundy out the door because of his contract, and then accept so-called salary dumps like mitchell, where presumably the club pays his high salary because he's on the cheap trade pick wise.....in other words, what melbourne is doing to us with grundy....

so we push one overpriced footballer out ....in order to get an overpriced footballer in?... it just sounds a bit grubby

 

[Kappa]

I'm not too sure how ethical it is to push grundy out the door because of his contract, and then accept so-called salary dumps like mitchell, where presumably the club pays his high salary because he's on the cheap trade pick wise.....in other words, what melbourne is doing to us with grundy....

so we push one overpriced footballer out ....in order to get an overpriced footballer in?... it just sounds a bit grubby

Mitchell isn't overpriced, Hawthorn are just going with a youth-policy so he's surplus to their needs.

Grundy is not being moved on because he's too old.

 

[3rdMan]

Mitchell isn't overpriced, Hawthorn are just going with a youth-policy so he's surplus to their needs.

Grundy is not being moved on because he's too old.

If Mitchell were not overpriced, Hawks wouldn't be offering to pay part of his contract.

He is overpriced ($850k is it?) and even at a low trade cost and Hawks paying part of his contract, Pies are the only team with some interest. Simply not an impact player, and can't be one of the highest paid on a team.

 

[Markfs]

Mitchell isn't overpriced, Hawthorn are just going with a youth-policy so he's surplus to their needs.

Grundy is not being moved on because he's too old.

i thought i read that mitchell was going to be cheap as far as trade picks is concerned because he is scheduled to be paid a lot of salary next year. I dont know where you got the idea that I thought grundy was too old. It was a simple concept I was explaining - we are moving out a guy who is too expensive and then we move in a guy who has a contract to be paid 800K or something. I know he's a midfielder and we are moving grundy out because he is a ruckman and we dont want to pay 950K or something for a ruckman....but still it seems worse than treloar where we were told we had to push him out because we couldnt fit his salary in...forget it anyway...not worth a discussion

 

[The Royal Sampler]

I'm not too sure how ethical it is to push grundy out the door because of his contract, and then accept so-called salary dumps like mitchell, where presumably the club pays his high salary because he's on the cheap trade pick wise.....in other words, what melbourne is doing to us with grundy....

so we push one overpriced footballer out ....in order to get an overpriced footballer in?... it just sounds a bit grubby

You’re overthinking it.

We don’t want such a high proportion of our resources (salary cap) tied up in one area of the field, specifically rucks. Happier to increase our spend in midfield. In fact probably happier still to increase our spend on forwards, but considered that such a priority that we allocated that money out of projected cap increases, rather than waiting to free up money from trading Grundy.

 

[swoop42]

 

[stormskye]

Think it’s getting to this. Old Wrighty with Mackie in the room.

 

[Markfs]

You’re overthinking it.

We don’t want such a high proportion of our resources (salary cap) tied up in one area of the field, specifically rucks. Happier to increase our spend in midfield. In fact probably happier still to increase our spend on forwards, but considered that such a priority that we allocated that money out of projected cap increases, rather than waiting to free up money from trading Grundy.

I wasnt writing in a practical sense. I was writing about how I felt about the club pushing out grundy and trading in high salary players. I think the grundy contract was a mistake but I still feel that it was an agreement. I'm not a fan of winding back promises unless absolutely necessary and the grundy move is more strategic now...and less about necessity as it might have been with treloar.

 

[PieLebo87]

I wasnt writing in a practical sense. I was writing about how I felt about the club pushing out grundy and trading in high salary players. I think the grundy contract was a mistake but I still feel that it was an agreement. I'm not a fan of winding back promises unless absolutely necessary and the grundy move is more strategic now...and less about necessity as it might have been with treloar.

I getcha, and agree it isn’t exactly perfect business etiquette, but in saying that, we’re talking 5 more years of snookering ourselves in the salary cap with $900k a year. Opening up $600k of that after next year (if we’re using next year’s $600k on Mitchell) from ‘24 to ‘27 is just smart business if the Pies can pull off the trade.

They’re doing what’s better for the greater good of this list at the expense of Grundy. No well run business wouldn’t contemplate that.

 

[Markfs]

I getcha, and agree it isn’t exactly perfect business etiquette, but in saying that, we’re talking 5 more years of snookering ourselves in the salary cap with $900k a year. Opening up $600k of that after next year (if we’re using next year’s $600k on Mitchell) from ‘24 to ‘27 is just smart business if the Pies can pull off the trade.

They’re doing what’s better for the greater good of this list at the expense of Grundy. No well run business wouldn’t contemplate that.

No, I agree. It was a passing thought. I'm after premierships and I assume the rest of the list is too...