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Wouldn't make sense to me for Berg to sign with us and ask for a trade.
It's a tough one. Sometimes the most important years as a young footballer are 19-20 and you see players develop rapidly simply because they are playing AFL. If they don't have access to AFL club facilities and GameDay experience there's every chance those types don't reach the heights of the current day elites.
I just figure, Freo weren't expecting the mass exodus they may be having, so re-visiting it, and will have to pay more now.
Of course. Unless it heavily assists us in getting Rankine, or positioning ourselves for a crack at JHF next year, I don't see the club wanting to lose him for depth purposes.
Not if it’s Freo wanting him.
My hubby thought the crows strategy was to sign Berg up to make him more valuable should a trade be offered? Perhaps we are looking to do a swap with Cox (who is also contracted).
Why? He's contracted.
That would make sense for us. Doesn't make a lot of sense to Himmelburg.
They might have realised that Lobb will have to be traded. Straight replacement for them.
They would offer overs, why wouldn’t we take overs for him?
It would have to be their second round pick. I would take that. Anything less and its a no from me.
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I recall a rule that you can't trade a player in the first year of a contract, so that might rule out a Himmelberg trade.Writing is on the wall for Fremantle, Lobb is gone and they're looking for a replacement.
Go have a look at Himmelbergs v Lobb's statistics at the same age (24). The only stat that Lobb comprehensively beats Himmelberg on is Hit Outs, because Tex does most of that work up front. Himmelberg has Lobb for goals scored on average at the same age, and they are equal in contested marks in the F50.
Elliott Himmelberg and Rory Lobb AFL Stats Comparison
Elliott Himmelberg and Rory Lobb AFL Stats Comparison.www.footywire.com
AFL literally came out just yesterday(through their mouthpiece Twomey) and announced they would be relaxing their views around salary cap dumps, making it easier for teams like us to cover salaries of players moving to other clubs, and for clubs with tight salary caps to incentive us to do so by offering higher draft picks. It would also give us an incentive us to take on player contracts from other clubs to help with their salary caps.
On the money: Salary dumps to drive key deals
The AFL is expected to allow more significant salary cap trading so that clubs can clear their own tight caps
I hypothesised a few weeks ago that we may have done this in signing Himmelberg for 2 years, essentially giving us the right to on-trade him, cover his salary for a few years whilst we're probably struggling to pay the min 95% salary cap, and attract a better draft pick as a result. Although i'm not sure why we wouldn't have done this with Frampton, considering it's well known the Pies salary cap position is tight.
It's just the AFL paving the way for Richmond to grab Green and Toranto for way unders, they will be absolute guns in that Richmond set up..Writing is on the wall for Fremantle, Lobb is gone and they're looking for a replacement.
Go have a look at Himmelbergs v Lobb's statistics at the same age (24). The only stat that Lobb comprehensively beats Himmelberg on is Hit Outs, because Tex does most of that work up front. Himmelberg has Lobb for goals scored on average at the same age, and they are equal in contested marks in the F50.
Elliott Himmelberg and Rory Lobb AFL Stats Comparison
Elliott Himmelberg and Rory Lobb AFL Stats Comparison.www.footywire.com
AFL literally came out just yesterday(through their mouthpiece Twomey) and announced they would be relaxing their views around salary cap dumps, making it easier for teams like us to cover salaries of players moving to other clubs, and for clubs with tight salary caps to incentive us to do so by offering higher draft picks. It would also give us an incentive us to take on player contracts from other clubs to help with their salary caps.
On the money: Salary dumps to drive key deals
The AFL is expected to allow more significant salary cap trading so that clubs can clear their own tight caps
I hypothesised a few weeks ago that we may have done this in signing Himmelberg for 2 years, essentially giving us the right to on-trade him, cover his salary for a few years whilst we're probably struggling to pay the min 95% salary cap, and attract a better draft pick as a result. Although i'm not sure why we wouldn't have done this with Frampton, considering it's well known the Pies salary cap position is tight.
Didn't Schache re-sign with the Lions weeks prior to being traded to the Dogs a few years back?
they must be waiting on some trades or something like that
The sign-and-trade is done a lot in American sports. Not sure on the rules here though.
AFL list management and trading rules: https://resources.afl.com.au/afl/do.../Amended-AFL-Rules-effective-2-March-2022.pdf
Maybe a case of he didn't have a firm offer from Freo, had one from us, so took it with the understanding that if Freo came calling and the price was right we'd move him? Otherwise we were happy to keep him as a depth piece.
