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I think both that case and ours re. Dunstan/Brouch involved a club essentially buying draft pick stock with cap space but in that case, it's Cats using their cap space to buy draft stock from GC (whose benefit is freeing up cap space getting rid of Bowes but paying for it with draft stock).

In our case though, we tried to pay with cap space to StK to then offer a big contract to Brouch so we'd get a good compo - this draft stock comes from the draft and affects all other clubs and this is the main difference.


There's something odd about these two clubs - that Bowes deal, the Ablett Jnr deals (and probably more) - it's like two people meeting in public toilets after dark.
Exactly, GCS packaged their pick as part of the player trade so it was nothing like what we tried to do. The only thing that could have happen was with what happened to Daniher who clearly wanted an adequate compensation for Essendon so structured his 4 years into 3 to trigger a band 1 compensation but B.Crouch just wanted out of here and couldn't care.
 
Exactly, GCS packaged their pick as part of the player trade so it was nothing like what we tried to do. The only thing that could have happen was with what happened to Daniher who clearly wanted an adequate compensation for Essendon so structured his 4 years into 3 to trigger a band 1 compensation but B.Crouch just wanted out of here and couldn't care.
My point was tho in GCS case, pick 7 was from GC themselves whereas we were trying to manufacture a compo pick which comes from the overall pool of picks.
 
My point was tho in GCS case, pick 7 was from GC themselves whereas we were trying to manufacture a compo pick which comes from the overall pool of picks.
I don’t think there is any defending the Bowes trade.

The AFL are meant to do a reasonableness test on trades. There is now way that pick 7 plus Bowes equals a F3. That is in no way reasonable.

But because it was GCS and Geelong = tick
 

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I don’t think there is any defending the Bowes trade.

The AFL are meant to do a reasonableness test on trades. There is now way that pick 7 plus Bowes equals a F3. That is in no way reasonable.

But because it was GCS and Geelong = tick
Had that have been us standing to benefit from the GC Christmas giveaway, we would have attracted draft sanctions from said AFL
 
Exactly, GCS packaged their pick as part of the player trade so it was nothing like what we tried to do. The only thing that could have happen was with what happened to Daniher who clearly wanted an adequate compensation for Essendon so structured his 4 years into 3 to trigger a band 1 compensation but B.Crouch just wanted out of here and couldn't care.
Crouch didn't want to leave.

But wherever he was going, he wanted a long-term deal.
 
When is our contract up with the AFL? The past 2 pages has a different outcome when you are owned and accountable to members and not the AFL.
 
I don’t think there is any defending the Bowes trade.

The AFL are meant to do a reasonableness test on trades. There is now way that pick 7 plus Bowes equals a F3. That is in no way reasonable.

But because it was GCS and Geelong = tick
The equation from GC p.o.v. is ( pick 7 + Bowes ) = ( F3 + ~$700k off from TPP )

(I don't know what Bowes' contract was at GC but remember reading it was kind of large so maybe around $700k, or maybe it a number of years things also)
 
The equation from GC p.o.v. is ( pick 7 + Bowes ) = ( F3 + ~$700k off from TPP )

(I don't know what Bowes' contract was at GC but remember reading it was kind of large so maybe around $700k, or maybe it a number of years things also)
Yes, I recall it was a salary dump. But surely there is a limit. They gave away a top 10 pick!?!?!
 
When is our contract up with the AFL? The past 2 pages has a different outcome when you are owned and accountable to members and not the AFL.
2028.

Though the club gets to decide the format of the new board so it may still not be member controlled.

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Crouch didn't want to leave.

But wherever he was going, he wanted a long-term deal.
Hence, why he was out of here and couldn't care about which other clubs gave him a long term deal so doing what Daniher did to leverage a better FA compensation wasn't even a question. BTW, nothing wrong with this as you should look after your own interest as being a professional footballer is your short career.
 
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A League gives it a fair run in being compromised. I am sure NRL too.

AFL probably takes the crown.

Surely there is a more corrupt soccer league in the DR Congo??

You don't need to look that far, FIFA exists and makes the AFL look like a well oiled machine.

Even the big four american sports leagues are all terrible in their own rights.
 

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Just seen a leak of our Indigenous Guernsey for 2023 and for me it's our first real failure, it's boring and it incorporates things we've seen before on the Guernsey.

This is normally something we've excelled at in the past and been excited to purchase. Not this year though so a bit disappointed.

Edit just seen the club has officially released it.
 
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Just seen a leak of our Indigenous Guernsey for 2023 and for me it's our first real failure, it's boring and it incorporates things we've seen before on the Guernsey.

This is normally something we've excelled at in the past and been excited to purchase. Not this year though so a bit disappointed.

Edit just seen the club has officially released it.

Well Milera is wearing it so that seems about right, bland.

Do we have any rumours at all?
 
Had that have been us standing to benefit from the GC Christmas giveaway, we would have attracted draft sanctions from said AFL
Yep. We’d have no first round picks until 2026. McLure, Wilson, Barrett and Kornes would still be talking about how we got off lightly and how the AFL should have made a strong stand on the issue.
 
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