Rumour 2024 Hypothetical trade and FA Thread

[Strapping Young Lad]

2024 Picks



2025 Picks

 

[Mr Meeseeks]

Can't tell me that someone on 170k a year can't find somewhere to live that is close enough to travel to work, even in Sydney.

Yeah it's a load of rubbish.

Sydney must have some more gun academy kids coming up, they always cry poor as a distraction when they are getting handed another advantage.

Pridham is an entitled snake

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[hardway]

If the wife doesn’t work, and you have x costs on top of rent, it’s a pretty poor wage now, crazy to say out loud but taking in taxes, bills and family expenses it’s not good enough for afl clubs anymore

Thanks for the heads up. I’m on the phone to the boss right now for a 60% pay rise.

 

[HawthornHawk]

Yeah it's a load of rubbish.

Sydney must have some more gun academy kids coming up, they always cry poor as a distraction when they are getting handed another advantage.

Pridham is an entitled snake

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Trying to pull another John Blakey

 

[Rocket72]

No to Chaz Cameron. Lions will want two first round picks and we are not in that space. Speaking of Brissy, I have been told by a few people Joe Daniher wants out and wants to get back to Melbourne so let’s see how that plays out.

Good player but at 30 and the likely interest from others, we are not a serious suiter.

 

[FB19]

Ah f*** it go bananas Rough! 2025 r1

Hardwick Aleer Scrimshaw
Battle Sicily Impey
Hill Newk Amon
Ginnivan Daniher Moore
Cameron Chol Watson
English Day Smith
CJ Weddle Mackenzie CMac D’Ambrosio

 

[Rocket72]

The guy makes $170 000 a year - that's a decent salary, if he got 9.8% extra for cola how does that make the difference to buying a house in Sydney?

Serious question, do players pay for their own gear now? With stricter salary cap arrangements and fringe benefits tax I'm guessing they are out of pocket for some stuff?

 

[Nugett]

Bold decision
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Until I read Australia on the can, I always thought it strips for Alcoholic’s Choice

 

[CHUBBSS]

Thanks fir the heads up. I’m on the phone to the boss right now for a 60% pay rise.

When the minimum wage feels like 100k you know we have jumped the shark, think the average was 90 last time I checked

 

[CHUBBSS]

Sydney could use their cap space to give their lower paid coaches pay rises if they really wanted.
What does Longmire earn? $1mill a year? Take a cut to $950 000 and there is an extra $50 000 a year. Maybe they have too many coaches, cut one and give the other an increase.

I don’t disagree but the softcap is also weak for every club, it got cut in Covid but needs to change pretty quickly.

You could do the above and also increase across the board, but the top always takes from the rest (Mitchell seems to have the balance right)

 

[PenAndPaper]

If the wife doesn’t work, and you have x costs on top of rent, it’s a pretty poor wage now, crazy to say out loud but taking in taxes, bills and family expenses it’s not good enough for afl clubs anymore

If they are struggling, then he either finds another job that pays him what he needs or his partner gets a job (if he has a partner).
The club should not be given an advantage over the other clubs because of this. Horse could be on 100k less to give the two an extra 50k, not our fault the club can't manage their soft cap effectively for their employees.

 

[mustang]

We need to avoid doing a St.Kilda and topping up to play finals and then crashing back down.

Just like in 2018 when we thought we were better than we were, finishing 4th and the club kept trading away picks on players to get back there.

Put our rebuild back a few years.

 

[TassieGrown]

Serious question, do players pay for their own gear now? With stricter salary cap arrangements and fringe benefits tax I'm guessing they are out of pocket for some stuff?

Depends on what you mean by gear

 

[burger09]

Swans are scrambling to retain Warner I'd say.
Sydney's motto should be

"When in doubt, ask AFL for another hand out."

Worse than the shinbeggers. Spoon fed, then claim it's the CULTURE. F#$king spare me.

 

[Brucie Buffer]

Who cares where Longmire lives. He and all the coaches and staff have to live in Sydney which is significantly more expensive than Melbourne or Perth.

This, by the sounds of what was discussed last night, briefly I must add, isn't a Salary Cap rort like last time before it was abolished, but an allowance for Sydney based members of staff to entice them to be attracted to move and work or be retained in Sydney instead of moving back to the larger fishbowl in Melbourne or other states where it is even less expensive.

Jordan Dawson was mentioned as he was able to buy his house in Adelaide for half of what he was able to find for something similar in Sydney.

It is why salaries in Sydney are higher than other cities too. You have to pay them to retain or attract them. Unfortunately, the soft cap is the same for all clubs.

If this is the case, why do Adelaide get the same soft cap as everyone else?
Tongue in cheek of course, but you could make an argument that Adelaide have an advantage with their COLA. Maybe not their water though.

 

[Brucie Buffer]

This is no doubt an unpopular opinion in here but Joe Dirt is my favourite player outside of the hawks.

Id love to have him for a few years but not sure it's the best move for our list, or for him.

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Yuk. You need to watch more footy if he’s your favourite player outside of the Hawks

 

[FB19]

I know it's been mentioned before - but they are very interested in Lewis. Take that one to the bank.

(No idea what Lewis' position is on this, mind)

Surely now that we took Jasper Scaife a 19 year old 197cm KPF in the mid season rookie draft, that confirms the Lewis rumours and now it’s just figuring out the trade…

 

[Hot Cheese Rioli]

Surely now that we took Jasper Scaife a 19 year old 197cm KPF in the mid season rookie draft, that confirms the Lewis rumours and now it’s just figuring out the trade…

I know you're posting this in jest but also with some truth to it. I'm a little worried about what this pick means for Lewis. We may cut and run IF the offer we get for him is overs.

 

[play2win]

I know you're posting this in jest but also with some truth to it. I'm a little worried about what this pick means for Lewis. We may cut and run IF the offer we get for him is overs.

And if we picked a midfielder would you be similarly worried about Worpel? I think you’re jumping at shadows

 

[FB19]

I know you're posting this in jest but also with some truth to it. I'm a little worried about what this pick means for Lewis. We may cut and run IF the offer we get for him is overs.

Yeah a pisstake as you rightly clocked despite my lack of text colouring. The only reason he might entertain it would be if he thinks another program might sort out his injuries as it must be incredibly frustrating now for him.

 

[Mitchell Madness]

I know you're posting this in jest but also with some truth to it. I'm a little worried about what this pick means for Lewis. We may cut and run IF the offer we get for him is overs.

North are desperate for a "big fish"

 

[Flag08]

fox footy reporting COLA is coming back ?!

Was always going to raise its ugly head the minute Buddy retired

 

[The Chad and I]

I know it's been mentioned before - but they are very interested in Lewis. Take that one to the bank.

(No idea what Lewis' position is on this, mind)

I would do a straight swap for Bailey Fristche,
or a swap of their first + a player, for our second.

 

[Hot Cheese Rioli]

And if we picked a midfielder would you be similarly worried about Worpel? I think you’re jumping at shadows

Good point and could absolutely be jumping at shadows. Fingers crossed I am.

I'm just always mindful of the obvious when it comes to trading - that to get something decent you have to give up something decent in return.

I could absolutely see another club offering Lewis a cracking deal which may turn his head. Money and job security with his injury record would be awfully tempting.

 

[Bugs1977]

Good point and could absolutely be jumping at shadows. Fingers crossed I am.

I'm just always mindful of the obvious when it comes to trading - that to get something decent you have to give up something decent in return.

I could absolutely see another club offering Lewis a cracking deal which may turn his head. Money and job security with his injury record would be awfully tempting.

You'd think Scaife was selected because the club feels he has tools that will translate to the top level. He's still a developing project just like Ramsden and with Clasher looking likely to play a fair amount of games at AFL level he'll likely now fill his void at Box Hill and be used as an insurance policy just in case Lewis' season doesn't get underway.

At some point he might even get a debut and give Calsher a spell because Ramsden is clearly not ready at AFL level just yet. It will definitely be interesting to see how a Ramsden / Scaife combo goes at Box Hill

 

[killerspud]

Swans are scrambling to retain Warner I'd say.
Sydney's motto should be

"When in doubt, ask AFL for another hand out."

Worse than the shinbeggers. Spoon fed, then claim it's the CULTURE. F#$king spare me.

Ahh the Chad is a WA boy and the there's plenty of land to go around there - imagine pairing Chadwick and Reid may well cause a tingling in the erogenous zones of some of our WA compadres