Rumour 2024 Hypothetical trade and FA Thread

[Mopar Jason]

The Battle is over?

Not until the fat lady sings.

 

[TONYC3163]

Get ready for day 1…..

“The eagles are demanding 2 first round picks for Barrass and will not trade him unless they are satisfied”.

Bookmark it.

And these deals always get done to mostly satisfy both and sometimes at the last minute.

 

[Bardo State]

Is it strong or is it just very even? If there are no absolute stand outs I would have thought it's a weaker draft

I'd say weaker top 5, stronger 15-30

 

[TylerDurden]

Not until the fat lady sings.

It's over.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Battle signing on at the Saints is peak Stockholm Syndrome.

 

[TylerDurden]

Battle signing on at the Saints is peak Stockholm Syndrome.

He's a coin grabber mate. We got flipping used again.

 

[TheFourPillars]

He's a coin grabber mate. We got flipping used again.

We want players who want to come to us. Don't care about anyone else

 

[cryptor]

I was most excited about what getting Battle would allow us to do with other players roles and less about what he was going to be able to do himself.

If he's not coming then hopefully there's enough pre-season development in guys like Serong, McCabe and even DGB to see one of them step into to fill that same spot.

 

[TheFourPillars]

Maybe we r at a payment threshold and won't go further

 

[cryptor]

Maybe we r at a payment threshold and won't go further

Harley Reid tagged along to the Mitchell and Barrass meeting and said "save some cap for me"

 

[peetoo]

If Battle isn’t true first KPD, we have plenty of options already

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

If Battle isn’t true first KPD, we have plenty of options already

He was a very good ‘nice to have’.

 

[Faraway Hawk]

He's a coin grabber mate. We got flipping used again.

We will develop our boy McCabe. Battle can enjoy the exciting game plan that he is playing under Snooze Lyon!

 

[Yummy5454]

Feels weird from a Saints perspective. Battle signing as a F/A would’ve netted them a top 5 pick.

I respect keeping your guys around but they seem particularly determined to be mired in mediocrity?

 

[MasterSamurai]

Battle will have a Battle in his hands for the rest of his career! St. Kilda and premierships just don't get along. Awful decision, not just because Hawthorn missed out, even if it was a club like the cats, Swans or pies, if these sort of clubs want you in their colours, I reckon you go! Some believe that Josh form spiked up all the while he left his contract talks till later in the season, using the Hawks as leverage and getting a huge pay rise by his current club to stay on. Basically, " Show me the money and I'll stay" type of leverage. Well, good luck to him, he's just jumped from 400k to about 950k a year.

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

He's a coin grabber mate. We got flipping used again.

Clearly not wanting to win a premiership in his career. Good luck to him.

Maybe it’s fates way of telling us to head to the draft again and back in what we have already.

 

[smish]

If Battle is gone, DGB may live to see another day

Also reckon it means Balta could expect to see a bit extra on our offer next year

 

[JR33]

He's a coin grabber mate. We got flipping used again.

Plenty of better options out there

 

[Billyc]

Feels weird from a Saints perspective. Battle signing as a F/A would’ve netted them a top 5 pick.

I respect keeping your guys around but they seem particularly determined to be mired in mediocrity?

Rightly or wrongly (wrongly in my view), the saints don’t see themselves as needing to rebuild and so pick 5 isn’t what they want.

 

[JR33]

If Battle is gone, DGB may live to see another day

Also reckon it means Balta could expect to see a bit extra on our offer next year

We should be looking at Leek Aleer

 

[westhawk]

He's a coin grabber mate. We got flipping used again.

We are definitely the go to club for player managers to come and push up their player’s contract.

 

[OsakaHawk]

We are definitely the go to club for player managers to come and push up their player’s contract.

Good! The more the other clubs overpay the better, if we can help push it up higher that's fine by me.

 

[TylerDurden]

We are definitely the go to club for player managers to come and push up their player’s contract.

We earned him another half a million bucks a year over 5. Wow.

 

[bindas12]

Feels like a few years ago when North kept getting linked to every free agent that became available and kept missing out. Wish these things were kept discreet somehow.

 

[BobHawk]

If Battle has decided to stay at St Kilda then I hope the club is learning from this and previous experiences. It needs to know when to walk away. Which means as soon as the player manager begins to play money games ie, starts to play clubs off against each other to inflate the contract then just walk away. I keep saying this and I firmly hold it to be true - if a player is genuinely interested in moving to a club then a deal is worked out. They tell you up front that they want to move. To your club. There are numerous cases and I think these are the best cases of a good trade or signing. As soon as the bidding war games begin then they are not serious and are just looking for as much money as they can get. At that point you just need to walk away. This is not the sort of "motivation" you are looking for. Looking at it from outside football or sport, if you are looking to employ somebody and spent time and money through the process and made them an offer and they came back and told you that they had a better offer and could you beat it then the answer is to thank them for their time and good bye.