Rumour 2024 Rumours and Speculation Part 2

Scorpus · Sep 25, 2024

Rumor summary September 30

Cal Twomey confirms we are interested in James Peatling (link)
FiveAA claims we are after Scott Borlace, current Head of Development at Brisbane (link)
Claims of Rory Sloane

9

Rory Sloane

Age
34

Ht

183cm

Wt
87kg

Pos.
Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D
23.7

5

K
11.7

4

HB
11.9

5

M
3.5

4

T
6.6

5

CL
5.7

5

D
15.3

4

K
7.3

3

HB
8.0

4

M
1.3

1

T
3.3

4

CL
4.2

5

D
22.2

5

K
8.6

4

HB
13.6

5

M
3.2

4

T
6.0

5

CL
4.6

5

heading to Melbourne Demons as a development coach, but maybe not before asking for a job at the Crows first?
Inside Trading suggests we are interested in Gold Coast's pick 12 (link)
Inside Trading also suggests Clayton Oliver

13

Clayton Oliver

Age
27

Ht

189cm

Wt
88kg

Pos.
Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D
27.8

5

K
9.5

4

HB
18.4

5

M
3.2

3

T
6.3

5

CL
6.3

5

D
25.1

5

K
11.1

4

HB
14.0

5

M
3.6

4

T
5.6

5

CL
5.9

5

D
19.2

5

K
4.6

2

HB
14.6

5

M
2.0

3

T
4.4

5

CL
3.8

5

is possibly back on the trade table, but doesn't link him to any specific clubs

Rumor summary October 1

We have offered Darcy Fogarty

32

Darcy Fogarty

Age
25

Ht

194cm

Wt
100kg

Pos.
Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D
8.5

2

K
5.7

2

HB
2.8

2

M
3.7

4

T
1.7

4

G
1.2

4

D
6.3

1

K
4.0

1

HB
2.3

2

M
3.0

3

T
2.3

3

G
1.0

4

D
8.0

2

K
5.4

2

HB
2.6

3

M
3.4

4

T
2.6

4

G
1.0

4

a five year contract extension early ahead of free agency (link)
We are attempting to lure Graham Wright to our football department (link)
Tom Morris claims the race for Peatling is down to GWS, Adelaide or a Victorian club (link)

Rumor summary October 2

Ricciuto claims we will announce a director of coaching this week (link)
GWS have upped their offer for Peatling to four years (link)
Twomey claims the Peatling decision is down to Adelaide, GWS and Western Bulldogs (link)

1990crow · 2024-10-02T10:22:48+1000

Shifty Crow said:
It’s been couple years since his best, we said the same about Wayne Carey

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Oliver is 3 years younger

Redline · 2024-10-02T10:22:59+1000

Cromulant said:
Roo mentioned on radio this morning that a coaching director announcement will be made in a couple of days

I'm not really sure who this is going to be. You really need to have been a Senior Coach to fill this role.

Dew's lack of sucess kind of means that doesn't work and it sounds like he is going to Port.

I guess it depends on what is wanted from the role. It can be a consultant type role or a hands on coaching the coaches type.

Redline · 2024-10-02T10:25:27+1000

Thrillthorpe7 said:
It does not seem to be a coincidence that the Giants offering an extra year for Peatling is leaked the morning of their B&F day, certainly feels like he will stay now. I guess it just depends if there is a club offering 5 years (which Twomey has hinted at before) and whether that is enough of a difference to get him out.

Getting a deal done for Peatling would be difficult. If a club offers five years and good money you can't expect an easy trade. Different to a free agent.

Shifty Crow · 2024-10-02T10:26:32+1000

If we are going to announce football director role this week, one can only speculate that we have made progress on Wright ?

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AFC979810 · 2024-10-02T10:27:34+1000

Shifty Crow said:
It’s been couple years since his best, we said the same about Wayne Carey

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Oliver just turned 27 and played 21 games in 2024.

Carey was 32 when he came to the club and didnt play a single game the year before he came to our club.

MsTopG · 2024-10-02T10:28:11+1000

Danger in Texas said:
Anything new about the Wright chase in here?

Get Wright and Buckley and turf Kelly, Roo, Reid, Ogilvie, Nicks.

Shifty Crow · 2024-10-02T10:28:25+1000

1990crow said:
Oliver is 3 years younger

And with some serious off-field issues

He’s been a key reason why Melb’s culture has completely disrupted and has dis-stabilised

Is it worth the risk having Oliver amongst our young group ?

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Carn The Texan · 2024-10-02T10:29:23+1000

Redline said:
Getting a deal done for Peatling would be difficult. If a club offers five years and good money you can't expect an easy trade. Different to a free agent.

GWS upped their offer to 4. Maybe if we're offering 5 with a hefty front end / bonus in 2025 when we (presumably??) have the cap space to do it, might be enough?

MsTopG · 2024-10-02T10:30:22+1000

Shifty Crow said:
And with some serious off-field issues

He’s been a key reason why Melb’s culture has completely disrupted and has dis-stabilised

Is it worth the risk having Oliver amongst our young group ?

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Couldn't be as bad as our group being subjected to Nicks who clearly has no f.kn clue what he's doing.

AFC979810 · 2024-10-02T10:30:32+1000

Shifty Crow said:
And with some serious off-field issues

He’s been a key reason why Melb’s culture has completely disrupted and has dis-stabilised

He was also a key reason they won a flag.

Shifty Crow said:
Is it worth the risk having Oliver amongst our young group ?

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If he can play his best football - absolutely.

Cromulant · 2024-10-02T10:30:57+1000

MsTopG said:
Couldn't be as bad as our group being subjected to Nicks who clearly has no flipping clue what he's doing.

Oh yeah it could

Cromulant · 2024-10-02T10:31:35+1000

AFC979810 said:
He was also a key reason they won a flag.

If he can play his best football - absolutely.

Lets trade our draft capital for a ticking timebomb.

Redline · 2024-10-02T10:33:51+1000

Shifty Crow said:
If we are going to announce football director role this week, one can only speculate that we have made progress on Wright ?

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Someone can confirm but I think Roo said Coaching Director? That wouldn't be Wright? I am sure he would need to be involved with list management and recruiting?

AFC979810 · 2024-10-02T10:37:03+1000

Cromulant said:
Lets trade our draft capital for a ticking timebomb.

Ohhh this is a fun game.

Lets use our first round draft capital on ruckman!!!!

Cromulant · 2024-10-02T10:40:05+1000

AFC979810 said:
Ohhh this is a fun game.

Lets use our first round draft capital on ruckman!!!!

Would rather that that a proven risk later on in his career on a HUGE contract.

But then, some of us think logically I suppose.

Jarman3 · 2024-10-02T10:41:35+1000

Cap said:
Its only over priced in hindsight.

Gibbs in the 2017 team? Who knows what would have happened.

But we will ever make ourselves feel better by saying we 'walked away'

We made a grand final without him in 2017, and we lost that grand final by 8 goals. Even if he was in Brownlow medal form that year, he wouldn't have made us an 8 goal better side on grand final day.

Shifty Crow · 2024-10-02T10:41:41+1000

Carn The Texan said:
GWS upped their offer to 4. Maybe if we're offering 5 with a hefty front end / bonus in 2025 when we (presumably??) have the cap space to do it, might be enough?

Offer 6 years and the opportunity for more midfield time and just get it done

He’s a mid on the rise - there is a reason why there is a host of clubs chasing him

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Thrillthorpe7 · 2024-10-02T10:44:20+1000

Jarman3 · 2024-10-02T10:45:44+1000

Shifty Crow said:
Offer 6 years and the opportunity for more midfield time and just get it done

He’s a mid on the rise - there is a reason why there is a host of clubs chasing him

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That's probably our best shot with him - as stacked as our midfield is (right, Nicksy?), theirs is much more so. Tell him to look at the names ahead of him for midfield time at GWS, then look at the names on our list and ask him which ones he reckons he has a better chance of pushing in front of.

Carn The Texan · 2024-10-02T10:46:12+1000

Shifty Crow said:
Offer 6 years and the opportunity for more midfield time and just get it done

He’s a mid on the rise - there is a reason why there is a host of clubs chasing him

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My inclination is to burn cap space (because we get nothing for going under the cap) rather than contract years . But overall agree he suits a need for us and should really shake Laird out of the middle.

AFC979810 · 2024-10-02T10:47:25+1000

Cromulant said:
Would rather that that a proven risk later on in his career on a HUGE contract.

But then, some of us think logically I suppose.

Says the bloke who rates players performances by AFL fantasy points.

1,000 posts in 2weeks and majority of it is trash. You a gr0tto burner account?

Jarman3 said:
We made a grand final without him in 2017, and we lost that grand final by 8 goals. Even if he was in Brownlow medal form that year, he wouldn't have made us an 8 goal better side on grand final day.

Thats the way that grand finals roll though..... We were only down 9 points at half time.

Momentum is a hell of a thing in Grand Finals (look no further than the 2021 Grand Final - history will look at that as a complete blowout, but it was anything but for the first 3/4).

George Kramer · 2024-10-02T10:48:39+1000

Thrillthorpe7 said:

I don’t reckon Davies will have gone public with that if we were close to signing him, he’d hate to be seen as losing out to us again and by mentioning weeks and us supposedly announcing a new senior assistant soon it doesn’t line up.

Hell Boy6669 · 2024-10-02T10:51:28+1000

So surely our senior assistant is Montgomery. No idea who this director of coaching will be.

Cromulant · 2024-10-02T10:52:27+1000

AFC979810 said:
Says the bloke who rates players performances by AFL fantasy points.

1,000 posts in 2weeks and majority of it is trash. You a gr0tto burner account?

Thats the way that grand finals roll though..... We were only down 9 points at half time.

Momentum is a hell of a thing in Grand Finals (look no further than the 2021 Grand Final - history will look at that as a complete blowout, but it was anything but for the first 3/4).

Dont like it, then ignore me.... if not ill continue to make you look stupid.

FR0GGY · 2024-10-02T10:52:48+1000

Jarman3 said:
We made a grand final without him in 2017, and we lost that grand final by 8 goals. Even if he was in Brownlow medal form that year, he wouldn't have made us an 8 goal better side on grand final day.

He doesn’t have to make us 8 goals better.
If he made us 2 goals better in the fist half the result could have been mightily different

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