Rumour 2024 Rumours and Speculation Part 2

[Scorpus]

Spoiler: Older Rumors

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Rumors from September 30

• FiveAA claims we are after Scott Borlace, current Head of Development at Brisbane (link)
• Claims of Rory Sloane
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  Rory Sloane

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

Rumors from October 1

• We have offered Darcy Fogarty
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  a five year contract extension early ahead of free agency (link)
• We are attempting to lure Graham Wright to our football department (link)

Rumors from October 2-3

• Graham Wright, who we are chasing as a head of football, is also being chased by Carlton for a CEO position (link)

Rumors from October 4-5

• Gettable claiming pick 25 for Neal-Bullen and a future 2nd for Peatling (link)

Rumors from October 6

• Tom Morris claims we are open to splitting pick 4 (link)

Rumor summary October 8

• Jon Ralph claims we are not prepared to use a future 2nd on Peatling (link)

Rumor summary October 9

• Graham Wright will not join Adelaide, instead taking up the Carlton CEO role (link)
• Tom Morris claims the Peatling trade will involve future 2nd and 3rd round picks, and we have offered him a four year deal at about $600k per season (link)
• Riley Beveridge claims we asked GWS if they were interested in one of our players in the Peatling trade (link)

Rumor summary October 10

• Collingwood are interested in Justin Reid as their new head of football (link)
• GWS want our future 2nd and pick 46 for Peatling (link)

Rumor summary October 11

• Poster claims we are attempting to lure Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera, maybe in 2025 (link)
• Tom Morris claims we will do the Peatling deal for pick 46 and a future 2nd provided there are other late pick swaps (link)

Rumor summary October 13

• Tom Morris suggests we have offered a trade involving a swap of future 2nds for Peatling (link)

Rumor summary October 15

• After West Coast got absolutely rogered, Cal Twomey claims we have offered either two future 3rds for Peatling, or a swap of 2nds and a future 3rd (link)
• We have interest in Sam Davidson from Richmond VFL (link)
• Mitch Cleary claims some GWS players are facing suspensions from the AFL due to behaviour at an end of season event (link)
• Brett Montgomery is staying at GWS, meaning we were unsuccessful at luring him (link)

Rumor summary October 16

• Stalemate on the Peatling trade as of 4pm, with us threatening to send him to the PSD (link)

 

[latinoheat]

Off trade radio this morning.


"Culture problem "

I’m sure the port board are taking this well

 

[Jeffcrowe]

I'm confused by this as well

We would have heard by now if any of our coaches were not being renewed . Is he replacing a coach or are we adding a development coach?

If so then I have no issue - as I have said earlier

Given the media communication its a role above Nicks - which is the role I am most concerned about

I’m definitely interested to hear re how this coaching director works and what it means

How the club sees it etc , it’s not something we’ve had before . Interesting times

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Rubbish no one heard of Rahilly and we weren’t happy to get him.

Rubbish I’m disappointed because I’ve never heard of the guy, why do posters have to make up bullshit to try and win a point.

I’m disappointed that we’ve appointed an assistant coach to be our coaching director, a position that I would have thought should have been an ex-coach of an AFL team or held senior management positions at an AFL club.

It’s a bit like our appointment of Burton and Kelly, both never had suitable experience for their role and look at how they’ve turned out.

Fair enough

You’ve made your point , hopefully it works out and you’re wrong but you could well be right

Time will tell

 

[WaynesWorld19]

His first press conference will give us more insight.

Hopefully he's not another "work harder, trust our systems" crowbot type.

How will a press conference tell you anything ......it's what a person does, not what he says ....or how he says it

I've had dealings with millionaires that dress & wouldn't look out of place in a front bar, smart as can be .....and conversely people dressed like kings, speaking very eloquently, who are both dumb and failures

Judging Davis on a press conference ....nah

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Luko's 7 years might rate there soon.

Why aren’t we on the list ??!!

Disappointing

 

[croweater 41]

Don't change the preferred narrative of this board...he hated being at port!! And can you blame him

I'm happy to slag off with the best of them, but sometimes I do have a small ounce of common sense.

Anyway when they lose Butters that will be a culture problem for sure.

 

[119others]

I think it’s called waiting to see how it plays out given no one knows any details

Pretending to know all about it without any information could end up a bit embarrassing

A bit like going off the deep end when we drafted Soligo because no one had heard of him much

Patience

Soligo, Dangerfield over Ebert... the list goes on. Bed wetters even when we chose CC in the ROOKIE draft with people complaining 'never heard of him' despite him ultimately becoming an inspired rookie pick that ultimately gave us Fog

 

[George Kramer]

Fair enough

You’ve made your point , hopefully it works out and you’re wrong but you could well be right

Time will tell

And that’s the thing I’m more than happy to be wrong, because guess what? It means we’ve made a good appointment which helps us win a flag.

And for all the posters who whinge about my negativity, I’m not negative because I revel in us being shit or don’t want us to succeed, it’s the complete opposite, I’m negative because we’ve been shit and I want us to be better. I want to experience going to winning grand finals again.

But the facts are for such a big club we’ve underperformed for a long long time and then turned into a basket case with poor management running the club who despite saying the right things, really are only interested in securing enough wins to limit the noise, keep membership and sponsorship up so they can protect their own arses.

Anyway I’m done with the topic and flogs who whinge about my “negativity”, to borrow a quote from my great mate Peter Salt eat a dick

 

[PeterSalt]

I'm happy to slag off with the best of them, but sometimes I do have a small ounce of common sense.

Anyway when they lose Butters that will be a culture problem for sure.

Seems to be a train of thought that when Kern leaves Butters will be vulnerable to offers to move back home

 

[Crow till I die]

I’m sure the port board are taking this well

Some on there really think that the pick they get for soldo in a trade will cover what they need for Lukosius...you literally could not make it up

 

[Jeffcrowe]

And that’s the thing I’m more than happy to be wrong, because guess what? It means we’ve made a good appointment which helps us win a flag.

And for all the posters who whinge about my negativity, I’m not negative because I revel in us being shit or don’t want us to succeed, it’s the complete opposite, I’m negative because we’ve been shit and I want us to be better. I want to experience going to winning grand finals again.

But the facts are for such a big club we’ve underperformed for a long long time and then turned into a basket case with poor management running the club who despite saying the right things, really are only interested in securing enough wins to limit the noise, keep membership and sponsorship up so they can protect their own arses.

Yep, it’s a long way back

 

[fuic08]

Don't change the preferred narrative of this board...he hated being at port!! And can you blame him

Also there was this..check out the number of likes lol
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John would be blocked by Cornes now

 

[Slime Roy]

I'm waaay too invested in Peatling who I don't even know much about.
Wake up at 0640 and first thing I do is check this thread in hope he's announced hes joining us.
Is that too much to ask at sparrows fart the morning after the BnF?

..Peatling announced by noon, or close the ****ing doors!

 

[119others]

What a load of shit, George posts the same amount no matter what.
I don’t agree with him on this occasion but you need to stop making stuff up.

thats just not true mate. he has posted the EXACT same negative sentiments now dozens of times in the last 24 hours alone. Show me a thread (GBU) from a good victory this year (Power, GWS, Blues) and will guarantee 100% he does NOT post that much in positive threads

 

[FR0GGY]

Why aren’t we on the list ??!!

Disappointing

The sloane contract and milera contract are in his hall of fame of bad contracts.

 

[Amacca 23]

Rubbish no one heard of Rahilly and we weren’t happy to get him.

Rubbish I’m disappointed because I’ve never heard of the guy, why do posters have to make up bullshit to try and win a point.

I’m disappointed that we’ve appointed an assistant coach to be our coaching director, a position that I would have thought should have been an ex-coach of an AFL team or held senior management positions at an AFL club.

It’s a bit like our appointment of Burton and Kelly, both never had suitable experience for their role and look at how they’ve turned out.

And you know Murray wasn’t one of our leading choices, just at least be that honest.

Like the fact you have no idea IF this is the position he has been hired as or is it as senior asst NO ONE knows this until the club makes a statement but you are taking it as fact that he is the director of coaching

On SM-G996B using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Soligo, Dangerfield over Ebert... the list goes on. Bed wetters even when we chose CC in the ROOKIE draft with people complaining 'never heard of him' despite him ultimately becoming an inspired rookie pick that ultimately gave us Fog

Yep I’ve learnt from that before as have made that error

Happy to have an opinion on a player if I know the player but not when I haven’t seen them play

Feel a bit similar in this, I’ve actually never heard of the guy

 

[Jeffcrowe]

The sloane contract and milera contract are in his hall of fame of bad contracts.

Yeah sloane one was bad in particular

 

[1990crow]

Yeah sloane one was bad in particular

I swear as soon as Sloane got his contract he stopped giving 100 percent.

 

[FR0GGY]

thats just not true mate. he has posted the EXACT same negative sentiments now dozens of times in the last 24 hours alone. Show me a thread (GBU) from a good victory this year (Power, GWS, Blues) and will guarantee 100% he does NOT post that much in positive threads

I’ve also posted more than I do after games.
The dynamics are different, got nothing to do with disappearing after wins.
You want to talk about disappearing how about you ask Wayne to back up his claim of me making things up or that Nicks was seen as the Architect behind GWS making the grandfinal in 2019.
And claiming pick 4 in the draft is a win?!!!! Seriously?

 

[cleanhands]

And George Kramer is a broken record .....if I've seen him post about the 4 games once, he's posted the same thing a 100 times

Good news ....he disappears in good times & wins .....somehow though, with the recruitment wins (ANB, and Cumming, and pick #4 in a Superdraft) and structural changes at the Club ....like a good journalist, he's found the doomsday slant on everything

Wtf nah

 

[George Kramer]

Jeff is right, you jump off the deep end without all the facts ....it goes back to the paranoia surrounding choosing Dangerfield

Wisdom hopefully comes with maturity ....but then, I'm assuming your posts are just part of your schtick

Another example of a bullshit derogatory post and yet you whinge about the posting on here.

 

[Peter Doherty]

Some on there really think that the pick they get for soldo in a trade will cover what they need for Lukosius...you literally could not make it up

Saints give pick 43, looks pretty straight forward.

 

[GreyCrow]

But the facts are for such a big club

We are no longer a big club - we are a feeder club

And that IS on Chapman and Fagan and Olsen and Silvers

 

[cleanhands]

thats just not true mate. he has posted the EXACT same negative sentiments now dozens of times in the last 24 hours alone. Show me a thread (GBU) from a good victory this year (Power, GWS, Blues) and will guarantee 100% he does NOT post that much in positive threads

So, who really cares, it’s then up to the individual if they wish to engage