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

  Age

  34

  Ht

  183cm

  Wt

  87kg

  Pos.

  Mid

  Career

  Season

  Last 5

  D

  23.7

  5star

  K

  11.7

  4star

  HB

  11.9

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  M

  3.5

  4star

  T

  6.6

  5star

  CL

  5.7

  5star

  D

  15.3

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  K

  7.3

  3star

  HB

  8.0

  4star

  M

  1.3

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  T

  3.3

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  CL

  4.2

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  D

  22.2

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  K

  8.6

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  HB

  13.6

  5star

  M

  3.2

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  T

  6.0

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  CL

  4.6

  5star

  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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  Clayton Oliver

  Age

  27

  Ht

  189cm

  Wt

  88kg

  Pos.

  Mid

  Career

  Season

  Last 5

  D

  27.8

  5star

  K

  9.5

  4star

  HB

  18.4

  5star

  M

  3.2

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  T

  6.3

  5star

  CL

  6.3

  5star

  D

  25.1

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  K

  11.1

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  HB

  14.0

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  M

  3.6

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  T

  5.6

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  CL

  5.9

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  D

  19.2

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  K

  4.6

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  HB

  14.6

  5star

  M

  2.0

  3star

  T

  4.4

  5star

  CL

  3.8

  5star

  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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  Darcy Fogarty

  Age

  25

  Ht

  194cm

  Wt

  100kg

  Pos.

  Fwd

  Career

  Season

  Last 5

  D

  8.5

  2star

  K

  5.7

  2star

  HB

  2.8

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  M

  3.7

  4star

  T

  1.7

  4star

  G

  1.2

  4star

  D

  6.3

  1star

  K

  4.0

  1star

  HB

  2.3

  2star

  M

  3.0

  3star

  T

  2.3

  3star

  G

  1.0

  4star

  D

  8.0

  2star

  K

  5.4

  2star

  HB

  2.6

  3star

  M

  3.4

  4star

  T

  2.6

  4star

  G

  1.0

  4star

  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)

 

[adelaidecrows]

A person with half a brain won’t buy a rotten apple, no matter how good the salesman

In our case the sales man is pretty below par as well

 

[Amacca 23]

Yes i wanted jack but at what cost and was he a neccesity ? Not really we need mids and a ruck and trying to get a higher pick to nab dodson is a bigger priority than jack in my opinion ever thought that is the clubs thoughts as well ?

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[El Doederino]

Yes i wanted jack but at what cost and was he a neccesity ? Not really we need mids and a ruck and trying ti get a higher pick to nab dodson is a bigger priority than jack in my opinion ever thought that is the clubs thoughts as well ?

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Im not that bothered on missing out on lukosius but if the club did target him in our aggressive trade strategy and failed, like we have failed with multiple players the last 12 months, it doesn’t bode well for who we are actually going to be able to get in.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I wonder if we're targeting the wrong players given where we're at?

The desirable commodities (Free agents, contracted players, big dollar signings etc) are going to have multiple options and are just going to pursue a better one.

Should we instead look at recent draftees who haven't yet been offered a second contract? Which ones were highly regarded as juniors but for whatever reason (injury, role, strong club that's tough to break into, haven't matured yet) haven't yet made their mark.

Who are the ones we missed out on at the draft and were disappointed to?

These players have no suitors. Not only that, they will be worrying about their future in the game so very easy to have their head turned.

Taylor Goad for instance. Has done **** all. Early days for a ruck of course but NM would be at least wondering if he's a bust. If we swept in with a contract for him and a pick for North, would they take it? There are multiple players in similar boats around the league. Heck, Luke Pedlar would qualify.

Do we need to bet on unrealised potential and aim to hit gold with low cost / high unknown purchases rather than trying to target sure (expensive) bets like Gulden?

 

[Cromulant]

I wonder if we're targeting the wrong players given where we're at?

The desirable commodities (Free agents, contracted players, big dollar signings etc) are going to have multiple options and are just going to pursue a better one.

Should we instead look at recent draftees who haven't yet been offered a second contract? Which ones were highly regarded as juniors but for whatever reason (injury, role, strong club that's tough to break into, haven't matured yet) haven't yet made their mark.

Who are the ones we missed out on at the draft and were disappointed to?

These players have no suitors. Not only that, they will be worrying about their future in the game so very easy to have their head turned.

Taylor Goad for instance. Has done **** all. Early days for a ruck of course but NM would be at least wondering if he's a bust. If we swept in with a contract for him and a pick for North, would they take it? There are multiple players in similar boars around the league. Heck, Luke Pedlar would qualify.

Do we need to bet on unrealised potential and aim to hit gold with low cost / high unknown purchases rather than trying to target sure (expensive) bets like Gulden?

I think that's a fairly good strategy TBH. Cherry pick those guys we might have rated in their drafts to fill areas of need on the cheap.

Instead we'll end up with Brandon Parfitt

 

[George Kramer]

I wonder if we're targeting the wrong players given where we're at?

The desirable commodities (Free agents, contracted players, big dollar signings etc) are going to have multiple options and are just going to pursue a better one.

Should we instead look at recent draftees who haven't yet been offered a second contract? Which ones were highly regarded as juniors but for whatever reason (injury, role, strong club that's tough to break into, haven't matured yet) haven't yet made their mark.

Who are the ones we missed out on at the draft and were disappointed to?

These players have no suitors. Not only that, they will be worrying about their future in the game so very easy to have their head turned.

Taylor Goad for instance. Has done **** all. Early days for a ruck of course but NM would be at least wondering if he's a bust. If we swept in with a contract for him and a pick for North, would they take it? There are multiple players in similar boats around the league. Heck, Luke Pedlar would qualify.

Do we need to bet on unrealised potential and aim to hit gold with low cost / high unknown purchases rather than trying to target sure (expensive) bets like Gulden?

Except we want experience

 

[Cromulant]

Except we want experience

We do need it, but it has to be good.

 

[FR0GGY]

I wonder where the line is for you mate. At what point do you stop deflecting accountability from the club?

It’s if that happens I’ll be so angry, that rolls around and then it’s if this happens I’ll burn the club down and the cycle continues.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Except we want experience

You can still bring in the ANBs of this world. Again, that's a low cost investment instead of targeting sought after players in their prime.

We're not fighting with anyone for ANBs signature.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

It’s if that happens I’ll be so angry, that rolls around and then it’s if this happens I’ll burn the club down and the cycle continues.

Miss out on Cumming:

Oh, so you were happy to overpay for a half back flanker

I thought everyone wanted us to fix the midfield?

 

[George Kramer]

We do need it, but it has to be good.

And unless it’s really good don’t sacrifice a chance to build a premiership list by unnecessarily using decent draft picks in the hope for an extra couple of wins to take us from 15th to 10th

 

[FR0GGY]

Yes i wanted jack but at what cost and was he a neccesity ? Not really we need mids and a ruck and trying to get a higher pick to nab dodson is a bigger priority than jack in my opinion ever thought that is the clubs thoughts as well ?

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No because it appears from reports we are giving up 25 without a whimper.

 

[George Kramer]

You can still bring in the ANBs of this world. Again, that's a low cost investment instead of targeting sought after players in their prime.

We're not fighting with anyone for ANBs signature.

And yet we are giving up 25 in a strong draft for a bloke who might have 3-4 years when we are contending and is just a role player

 

[Viva la Mattner]

No because it appears from reports we are giving up 25 without a whimper.

Don't be shocked to find that this is to grease the wheels of a deal for Oliver

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

And yet we are giving up 25 in a strong draft for a bloke who might have 3-4 years when we are contending and is just a role player

Surely to goodness we aren't really doing that

I know we lay the boots in and are probably too negative on here at times but we couldn't possibly be that incompetent

We're not giving up 25 for ANB, with Dodson projected to go around that mark.

 

[Cromulant]

Don't be shocked to find that this is to grease the wheels of a deal for Oliver

Excuse me ??

 

[Viva la Mattner]

Excuse me ??

Pay higher than should for ANB
Then when looking at making another play for Clarry we have credits in the bank and a deal is much smoother and gets over the line

 

[Cromulant]

Pay higher than should for ANB
Then when looking at making another play for Clarry we have credits in the bank and a deal is much smoother and gets over the line

As in this year ??

 

[Viva la Mattner]

As in this year ??

If not this year then it won't happen, we wont go to the well for a third time
There is other off field reasons other than the well reported substance abuse why we are Clarrys preferred choice if exiting the Dees

 

[Cromulant]

If not this year then it won't happen, we wont go to the well for a third time
There is other off field reasons other than the well reported substance abuse why we are Clarrys preferred choice if exiting the Dees

He likes ANB and Burgo I guess.

 

[feenix67]

Surely to goodness we aren't really doing that

I know we lay the boots in and are probably too negative on here at times but we couldn't possibly be that incompetent

We're not giving up 25 for ANB, with Dodson projected to go around that mark.

Frankly, we should be doing everything possible to strengthen our draft hand this year, not giving up picks for middling senior players. Sadly, given our re-signings/extensions so far this off season, it doesn't look like that's a focus. Many would disagree with me here, and this is nothing against the player, but I'd be looking at leveraging Rachele plus future picks for a pick inside the top 5. Two picks inside the top 5 is exactly what we need in this draft. Add ANB and Cumming to that and it's a pretty good off season.

But we won't be that aggressive, despite the rhetoric.

 

[1990crow]

If not this year then it won't happen, we wont go to the well for a third time
There is other off field reasons other than the well reported substance abuse why we are Clarrys preferred choice if exiting the Dees

Because there's a plan to replace Nicks with Goodwin end of year?

 

[Cromulant]

2 picks inside the top 5 ?? Yeah that won't happen.

 

[craig crowing]

Just to lighten the mood in the off season .
Had to have a smile to see a picture from one of our players of his girlfriend on a boat in Sorrento Italy with a nice spread of lunch alongside her and just in the picture a Sherrin footy.
So guess we knew Rash had character but looking pretty committed as well .

 

[FullyBigKPro]

I wonder if we're targeting the wrong players given where we're at?

The desirable commodities (Free agents, contracted players, big dollar signings etc) are going to have multiple options and are just going to pursue a better one.

Should we instead look at recent draftees who haven't yet been offered a second contract? Which ones were highly regarded as juniors but for whatever reason (injury, role, strong club that's tough to break into, haven't matured yet) haven't yet made their mark.

Who are the ones we missed out on at the draft and were disappointed to?

These players have no suitors. Not only that, they will be worrying about their future in the game so very easy to have their head turned.

Taylor Goad for instance. Has done **** all. Early days for a ruck of course but NM would be at least wondering if he's a bust. If we swept in with a contract for him and a pick for North, would they take it? There are multiple players in similar boats around the league. Heck, Luke Pedlar would qualify.

Do we need to bet on unrealised potential and aim to hit gold with low cost / high unknown purchases rather than trying to target sure (expensive) bets like Gulden?

Agree - for some weird reason it seems we have a better strike rate going after these types (KEays, Hinge, Keane) - trhe low risk/high reward scenario suits us better.

The more I think about it, I'm OK not getting Luko as think we would have had to give up too much draft and $$ Capital.

We need to focus on getting Draper, Dodson and Welsh in this years draft.

Future second for ANB, pure $$$ for Cumming.

From there - do what you have set out above.