Rumour 2024 Rumours and Speculation Part 2

[Scorpus]

Spoiler: Older Rumors

I've deleted confirmed information

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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  34

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  183cm

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  87kg

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  23.7

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  5.7

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  M

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  T

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  CL

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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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  Clayton Oliver

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  T

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  CL

  3.8

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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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  Darcy Fogarty

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  6.3

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  2.3

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  3.0

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  2.3

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  8.0

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  5.4

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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)

 

[TBM]

He absolutely does not. Got told this from someone inside clubland that would know, Twomey calls all clubs frequently trying to get info on drafting/trades, to the point it happens so often (and is just plain annoying) that they usually ignore him.

Interesting. I assumed he did, based on him running a lot of pieces on Port Adelaide players and is usually the one to break info relating to their trades (eg Houston stories through the year). Speaks to Chris Davies a lot, gone to PA training camps, etc.

Could also be agent-driven rather than club-driven.

 

[Thrillthorpe7]

Interesting. I assumed he did, based on him running a lot of pieces on Port Adelaide players and is usually the one to break info relating to their trades (eg Houston stories through the year). Speaks to Chris Davies a lot, gone to PA training camps, etc.

Could also be agent-driven rather than club-driven.

A lot of the rumours from these journos usually come from the agents after clubs/players give them nothing. At a guess, 80% of these rumours come from agents, 15% from players family and friends and 5% from clubs. I thought it was obvious that the Houston trade talk came from his camp, not Port.

If he does get stuff from Chris Davies though, that would seem to be drying up very soon.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

What are you suggesting we use to trade up?

Pick 42 won't excite too many clubs into downgrading their 1st round picks?

2025 1st round pick in play?

Just do whatever a competent club would do

Teams trade up. It's not some weird suicide mission we'd be embarking on. We wouldn't be the only club in history to have traded up.

 

[Mutineer]

I thought he might have been something

Very lightly built to be a KPD was my thoughts, more thought of as an intercepting 3rd tall.

Seems he's failed at both now and even tried forward.

 

[GreyCrow]

Very good chance Dodson is top 20, he is moving up the draft boards very fast

So we should do nothing then?

Read the post above mine by DABM

 

[WaynesWorld19]

Oh, so you've got my entire posting history memorised. Good work!

LOL .....nothing about trash talking, nothing about stifling outgoing players .....you simply exaggerated a player being told not to celebrate when the teams losing, and adding a truckload of mayo

No Coach wants an individual to celebrate a goal, when the teams losing .....sheesh !

 

[Mutineer]

Just do whatever a competent club would do

Teams trade up. It's not some weird suicide mission we'd be embarking on. We wouldn't be the only club in history to have traded up.

This is not an easy draft to trade up into the 1st round unless you're going to be offering big overs., just listen to Cal Twomey on Gettable this morning.

 

[MRB37]

LOL .....nothing about trash talking, nothing about stifling outgoing players .....you simply exaggerated a player being told not to celebrate when the teams losing, and adding a truckload of mayo

No Coach wants an individual to celebrate a goal, when the teams losing .....sheesh !

You believe what you want, you're just gonna keep find excuse after excuse, so there's not much point in engaging at this point.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

This is not an easy draft to trade up into the 1st round unless you're going to be offering big overs., just listen to Cal Twomey on Gettable this morning.

Draft picks are precious this year? So no way we'd be giving away 25?

As for us, pay what it costs. If we rate him and acknowledge that we have a weakness in ruck then do it. If that means trading out our F1 for a F2 then so be it.

Don't do it because it might be expensive...? A good way to stay ordinary imho.

 

[kirky]

How many weeks of his career has he been at full strength up until now?

No idea but he has made the cushiest $2.5m over the past 5 years.

 

[Crouch#44]

Very good chance Dodson is top 20, he is moving up the draft boards very fast

My son plays with Alex Dodson, the last conversation I had was his interest seems to be strongest with North Melbourne. Ill be curious where he lands & if he bolts up the order or not.

Only concern is he will take a few years to develop and this is a deep draft of powerful runners.

 

[D Style]

Well is our captain telling us something we don't know.... Going from bad to worse this season then...

 

[MRB37]

My son plays with Alex Dodson, the last conversation I had was his interest seems to be strongest with North Melbourne. Ill be curious where he lands & if he bolts up the order or not.

Only concern is he will take a few years to develop and this is a deep draft of powerful runners.

Not the greatest endorsement for how they see Goad developing if they're already looking at another ruck to take in the top 20.

 

[GreyCrow]

Well is our captain telling us something we don't know.... Going from bad to worse this season then...

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Im confused. How does your opening line match with the photo?

 

[Cromulant]

Not the greatest endorsement for how they see Goad developing if they're already looking at another ruck to take in the top 20.

Would be more than happy to take him off their hands.

 

[Cromulant]

Im confused. How does your opening line match with the photo?

Him being a Swans player might have something to do with it.....

 

[GreyCrow]

Him being a Swans player might have something to do with it.....

Ahh ok meh

 

[Mutineer]

Would be more than happy to take him off their hands.

Not sure you'd be so keen if you watched too many of his VFL games this season...there's uncompetitiveness and then what he put out there. He was awful.

 

[Mutineer]

Well is our captain telling us something we don't know.... Going from bad to worse this season then...

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Crows Captain gets candid on challenging year

The Skipper looks back on 2024

www.afc.com.au

 

[D Style]

Ahh ok meh

Apologies for an attempted humoured post.

Back to discussing how we robbed with 'Keays not hitting the post last year' for 10 more pages in this thread.

 

[tinman]

Like Tex in 2020

Or Chris Yarran 2015?

 

[MRB37]

Not sure you'd be so keen if you watched too many of his VFL games this season...there's uncompetitiveness and then what he put out there. He was awful.

Was that level of uncompetitiveness evident in his U18 year? Maybe he's just struggling to fit in there a bit mentally?

 

[TryAnHit]

So we should do nothing then?

Read the post above mine by DABM

Fair chance we could trade back in come draft night. Can't plan this far ahead

 

[baldandbroke]

Absolutely this

We think the Crows are the worse with Draft Picks .....but if you do a comparison to other AFL Clubs, we stack up pretty well

Really? So it must be something else that makes us so unsuccessful. Wonder what it could be?

We get good players in the draft.
We are great developers of talent.
We are great traders.
We have a great coaching unit.
We have a great administration.
And yet we have 1 losing grand final in the last 26 years.

Must be those pesky Victorians doing voodoo on us!!

The last thing it could be is anything to do with us.

 

[ams4crows]

What will suck is if Port get North's future 1st for Houston so are in a great position to get Dyson next draft.


God why can't we push out Laird to a club who needs experience.