Rumour 2024 Rumours and Speculation Part 2

[Scorpus]

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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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  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)

 

[1990crow]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Anything new about the Wright chase in here?

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

 

[Shifty Crow]

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]

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]

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]

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.

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


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If he can play his best football - absolutely.

 

[Cromulant]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

 

[Jarman3]

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]

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]

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?

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]

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]

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

 

[Cromulant]

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]

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