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)

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Not the driving factor in their decision making, I know, but bloody hell I love it when we can bring back lads who grew up barracking for the club. It's got a nice romance about it.

Gather why he never entertained Port

 

[Cromulant]

Gather why he never entertained Port

Sounds like he didnt even tell them he wanted to come back

 

[clinto69]

Would you risk swapping pick 4 for Saints pick 8 and a 2nd round pick? Draper currently listed at 9.

 

[Betts are off]

Lol, I just read that Josh Battle

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11.0

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7.3

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3.8

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4.0

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142.8

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has played the Crows 7 times since he started playing. I've likely watched every single one of those games and I have almost no recollection of him in any of them. I did look out for him this year out of interest when he was being talked about as a potential band 1 compo, but even then hardly saw him.

 

[Betts are off]

Would you risk swapping pick 4 for Saints pick 8 and a 2nd round pick? Draper currently listed at 9.

I'm not swapping 4 for anything. That pick is quarantined

 

[Mutineer]

Would you risk swapping pick 4 for Saints pick 8 and a 2nd round pick? Draper currently listed at 9.

That ranking of Draper at 9 is one person's opinion (Michael Alvaro), it wouldn't be wise to use that as a reference to splitting pick 4.

 

[dogs105]

reckon Ned could be pretty loose at the BnF tonight !

Tomorrow?

 

[Cromulant]

Would you risk swapping pick 4 for Saints pick 8 and a 2nd round pick? Draper currently listed at 9.

He'll go before 9

 

[knobby]

Tomorrow?

beg your pardon, you are correct

 

[jenny61_99]

Jenny!

 

[adelcrows]

Agreed, it only makes sense if we trade our F1 into this year. Probably why they haven’t done it yet, waiting to see what happens in trade week.

Obviously we aren’t taking Jack Michalaney though. Do you know if he nominates for the draft this year, and doesn’t get taken, does he still qualify as a Father/Son next year?

Whats happened with Jack Michalaney, has he just fallen away? Thought he was looking at a decent pickup for us.. Then nothing.. Rookie possibly?

 

[Cromulant]

Whats happened with Jack Michalaney, has he just fallen away? Thought he was looking at a decent pickup for us.. Then nothing.. Rookie possibly?

Unlikely to be drafted

 

[Mutineer]

Whats happened with Jack Michalaney, has he just fallen away? Thought he was looking at a decent pickup for us.. Then nothing.. Rookie possibly?

Fallen away?

Don't think he was ever in any serious draft discussions after not making any of the State representation squads let alone teams coming through...especially with the depth in this draft in the medium defender types.

 

[Vader]

Whats happened with Jack Michalaney, has he just fallen away? Thought he was looking at a decent pickup for us.. Then nothing.. Rookie possibly?

At this stage we're unlikely to have a "live" pick in the RD. We're likely to have 1-2 picks in the RD, both being used on players being demoted from the senior list.

 

[Hodgy]

Whats happened with Jack Michalaney, has he just fallen away? Thought he was looking at a decent pickup for us.. Then nothing.. Rookie possibly?

He had to play a lot of school footy and had a couple of injuries. Looked pretty good when he did play under 18’s. He’s probably a year behind his brother at the same time, hence why it might be worth convincing him to not nominate and bring him into our SANFL team like we did with Welsh.

 

[Cromulant]

He had to play a lot of school footy and had a couple of injuries. Looked pretty good when he did play under 18’s. He’s probably a year behind his brother at the same time, hence why it might be worth convincing him to not nominate and bring him into our SANFL team like we did with Welsh.

He wouldnt be drafted even if he did nominate TBH.

And probably stuck in the 2s at Norwood as well.

 

[Truck25]

Heard this last week from my mate in recruiting, Lalor or FOS are firming for that pick one to Richmond (with the other likely for North)

Gut feel is that the Crows end up with either Jagga Smith or Sid Draper at pick 4 (or 5 with the Ashcroft bid)

So if that's the case do WC take Draper or Jagga (who has had many pick as a num 1)

 

[Crow till I die]

Ok peeps, if Richmond take Lalor at 1, North take FOS at 2, WCE take Draper at 3, are we happy with Smith at 4? or is that when out crew look to get creative with our pick

 

[LoBu]

No more Ned, phew.

Burgess survives

With Himmelberg gone, without burgess who will be back up for thilthorpe role/ second ruck?

 

[George Kramer]

With Himmelberg gone, without burgess who will be back up for thilthorpe role/ second ruck?

Murray

 

[Cromulant]

Murray

He will, but I reckon Burgess stays as a help for Welsh more than anything.

 

[Jarman3]

FA compensation is the stupidest thing.

The benefit of losing a FA is cap space, so you can get another FA.

This inventing picks is ****ing ridiculous. Every team that finished above St Kilda get disadvantaged because St Kilda and Hawks saw player movement. It’s nonsense.

You have clubs trading FAs for junk picks to protect their precious imaginary picks the AFL create.

Throw in the formula being secret so AFL can manipulate the **** out of it to fit their narrative.

Thank **** we finished lower than Saints.

While that's true in theory, that's not how it works in practice. FA's go where they want to go, and it's not just money that's the driving factor. You might have a better offer for a FA, but he chooses some other team because it means he doesn't have to leave his home state or he goes to a team that's contending for a flag etc etc. It's on this basis that I'm fine with keeping the FA compensation as it is.

An alternative might be an auction system. Players who want to exercise their FA rights, instead of just choosing where they want to go, would go into an auction. All interested clubs bid on them, and whoever offers the best contract gets the player on those terms. Then a player that loses a FA can take that cap space and use it to bid on another FA and the system would actually work the way you're describing.

But that's not how it works and not how it's going to work so right now the compensation is the only way a lot of teams are able to get any return on the investment they put into that player for 8 years.

 

[JPetro83]

I'm not swapping 4 for anything. That pick is quarantined

I would be trading it... we always burn quality picks so why not trade it? i would have put that on the table to a club to get a ready-made AGrade midfielder aged between 24-26

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Heard this last week from my mate in recruiting, Lalor or FOS are firming for that pick one to Richmond (with the other likely for North)

Gut feel is that the Crows end up with either Jagga Smith or Sid Draper at pick 4 (or 5 with the Ashcroft bid)

Hearing crows love Jagga Smith and Draper

 

[pjcrows]

Would you risk swapping pick 4 for Saints pick 8 and a 2nd round pick? Draper currently listed at 9.

No.