Rumour 2024 Rumours and Speculation (Rumours total 25, last 28th August)

[Danger in Texas]

Rosas? Yes please!

Imagine if we had the luxury to be trading away players like Rosas!

I mean, GC will still have Rat on their list next year, I’m not sure they see it as a list luxury. Maybe a positional luxury

 

[Pea Nut]

I mean, GC will still have Rat on their list next year, I’m not sure they see it as a list luxury. Maybe a positional luxury

Serously ?? Surely that deal finished this year ??? That feels like a lifetime ago.

 

[Floating Doughnut]

Maybe I don’t need to if they have been brought up many times!
Not spudding it up?
Did you even watch the start of the year (you’re certainly excused if you didn’t due to how we played)
He was bad enough to the point he apologized to the group for how bad he was and then he still got picked.
Was it BACCS that said he has prearranged family to go to Perth for his 250th which boxed us in to picking him?

Heard from a reliable source Smith’s trigger was 12 games this year and I posted it .
Was absolutely eased to it for sure.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Should we go through the list of more recent times?
Let’s start with getting smith to his trigger and dropping him for the rest of the year.

C'mon Froggy, that was weeks ago. Let's not dredge up ancient history.

How about playing Zac Taylor as sub for two games in a row in Rounds 22 and 23?

 

[FR0GGY]

Heard from a reliable source Smith’s trigger was 12 games this year and posted it .
Was absolutely eased to it for sure.

Surely list management simply says to Nicks this year, smith has a trigger for 12 games, his form isn’t great so it’s easy to drop him anyway, please don’t play him more than 12 games otherwise he automatically gets a contract next year and it hamstrings us a bit with what we can do next year.

 

[jackster83]

C'mon Froggy, that was weeks ago. Let's not dredge up ancient history.

How about playing Zac Taylor as sub for two games in a row in Rounds 22 and 23?

Or making Oscar Ryan the travelling emergency instead of giving him a debut.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Or making Oscar Ryan the travelling emergency instead of giving him a debut.

True

We needed more info on Chayce Jones to move the squad forward

We're clever that way

 

[Danger in Texas]

So nothing that concerns us

 

[WeeBlake]

Surely list management simply says to Nicks this year, smith has a trigger for 12 games, his form isn’t great so it’s easy to drop him anyway, please don’t play him more than 12 games otherwise he automatically gets a contract next year and it hamstrings us a bit with what we can do next year.

But look what we did for Sloaney! Can’t shaft Smithers five minutes later!
… time passes
But look what we did for Smithers! Can’t shaft Tex/Laird five minutes later!

 

[FR0GGY]

Or making Oscar Ryan the travelling emergency instead of giving him a debut.

Subbing curtin off in his debut when his family has flown over to see him
Debuting worrell in ****ing cairns.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

I'm not criticising the club, I'm saying that posters who said they'd be happy to give up pick 4 (or more) for Pickett are crazy.

The club avoiding chances to take midfielders with high picks is well documented though

Frankly, that's all you do

 

[jenny61_99]

You seriously wouldn’t have wanted Chad and Kane?????

In hindsight, knowing what flogs they became, no. But if we hadn't known that, they would have been our flogs.

 

[1990crow]

Frankly, that's all you do

You could try it sometime.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

Subbing curtin off in his debut when his family has flown over to see him
Debuting worrell in ****ing cairns.

You do know ....they're simply issue's you have around selection ....which every supporter varies on

It doesn't mean your POV is correct ....nor does it mean it impacted results, or development

It is not fact !

 

[Floating Doughnut]

Surely list management simply says to Nicks this year, smith has a trigger for 12 games, his form isn’t great so it’s easy to drop him anyway, please don’t play him more than 12 games otherwise he automatically gets a contract next year and it hamstrings us a bit with what we can do next year.

Seems an easy out doesn’t it.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

So nothing that concerns us

Kozi to Freo
Cox to Adelaide
Keane to Melbourne

**** Collingwood

 

[Danger in Texas]

Kozi to Freo
Cox to Adelaide
Keane to Melbourne

**** Collingwood

Your heart’s in the right place

 

[1990crow]

Kozi to Freo
Cox to Adelaide
Keane to Melbourne

**** Collingwood

This I could get behind.

 

[FR0GGY]

Seems an easy out doesn’t it.

And they still could contract him, they just wouldn’t be hamstrung to what was negotiated 3 years ago.
We probably could be in the same position with him on the list but save 200k

 

[jenny61_99]

Can't we just offer Smithers an SANFL contract as well as a coaching role. He won't play much if any AFL next season. Waste of a list spot.
Another f/u by the coach allow him to get extension.

It was a trigger clause in his existing contract. It's not a F/U by the coach at all. However the coach did show his intentions by playing him in the twos for the last month so Smith is under no illusions about where he'll be playing.

 

[Scorpus]

Frankly, that's all you do

It's a mystery as to why

I guess you don't read the AFLW forum either

 

[1990crow]

It's a mystery as to why

I guess you don't read the AFLW forum either

Why don't you just shut up and be happy with our four finals appearances in 15 years.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

It's a mystery as to why

I guess you don't read the AFLW forum either

No, I don't read the AFLW forum ....I find it's effectively hidden

 

[jenny61_99]

Lol, have you seen our selections this year...

We may not be happy about his selection/non selection, but he may well be happy with the messaging his coach has given him. You just don't know Kane, so don't be so categoric.

 

[FR0GGY]

It was a trigger clause in his existing contract. It's not a F/U by the coach at all. However the coach did show his intentions by playing him in the twos for the last month so Smith is under no illusions about where he'll be playing.

Yes one that was easily avoidable.