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
  9

  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

  5star

  M

  3.5

  4star

  T

  6.6

  5star

  CL

  5.7

  5star

  D

  15.3

  4star

  K

  7.3

  3star

  HB

  8.0

  4star

  M

  1.3

  1star

  T

  3.3

  4star

  CL

  4.2

  5star

  D

  22.2

  5star

  K

  8.6

  4star

  HB

  13.6

  5star

  M

  3.2

  4star

  T

  6.0

  5star

  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
  13

  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

  3star

  T

  6.3

  5star

  CL

  6.3

  5star

  D

  25.1

  5star

  K

  11.1

  4star

  HB

  14.0

  5star

  M

  3.6

  4star

  T

  5.6

  5star

  CL

  5.9

  5star

  D

  19.2

  5star

  K

  4.6

  2star

  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
  32

  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

  2star

  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)

 

[119others]

Nicks actually referred to non-linear growth in 2023 ....as has been stated, you can't lose key players down your spine, your best running HB, and your best player for 7 matches ....and still duke it out with 4 x first year rookies & another group with less than 30 games experience

It's naive to believe otherwise

Yes I know - that’s what I was referring to. Chatting to and then emailing Silvers last year (and cc’g Nicks, Reid etc) the message sent said we need to get better and bring in more elite talent - esp midfield along with letting Sloane go and keeping Crouch etc - and mentioned you can’t just assume we will have linear progression in 2024. Now I am sure it was coincidental but Nicks used the same words within a week at his next presser talking about our prospects for this year. Anyway, the above sounds a bit wanky and who really cares if he did or didn’t copy the words. The facts are Nicks needs to get us into the top 8 next year to survive. That’s possibly 14+ wins and I think it’s doable with less injuries, organic growth, 2-3 inbound players replacing weak links in the team and a much easier draw.

I don’t think Nicks is a great coach but do think he will make finals next year.

 

[hugecannon]

He's not going back to Victoria. His family is settled here in Henley Beach.

Chris Davies I’m pretty sure is born and bread SA, played junior cricket at Southern Districts before crossing to Adelaide and played a heap of under age cricket for SA.

Unless he was born in VIC and lived here when he was very young

 

[jenny61_99]

Yes I know - that’s what I was referring to. Chatting to and then emailing Silvers last year (and cc’g Nicks, Reid etc) the message sent said we need to get better and bring in more elite talent - esp midfield along with letting Sloane go and keeping Crouch etc - and mentioned you can’t just assume we will have linear progression in 2024. Now I am sure it was coincidental but Nicks used the same words within a week at his next presser talking about our prospects for this year. Anyway, the above sounds a bit wanky and who really cares if he did or didn’t copy the words. The facts are Nicks needs to get us into the top 8 next year to survive. That’s possibly 14+ wins and I think it’s doable with less injuries, organic growth, 2-3 inbound players replacing weak links in the team and a much easier draw.

I don’t think Nicks is a great coach but do think he will make finals next year.

Well, he bloody better or he'll be a sacked coach.

 

[119others]

As was Jack Oatey

Excellent knowledge Sir.

May I politely ask if you are relatively Senior in age to know about Oateys methods? Let’s say 60ish with a detailed historical background in SANFL from either a personal passion or indeed perhaps a professional position even?

 

[Pilchard_Adams]

7 to 8 to 8 wins in three of the last four years is not clear improvement.

That's a flat line, with a blip in 2023

It's not just as black and white as that.

 

[GROTTO]

Excellent knowledge Sir.

May I politely ask if you are relatively Senior in age to know about Oateys methods? Let’s say 60ish with a detailed historical background in SANFL from either a personal passion or indeed perhaps a professional position even?

Lets be honest here, if you know about Jack Oatey's methods not only suggests he is 60+ but also its likely he did not stumble across Bigfooty for the first time in his life in 2024. Meaning he probably already has or has had an account on BF.

 

[Cromulant]

Excellent knowledge Sir.

May I politely ask if you are relatively Senior in age to know about Oateys methods? Let’s say 60ish with a detailed historical background in SANFL from either a personal passion or indeed perhaps a professional position even?

Ha no mate im not quite that old yet, an old boss of mine played under Jack back in the 70s

 

[Cromulant]

Lets be honest here, if you know about Jack Oatey's methods not only suggests he is 60+ but also its likely he did not stumble across Bigfooty for the first time in his life in 2024. Meaning he probably already has or has had an account on BF.

This sounds like a fun game to play, but no ive not had an account here previously

 

[119others]

This sounds like a fun game to play, but no ive not had an account here previously

You certainly have good knowledge so credit where it’s due. Never had an account “here” - on BF do you mean? Or just on the crows forum previously? Personally after 20 ish years I must say it’s quite “exceptional” to have posted almost 300 times in one full day of posting. You must have a lot of “pent up” things to say or express perhaps and it’s probably a good time between the lull of a Poort WIN and their upcoming LOSS

Ever worked in journalism old mate?

 

[1970crow]

He was in the MLB too

And was so wildly successful that his next gig was at the Adelaide Giants. And his consultancy is going such gangbusters that he's taking a full time role at our club.

 

[Bazz_27]

On the crows vs hawks draws - With the same draw as them (i.e. 9 vs bottom 6 sides etc). On our winning % vs that part of the ladder it would give us an additional 1 win... still not enough to worry about

 

[Cromulant]

And was so wildly successful that his next gig was at the Adelaide Giants. And his consultancy is going such gangbusters that he's taking a full time role at our club.

Well you can take it up with Burgo, he seems to rate what he's done.

 

[Cromulant]

You certainly have good knowledge so credit where it’s due. Never had an account “here” - on BF do you mean? Or just on the crows forum previously? Personally after 20 ish years I must say it’s quite “exceptional” to have posted almost 300 times in one full day of posting. You must have a lot of “pent up” things to say or express perhaps and it’s probably a good time between the lull of a Poort WIN and their upcoming LOSS

Ever worked in journalism old mate?

Worked in journalism ?? No.

Nope, never had a Bigfooty account, your infatuation with me is quite strange.

 

[1970crow]

The biomechanics specialist is interesting. Maybe bring a different perspective to our high performance team


Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com

It is interesting, we know that it's not Burton running this anymore, it's the very highly respected Burgess, so we should have some confidence. That said, the sceptic in me wonders how this guy has been amazing all these years and we seem to be the first AFL club to realise. Also his website doesn't seem to identify many of the elite level participants that he's been involved with, normally you trip over these every other page on their websites.

About BioAlchemy

 

[1970crow]

Bloke called Blight had a fair say in that

I don't think it's uncommon with a certain group that Neil Craig is seen as more infuential in our premierships than the coach that came in and cleaned the place out. The lessons we learned from Blight's success have been totally shelved in favour of the philosophies of Neil Craig. You can bet that if talking about the flags with Trigg, Jen would have heard how it all came down to Neil.

 

[LoBu]

And Power had the 8th based team as their highest double up game. So only one finalist compared to 5 for us.

And the only final they have won is against the team that finished 7th

 

[GROTTO]

And the only final they have won is against the team that finished 7th

Finals Fun Facts with Grotto

Port have lost 4 of their past 5 Finals.




CrowinNT

 

[119others]

Finals Fun Facts with Grotto

Port have lost 4 of their past 5 Finals.




CrowinNT

you dont happen to know the average losing margin by any chance mate?

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Clearly. His agent has said openly that he hasn't made up his mind yet, and he is waiting until Port are out of finals to have have another round of meetings with Adelaide and Port. This is code for upping the offers.

Code for doing due diligence.

Our offer is very generous, so doubt we will be increasing it further.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

you dont happen to know the average losing margin by any chance mate?

Think it's around 10 goals.

 

[GROTTO]

you dont happen to know the average losing margin by any chance mate?

9 goals.

ie ~56pts

 

[crow2crow]

So actually we played the top 5 twice this year not even just the top 4

Wow thats really ****ed

 

[Cromulant]

So actually we played the top 5 twice this year not even just the top 4

Wow thats really ****ed

6 of the top 8 I think

 

[Crow till I die]

Flag Eagle makes call for 2025; Top-20 pick ‘doesn’t know future’ — Trade Whispers

Flag Eagle makes call for 2025; Top-20 pick ‘doesn’t know future’ — Trade Whispers

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[119others]

6 of the top 8 I think

No GWS are 5th and we played them once. Hawks finished 6th who we got twice and also Dons 11th

So ended up:

1
2
3
4
6
11