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

  Age

  34

  Ht

  183cm

  Wt

  87kg

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  Mid

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  Last 5

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  23.7

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  K

  11.7

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  HB

  11.9

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  M

  3.5

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  T

  6.6

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  CL

  5.7

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  D

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  M

  3.2

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  T

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  CL

  4.6

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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

  Age

  27

  Ht

  189cm

  Wt

  88kg

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  27.8

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  K

  9.5

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  18.4

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  6.3

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  M

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  T

  4.4

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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

  Age

  25

  Ht

  194cm

  Wt

  100kg

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  Fwd

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  8.5

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  5.7

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  3.7

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  1.7

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  G

  1.2

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  D

  6.3

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  K

  4.0

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  2.3

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  M

  3.0

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  T

  2.3

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  G

  1.0

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  D

  8.0

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  K

  5.4

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  HB

  2.6

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  M

  3.4

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  T

  2.6

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  G

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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]

Montgomery makes sense if he's still in running for WC job.

Montgomery comes in as coaching director & both Nicks & Burns are demoted to assistant coaches.

 

[fuic08]

If they are still involved in finals it dodown ut the field fown

Must be Chad Cornes

 

[ABAB]

caroline wilson saying thats not correct. theres very little noise about luko fullstop

"ITK" Port Power supporters mentioned he has tour their facility but I don't think they have the salary cap of $2M for the next 2 years and also draft capital to get him which is why a F1 has now being mentioned as our would be more attractive to GCS.

 

[Runnin Blue]

What’s your sixth sense say about cumming and luko? Crows bound ?

No idea. I’ve been too busy this year to pay much attention to anything. Hence why I’ve stuck my head in here for the first time since probably draft day last year.

 

[crow2crow]

Williams? Not in a million years would he go to the Crows.

why? who could it be now?
no its not colin hay

 

[crow2crow]

Must be Chad Cornes

he isnt in melbourne

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Sport is all about peaking at the right time.

Olympic athletes train to be at the peak of their fitness and form at the exact moments to ensure maximum chances of success in the big events (worlds, olympics, comm games etc.).

I remember being told around the time of the 97/98 that the bulk of the credit behind the scenes for the 97/98 GF victories was given to Neil Craig who had the team peak at exactly the tight time.. scrape into the final 8 but with a team on the cusp of top fitness and form.

most of the credit from joe public obviously went to Blighty..

Well, after Blight left and all the others remained we won bugger all, even though we had a bunch of HoF'ers in their prime.

 

[FullyBigKPro]

Once again - if the club was even remotely 'Aggressive' - they would (behind the scenes) tell Luko and his manager that 'You've got 48 hours' to make a decision if you are interested in joining the Crows otherwise we are moving on. He can give Izak a quick call if needed to know more about the place etc.

Can't be wasting this much time with a player being this flaky.

then again - would be a very AFC thing to do to pay overs for him.

 

[Fritz n Sauce]

Just because it is not public knowledge doesn’t mean that the club doesn’t know his intentions.

Do people expect Nicks to have a username on here and tell everyone what’s going on? I like there is nothing leaking out of the club. All will be revealed in due course

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Amazing isn't it .....the board constantly blows up on nepotism for ex Crows players ....yet here we are advocating Rutten come back to the Crows as an assistant Coach

Why? .....give me a reason ....because all I can see is hypocrisy

AFL Premiership winning assistant coaching experience elsewhere

vs

Brent Reilly, recently appointed as coach of the Henley Sharks

Is the difference. One is pure nepotism, the other isn't.

Rutten obviously didn't cut it as a senior coach but clearly did well at Richmond as an assistant and must have been the same at Essendon seeing as they promoted him.

He's had a decade out of our system.

 

[Scorpus]

Montgomery comes in as coaching director & both Nicks & Burns are demoted to assistant coaches.

Nicks is already a petulant coach, just imagine how much worse he'd be if we demoted him but still retained him

 

[Cap]

AFL Premiership winning assistant coaching experience elsewhere

vs

Brent Reilly, recently appointed as coach of the Henley Sharks

Is the difference. One is pure nepotism, the other isn't.

Rutten obviously didn't cut it as a senior coach but clearly did well at Richmond as an assistant and must have been the same at Essendon seeing as they promoted him.

He's had a decade out of our system.

I feel like that whole Essendon thing was a complete shitshow and can be in part disregarded.

We are like Essendon in so many ways, destroying capable peoples careers is one of those things

 

[Vader]

If Luko goes public ans says its us and our F1 is part of the deal, we have to work 25 in there as well and do a package deal with a good pick back and get the deal done first. Melbourne can then take what scraps we have left

Luko can go public and say that he's chosen us. He has no say in what deal GC & Adelaide negotiate in order to make that happen. He certainly can't dictate which draft picks Adelaide uses to make it happen.

 

[Vader]

Who knows, but the question probably isn't "what does Melbourne want"?

I'm sure they want 25 for ANB.

What's generally reported is that "the deal is as good as done". Presumably then, Melbourne know what the deal will be. Thus, if he has good contacts within the MFC (and I don't know whether he does or not), it's entirely possible that he could be privy to the deal's details - all without having a ****ing clue what's going on within the walls at West Lakes.

 

[FullyBigKPro]

AFL Premiership winning assistant coaching experience elsewhere

vs

Brent Reilly, recently appointed as coach of the Henley Sharks

Is the difference. One is pure nepotism, the other isn't.

Rutten obviously didn't cut it as a senior coach but clearly did well at Richmond as an assistant and must have been the same at Essendon seeing as they promoted him.

He's had a decade out of our system.

I'd love this as a starting point for the coaching (Once again, as we were too weak to move on Nicks)... It's not even Playstation territory stuff.

Senior Asstnt (big pay increase): Rahilly (see yah Scotty)
Football GM: Montgomery (See yah Kelly)
Coaching/Football Director (Part time): Balme (go away Roo)

SANFL Coach: Van Berlo (please go Godden, please...)


Literally doing this CANNOT make us any worse....

 

[Mutineer]

So serviceable we dropped him

Modra was so serviceable that Malcolm Blight dropped him?

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Nicks is already a petulant coach, just imagine how much worse he'd be if we demoted him but still retained him

Well if he doesn't like it, he can always leave.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I feel like that whole Essendon thing was a complete shitshow and can be in part disregarded.

We are like Essendon in so many ways, destroying capable peoples careers is one of those things

Yep. Didn't they get busted making an offer to Clarkson while Rutten was still coaching? Then Clarko told them their offer was too late to be considered. Shit show.

A mark against Rutten for poor judgement in going there I guess.

Though that poor judgement is what's needed to get him back!

 

[Mutineer]

I'd love this as a starting point for the coaching (Once again, as we were too weak to move on Nicks)... It's not even Playstation territory stuff.

Senior Asstnt (big pay increase): Rahilly
Football GM: Montgomery (See yah Kelly)
Coaching/Football Director (Part time): Balme (go away Roo)

SANFL Coach: Van Berlo (please go Godden, please...)


Literally doing this CANNOT make us any worse....

Rahilly didn't move back to Geelong because of money, he moved back for family/lifestyle reasons.

That ain't happening.

 

[FullyBigKPro]

Rahilly didn't move back to Geelong because of money, he moved back for family/lifestyle reasons.

That ain't happening.

Do a 'Costa' style deal and look after his family off the books but just dont Tippett it up. Screw Geelong over, those pricks do it all the time.

Invest in someone LONG term, give him security and a seriously hefty $$ increase.

Pretty damn good lifestyle reasons for me. Not alot of difference between Victor Harbour or Apollo Bay (for example) in reality when you get down to it

We simply have to move away from this constricting, conservative, 'little brother' mindset.

 

[Crow till I die]

Luko can go public and say that he's chosen us. He has no say in what deal GC & Adelaide negotiate in order to make that happen. He certainly can't dictate which draft picks Adelaide uses to make it happen.

I never meant he would..I am saying from our end if we are putting our F1 on the table, add in our pick 25 and try and get a meaningful pick back maybe 13 and that would put us in a hitting position for one of the sliders or the best of the next group AND it removes pick 25 from melbourne asking for it.

 

[Mutineer]

Do a 'Costa' style deal and look after his family off the books but just dont Tippett it up. Screw Geelong over, those pricks do it all the time.

Invest in someone LONG term, give him security and a seriously hefty $$ increase.

Pretty damn good lifestyle reasons for me. Not alot of difference between Victor Harbour or Apollo Bay (for example) in reality when you get down to it

 

[Carmo]

I'd love this as a starting point for the coaching (Once again, as we were too weak to move on Nicks)... It's not even Playstation territory stuff.

Senior Asstnt (big pay increase): Rahilly (see yah Scotty)
Football GM: Montgomery (See yah Kelly)
Coaching/Football Director (Part time): Balme (go away Roo)

SANFL Coach: Van Berlo (please go Godden, please...)


Literally doing this CANNOT make us any worse....

There was a bit of analysis during the year, in the media, might've been 5aa of the Crows coaching roster versus other clubs and we were pathetically minimal in comparison. I can see us retaining most of what we've got and getting extras rather than doing swap outs.

 

[Samcro24]

Post Damien Hardwick in 2023..

TOP 10

1: Noah Anderson (590)
2: Sam Collins (563)
3: Matt Rowell (559)
4: Charlie Ballard (453)
5: Jarrod Witts (451)
6: Jack Lukosius (442)
7: Darcy Macpherson (436)
8: David Swallow (434)
9: Wil Powell (391)
10: Ben Ainsworth (361)

Pre

 

[FullyBigKPro]

There was a bit of analysis during the year, in the media, might've been 5aa of the Crows coaching roster versus other clubs and we were pathetically minimal in comparison. I can see us retaining most of what we've got and getting extras rather than doing swap outs.

Hands down, we would have the cheapest group of Coaches and Football GM in the AFL.... Its actually embarrassing.

Like, we wouldn't even be close to the 'Soft Cap'.... Outside of D Burgess, we must be so far under the soft cap the AFL must be paying us.

This pathetic small minded "but... but... we can't attract anyone... " excuse is such loser mentality complacency.

If Geelong can attract players to live near farms in bum****ville 2 hours out of Melbourne, Adelaide can attract players. Its not Adelaide - its the useless inept people trying to convince them that's the problem.