News 2024 St.Kilda Media Thread

[Diehard Saint]

Surely someone at the club has done their homework on this...

You would bloody hope so, otherwise it’s amateur hour down at Moorabbin and we were supposedly past that era.

 

[hayes]

Surely someone at the club has done their homework on this...

I’m sure they have but either way we don’t have the power to match. Just have to cop whatever comes.

 

[botts]

So basically Battle could be using the Hawks to drive up his price with us.
Much like happened with De Goey except in reverse.

How come McKay on a deal of less than $800 k triggered band 1 but they’re saying the Hawks offer of $800-850k won’t?

**** it. Offer him 900. We have the cash.

 

[Bill Crouse]

**** it. Offer him 900. We have the cash.

Our war chest is reserved for one man only.

 

[saint66au]

So basically Battle could be using the Hawks to drive up his price with us.
Much like happened with De Goey except in reverse.

How come McKay on a deal of less than $800 k triggered band 1 but they’re saying the Hawks offer of $800-850k won’t?

TPP increase next season

 

[Sarcoidevo]

TPP increase next season

OK so we offer him 900k .... its all relative ... given we now also have more to pay other players as well

 

[Sully111]

Channel 9 news even saying the contract for Battle may not get us a Band 1.

The club thought they’d seen backlash over the courting of TT. If they’ve miscalculated here they’ll realise they’ve seen nothing yet!

What do you think will happen?

 

[saint66au]

OK so we offer him 900k .... its all relative ... given we now also have more to pay other players as well

We offer him 900K, who's to say he wont go to Hawks anyway for $850K and leave us screwed.

 

[pebblesofsand]

Yeah, the club is clearly trying to prepare the supporters to not get pick 7.

Not much any club can do if a player decides to leave for less money than their existing club is offering.

 

[BrutThough]

OK so we offer him 900k .... its all relative ... given we now also have more to pay other players as well

We'd have to go up to 950k-1mil to make it worthwhile or make Hawks up their offer.

50k is unlikely to be significant enough to change his mind.

 

[Sarcoidevo]

We offer him 900K, who's to say he wont go to Hawks anyway for $850K and leave us screwed.

Well if he is leaving for a lesser contract then I guess it means he doesn't give 2 shits about the club

 

[Diehard Saint]

What do you think will happen?

Not sure.
But they certainly took note of the backlash on social media and the people that wrote into the club about pursuing TT.

I reckon they’ll lose members. We’re all tired of trying to push sh*t uphill in this competition while other clubs get handouts.

A top 5 pick for McKay, and Frawley - imagine that.

Bassat has been strong so far regarding the inequities of the NGAs and F/S, hopefully is not reticent about adding his 2c worth over this.

 

[Diehard Saint]

TPP increase next season

Yep I mentioned that in another post. Which means we could be offering him more because payments are going to go up anyway. That shouldn’t affect compo end of this season though.

 

[Diehard Saint]

We offer him 900K, who's to say he wont go to Hawks anyway for $850K and leave us screwed.

Well then there’s nothing we could have done, but at least we tried.

 

[seasonedsainter]

Wouldn't be surprised to see us get screwed over on the Battle compo, with a pick late 20's early 30's i.e. where we drafted him, by golly I'd be furious, I'd hope the Club would sue the AFL, sue anyone for ****s sake, we develop the guy for what, 8 years, then the Hawks offer him close to a milly a year over more than half a decade and they toss us the same pick we originally used for him? GAGF!

 

[Munga]

Are Munga and Minga related ????

Proud children of Menga and Manga from the island of Monga

 

[bergholt]

We offer him 900K, who's to say he wont go to Hawks anyway for $850K and leave us screwed.

How would we be screwed? We don’t have to pay him the 900k if he leaves.

 

[botts]

How would we be screwed? We don’t have to pay him the 900k if he leaves.

Lots of water to go under the bridge. Negotiations probably havnt even started because he hasn’t chosen where he is going. It’s probably an initial offer and will be upped when we do the same.

 

[Moorabbin Ghost]

Lots of water to go under the bridge. Negotiations probably havnt even started because he hasn’t chosen where he is going. It’s probably an initial offer and will be upped when we do the same.

One game to go and you don’t think he knows where he’s going? There would be a contract that he’s already verbally agreed on.

 

[botts]

One game to go and you don’t think he knows where he’s going? There would be a contract that he’s already verbally agreed on.

I’m sure he has I’m just saying he hasn’t come out officially yet. He might of behind closed doors. I doubt the finer detail have been agreed to. There would be room to move in it still otherwise his manager wouldn’t be doing his job right

 

[saint66au]

How would we be screwed? We don’t have to pay him the 900k if he leaves.

But we get FAR less compensation

 

[Jayman15]

GT just can’t help himself

https://archive.vn/EzA1C

 

[hayes]

GT just can’t help himself

https://archive.vn/EzA1C

Quoting tweets to come up with an article. I’ve seen it all now.

 

[gringo2011]

GT just can’t help himself

https://archive.vn/EzA1C

Would it be better to have some experienced players to sell to Tassie who could offer really high picks for mature talent

 

[bergholt]

But we get FAR less compensation

Sure but no worse off than if we didn’t offer him 900k. The situation is the situation - we can’t change it, only deal with it.