List Mgmt. 2024 Trade Thread - No.2

[tassiesaint2024]

Melbourne have been trying to offload him for the past 6 months.

If it was a nothing pick and you were a believer that we weren’t far off top 4 and challenging.

You have to do it.

Partly the reason I have held off posting on here, is a good mate of mine is a former long term AFL player.

Punting addiction, coupled with a sniff habit is genuinely par for the course. It’s absolutely rife (as it was for him). I mean these young blokes can’t drink, have a massive disposable income and have heaps of time on their hands.

if clarrys body is fine (albeit a bit fat), he is willing to do the work and costs nothing other than coin then the club will be 100% looking at it.

The off field culture piece is so overrated. Sure some of them tow the company line, but if a bloke is willing to work hard, play as a strong team mate, then what he does outside of that is largely irrelevant to his team mates, despite what the journos (with their own habits) report.

 

[HeavenlySources]

Port requesting a second rounder for Soldo

- Tom Morris

Request denied

 

[Saints4ever]

Imagine the horror of waking up in the morning and realising that you were Tom Morris and the path you have chosen in life is entirely futile

Was watching a clip on YouTube of Nathan Buckley breaking down the grand final on SEN

Tom Morris was also on screen and spent the majority of the video picking his nose.

No I’m not joking.

 

[Banger9798]

Also
** Josh Battle. What the ** was he even thinking wanting us to let him run out with his daughter knowing full well he was leaving.
That was just one for the missuses scrapbook.

Probably his missus wanting him to mind the kids while she gets her nails done

 

[The_Steadier]

RFA would have required paying him over $700k a year off of at that point, not even a full season of good football.

At least 10 blokes at our club on more than 700k in 2023.

Riiiiight.

 

[Captain Paddy]

At least 10 blokes at our club on more than 700k in 2023.

Riiiiight.

Max
Steele
Sincs
Hill
Dougal
Ro
Crouch
Gresh
Billings
Ross/Membrey

 

[TheJackal]

I’d do the deal reported by Ralph last week.

Our F2nd for Soldo + Powers F3rd

Leaves us stuck not being able to trade our F1 into this year (without other dealing) should the opportunity present itself though.

Call me selfish, but I don't want to lose a second in a trade for someone like Soldo.

 

[The_Steadier]

Max
Steele
Sincs
Hill
Dougal
Ro
Crouch
Gresh
Billings
Ross/Membrey

Literally half that list are a flat out no.

Only like 4 clear yes and the rest are very questionable.

I am baffled to see the insane logic (ie we had10 guys in 2023 on 700k+) being applied to refute the bleeding obvious- our club screwed up bigtime in 2022 if it's not band 1.

If it wasn't our fault- this would have happened to heaps of other clubs in the last 12 years of free agency.

It hasn't.
This is the first time a guy like battle has ever qualified as an unrestricted freeagent

 

[Significant]

Literally half that list are a flat out no.

Only like 4 clear yes and the rest are very questionable.

I am baffled to see the insane logic (ie we had10 guys in 2023 on 700k+) being applied to refute the bleeding obvious- our club screwed up bigtime in 2022 if it's not band 1.

If it wasn't our fault- this would have happened to heaps of other clubs in the last 12 years of free agency.

It hasn't.
This is the first time a guy like battle has ever qualified as an unrestricted freeagent

Just an FYI - GWS and Perryman are in the same boat, with similar $$$ getting thrown around.

 

[StCicatriz]

Port requesting a second rounder for Soldo

- Tom Morris

Gags would do it

 

[Patty_vanda]

For anyone that missed it.

Ross Lyon mentioning in his speech at BNF that if the AFL “do the right thing” then we should walk away with pick 7 & 8.

The clubs confident!

 

[Nutsngum]

you think the top 25% of our club were each on more than 700k a year? who are they?

At least 10 blokes at our club on more than 700k in 2023.

Riiiiight.

The average player wage in 2023 was $440,000. So yes, a player over the 75% mark is going to have to be in that 700k range.

 

[ScrappyDo]

F/S and Academies can stay IMO.
The only thing I would adjust is the stupid points. Make it quite simple. To match any bid the pick you give up has to be within 7-10 picks of the initial bid.
The points system was the largest stupid thing that they could ever have thought up.

There's many ways to make it equitable but it's obvious the league doesn't want it to be because they just don't have the balls to say they are going to directly support the northern clubs.
IMO the best way is to:
1. Change the rate & order of points consumption and,
2. Only allow access after you've taken your 1st pick of the draft.
This basically means that the cost of access is in direct relationship to your finishing position and operates within the market mechanism.

 

[Saint Shags]

There's many ways to make it equitable but it's obvious the league doesn't want it to be because they just don't have the balls to say they are going to directly support the northern clubs.
IMO the best way is to:
1. Change the rate order of points consumption and,
2. Only allow access after you've taken your 1st pick of the draft.
This basically means that the cost of access is in direct relationship to your finishing position and operates within the market mechanism.

See that could work quite easily as well.
I look at the having to be within a certain number of picks as meaning that they would have to potentially give up players to get those higher picks. This idea of using 10 3rd and 4th round picks to equal a top 10 is just absurd.

 

[SaintWWodonga]

Any trade gossip coming from the B&F?

 

[The Jack]

Any trade gossip coming from the B&F?

Yep. Think Battle’s gone unfortunately.

 

[Diehard Saint]

Port requesting a second rounder for Soldo

- Tom Morris

Of course they are.
No deal

 

[stavro#4]

 

[austinnn]

Ze Germans = the AFL and rich favoured clubs

Humphrey Bogart = Andrew Bassat

The crew singing La Marseillaise with great gusto = loyal Saints fans

Have a bit of that ya AFL radges, I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more

 

[Premium]

Of course they are.
No deal

Preuss of GWS could well be delisted , so you would get him for nothing - he may well be average at best but so is Soldo.

 

[Diehard Saint]

Well done, Andrew.
Holding the AFL to account.
This is the guy we need at the helm right now.
( And why we’ll get pick 8 for Battle.)

 

[saintbill]

We better get band 1. We are losing a bloke in his prime that just came 3rd in our best and fairest ffs.

 

[Rogue Warrior]

If Oliver ends up at Geelong, the afl need to open a formal investigation into Geelongs ongoing salary rorting. How the hell could they fit his salary in, while also adding Smith

 

[Sippa]

Worried they’ll punish us for basset going off

 

[StCicatriz]

Finally someone's saying it