Player Watch #34: Jack Graham - MOVED TO WCE - PICK 42 Received

[richolovesgoal]

Lol none of you have rated him in 5 years,

It's not about how he's rated; it's about the unfairness. Every other club gets overcompensated for the players they lose to free agency. But not us. Not Richmond. Ever.

 

[richoatthedisco]

Gonna have so many pics that we aren;t using. We'll need to have a fire sale.

It's not a fire sale when buyers are queuing up on your front lawn.

Lol none of you have rated him in 5 years,

I have.

 

[voorhees]

Lol none of you have rated him in 5 years,

yep..that true
still dont

 

[NaturalDisaster]

It's not about how he's rated; it's about the unfairness. Every other club gets overcompensated for the players they lose to free agency. But not us. Not Richmond. Ever.

Ty Vickery?

 

[Dr Tigris]

Secret spices.

We always seem to get nailed by the CFL.

I wonder how much they looked at our likely draft hand this year and thought ' can't let them get another good pick". Just reinforces my belief that they try to screw us over.

 

[Carnis]

Secret spices.

We always seem to get nailed by the CFL.

I wonder how much they looked at our likely draft hand this year and thought ' can't let them get another good pick". Just reinforces my belief that they try to screw us over.

Some perspective though - I would much rather be a constantly screwed-over Tiges supporter, than a propped-up Cats, Saints or [insert other corruptly favoured club here] supporter.

 

[tigers12]

I’m furious with this cfl

 

[sante]

Bit disappointed, not with the compensation but the reactions in here. Thought there would be better meltdowns

 

[energyquant]

It has nothing to do with us

Of course it does. We're trading with West Coast. We should have agreed to bundle salary with Baker (say $200k) and got them to add that to the Graham deal. Enough to push him into band 3 compo territory. It comes from our salary cap, not theirs.

 

[cairo tiger]

wtf I am speechless

 

[Lord of the Wings]

Laura Kane can heck right off. Cheating campaigner that she is

 

[Grrr]

I hoped for Band 3 but end of the day, we have 340 odd more points than we had yesterday and giving Graham games wouldn’t help our rebuild. No idea why West Coast would offer 4 years…now they pay full freight for Baker.

No coincidence that when Richmond and especially Martin was so good was because Lambert and Graham were fully fit and did a power of work defensively from the half forward line to cover for Martin.

Mini and Blair know this, and Harley Reid is sure going to appreciate it. The contingency is fitness, he might be half a yard slower, but he is a running animal when fit, what Grimes said, never seen a footballer run themselves to exhaustion like him.

We did not need that so much any more, but WC might.

 

[THE_GUN]

Lol none of you have rated him in 5 years,

GIve this man a Beer


Im happy with the result
Pick #42 plus $500k off the books that we can use to acquire picks going foward

Just have to think of it like this kids
If we are paying $1 mil to Rioli to get better picks
and $1 mil for Shai contract

That is the money we would have paid to JGTW

 

[Disco_Stu]

Show me on the dolly where Richmond hurt you, Laura.

 

[SplintWhisky]

Jesus Christ, on the back of Beveridge thinking band 2 or 3 compo, we get band 4. Would love to know the salary numbers for this because a 4 year deal is no small thing.

 

[Charlie Pannam]

I was hoping for b3 , but not surprised we have received 4.

Graham has been a great clubman, but not unhappy to see him move on.
I’m not sure exactly where he fitted , in a team that’s not competing and needs to develop the kids. He was a good role player in a great team.
And then there is his soft tissue injury history. Not sure if WC will be getting value for $, but all the best to him.

 

[THE_GUN]

You guys are funny

90% of you would have traded him for #42 every day of the week
didnt know he was valued so highly here

Go Well JGTW

 

[Grrr]

GIve this man a Beer


Im happy with the result
Pick #42 plus $500k off the books that we can use to acquire picks going foward

Just have to think of it like this kids
If we are paying $1 mil to Rioli to get better picks
and $1 mil for Shai contract

That is the money we would have paid to JGTW

Exactly, pick 42 or 32 lets say, what is the big deal. Bundle, trade, still plenty of cattle at 42. He was no longer in our side going forward.

 

[Lord of the Wings]

Another complete heck up by our club. If the paperwork goes in on Friday same time as the others then it’s Band 3 for sure. Laura farken Kane reacting to the earlier outrage and now farks us over

 

[baazzaa]

When we got ripped off with the Ellis compo everyone said it was because we're on top of the ladder. Now we're on track to finish bottom for 5 years and they're still doing it.

 

[Joey longshadow]

Surely none of you are surprised by this

 

[lizard man]

Has Groupie heard the bad news yet? Think his meltdown will be nuclear

 

[voorhees]

Laura Kane can heck right off. Cheating campaigner that she is

you expected her to stand up for us?
she would of smirk along with the rest of them.

 

[Truetiger]

You guys are funny

90% of you would have traded him for #42 every day of the week
didnt know he was valued so highly here

Go Well JGTW

Simple really let’s invite Graham back

 

[Charlie Pannam]

What role would he have played had he stayed
Defensive forward? Rather play attacking small forwards like Rioli, Clarke, Campbell, Mansell, Joe Berry , Oliver Hannaford etc

Midfield? Na , we have Taranto, Hopper, Prestia, experience wise and need to play McAuliffe, Lalor, O’Sullivan, Draper, Etc