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

[Coach_Required]

pick 42, that's good news for Brisbane who will need all the points they can get from us, hopefully it ends up giving us lions 1st pick and a F2?

 

[Tigerturbulance]

we get pick 42 for a player we got with pick 53,
that's an 11 position upgrade for a player we got 131 games and 2 premierships out of
Fridge is 8 years older and broken, we did alright with this

 

[DickieKnee]

I knew we'd get screwed. Yeah in the grand scheme of things he's not worth band 3 pick 22 or so, but if Josh Battle

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Josh Battle

Age

26

Ht

193cm

Wt

93kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.9

3star

K

9.0

3star

HB

3.9

3star

M

5.0

5star

T

2.4

4star

MG

196.8

3star

D

11.0

3star

K

7.3

3star

HB

3.8

3star

M

4.0

4star

T

1.8

3star

MG

142.8

3star

D

10.8

3star

K

6.2

3star

HB

4.6

4star

M

3.4

4star

T

2.0

4star

MG

175.6

3star

is worth pick 8 then he most definitely is worth band 3.

 

[tunksy]

Eh we get some cap space and a list spot. Maybe a bit unders.

Would like to see him do well at west coast who I’ll watch a bit of with the tiger crew there.

 

[lizard man]

 

[Equus]

Thank you Jack for your service. All the best at WCE.

 

[Tiges1229]

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.

100% mate was literally thinking that to myself

 

[tiger_tough]

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

Must be in maccas drive through currently.

 

[voorhees]

I can accept the #42
it's the way we are treated differently then the other teams.
The afl push us aside and we stay silent..

 

[SplintWhisky]

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

Trade and FA Compensation are two different conversations though. Band 1 for Battle as a UFA and then Band 4 for Graham as a UFA. Battle contract is 2 years longer so that means that the money would have to be significantly larger than what Graham is being paid.

Pick 42 in a trade is fair but Band 4 in Compensation based on the picks being thrown out so far is not fair.

 

[Dr Tigris]

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.

The other club fans probably disagree.

Most clubs get support for a while, until they win a premiership. (Although NSW and Qld clubs will always get support, until AFL is genuinely major there. - too much money at stake). Some clubs just get support, and they love it.

 

[smurfin]

So.....
Does unrestricted means that even if the contract we offered him was for 4 years at $900 000 (for example), he could have accepted 4 years at $400 000 at West Coast instead?
If so, then we theoretically could not have done anything to influence the compensation we receive.

Still feels like a wasted opportunity to work something else out.
We're all in support for paying a decent % of Daniel or Shai's salaries if it gives us a pick upgrade from 18 to 11, but we couldn't organise to pay $200 000 or so of Baker's contract so that West Coast offered an extra $200 000 on Graham's to shift the compo up by around 20 positions?

Whatever.

 

[SunshineBoy]

Lol some of you have not rated him in 5 years,

EFA remember I had him as a future captain

 

[shaky]

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.

Not true as we made out with the Vickery deal.
That's probably why we keep getting screwed in compensation now. Win one deal and pay for it forever after

 

[shaky]

we get pick 42 for a player we got with pick 53,
that's an 11 position upgrade for a player we got 131 games and 2 premierships out of
Fridge is 8 years older and broken, we did alright with this

Doesn't mean we shouldn't have done better.

 

[shaky]

I can accept the #42
it's the way we are treated differently then the other teams.
The afl push us aside and we stay silent..

We have been bent over by the CFL so many times we are loose enough to barely notice when the go in now.
They don't even need to bother with a Hawk Tuagh

 

[Tigerturbulance]

Doesn't mean we shouldn't have done better.

how long you been a Tigs supporter,
AFL was always going to screw us in the deal, some more lube would have been nice but one gets used to the dry reaming

now lets move on and focus on how we get FOS and Lalor

 

[Andyy]

EFA remember I had him as a future captain

Early days I wondered, but he got stuck in this B-C grade level.

His debut year was promising and then he just plateaued.

Don't have to be a gun player to be captain but need to be better than this guy is I think.

 

[shaky]

how long you been a Tigs supporter,
AFL was always going to screw us in the deal, some more lube would have been nice but one gets used to the dry reaming

now lets move on and focus on how we get FOS and Lalor

Well I can tell you I have been a supporter long enough to see us flack up our early draft picks multiple time.
Let's just hope that's a thing of the past.
Not holding my breath though the way we are travelling ATM

 

[SplintWhisky]

we get pick 42 for a player we got with pick 53,
that's an 11 position upgrade for a player we got 131 games and 2 premierships out of
Fridge is 8 years older and broken, we did alright with this

I mean by that logic shouldn't we be ok with pick 100 for Baker because we went from a Rookie draft to a National Draft pick?

 

[Tigerturbulance]

I mean by that logic shouldn't we be ok with pick 100 for Baker because we went from a Rookie draft to a National Draft pick?

who says we wont get pick 100 for him, so far the first deal was way off the expected 25

 

[rfctigerarmy]

Congratulations AFL on another successful deal.

 

[Boxo004]

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.

That’s a really good synopsis.
One I hadn’t considered and is a perfect fit

 

[rfctigerarmy]

Must be in maccas drive through currently.

There's probably 40 cars behind him as he sits there reading the news.

"Welcome to McDonalds, what can I get for you?"


"Sir...?"












".........................Sir?"

 

[tiger_tough]

There's probably 40 cars behind him as he sits there reading the news.

"Welcome to McDonalds, what can I get for you?"


"Sir...?"












".........................Sir?"

Prob whingeing about the color of the M and how it used to be more yellow.