Recruiting AFL Trade & Free Agency X - Club has elected not to fill list spot - Davey returning from injury?

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[eth-dog]

Yeah it's Geelong

 

[DonsRule]

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[Mr Mojo Risin]

I'm shocked.

 

[Atavistic]

Obviously wants success and hates money.

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

It's hard to stomach the decision given Cats are reigning premiers. Goes to show just how far we are off the pace...

 

[doug85]

Would have been good. But really, Bowes has never played a 20 game season. Pick 7 would have been awesome, but it’s probably a 15 spot upgrade on our F2.

 

[adsla69k]

AFL should veto the trade. Allowing the cats to get Bowes and making him smooth his contract out with pick 7 going to cats as well is disgusting.

 

[Kyptastic]

I'm shocked.

 

[faible]

but it’s probably a 15 spot upgrade on our F2.

An F2 that would have been likely used for Davey Jnr. So would have been a very nice trade-up.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

I still have no idea how this can happen. Good luck to 'em, but how many times can a club get kissed on the dick?

How can the reigning premier have the cap space to do something like this? Like, again, well played cats but it really does make a mockery of either the system or the administration of pretty well every other club

 

[doug85]

An F2 that would have been likely used for Davey Jnr. So would have been a very nice trade-up.

Would have been a nice trade up. Wonder if we still trade F2 into this year.

 

[brutus76]

850k for 2 years for a VFL player

 

[Seb78]

* him. Didn't want him anyway

 

[Don Won]

In better news, Essendon will now be running the worlds largest sausage sizzle to clear some of our salary cap.

 

[Zach Package]

We can still get in on this, Cats will want to split 7 for Bruhn and Henry, we can offer them 22 and a future 2nd.

Harsh reality is that Bowes was playing a lot of VFL wherever he went next year and he was very much not the focus of this deal

 

[FlyingV]

Totally right move for Bowes - But this is a massive miss by us, no point in having a 3mil war chest if we can’t get these deals. Two gettable opportunities to get into the draft with Brodie and Bowes by leveraging our cap space missed.

 

[FrankGrimes]

He ain’t getting a game in that midfield

 

[Red Black and Blue]

He ain’t getting a game in that midfield

Maybe not but he's perfect for the Tuohy/Duncan/Smith role replacement. Start on a wing, drop back and be a link on HBF, using his kicking to advantage.

 

[Milanista28]

We can still get in on this, Cats will want to split 7 for Bruhn and Henry, we can offer them 22 and a future 2nd.

They'll get better offers, Giants have the perfect picks for it.

 

[Keystone agony]

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[Call Me Cake]

Kinda seems weird that a flag winner gets pick 7. Regardless, hope he enjoys the inevitable fall.

 

[Howard Moon]

Does bowes have a wife? Got some cash opportunites going out the cattery..

 

[greysong]

Stuff him, hopes he rots in the VFL. Massive own goal by the AFL. Could have insisted that the contract be paid in full by the end of the originally agreed deal. That would have guaranteed he go to a bottom 6 club.

 

[TheGrizz]

We can still get in on this, Cats will want to split 7 for Bruhn and Henry, we can offer them 22 and a future 2nd.

Harsh reality is that Bowes was playing a lot of VFL wherever he went next year and he was very much not the focus of this deal

The way we get in on this is getting in the ear of Cooper Stephens or Mitch Knevitt and convincing them there is no way in hell they are getting a game at the cats now.

 

[kelvin_sheedy]

He ain’t getting a game in that midfield

Really? Better fit than us imo.

Selwood retired.
Dangerfield will be there in bursts.
Duncan is officially a plodder now.
Parfitt is a good player and is what we hoped McGrath would become.

They will be missing a bit in there so if he is going to make it that's a perfect spot. Don't forget they have her mobile rucks adding to the mix.