Trade Requested Bailey Smith [reportedly headed to Geelong]

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Cats F1 4 Bazlenka + FFR1

Mazal

 

[Klink]

He wants Geelong
Geelong wants him
Geelong have #15 +#30 +F2

It will get done the assets are there

Geelong have #15 +#35 +F2
Bailey Smith

6

Bailey Smith

Age

23

Ht

185cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.3

5star

K

8.5

3star

HB

9.8

5star

M

2.3

2star

T

3.8

5star

CL

2.7

4star

D

19.8

5star

K

9.6

4star

HB

10.2

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.2

4star

CL

3.2

4star

D

14.8

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

7.2

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

3.4

5star

CL

1.6

4star

+ #44

Very reasonable.

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[THE_GUN]

Geelong also have a F1 don’t they?

Ye they do but wont need to use it

 

[FootyLad0]

Because the current destination stinks for us dogs supporters. Hoping another club swooping in at the last minute would be great in getting a good deal out of Smith.

Smith is Out of Contract, if he says he wants to go to one specific place, he's going to that one specific place.
It's 2024, player empowerment means he gets the choice.

Doggies can try and trade him wherever they like, Smith has to accept whatever trade Bulldogs try to do with him.
If he says no then the deal doesn't happen. This isn't the US Sports Leagues where you can flick someone across the Country with no say in where they go. Australian Work Laws are way too strict for that.

Best move for Doggies is getting as much as they can for him. Letting him walk for nothing serves no benefit.
Get back into the Draft this year and go from there.

 

[Mofra]

Are there any concerns with him coming off a significant knee injury?

His game is built on hard running and pace - lose a small % of that and his main weapon is gone.

I assume clubs do some sort of due diligence on this?

There's no concerns about workrate with Bailey. He's just naturally a hard trainer and a 'gut runner' in games. As a HF pushing until the midfield he'd regularly be at the top of our KMs covered stats. That won't change, it's instinctive.

I don't think there will be issues with straight line speed either. It's the change of direction/agility stuff that can take a while to come back even after he's been cleared to play. Given it will be over 15 months from ACL to playing he'll be fine.

 

[threenewpadlocks]

Smith is Out of Contract, if he says he wants to go to one specific place, he's going to that one specific place.
It's 2024, player empowerment means he gets the choice.

But there is a fundamental difference between being out of contract and free agency. Every party to the table has agreed that free agency only takes place after 8 years of service to the club that drafted you. If what you were saying was true, and that the club drafting a player didn't have any additional value out of drafting a player before they hit free agency, they simply would have made a player free agency eligible after 6 years. They didn't.

 

[54Bulldog16]

Very reasonable.

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Yeah I think this is close. Rather than 44 going back I’d hope the dogs push for a F3.

 

[Pencil case]

He wants Geelong
Geelong wants him
Geelong have #15 +#30 +F2

It will get done the assets are there

Geelong have #15 +#35 +F2
Bailey Smith

6

Bailey Smith

Age

23

Ht

185cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.3

5star

K

8.5

3star

HB

9.8

5star

M

2.3

2star

T

3.8

5star

CL

2.7

4star

D

19.8

5star

K

9.6

4star

HB

10.2

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.2

4star

CL

3.2

4star

D

14.8

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

7.2

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

3.4

5star

CL

1.6

4star

+ #44

Dogs will want to keep 44 for either O’Halloran or Peatling.

 

[TylerDurden]

No announcement still. Have the AFL "cottoned on" to something?

 

[Foxman98]

No announcement still. Have the AFL "cottoned on" to something?

Very interesting to say the least

 

[calder_daddy]

Dogs will want to keep 44 for either O’Halloran or Peatling.

Peatling for pick 44

 

[FootyLad0]

No announcement still. Have the AFL "cottoned on" to something?

Cats and Dogs haven't even spoken according to reports.
It'll come, just gotta be patient

Trading doesn't even open till Friday or maybe even Monday the 7th?
We'll know more then, here's the Countdown Clock.

 

[STPer18]

Get the boy home.

 

[Proud New Father of 3]

Hearing he wasn't impressed with a recent tour of the Geelong facilities and is looking for other suitors. Can't return to the Bulldogs.

Considering Carlton and the Pies, but Hawthorn the front runner.

What a U-Turn, thought the Geelong deal was a formality...

 

[Proud New Father of 3]

 

[Bulldogs85]

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That has to be a fake twitter account

 

[Donflicted]

That has to be a fake twitter account

It is

 

[WAbulldog]

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[Art Vandelay_]

No announcement still. Have the AFL "cottoned on" to something?

If they have it'd be the Dogs getting punished as so far they'd be the only club that could have benefitted from a 3rd party deal

 

[year of the cat]

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I just hope their mother has a few more cents in the dollar.

 

[ahhhhhh]

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Celebrity 101 on Twitter.

 

[Jimmy Yamazaki]

Did the same thing on the Harley Reid thread:

 

[WAbulldog]

Did the same thing on the Harley Reid thread:

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Celebrity 101’s alternate account.

 

[STPer18]

Hearing he wasn't impressed with a recent tour of the Geelong facilities and is looking for other suitors. Can't return to the Bulldogs.

Considering Carlton and the Pies, but Hawthorn the front runner.

What a U-Turn, thought the Geelong deal was a formality...

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Come on, Collingwood already spent big on Lachie Schulz. Save some big fish for the rest of us!

 

[Klink]

No announcement still. Have the AFL "cottoned on" to something?

Your obsession with Geelong....is weird.

I noticed you reacted to a post in some random Cats thread recently. Rent free hey.

Smith will get to Geelong. He was always coming...

Your boys are on the way up, let go of anything Cats related.

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