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Ballantyne wants out - Eagles
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We can't match all offers if they exceed our cap. A club that is currently paying the minimum could potentially make an offer we can't match.
You really think with our current list and Pav, Johnson and Sandi all at the end of their careers we won't find enough room in our cap? I think given we were thinking we could fit Fyfe and Hogan both in our cap I'd be pretty confident we'll be ok.
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This guy has the hot hand today. Nothing but net from behind the arc.
GilG
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Cheers, mate! Glad the piece spoke to you. Maybe there's a silver lining in all this. I'd back Ballas to have a strong season next year — maybe it'll be for us after all. Of all the areas that sorely need addressing at the club, I wouldn't think our small forwards would be one of them.
Buddy wanted to be with Jesinta. If her career job was in Melbourne he would have stayed. If her job were in Perth, Freo would've had a chance. Sydney were forced into the long contract as they couldn't offer more than Hawthorn per year.
How does that make it not true?
Arcassius
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from an article - "Speaking last week, Fyfe said it would be “remiss of him not to look at every possible option” in regards to free agency."
Words straight from Lyon's playbook. He's already been indoctrinated. Won't go anywhere
Ross is about as pragmatic as they come. Take the emotion out and be almost completely rational. If Fyfe is the same it's not necessarily a great thing.
The more I think about it the more pissed off I get with Fyfe on how he has handled this already regardless of outcome.
Taylor
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It is my understanding that we don't need to match the contract exactly, just in length and value which I know sounds like I'm being pedantic but we could put all the unaffordable money in the last year of the matching offer just to get the paperwork done.
The real interesting thing would be if a restricted free agent would move for a 3 year $10,000,000 deal that gets renegotiated to ten years once the preseason starts, just to prevent anyone being able to match.
****ing spot on
I'm sick of the media making articles about innuendo and reading into off hand comments when there is literally nothing there! Ross and Fyfe are on the same page about everything. Fyfe is Ross's little protege. He gets him up in the coaches box every game and down addressing the mids at half time. There is no way Fyfe is leaving Ross and no way Ross is letting Fyfe go. I honestly reckon Fyfe will be an assistant under Ross if Ross is still around when Fyfe retires
The only way Fyfe is leaving is if we sack Ross
We're rolling through the exact same phase with Fyfe as has happened over the last year with Neale before he signed.
Players are well within their rights to explore their options. He hasn't cast much more doubt over his belief in Fremantle than Neale did, more so because he's a talisman and any slight comment which hints he'll so much as think before resigning has been taken to suggest he's positioning for a move away. It's a massive scoop to even suggest that our best player might want to shift clubs, so it's little wonder every b-grade journo has ran with it. Like Lyon said, if Fyfe's encouraged in the direction the club takes over the next season, no doubt he'll sign. Exactly as Neale did after chatting with his gun of a manager.
Ballantyne's obviously a completely different story given his age and the disparity between he and the club over contract length, but even still as he's pointed out himself this morning, there's too much ****ing innuendo, hearsay and conjecture atm. Particularly in this fishbowl of a town with the bottom feeders at the west and C7 being our primary source of "news".
Players are well within their rights to explore their options. He hasn't cast much more doubt over his belief in Fremantle than Neale did, more so because he's a talisman and any slight comment which hints he'll so much as think before resigning has been taken to suggest he's positioning for a move away. It's a massive scoop to even suggest that our best player might want to shift clubs, so it's little wonder every b-grade journo has ran with it. Like Lyon said, if Fyfe's encouraged in the direction the club takes over the next season, no doubt he'll sign. Exactly as Neale did after chatting with his gun of a manager.
Ballantyne's obviously a completely different story given his age and the disparity between he and the club over contract length, but even still as he's pointed out himself this morning, there's too much ****ing innuendo, hearsay and conjecture atm. Particularly in this fishbowl of a town with the bottom feeders at the west and C7 being our primary source of "news".
I just finished watching Open Mike with Liam Pickering and I have to say I disagree with that. I think Buddy wanted out of Melbourne full stop, media and even fans can thank themselves for that, they made a player want to leave because they wouldn't leave him alone.
People grow up over seven years.
Keys
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This is 100% true
He was suffocated in Melbourne as fans wouldn't leave him alone.
I used to deal with his not famous sister and her husband - his BiL was telling me just after it came out buddy was going to Sydney how he used to eat breakfast in the kitchen of the cafe where he'd go because it was the only way he'd get left alone
He loved it at Hawthorn but couldn't get his own space
Frank J Moose
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He could have had that deal anywhere he played
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In fairness everywhere else, other than GWS, the same deal would have been worth 8.1 million.
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