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Ballantyne wants out - Eagles
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I would take some of his salary if it got us pick 35.
Ballas will need to fix a lot of bridges after his manager totally cocked this trade period up for him. Playing it out in the feral west media was the worst thing he could have done if it wasn't a done deal to begin with.
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I agree. After all this (plus the talent coming in: injury recovered, traded in, or #7) RTB might take it that Ballas is no longer "bought in" and Ballas might find he doesn't actually play another game for Freo. I think a trade needs to be worked out for the benefit of all parties.
Why? We don't have any salary cap pressure at the moment.
Bear in mind that all players taken in the main draft are given a two year minimum contract. If we take a whole bunch of speculative picks and they turn out to be spuds we won't have a lot of room to move with list management.
You can bank cap space
Still stuck with a bunch of list cloggers
Under the rules, you can use 95% of the salary cap and bank 5%. Also, you can front load contracts which give you cap space later.
Two years apply to new recruits, you can upgrade rookies and they can be included in the minimum three selections.
But you get O'Meara. Also, you can cut players one year into a contract ie De luca.
What $100k at best.
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Basil Zempilas was saying on SEN today that Ballas will have to earn his spot next year. He may be sent back to Peel.
I think so.
How do you fit in McCarthy, Kersten, Apeness, Taberner, Walters, Yarran plus either Bennell, Fyfe, Langdon, Weller, Balic and maybe, pick 7 playing forward at times.
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Good cover for injuries. Good promo for peel also.
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Basil has always been on the selection committee at Fremantle. Little known fact.
Peel might win another grand final. Just need to rotate as many players through Peel. Maybe, put all our injuried players on the Peel seconds sheet ie Balic.
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I actually like the idea of sending some kids to help peel reserve , balic leadership in his first match reserve is massive , peel reserve look so good in that match.
- Aug 22, 2009
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Gun journo Kim Hagdorn reporting that we would only offer him a deal for 2017.
He knows shit. But this time it makes sense. We offered him an one year extension, 2017 and 2018 but he wanted 2019 as well. Then his manager went through the media to try to get another year but nobody has offer him the extra year that he wanted.
Maybe, Fremantle may not want to extend his contract now and let him go after next season.
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It didn't make sense to me. If we were going to try to get him across, surely we would offer him a deal for 2017 and 2018? Offering just 2017 seems like a bit of a poor offer.
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Agree, the article makes no sense at all.
Eagles would have only been in the conversation if two years was on the cards. Sounds like the last minute Mitchell deal might have tightened up the cap enough to kill a two year deal for him.
Saying the eagles baulked at two years is just haggers being haggers.
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I agree that's much more plausible.
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