Traded Ben Brown [Traded to Melbourne with #28 and Future 4th Round Pick for #26, #33 and Future 4th Round Pick]

[Johnny Bananas]

"He had a fallout": Premiership coach encourages North forward to seek new club

"If you can change the environment..."

www.sen.com.au

Reading between the lines, Choco is essentially saying that Brown had a falling out with Shaw and that's why he's leaving.

 

[branedotorg]

You'd come out of that with good draft pics or another good player you'd think

 

[The Nostradamus]

"He had a fallout": Premiership coach encourages North forward to seek new club

"If you can change the environment..."

www.sen.com.au

Reading between the lines, Choco is essentially saying that Brown had a falling out with Shaw and that's why he's leaving.

Choco would have no inside knowledge

it’s as simple as he’s one of a few we have over a certain age who have currency on our list

 

[The Filth Wizard]

You'd come out of that with good draft pics or another good player you'd think

Yeah, I'd hope so. It's not like we're desperately trying to get salary off our books so it's irrational to think we're saying to explore his options in the hope of a pick in the 30's.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Choco would have no inside knowledge

Now obviously Choco isn't employed by North, but I wouldn't put it past him to have connections around the league still. And maybe there's still a few people at Werribee who are chums with people at North.

 

[Prochard123]

Choco would have no inside knowledge

it’s as simple as he’s one of a few we have over a certain age who have currency on our list

At some point you will come to realise that Brown is leaving whether you like it or not, him staying because you don't get 2x 1st round picks + Stephenson is not possible.

And that you have 0 bargaining power or leverage in this trade.

Not even joking/having a go, just the truth.

 

[The Nostradamus]

At some point you will come to realise that Brown is leaving whether you like it or not, him staying because you don't get 2x 1st round picks + Stephenson is not possible.

And that you have 0 bargaining power or leverage in this trade.

Not even joking/having a go, just the truth.

The bargaining Power is in the multiple clubs going after him

 

[Foucault1989]

Ben Brown is a done deal to the Demons, who will be shipping Tom McDonald off in a separate deal.

I thought Melbourne were trading free agent Viney to Carlton for McKay?

 

[Prochard123]

The bargaining is in the multiple clubs going after him

I mean it goes both ways, he's not the only KPF on the market either.

Daniher, Cameron, Brown make an exceptionally rare year for quality KPFs, you have no seller power here either. North can also pretend that Brown is linked to all these other clubs all they want. But the supposed suiters in WBD and Hawthorn aren't even realistic, with the demographic of distribution of players in their lists.

This is probably the worst year in the past decade to be selling a KPF.

 

[TakingThePies]

North have told him to find a new home according to Sam McClure.

Basically pushing him out the door, welcome to the Pies

 

[Foucault1989]

North have told him to find a new home according to Sam McClure.

Basically pushing him out the door, welcome to the Pies

Pies first and second rounder with a third coming back should do the trick. Anything more and Collingwood would be overpaying

 

[NoPositiveTests!]

Hate to be captain hindsight on this, but think about how much more he would have netted at the end of last season.

 

[TradeDraft]

Collingwood can't even afford their own players let alone trading for a guy like Ben Brown.

Well people are Linking lot of Players to Geelong and they would be close to the Salary Cap.

Plus I reckon we will have lot of Players Leave. Beams and Langdon been taken off will open a lot of Cap Space

 

[TakingThePies]

Pies first and second rounder with a third coming back should do the trick. Anything more and Collingwood would be overpaying

Thats what I said in term of value, I'd throw in Tom Phillips instead of a second round.

 

[TradeDraft]

You wouldn't want to lose him. Hes a gun. Who replaces him if he goes?

They Probably Draft McDonald

 

[Prochard123]

Well people are Linking lot of Players to Geelong and they would be close to the Salary Cap.

Plus I reckon we will have lot of Players Leave. Beams and Langdon been taken off will open a lot of Cap Space

If true, that would be great.

But even then, this is probably still less than the cap saved from all our retirees (Dunn, Broomhead, Reid, etc etc etc)

 

[TradeDraft]

It wouldn’t make sense for anyone to be paying Brown $800k at this point, so it’s an invalid argument. Regardless of that, no club is going to cough up two first round pick for a player who’s being pretty unceremoniously shown the door.

and been Injured pretty much all year

 

[TradeDraft]

The bargaining Power is in the multiple clubs going after him

Unless like just about all Trades that he come out and name his team he wants to play for then

 

[Prochard123]

Pies first and second rounder with a third coming back should do the trick. Anything more and Collingwood would be overpaying

Assuming this is the value:

It will be a 2021 1st + player to alleviate more cap pressure

Our recruiter seems to want to trade up our pick 12 from 2020 for a better player/avoid bid for McInnes

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

I like this move by North.

Precedent was set by Port trading Wingard a few years ago.

 

[TradeDraft]

Pies first and second rounder with a third coming back should do the trick. Anything more and Collingwood would be overpaying

Not in the Same Draft with the NGA this Draft and Nick Daicos next draft.

But maybe 1st in 1 Draft and 2nd in the other Draft

 

[Themanbun]

North have told him to find a new home according to Sam McClure.

Basically pushing him out the door, welcome to the Pies

Sounds like there was a falling out. I said at the time that Shaw's public clipping of him a mere days after he'd lost his child was going to create bad blood.

 

[Tbonefreo]

They Probably Draft McDonald

Adelaide will grab him. The kid is a freak

 

[Apex36]

Pies first and second rounder with a third coming back should do the trick. Anything more and Collingwood would be overpaying

Collingwood needs it’s later picks this year and next in order to pay for Reef McInness and Nick Daicos.

 

[Apex36]

Adelaide will grab him. The kid is a freak

I reckon Adelaide will grab Thilthorpe. They seem to freak out at the prospect of interstate kids leaving and pick local kids as much as possible.