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Enjoyed seeing that Conor Stone is undecided about staying at the Giants. Make it happen Austin
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HmmmmEnjoyed seeing that Conor Stone is undecided about staying at the Giants. Make it happen Austin
Played a fair bit of vfl this year and some games in the 1s in the back end of the year as a sub if I remember correctly.Hmmmm
How are his hammies?
May well come cheap then- medical/S&C department will need a new challenge next year given all the recent departures in any event
Easy
His contract expires October 31 I believe. Weigh up the option of offering him 1 year (which he wouldn't like) on minimum coin and then tell him he can explore a trade if he wishes, just like Owies
Even a late 3rd rounder (believe me, the 60th best player currently wanting to play AFL may be a gemstone) would have been good either to trade or draft
We should not have ceded to his request to delist...we have given him a truckload of money for lying down on a physios bed
Injury prone…this is the way.
It's really pretty simple, whilst it might annoy some people on this board as it doesn't fit in with their cut throat narrative, but we did somewhat as a gesture of goodwill.
Yes he came across on a "big contract", although I would dispute that as his average annual salary was just a tick under $600k per season when he signed.
Heavily front loaded so we could get him in the preseason draft, was meant to earn 1mil in that first season, but lost out on a little over 300k due to covid. So he was on around $540k, about 100k above the average wage of an AFL player.
He had zero luck whilst at our club fitness wise, and despite what some people say, it wasn't from lack of professionalism.
We could have offered him a base contract that he would reject, then have gone to war for a 4th round draft pick, squabbled and made life difficult, maybe been offered a same round pick upgrade in the 4th or a future 4th pick which would no longer of had DIV points attached.
Then if all that failed, he could just wait until the end of final list lodgments, no longer be bound to the club, and end up at another team as an SSP. The club would also have to pay him an amount of money during the period that he is uncontracted but not delisted.
Given we were not going to offer him a contract that would have seen him stay, and given that his draft value is as close to zero as one can imagine, also taking into account that grace in which he took a pretty decent pay cut from his original contract (that was prior to the lack of games he actually played). It seems like a fair thing to do.
On top of all that, he is managed by TGI, and you don't want to piss them off.
Would suit the recruiting policy and feel right at home.