Recommitted Bobby Hill [requested trade to Essendon but will be held to his contract]

[Lore]

 

[DonFury]

Imagine the terrible mental health damage caused by holding JD to his contract then!!

Poor bloke probably cried into his cornflakes each morning

The bloke had already checked out. He took sitting on the fence to a whole new level. As I've said plenty wanted him gone the second word got out he was chasing a contract else where. Clubs only have themselves to blame and our culture has already improved out of sight since we cut guys like him loose.

 

[DonFury]

Only if he goes to the team that gets the spoon, though, yes?

Jack Martin scenario suggests not always

 

[Taylor Moss]

Jack Martin scenario suggests not always

So you’d have to have the huge $$$ for a heavily front loaded contract for that to be a possibility.

How is the Essendon salary cap situation perceived to be?

 

[eth-dog]

So you’d have to have the huge $$$ for a heavily front loaded contract for that to be a possibility.

How is the Essendon salary cap situation perceived to be?

We're one of the best placed, we lost three reasonably large contracts last year and shed another two this year (Hooker and Zaka) with Hurley (on good coin) likely to retire next year.

 

[Taylor Moss]

We're one of the best placed, we lost three reasonably large contracts last year and shed another two this year (Hooker and Zaka) with Hurley (on good coin) likely to retire next year.

Okay so it is achievable. Be interesting to see what happens

 

[dee64]

So you’d have to have the huge $$$ for a heavily front loaded contract for that to be a possibility.

How is the Essendon salary cap situation perceived to be?

Melbourne wanted Jack Martin. Carlton front loaded his contract to $900k in his 1st year, to stop us from picking him in the PSD. Doubt that Essendon could pull off the same stunt with Hill.

 

[Foxx]

The only thing Hill did wrong was giving short notice. Wanting to break a contract and choosing a side is standard practise these days.
The reason for leaving has no relevance. He didnt have to say anything. Just I want to leave.
Clubs can push contracted players out too.

It's a business from both players and clubs.
I don't blame GWS for keeping him to his contract, and I don't blame Hill for wanting to leave.

 

[Danny88]

The bloke had already checked out. He took sitting on the fence to a whole new level. As I've said plenty wanted him gone the second word got out he was chasing a contract else where. Clubs only have themselves to blame and our culture has already improved out of sight since we cut guys like him loose.

You don't see the hypocrisy in your post?

 

[Danny88]

The only thing Hill did wrong was giving short notice. Wanting to break a contract and choosing a side is standard practise these days.
The reason for leaving has no relevance. He didnt have to say anything. Just I want to leave.
Clubs can push contracted players out too.

It's a business from both players and clubs.
I don't blame GWS for keeping him to his contract, and I don't blame Hill for wanting to leave.

A measured response after trade week on Bigfooty! I just screenshot this to prove its a thing!

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

Melbourne wanted Jack Martin. Carlton front loaded his contract to $900k in his 1st year, to stop us from picking him in the PSD. Doubt that Essendon could pull off the same stunt with Hill.

When was the last time a club picked up a player in the PSD who didn't really want to be there ? Maybe Nick Stevens at Carlton.

I honestly think Dawson still would have made it to Adelaide had he went into the PSD, I tend to think clubs try not pick up players any more who are not committed at all to their potential new club.

 

[DonFury]

You don't see the hypocrisy in your post?

Clearly you've missed the point. We should've got rid of him when he first said he didn't want to be there. Under Worsfold we were too soft post saga and players were free to do as they pleased. This meant standards dropped and driven guys like Merrett were on the brink of walking out.

Under Rutten they've realised you can't panda to the bleeding hearts so those that don't want to buy in can **** off.

If that's hypocrisy then think you need a lesson in vocabulary.

 

[The Kings Ransom]

We're one of the best placed, we lost three reasonably large contracts last year and shed another two this year (Hooker and Zaka) with Hurley (on good coin) likely to retire next year.

Also signed reigning best and fairest winner Ridley, brow now contender Darcy Parish and highest paid player on your list Zach Merrett to new contracts in 2021
Andrew McGrath signed a new contract in 2020

They would have taken up a fair chunk of space.

 

[eth-dog]

Also signed reigning best and fairest winner Ridley, brow now contender Darcy Parish and highest paid player on your list Zach Merrett to new contracts in 2021
Andrew McGrath signed a new contract in 2020

They would have taken up a fair chunk of space.

We're in a good space cap wise. McGrath is OOC next year and will take some of Hurley's money. Merrett was already on some pretty good money. Parish got a pretty nice pay rise but it's nothing on what we shed from Saad, Fantasia, Daniher, Hooker and Zaharakis.

 

[tigs2010]

Melbourne wanted Jack Martin. Carlton front loaded his contract to $900k in his 1st year, to stop us from picking him in the PSD. Doubt that Essendon could pull off the same stunt with Hill.

Ouch for Jack Martin. At least he got those sweet sweet $$$$

 

[Del28562]

The only thing Hill did wrong was giving short notice. Wanting to break a contract and choosing a side is standard practise these days.
The reason for leaving has no relevance. He didnt have to say anything. Just I want to leave.
Clubs can push contracted players out too.

It's a business from both players and clubs.
I don't blame GWS for keeping him to his contract, and I don't blame Hill for wanting to leave.

Isn't that the problem, we have a contracted player, being in the system 3 years, wanting to choose not only his state but club destination. He's not a free agent, giants can't get a bombers player in return, unless this is significantly changer we will continue with boring trade weeks

 

[Ants]

So, in the post tradeweek discussions it seems that GWS never were trading him (even if Wingard or Breust said "yes"), Essendon understood that from the start and thought it was a long shot, things were pretty amicable between McCartney and Dodoro, and all the toing and froing about this pick versus this pick were pretty much media creations. As was the 4 year deal.

Young needs a long hard look at himself, as does the media, and finally a lot of posters who weighed in on the topic.

 

[dee64]

So, in the post tradeweek discussions it seems that GWS never were trading him (even if Wingard or Breust said "yes"), Essendon understood that from the start and thought it was a long shot, things were pretty amicable between McCartney and Dodoro, and all the toing and froing about this pick versus this pick were pretty much media creations. As was the 4 year deal.

Young needs a long hard look at himself, as does the media, and finally a lot of posters who weighed in on the topic.

As KB used to say, "The 2nd language in AFL is Lying". Clubs will say anything to save face, so I don't believe anything that came out of either camp. In this case, I don't think the media was to blame.
The only villain in this was Young. The snake thought that if he could get Hill out of GWS, they would be able to afford his other client Lobb. Then the lowlife scumbag brings up the example of another one of his clients McCarthy suffering from mental illness as a result of GWS initially knocking back a trade when he was contracted. The bloke ought to be de-registered as a player agent.