Speculation Caleb Daniel [UFA 2026]

[Ash1337]

That pick 25 will be like 30 and that 48 will be like 42 on draft night. 30 for 42 wow what a deal.

 

[hawksalltheway]

25 for a fringe player!! massive overs, can not believe the dogs didnt take this ridiculous offer...roos should walk away

 

[Bald]

25 for a fringe player!! massive overs, can not believe the dogs didnt take this ridiculous offer...roos should walk away

Tell me you don't know how the system works without telling me.

 

[The Nostradamus]

25 for a fringe player!! massive overs, can not believe the dogs didnt take this ridiculous offer...roos should walk away

yep should only be a 3rd rounder
we are taking 700-750k a year off their books

 

[Golden_6]

The Dogs clearly don’t want to lose both Macrae & Daniel unless we receive overs.

Contrary to what people believe, we aren’t shedding salary for the sake of shedding salary. That means we have leverage in our contracted players.

It’s ridiculous how people think we should hand over both contracted and uncontracted players and have nothing on our terms.

 

[Wojcinski]

25 for a fringe player!! massive overs, can not believe the dogs didnt take this ridiculous offer...roos should walk away

Dogs list manager just outlining how little he understands about player value

 

[Golden_6]

Dogs list manager just outlining how little he understands about player value

It wasn’t for pick 25. It was Daniel & 48 for 25.

25 will become 30 after bids and 48 will come in a fair bit so essentially it’s a 15ish pick upgrade.

 

[EconomicDecline]

Disagree. He is fringe. Played 16 games. How many times was he sub or subbed out? He would be the 20-30 bloke picked in the team. Will be 29 next year.
Don't get me wrong he would be a reasonable player for a few teams but if he gets traded he won't net much because of his age, salary and because he is on the outer at the Dogs.

Subbed on 7 times and off 1 time. 6 of those 16 games he played less than 30% game time.

 

[Wojcinski]

It wasn’t for pick 25. It was Daniel & 48 for 25.

25 will become 30 after bids and 48 will come in a fair bit so essentially it’s a 15ish pick upgrade.

For a player clearly not in the best 22 and 28 years old it still seems like a really good deal for the dogs

 

[WB_]

Aside from the pick swap aspect, it's been indicated that the offer included the bulldogs paying a portion of his salary. Let's not pretend North offered pick 25 outright with no strings attached.

 

[Makeshift Park]

Aside from the pick swap aspect, it's been indicated that the offer included the bulldogs paying a portion of his salary. Let's not pretend North offered pick 25 outright with no strings attached.

Surely not.

We'd be searching for creative ways to reach the salary floor.

Bring us your bloated and unjustifiable contracts. Our salary cap is our only competitive advantage.

 

[Bulldogs85]

Surely not.

We'd be searching for creative ways to reach the salary floor.

Bring us your bloated and unjustifiable contracts. Our salary cap is our only competitive advantage.

Someone on our board and they have a good track record said that we had to pay some of the salary

 

[WB_]

Surely not.

We'd be searching for creative ways to reach the salary floor.

Bring us your bloated and unjustifiable contracts. Our salary cap is our only competitive advantage.

I agree, one would think that could be beneficial.

 

[Makeshift Park]

Someone on our board and they have a good track record said that we had to pay some of the salary

If that's really true, I can only guess its just a negotiation tactic.

(Maybe we then leaked the story of the offer too to ramp up pressure on Power to play ball? I really dunno)

It just defies logic that our ultimate trade offer for Daniel would be predicated by an unnecessary condition that WB pay some of the salary.