List Mgmt. Dan Houston requests trade to Victoria - will stay if deal can't be done

[RossFC]

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[1954]

John Cleese couldn't write a script where that absolute clown Ratkins could end up at Alberton.

If it does happen it's time burn the place to the ground and then get the biggest steam roller ever made to flatten anything still standing!

 

[rumoursofwinter]

Dude won't be playing

If its a salary dump and we get compensated that's okay. (We didn't get any free agents)

Jack bowes can actually footy.

 

[Better Loosen Up]

I would have been happy to work with North.

Well we did try. You could have taken our future first which would be somewhere between picks 2 and 4 because let's face it, even if we somehow managed to double our wins next year, that's where our pick would land. That would put you firmly in the frame for Dyson Sharp or it could have gotten you a couple of early picks in this years draft with a trade. Seems a lot better than this deal.

 

[Anyonebutken]

Atkins will be playing sanfl and that's it but it's scary to think he and soldo are the only ones on our list who have played in a winning prelim final and played in a granny.

 

[Windy Cindy]

John Cleese couldn't write a script where that absolute clown Ratkins could end up at Alberton.

If it does happen it's time burn the place to the ground and then get the biggest steam roller ever made to flatten anything still standing!

couldnt agree more. what a farking joke..

 

[PAFC66]

Well we did try. You could have taken our future first which would be somewhere between picks 2 and 4 because let's face it, even if we somehow managed to double our wins next year, that's where our pick would land. That would put you firmly in the frame for Dyson Sharp or it could have gotten you a couple of early picks in this years draft with a trade. Seems a lot better than this deal.

Got to make Dan happy.
We value work life balance before anything else.

 

[JakeNeadeFan]

I can't comprehend how gold coast would accept this deal when Norf are offering their F1 for 13

 

[rainwizard39]

Ralph is reporting we are giving up our future first also.

This club is ****ed if we do this. Atkins is on good money because good ol’ Gold Coast overpaid him. Luko is on a million each year for the next two years. We give up one of our best 5 players and a future 1st, after the garbage 1st we traded last year, and all we get back is 13, Luko, and some garbage.

We’re taking on x2 salary dumps while giving a 1st for them and giving one of our best players to a contender for 13 and one of their scrubs.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Well we did try. You could have taken our future first which would be somewhere between picks 2 and 4 because let's face it, even if we somehow managed to double our wins next year, that's where our pick would land. That would put you firmly in the frame for Dyson Sharp or it could have gotten you a couple of early picks in this years draft with a trade. Seems a lot better than this deal.

I think you guys would have done some creative trading to make the deal even sweeter, Brady Rawlings sound very optimistic.

Given it is so late in the day, you might still have a chance to blow the house of cards over.

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

Rory Akins hahahahahahah

But Akins, Lukosious, Richards, 13, 29 and a F3 for assuming Houston and a future 1st. Idk how I feel

 

[Palpatine_Power]

Is Ratkins carrying the water?

 

[Ford Fairlane]

We shouldn't be coughing up our F1 if we are taking Atkins on. We're not Orana FFS.

 

[Willsy10]

I might just wait and see before going troppo. Looks like Ratkins is thrown in as a sweetener, doesn't appear to be costing us anything, so not sure what the hysteria is about that part of it. Is it just because he is Ratkins? Provides a bit of depth to a position we are losing an AA player.

 

[TazD]

I can't comprehend how gold coast would accept this deal when Nord are offering their F1 for 13

$$$ cleared from their cap and they need points not picks for next year so that Norf F1 might be swallowed immediately in the Uwland bid.

 

[elsler]

hahaha they cant make this shit up if that happens shut up shop were cooked

 

[JakeNeadeFan]

For all intents and purposes Ratkins will be a SANFL top up player next year, who happens to be being paid 400k

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

30 year old that hasn’t played 20 games since 2019 - the difference maker

 

[JakeNeadeFan]

$$$ cleared from their cap and they need points not picks for next year so that Norf F1 might be swallowed immediately in the Uwland bid.

Norf F1 is worth a shitload more.points than collingwoods, and gives the the ability to trade it for more points

 

[Better Loosen Up]

I think you guys would have done some creative trading to make the deal even sweeter, Brady Rawlings sound very optimistic.

Given it is so late in the day, you might still have a chance to blow the house of cards over.

Even if we don't, it's still a better deal.

 

[El_Scorcho]

If we are still giving our F1 this is perhaps the worst deal in the history of deals.

If we AREN'T giving up our F1, this is a great deal. I don't mind taking on Atkins as a salary dump if it means we keep our F1

 

[TazD]

Norf F1 is worth a shitload more.points than collingwoods, and gives the the ability to trade it for more points

Yeah but us taking Ratkins salary is in play here. Rowells contract looms.

 

[Alberton Proud]

What a team we're assembling

 

[PAFC66]

You'd rather Owies over Atkins .

 

[Shaxx Attaxx]

Hard pass on Atkins. He has played 37 games in 4 years since going to GC on his FA contract.

Wait. He’s still on an AFL list?!! Legitimately shocked.

 

[DocSholl]

I can't comprehend how gold coast would accept this deal when Norf are offering their F1 for 13

Suspect Houston told us he wouldn't come, and that's the only reason we would have done it