Plenty of sides could do with a young player capable of playing both ends that will have more money to play with than we will, hed have been on peanuts for us.
Hope we keep him but expect its not that easy to achieve.
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Hope we keep him but expect its not that easy to achieve.
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Nothing , so hopefully he stays
That's right you can say he is a superstar or a dud and you are not wrong, as we have seen nothing
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Guthrie only just turned 29 today, add in that he's an UFA, I'd say it's a good chance that there's other teams out there willing to offer him a 4yr deal or 3 years on longer money than what we may be able to afford
If increasing our offer to 4 yrs is what gets him over the line, I'm happier with that than him going elsewhere
33 is the new retirement age at Geelong now, players last longer now
The long term deals are for salary cap purposes. otherwise we couldn't afford to keep them all.
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Stanley surprises me (but isnt bad news) the rest is very much as expected.
Be interesting to see who if anyone retires if we win the flag.
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Correct..its the same as why danger got a long term deal to 2024..menegola to 2023 etc when they are all post 30..its salary cap management.
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Looks like there might be a lot fewer list changes than expected at the end of this year if Stanley, Hendo and Zuthrie sign on (not saying I wanted them to leave, just that there were question marks over their futures for various reasons).
Constable, Narkle, Clark, Jarvis, Taheny, Brownless and Jenkins may be the only list changes.
Clark is contracted so wont go unless he wants to. The others (bar taheny who i reckon i would delist and re rookie) are obviously in danger. I still think we will have a couple of retirements or trades.
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Agreed. I expected him to retire though.
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100% agree. I’m glad he’s going on in 2022.
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Were you the one who kept saying stanley would retire? With zero to back it up?
Im not sure where the Stanley finished rumours even came from, he was always playing on will only be 31 at years end.
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Joel has been on one year contracts for years, what's good for him is good for guthrie. 3 max. As if he's going anywhere anyway
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No that wasnt me but i did expect he likely would.
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This year was the first 1-year contract for Joel; that in turn means when Cam turns 33 he can sign a 1-year extension
Selwood signed a 4-year deal back in 2016 which he was 27 turning 28 during the season - that took him through to the end of 2019, but in Dec 2017 he signed a 2-year extension through to the end of this year. He's always had a longer term deal or signed on well in advanced to coming out of contract
Edit - as for Guthrie going nowhere, he's an UFA and it's not unreasonable to think that there would be teams, especially those a bit down the ladder, would be willing to throw more money at him than what we could afford to do
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Geelong have a habit of offering longer term deals than average. It is part of keeping wages down. 4 years on good money is great financial security for Cam and we probably got hm cheaper than what we would have paid for a two or three year deal.
It is smart business.
It is smart business.
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They came from Stanley, indirectly.
If you'd been treated like Rhys has been across the course of his time with us, you'd have every reason to look at potentially pulling the pin in frustration. No other player has worn more 'responsibility' (real or perceived) for our failures in recent years than him.
Hopefully how he's finishing this season (and the club backing him in, for a change) might have altered his outlook on whether it's worth going on.
In reality people spun words because they simply dont rate him.
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Nah, I rate him.
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Why would he have to go on the rookie list? He’s skill got it so it’s primary list for me
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