First thing's first, Inglis would prefer to retire a League player, more to the point a Storm player.
But.
- Inglis's manager Alan Gainey has contacted people involved with AFL this week after the Israel Folau news broke, just to feel out what interest there would be in his player (relevant to my final dot point). There were reports of managers of NRL players contacting the AFL regarding 12 players during the week, mainly due to scarmongering for renewing their own NRL deals. Either way, Inglis we're lead to believe was one of those 12 players.
- Israel Folau talked about getting involved with AFL living in Melbourne for two years being one of the motivations for the switch. Greg Inglis has become a much bigger AFL fan than Folau ever was, really embracing the code, he had a kick of the Sherrin almost every week at Visy Park after training. His youtube video is just scraping the surface.
- At this point let's remind ourselves of some of Greg's quotes from just under 12 months ago:
“To be honest, I wouldn't mind having a crack (at AFL), I played a few games when I was in high school but that was about it.
“You never know what happens in the future, look at what happened to Karmichael, he signed and that was a shock.
“You don't know what the future brings, you know if the opportunity's there then we'll definitely have a look but I can't promise anything at the moment.
“All I can say now is I'm still with Melbourne until 2012.''
- The interesting thing regarding that last quote is that Inglis and his team are now seriously considering the switch if the Storm team requires dismantling at season's end. If the Storm never rorted the cap, this would be less of a story. But because they did, the AFL has come into the picture big time for Greg.
The option from camp Inglis is that if the Storm need to lose Inglis, or if Inglis going would go a long way to ammending their cap situation 2011 on, Greg will heavily weigh up the AFL offers which by then will be concrete and deadly serious. Essendon for one have already had semi-serious internal meetings re: Inglis and had informal conversations with Gainey too.
These will ramp up now there has been some communication between the AFL and Gainey. Remember, Greg would be singed to Hunt/Folau kind deals, he'd be a rookie, with a lot of promotional money, and a relatively manageable capable cap hit (300kish, pure estimate).
- The unconfirmed theory, and the real interesting one for mine, the reason for this thread, is that the preliminary thoughts from Camp Inglis is that if next year Inglis can't be a Storm player, he wants to play AFL in Melbourne. I concede I can't confirm that, so take it for what it's worth.
Watch this space.
But.
- Inglis's manager Alan Gainey has contacted people involved with AFL this week after the Israel Folau news broke, just to feel out what interest there would be in his player (relevant to my final dot point). There were reports of managers of NRL players contacting the AFL regarding 12 players during the week, mainly due to scarmongering for renewing their own NRL deals. Either way, Inglis we're lead to believe was one of those 12 players.
- Israel Folau talked about getting involved with AFL living in Melbourne for two years being one of the motivations for the switch. Greg Inglis has become a much bigger AFL fan than Folau ever was, really embracing the code, he had a kick of the Sherrin almost every week at Visy Park after training. His youtube video is just scraping the surface.
- At this point let's remind ourselves of some of Greg's quotes from just under 12 months ago:
“To be honest, I wouldn't mind having a crack (at AFL), I played a few games when I was in high school but that was about it.
“You never know what happens in the future, look at what happened to Karmichael, he signed and that was a shock.
“You don't know what the future brings, you know if the opportunity's there then we'll definitely have a look but I can't promise anything at the moment.
“All I can say now is I'm still with Melbourne until 2012.''
- The interesting thing regarding that last quote is that Inglis and his team are now seriously considering the switch if the Storm team requires dismantling at season's end. If the Storm never rorted the cap, this would be less of a story. But because they did, the AFL has come into the picture big time for Greg.
The option from camp Inglis is that if the Storm need to lose Inglis, or if Inglis going would go a long way to ammending their cap situation 2011 on, Greg will heavily weigh up the AFL offers which by then will be concrete and deadly serious. Essendon for one have already had semi-serious internal meetings re: Inglis and had informal conversations with Gainey too.
These will ramp up now there has been some communication between the AFL and Gainey. Remember, Greg would be singed to Hunt/Folau kind deals, he'd be a rookie, with a lot of promotional money, and a relatively manageable capable cap hit (300kish, pure estimate).
- The unconfirmed theory, and the real interesting one for mine, the reason for this thread, is that the preliminary thoughts from Camp Inglis is that if next year Inglis can't be a Storm player, he wants to play AFL in Melbourne. I concede I can't confirm that, so take it for what it's worth.
Watch this space.
