No Oppo Supporters Hawthorn’s 2019 Trade/FA - Targets/Incoming players discussion only - Next Part

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So I shouldn't mention a Tigers board member was apparently having a big sook at the recent function about the Hawks making discreet inquiries about Dan Rioli's contract...?

Rioli was big Hawk supporter growing up too wasn't he?
Not that I can see it happening but be nice to have another Rioli in Brown & Gold.;)
 
One thing that still irks is the timing of the contract extensions for Mitchell and others. Many thought the extensions / announcements had something to do with a decision by Cogs. If this is the case, has the decision (sans interference by the AFL) had far wider implications on our list management planning and execution than simply missing out on Cogs?
Or maybe we did those re signings because we knew we weren't getting cogs...
 

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So I shouldn't mention a Tigers board member was apparently having a big sook at the recent function about the Hawks making discreet inquiries about Dan Rioli's contract...?

Surely this would have come up elsewhere if a board member was publicly complaining about it?
 
And, more to the point, players and their managers flat out lie. They tell clubs what they want to hear and what they need to hear to serve the player’s/manager’s needs, not the truth.

People at both Carlton and Hawthorn were genuinely led to believe Shiel and Coniglio were keen to join. Players and managers lie.

You won’t get much honesty or transparency from anyone in the AFL system.
The PR spin starts at the top and goes all the way down to the players most of whom are given media training in order to teach them how to avoid saying anything meaningful. Hence the usual plethora of football cliches that drown any useful exchange of information.

You have to learn to read between the lines of any public statements and remember in the great race of life always back self interest because you know it will be trying.
 

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27:55 some pretty cryptic comments about Carlton approach of Clarko from Cain Liddle. Interesting to hear thoughts of others here. He sounds like a little weasel but sounds like they met more than once.
Did I just listen to the same podcast where he said something along the lines of "when we approach someone for a role and they are happy where they are in their existing contract then that is as far as things go" ?

Yeah...real cryptic :drunk:
 
Was he the same Talia that was giving gameplans away to the opposition?

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