Traded Jack Bowes [Traded to Geelong with #7 for F3]
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- Jun 19, 2016
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Must be on more $ than people realise.Just incredible if true that he was asked to explore his options.
Yet another casualty of the club paying big money on potential then tossing them to the curb because we can’t get them going to our “style”. Starting to think this might be a trend.
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Would be interesting. Given we will be trading our current and future 1sts for henry and bruhn not sure how we get it done. I cant see gc wanting all our r3 picks for him and i cant see an obvious player swap
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Doesn't like cold weather but wants to go to Geelong as he's keen on becoming a property developer, a can't fail property developer, the type they have lots of at Geelong.
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- Feb 5, 2018
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We had an ITK on our board suggest a while ago that we were interested in getting involved with 'salary dump style trades with the Gold Coast'. We all assumed it could be Flanders.
Bowes makes sense if he wants midfield minutes.
Bowes makes sense if he wants midfield minutes.
- Mar 25, 2019
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Would be a welcome addition on a wing for the Blues. Depends on how monstrous this contract is though. The thought of Brodie being of 500k and not getting a game last year is frightening
- Aug 18, 2018
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Close enough!
- Aug 18, 2018
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While he's almost certainly not coming to Geelong I'm extremely keen to link every out of contract player to us just to give everyone the s***s
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Elixuh
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Lol how does Geelong have cap space to absorb a cap dump. Or is it true as suggested above that Bowes is an astute property developer.
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Heard he's already found 6 townhouses down that way for a whopping $100 each
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No silly, that’s why he wants to get to the cats. To learn property development!
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I’ll give him $300 for the lot
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Two of their best 22 are Close and Atkins both on rookie deals. Stengle would also not be on very much money at all.
They don't historically pay their players a lot. Shaun Higgins retired (I don't imagine he was on a lot). Joel Selwood could retire after Saturday (most Cats fans I've spoken to believe regardless of the result he will be finished). Luke Dahlhaus is on 500k per season and his contract is up, no chance he gets extended.
Yes - it pisses me off too just how well they've managed everything.
- Mar 25, 2019
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So is it a salary dump? If so, pick 23 and future 2nd for Rankine and Bowes...
- Jun 19, 2006
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We would've had a heap of cap space opening up this year and next. We've got almost nobody in their peak earning years of 25-28.
Sure we need to bump up the pay of some younger players but compared to Danger, Selwood, Hawkins, Blicavs, Tuohy and Duncan moving out of their peak earnings years it'll be small change. Bruhn and Henry aren't exactly big money signings. If we were really considering Grundy, De Goey and Hopper then we'll have a ton of space for Bowes.
- Aug 18, 2018
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Mate, how many retirements do you think the cats have on the horizon? Half the 22 won't be playing in 24 months
Elixuh
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No doesn't annoy me at all. Cats have been one of the best run organisations in recent times, equal with the Swans.
Cameron will still be on $1M a year for a while though, quite a big chunk out of the salary cap.
- Jun 19, 2006
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That's one player and most teams have someone on a similar amount or more. If you go through player by player I don't see why we would have less cap space in the coming years than Richmond with Martin, Lynch and Bolton and they're able to fit Hopper and Taranto. We should easily be able to fit Henry, Bruhn and Bowes if they want to come.
- Aug 18, 2018
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He won't have many friends left after 2024 though
