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Enough now. The hysteria has gone too far
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Enough now. The hysteria has gone too far
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The Norm Smith curse!
Should Demons draft Mac Andrew’s brother to lure $1.5 million Sun to Melbourne?
“Bring his brother in as a Category B rookie … he can actually play.”
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Embarrassing for Melbourne supporters when you've got some absolute Muppet on here who spews out some extraordinary rubbish.
Sorry but Mac Andrew has a far higher ceiling than Van Rooyen. Mac Andrew's ceiling is top 5 players in the comp.
Trade Mac Andrew for Van Rooyen and Melbourne will be adding a lot more than a straight swap.
With the salary cap going up $3 million in 3 years, $1.5mil PA from 2026 onwards will be the equivalent percentage of the salary cap that $1million PA was say when WB signed Tom Boyd to that deal a decade ago. And he’d only played 1 season.
By the end of next year Andrew will have been in the system for 4 years. And may have exploded.
So it’s not the huge deal that many are making it out to be.
St Kilda reportedly offered Weitering a similar deal this year and have a similar deal for LDU on the table, so this will be the norm from now on if you want to extract elite talent from other clubs. Especially if you’re not a “destination club”.
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As Tom Browne said, the key for GC is to get this contract as close to $1m as we can until free agency. He's in a changeover of management so if we can get a deal done over summer that would be ideal (his management should delay that as late as possible). Maybe the most exciting young big man in the comp, not surprised at all at the interest. Apparently he loves the club and is happy so will be an interesting watch.
If you think there won’t be clubs making him huge offers you’re kidding yourself. And at least one will probably be in that range. Especially if he has a big year next year.
Possibly, but that’s about 90% of this website haha.
Was. We don't know what it's like now.
True, but this is partly due to the minimum cap spend being 95% of the total, an absurdly high figure. And once they get Lukosius off the books, it frees up a lot of space.
The fact that they did that trade, suggests to me the state of their cap was pretty bad and very unlikely to be rectified in one offseason.
The fact that they have to get Lukosius off the books just proves my point further. He is a good player and should be retained. They can’t because they overpaid him and they need to free up space.
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Wonderful, and what evidence do you have to back up this feeling?
They don't, actually. They're perfectly fine with him staying and have said so.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, it’s my understanding that Melbourne put very little time into Mac as a junior and that he was signed very late to the Melbourne NGA, is that not correct?
Was with us since he was 14. This for Jason Taylor
Mac was at our very first training session back when he was 14 so he's obviously coming from a fair way back there. He's shown some significant growth over this year. I last saw him play before the COVID shutdown at a practice game at Beaconsfield where he was really raw in his football but he showed some of those athletic traits," Taylor told the Road to the Draft podcast
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wrong. but also completely irrelevant. He was in our NGA, and should be a demon. bottom line.
The evidence is that they had to give away a top 10 pick along with a decent player to relieve the pressure.
Lukosius is gone and they need him gone. What the club says means nothing.
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In 2022. We're now in 2024.
Citation needed.
Whereas the feelpinions of someone on Bigfooty are the gospel truth.
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Melbourne losing out on Andrew is karma for creating the farce that is the father son rule
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The rules at the time said he was not available to you. Fact. Now move on FFS
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With all due respect, as a Sydney fan, you're not in a position to to say 'move on'. If the AFL took Heeney off you out of nowhere you wouldn't be half the team. I will continue to make noise about this issue until we either get compensated or the AFL acknowledge their completely inept running, the nga is scrapped altogether or when Mac Andrew eventually retires. It was a bloody disgrace with huge ladder ramifications. Especially when we're basically looking at a ladder which is basically a perfect reflection of how much the club has been kissed with NGA's.
I will happily be using it as a very valid excuse for the next 10 years of Mac's career.
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Finally, our club's administration will be happy! MAKE SOME NOISE!
P.S. Agree - we should be awarded the next six premiership cups because we couldn't sign a player on a system that isn't fair or equal in the first place, in a competition littered with such and various advantages and disadvantages across literally every single club.
