AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
According to Steve Hocking it was not a big loss because we have Darcy Lang and Nakia Cockatoo to replace Caddy in the midfield...
He is basically saying Caddy is not good enough for the midfield - sure Caddy appreciated getting slammed in the media by football manager.
I would also want out if the club put me up for trade after I just bought a house and contributed as much as everyone else has.
Hocking said he was happy because it gave us salary cap flexability - who on our list deserves a significant salary increase? I can't think of any to be honest. So we must be targeting a big name to use Caddys salary for. OR we have a lot of players who are paid overs.
Plz.. it’s been well documented caddy saw the opening and made a play to leave.
Parfitt is good, but we lost that trade. Its only a mild complaint.
I hope you aren't picking up spelling mistakes.
We put Smedts in the backline, and thought Caddy could be a mid. Versatility. Doesn't always work, apparently.
How about Dangerfield.
It sounds like Richmond initiated it. But did they go to Geelong first, or Caddy's management?
I'm pretty sure his salary is good enough already.
I don't give a crap about the constant whining over why Caddy left, you asked who deserves a salary increase, I answered it. The fact that 15 plus players across the afl earn more than Danger means he is underpaid. He is arguably the best player in the land. Or does that not count coz it doesn't fit the argument?
I dont think so we have had alot of late picks over the years and developed them into pretty good players. Just reckon he was maybe a bit of a lad at Geelong but has now knuckled down
Don't agree he is the best player in the land at all.. I think his contract is reasonable given the fact he was moving back home to a place he grew up. His kicking needs a lot of work as well. You cannot compare it to a player moving away to a franchise and demanding more money because of it. Try again. Off the top of my head I have Mitchell, Josh Kelly, Martin better than him. Cripps and Fyfe when fit as well.
This years trade period will offset that though when get Dalhaus and Gaff for free and a top 10 pick for Kelly. Every trade looks different every 12 months
I did say arguably so your opinion isn't the end of the discussion. And he lives here so he gets less, serious that is local footy crap not a multi million dollar industry standard. fwiw I think Danger is still the best player in the game.
Parsons will never kick +40 goals a year. Parsons was a rookie pick, an okay one in that way, and Caddy was a Top 10 draft pick.
You expect us to believe that Geelong was discussing a trade with Caddy prior to the end of our season in 2016
We know that both Deledio's management & Tuohy's management approached Geelong towards the end of the 2016 season to indicate that those 2 guys wanted out of their current clubs & would be interested in a trade to Geelong. Not sure I can actually believe that any club would start trade talks with one of their own contracted players during the season while they still had games left. Or did the conversation take place in the few spare days between the preliminary loss & the GF?
Surely it's more likely that Caddy was frustrated with the preliminary final loss and expressed his frustration to his family about his lack of midfield time & that he wanted to play more midfield. His brother might be a Richmond supporter & saw the GF night meeting as an opportunity to get in the ear of Gale and start the ball rolling.
Not sure why it's so hard to understand that it was the Caddy's who approached Richmond and in turn it was Richmond who bought up his name with Geelong - what would be the point of Geelong talking with Caddy about a potential trade to Richmond before the two clubs have sat down together to work out a starting point of what they each want?
