Mega Thread Port Forum 'General AFL Talk' Thread Part 8

[mic59]

HAWTHORN president Jeff Kennett has warned Tasmania will be worse off if the state has its own AFL team and the Hawks stop playing home games in Launceston.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-07-11/well-abandon-tassie-if-were-not-wanted-kennett

Right. They'll abandon a place where they've got a 46-1-12 record since they started playing there in 2001 and 31-1-2 since 2010. Smart move.

 

[Nelso]

lol

Signing a player is as significant as making a grand final

 

[LFC2010]

lol

Signing a player is as significant as making a grand final

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Adelaide media for you, #balance

 

[Marmozet]

They had to hold onto one eventually I suppose.

Too bad it’s an injury prone 29 year old and not a young gun forward or a young gun defender or one of the best midfielders in the game about to enter his prime.

 

[Magus]

4.2mill over 5 apparently

Mental.

 

[DaTBird187]

He would be their highest paid player no doubt....

I'm picturing Rorys Manager like this when they accepted 5 years.

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No way, he'd be more like this after pulling that heist....

 

[OneGreatClub]

So the rumour is McGovern is going so money is freed up for Sloane

 

[jakey]

3 years would've been a bold level of commitment in the context. 4 years would be reckless, but there may have been free agency deals of that length on the table. 5 years for a bloke with injury concerns who'll be 29 by round 1 of the first year is the clear product of weak hand negotiation. No other list manager will have been offering that.

5 years for Rory Sloane is the shit club no history effect in full technicolour, as obvious as any of the players who have left.

 

[PatientMental]

So they pulled the trigger on a monster extension for a player leaving his prime after all but getting knocked out of finals contention?

 

[PAFC27]

Am I the only one who finds this kind of weird? Celebrate the little things at that franchise I suppose.

Check out @Adelaide_FC’s Tweet:

 

[finbarr]

So how many pages is this in tomorrow’s Advertiser? Dangerfield got 8 when he signed his last Crows contract...

 

[OneGreatClub]

It is amusing how much the Crows and their customers use #weflyasone in their tweets. I’m sure the customers have been instructed to use it every-single-time. Bunch of sheep. Must be some stats #whereisfages and #notso are chasing.

 

[Visenfest]

Everything is coming up Milhouse

Watch Crows fans continue spinning the "we're getting Lukosius or Rankine" narrative anyway.

 

[jakey]

Am I the only one who finds this kind of weird? Celebrate the little things at that franchise I suppose.

Check out @Adelaide_FC’s Tweet:

Wow.

 

[Contested Marx]

1,938 days until Rory is out of contract.

deanus start your countdown

 

[John the Butcher]

CrowForLife_Sloane.jpg

 

[finbarr]

3 years would've been a bold level of commitment in the context. 4 years would be reckless, but there may have been free agency deals of that length on the table. 5 years for a bloke with injury concerns who'll be 29 by round 1 of the first year is the clear product of weak hand negotiation. No other list manager will have been offering that.

5 years for Rory Sloane is the shit club no history effect in full technicolour, as obvious as any of the players who have left.

I reckon they know he probably won’t last the full 5 years and the contract would be very heavily front ended.

 

[PatientMental]

Who will play out their contract?

Buddy Franklin until 2022

Rory Sloane until 2023.

 

[finbarr]

Isn’t this the injury that ended Dane Swan’s career? I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have the best recovery rate, in particular with players at the end of their careers. This could really blow up.

 

[jakey]

I reckon they know he probably won’t last the full 5 years and the contract would be very heavily front ended.

Sure. But whether it was years or dollars or both he was after, he wasn't staying for the ambience.

 

[Alberton Proud]

Where's Tex ?

 

[Marmozet]

Danyle Pearce has been told that Fremantle won’t be keeping him around next year.

 

[Grave Danger]

lol

Signing a player is as significant as making a grand final

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Rory Sloane has just bumped that anaesthetist fella who went down the cave in Thailand for South Australia's next nomination for Australian of the Year.

 

[PatientMental]

Danyle Pearce has been told that Fremantle won’t be keeping him around next year.

Add him to the list of players I had completely forgot didn't retire like 3 years ago.

 

[Magus]

So how many pages is this in tomorrow’s Advertiser? Dangerfield got 8 when he signed his last Crows contract...

There will be 8 pages of news. The rest of the paper will be dedicated to Sloane.