News Shane McAdam traded to Melbourne for F2

[Sanders]

You keep peddling this line, where's the quotes that have all these experts saying Melbourne's offer was generous?

The reality is a nothing pick in the 30s next year doesn't outweigh the loss of our forward with arguably the second biggest X-Factor after Rankine.

Dozens apparently. Dozens and dozens…

 

[Sanders]

Literally every “journo” on SEN and trade radio thought it was more than fair. For whatever that means


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That’s not a dozen, but let’s start with seeing these

 

[Sanders]

The buyer of OOC players rarely pays full price.

And they paid what we thought he was worth.
We know this because:

We know we have a bucket load of cash sitting unused that we could have used to contract him. We chose not too.

And if we did try and use that cash to recontract him - then clearly he just wanted out of the club


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Which is it?

We chose not to or he just wanted out

Pick one

 

[rabidcrow]

Which is it?

We chose not to or he just wanted out

Pick one

How would I know? Clearly it is one of them though.

We had the ability to offer as much money as he could want -

so we either chose to offer only what we thought he was worth to us

We chose to offer what he could get from Melbourne but he chose them anyway


Either way we valued him less than Melbourne did and they paid accordingly


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[Sanders]

How would I know? Clearly it is one of them though.

Obviously

 

[Pugsley]

Obviously

Our other man in the know never returned.
Probably went back to leaning on shovels and egg sandwiches at smoko.

 

[Rags_118]

Disappointed to lose McAdam for next to FA. He was a best 22 player and added skill, speed and unpredictability to the forward line.

However he obviously wasn’t seen as vital by the coaches and list management staff for reasons not known to me.

One thing I noticed over past few years was his absence in team social photos. Maybe he’s just an introvert, but he never seemed to be part of the club’s in-crowd. To a lesser degree this also applied to Doedee.

If think they both had less social reasons to stay than say Soligo, Murphy, Fogarty, Murphy, McHenry, Murray etc.

 

[Pugsley]

Disappointed to lose McAdam for next to FA. He was a best 22 player and added skill, speed and unpredictability to the forward line.

However he obviously wasn’t seen as vital by the coaches and list management staff for reasons not known to me.

One thing I noticed over past few years was his absence in team social photos. Maybe he’s just an introvert, but he never seemed to be part of the club’s in-crowd. To a lesser degree this also applied to Doedee.

If think they both had less social reasons to stay than say Soligo, Murphy, Fogarty, Murphy, McHenry, Murray etc.

Doedee became all about himself when removed from the LG.
McAdam has X factor but can Melbourne get the lazy side out of his game.

 

[Bearded Clam]

Disappointed to lose McAdam for next to FA. He was a best 22 player and added skill, speed and unpredictability to the forward line.

However he obviously wasn’t seen as vital by the coaches and list management staff for reasons not known to me.

One thing I noticed over past few years was his absence in team social photos. Maybe he’s just an introvert, but he never seemed to be part of the club’s in-crowd. To a lesser degree this also applied to Doedee.

If think they both had less social reasons to stay than say Soligo, Murphy, Fogarty, Murphy, McHenry, Murray etc.

He was in a photo at the pub just the other week (day befroe it was announced he might be going to the dees actually).. with rankine, tex, crouch, dawson and a couple of other lads..

 

[skam85]

Dozens apparently. Dozens and dozens…

The echo chamber in Mostyn's head must have more attendees than a Pies home game these days

 

[skam85]

If think they both had less social reasons to stay than say Soligo, Murphy, Fogarty, Murphy, McHenry, Murray etc.

Please don't tell me we have two Murphys on our list now

 

[conVINCEd]

Doedee became all about himself when removed from the LG.
McAdam has X factor but can Melbourne get the lazy side out of his game.

When was Doedee removed from the leadership group?

 

[Pugsley]

When was Doedee removed from the leadership group?

I thought last year. I may be wrong.

 

[119others]

When was Doedee removed from the leadership group?

He wasn’t (well until he started singing the French Natl Anthem anyway)

 

[Slippery Pete]

Please don't tell me we have two Murphys on our list now

 

[cmndstab]

• Chelsea Randall missing a Grand Final because the AFL decided she had to sit out for concussion symptoms. She passed all concussion protocols and was cleared by doctors. Can you name me another player being forced by the AFL to miss a GF despite being cleared by doctors? Would the AFL do it to Petracca?

This is not quite correct. Randall did miss the 2021 GF but that was definitely due to a real concussion. At the time Randall spoke out quite strongly in support of the concussion protocols.

You're thinking of her missing the semi final against Collingwood last season after the AFL decided it "looked bad" when she stumbled and fell during a set shot, after having taken a knock to the head.

‘I was cleared’: ‘Symptom-free’ Crows skipper slams AFLW’s brutal concussion call

 

[DJ75]

This is not quite correct. Randall did miss the 2021 GF but that was definitely due to a real concussion. At the time Randall spoke out quite strongly in support of the concussion protocols.

You're thinking of her missing the semi final against Collingwood last season after the AFL decided it "looked bad" when she stumbled and fell during a set shot, after having taken a knock to the head.

‘I was cleared’: ‘Symptom-free’ Crows skipper slams AFLW’s brutal concussion call

Yeh that might be correct. Might have muddled the two together

 

[dylan123]

With Melbourne playing tonight, figured I'd see if he was playing and to little surprise, he's not. Only managed 3 of a possible 14 games, turns 30 next season, we still up in arms over not offering a 3 year deal?

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

With Melbourne playing tonight, figured I'd see if he was playing and to little surprise, he's not. Only managed 3 of a possible 14 games, turns 30 next season, we still up in arms over not offering a 3 year deal?

No, in hindsight I was wrong as I didn't want to lose him, but we are making out like bandits.

Meanwhile, thank goodness the Dees saved us from ourselves & didn't accept any of our offers for Petty.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Yay!

One player who left won't immediately be a premiership player

 

[bmac84]

No issues with moving him on given his age and injury history but we definitely miss his tackling pressure inside F50. Too often now if/when we don't mark it, the opposition just waltzes out of defense to set up their next attack.

 

[crows dude]

Yay!

One player who left won't immediately be a premiership player

He’s been injured. Only played 5 vfl games for 8 goals. 4 goals 2 weeks ago.

 

[Mutineer]

He’s been injured. Only played 5 vfl games for 8 goals. 4 goals 2 weeks ago.

When isn't he ever injured, that's the problem.

 

[Pugsley]

When isn't he ever injured, that's the problem.

End of season.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Did the Dees give McAdam a 2 or 3 year deal?