That was sooooo last year !! He signed another 2 years
Im ordering my ne Richmond Guernsey with the #19 on it
Take it to the Bank A former dooms dayer on this board believes we need more talls then we get more talls - 1 More tall
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Im ordering my ne Richmond Guernsey with the #19 on it
Take it to the Bank A former dooms dayer on this board believes we need more talls then we get more talls - 1 More tall
My memory is not what it should be, but didn't we lose the heart and soul of the club in the 80's by trading out and trying to trade in?
Don;t get me wrong, I'm all for improving the list, but we have to tread carefully so as not to damage the culture that has brought us to where we are.
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Cloke, Raines and Wood (Essendon) leaving was over pay increases; the club did not want to trade them.
Can always rely on the resident party pooper to douse the flames, like clockwork.
Yes, I know you hate to deal in reality and continue to dream, but the simple reality and facts have not only been pointed out by me, but others as well.
You can keep thinking by offloading the meager contracts of blokes like Conca and not so meager - when compared to performance - of Hampson, but we did just just grant Dusty an extra $500,000 a season, no doubt upped the value of contracts of premiership players Nankervis, Grimes and Graham, and as the astute NZ_Tiger pointed out, others like Vlastuin and Rioli (and you can add Lambert is he repeats his feats of 2017), Butler and Astbury when due to renegotiate, will be in line for increases. It's how it works. It's not spoiling a party, its reality. We offload five to seven blokes a year but still manage to spend close to the salary cap every year, so it's not an easy exercise - let alone a given as you assume - to slot a million dollar player into the cap. But keep dreaming!
PS Not sure why I am responding to the resident conspiracy theorist who continues to extol myths like they are facts about other clubs being in bed with the AFL simply to screw Richmond and the AFL and media wanting us to fail.
Let's not derail the thread please...
Tiger_Of_Old
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First half of the year they have to play all their Home games away due to the comm games.They'll be lucky to win 5 games for the year.
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He’s going to cost an arm and a leg wherever he goes, definitely could/would be the best tall forward in the game at a good club.
As has been said, GC can offer him more money than anyone, and the AFL will no doubt throw one of those shady ‘ambassador’ roles on top of that to get him to stay. That’s what I think will happen, it will be too much money to turn down, and fair enough.
If he is hellbent on leaving however, it throws the gates wide open because it’s suddenly not about the money. Every offer will be at least 1m and from there it’s up to him to decide.
One thing is for sure, if he does choose to go, GC will force a trade for him, and it will be significant. We’ve seen that they are a bit nuts on the trade table and fair enough, they need to do something. Personally would I pay 2 firsts or a first and say Bolton? Yeah probably.
As has been said, GC can offer him more money than anyone, and the AFL will no doubt throw one of those shady ‘ambassador’ roles on top of that to get him to stay. That’s what I think will happen, it will be too much money to turn down, and fair enough.
If he is hellbent on leaving however, it throws the gates wide open because it’s suddenly not about the money. Every offer will be at least 1m and from there it’s up to him to decide.
One thing is for sure, if he does choose to go, GC will force a trade for him, and it will be significant. We’ve seen that they are a bit nuts on the trade table and fair enough, they need to do something. Personally would I pay 2 firsts or a first and say Bolton? Yeah probably.
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I hope so for our chances of getting Lynch. I also hope they come good, for their sake. (only clubs I really want to see fail are the Pies, Blues and Dons. Although they're too big and ugly to disappear).
Either way stuff will happen and win the 2018 premiership and become the biggest destination club in the land.
Tiger_Of_Old
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Nah.Hope both the Plastic sides fail.Tassie should have had a side in before those 2.
Is he finally the almost impossible to find doozy? Where's peejay when you want him!
That was sooooo last year !! He signed another 2 years
Im ordering my ne Richmond Guernsey with the #19 on it
Take it to the Bank A former dooms dayer on this board believes we need more talls then we get more talls - 1 More tall
Can you actually order a jumper with a number on it???
Not saying Tom Lynch is the best footballer in the AFL, as he is not ... but he's be the footballer I'd most want and to build a side around.
Would love him to come to us, I just don't see it at that price!
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I have no inside knowledge on our $$$ situation but i have always had this gut feeling that our "war chest" was a lot larger than people think.
yes a lot of that is absorbed by Dusty but with the people we have in charge currently, i don't think they would be crazy enough to leave themselves with no room to add quality to the team.
could be totally wrong though
yes a lot of that is absorbed by Dusty but with the people we have in charge currently, i don't think they would be crazy enough to leave themselves with no room to add quality to the team.
could be totally wrong though
Dude dreaming is the best thing, as for Lynch i know it's pushing shit uphill due to his cost, but hey in the meantime until he makes a decision we have some fun and let the imagination run wild throwing up scenario's as to how we could get him.
I'm a positive polly when it comes to Richmond i don't deny that ( it would probably shock you that i was a full on negative nellie all things tigerland once until a good mate told me to stop acting like that ) but do i want 2 players on our list on a mil each which will more or less screw us from the chance of recruiting any decent players in the future and would see players out the door.........................**** no.
PS: if you don't think clubs are in bed with the AFL then your deluded, i'll just point you in the direction of Geelong for one.
As for your PS, i must've touched a nerve because you otherwise would've just ignored it and referred to me in another post to someone else.
If Lynch wants to come to Richmond, it will be on the back of him accepting moderate unders for what he could get elsewhere together with the Richmond player list agreeing to some moderate, but collective, reduction in their current contract payments. It's happened at Geelong and Hawthorn in previous years and I don't doubt it could happen with us. The killer, however, is GC's abililty to match any offer by another Club so we would have to come up with something to satisfy them. I can't see Lynch wanting to be the messiah player at some other struggling Club (Norf, we are looking at you) simply for dollars so the odds look strongly in favour of him staying put.
Dude dreaming is the best thing, as for Lynch i know it's pushing shit uphill due to his cost, but hey in the meantime until he makes a decision we have some fun and let the imagination run wild throwing up scenario's as to how we could get him.
I'm a positive polly when it comes to Richmond i don't deny that ( it would probably shock you that i was a full on negative nellie all things tigerland once until a good mate told me to stop acting like that ) but do i want 2 players on our list on a mil each which will more or less screw us from the chance of recruiting any decent players in the future and would see players out the door.........................**** no.
PS: if you don't think clubs are in bed with the AFL then your deluded, i'll just point you in the direction of Geelong for one.
As for your PS, i must've touched a nerve because you otherwise would've just ignored it and referred to me in another post to someone else.
Yes Geelong are in bed with the AFL.
I think we can our dialogue there as that is as plausible as the boy scouts and girls guide conspiring to assassinate JFK.
I have been accused of being negative - and agree I sometimes am - but you my friend takle the cake in a different way.
Toxic in your continual conspiracy theories re the AFL and media and resentment for anyone in the AFL or media having an opinion on the Tigers, or devoting space - positive or otherwise- to any other clubs.
Any positive remark on Essendon (who I hate), Geelong, Hawthorn, GWS and the vitriol spews ... it's uncanny and astonishing.
Did you actually notice no one went anywhere near your comment that Dangerfield will play AFLX because the AFL are in bed with Geelong ... that's because it['s absurd!
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We drafted the doozy in 2009.
Nah. The doozy was always a big name player coming from another club. Martin was just a magnificent pick up.
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The Hawks kept trading in stars when they where on top.
We need to make hay while the "Sun Shines"
We need to make hay while the "Sun Shines"
These continual conspiracy theories i apparently have against the afl and the resentment i have for the afl, what are they because i have no idea what the hell your talking about, are you sure you dont have me mixed up with someone else.
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The Hawks kept trading in stars when they where on top.
We need to make hay while the "Sun Shines"
Hmmm I saw you winding it up but then you just seemed to coast in.
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I 100% agreeI have no inside knowledge on our $$$ situation but i have always had this gut feeling that our "war chest" was a lot larger than people think.
yes a lot of that is absorbed by Dusty but with the people we have in charge currently, i don't think they would be crazy enough to leave themselves with no room to add quality to the team.
could be totally wrong though
When I was at the Fighting Tiger Fund launch they showed the tables of how much extra salary cap could be banked by pre-paying contracts and it was pretty substantial... I mean around $5-10+ million, depending on how long we needed to do it.
Not only that, but the AFL was announcing publically the clubs that were paying the minimum 95% of the salary cap to highlight the banked amount for the next year and we were always on that list.
With some extensions for already contracted players, it sounds to me like we are front loading more contracts again, perhaps Griff's retirement has freed up some extra cash for us to pre-pay (not 100% on this one though as Tippett retiring still had to be counted in the salary cap, but perhaps that was just his negotiated payout, doubt we had to payout Griff anything).
Isnt there two points though.
The money we pay and what has to be left on the salary cap. (eg Yarran). We may not pay Griff but doesnt his salary remain in the cap? Was he even contracted for 2019 though?
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