Strategy Trade and List Management Thread Part 7 (opposition supporters - READ posting rules before posting)

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6 year offer to SDK from the Dogs

Dogs selling the idea of him, Buss and JOD as the next pillars of our defence

Well the stars are lining up as Number 11 becomes available at the Kennel

Terry DK number I think.
 

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Baz still not nominating Geelong is starting to get interesting given all the brouhaha.

Wonder if a StKilda or Essendon waded in with a big offer at this point, what could happen?

I doubt anything's changed, his manager has probably just told him to keep his head down for a few days and let the heat die down first.
 
Baz still not nominating Geelong is starting to get interesting given all the brouhaha.

Wonder if a StKilda or Essendon waded in with a big offer at this point, what could happen?
Would be lovely to watch all the Cats nuffies going, "...meh. Never wanted him anyway", if that happened 😂
 

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Exactly this. He has been put in his box from Connors.
Wonder if Baz's actions have put enough heat on Geelong that trading him in now will cause serious trouble for their "arrangements" with Cotton On and others...

Might they be scared off enough to back out?

I'd reckon the other 16 clubs would be cheering that on!
 
SDK will slot straight in over JOD. JOD needs to spend more time learning his craft as he was thrown into the seniors in less than 3 months getting on the list with close to no experience except juniors before moving to cricket.
Yes he would. However, though we have put a significant offer to him, as we have to others in the past, there are many reasons why these deals do not come to fruition that the club does not have control over.

Until a deal is done, there is nothing really to get excited about other than confirmation the club is not run by dummies as some on this board appear to beleive
 
Would be rapt with SDK. Interesting links with O’Halloran, almost felt inevitable at some point. Maybe our recruiting strategy is family members of former players.
 
Is Bailey Smith holding off nominating because the Cotton-On investigation has legs?
 
Made this point a few times but keep in mind that Smith would get band 1 compensation if he was a free agent (pick 13 after the pick 12 we traded to GC).

Geelong are offering that less in a trade.

Players are only eligible for free agency after 8 years. That's been decided after working with the AFLPA (part of the CBA), the clubs, the AFL themselves running a fair comp, to balance all interests of competitive balance, but individual freedom not to be tied to a club, the draft having some meaning of being able to keep good players you draft for a majority of your career etc.

Geelong are just pissing that all down the drain in terms of fairness and how these structures are balanced against each other.

If it makes more sense that you'd rather work against your own club's interest to allow free agency to come earlier in a player's career (6 years, not 8, in the case of Smith) because you'd get a better draft pick than what's being offered in a trade, sorry, the trade offer is not enough.

In theory, why shouldn't we just walk to the AFL, just say to them "should we treat Bailey Smith like you are Josh Battle, pretend that he's been in the league 8 years, not 6, and get the compensation".

Of course we can't, because in theory that Smith is tied to the club more, not having reached 8 years at the club after being drafted, than a player out of contract out of 8 years. That either manifests itself in trades that are more generous (as you don't get a full career's worth), like a Cerra type, or the players not bothering to make such an effort, and just waiting until they are a free agent (like a Ben McKay type).

Cotton On shenanigans aside, you can see why we're so pissed off at the structures the way it does, because ultimately it boils down to a big club in Geelong bullying us. It might be more honest to bring forward free agency of out-of-contract players form 8 to 6 or 4 years or whatever, it may not provide any meaning to drafting a good player, but at least the whole system would be more transparent and clubs would operate more honestly with each other if that was the case.

Stepping back a bit philosophically, it's all because Smith had no patience and a massive ego, and didn't want to accept that maybe, in fairness, the systems and the competition are bigger than him, and he should wait until he's a free agent.
 
Made this point a few times but keep in mind that Smith would get band 1 compensation if he was a free agent (pick 13 after the pick 12 we traded to GC).

Geelong are offering that less in a trade.

Players are only eligible for free agency after 8 years. That's been decided after working with the AFLPA (part of the CBA), the clubs, the AFL themselves running a fair comp, to balance all interests of competitive balance, but individual freedom not to be tied to a club, the draft having some meaning of being able to keep good players you draft for a majority of your career etc.

Geelong are just pissing that all down the drain in terms of fairness and how these structures are balanced against each other.

If it makes more sense that you'd rather work against your own club's interest to allow free agency to come earlier in a player's career (6 years, not 8, in the case of Smith) because you'd get a better draft pick than what's being offered in a trade, sorry, the trade offer is not enough.

In theory, why shouldn't we just walk to the AFL, just say to them "should we treat Bailey Smith like you are Josh Battle, pretend that he's been in the league 8 years, not 6, and get the compensation".

Of course we can't, because in theory that Smith is tied to the club more, not having reached 8 years at the club after being drafted, than a player out of contract out of 8 years. That either manifests itself in trades that are more generous (as you don't get a full career's worth), like a Cerra type, or the players not bothering to make such an effort, and just waiting until they are a free agent (like a Ben McKay type).

Cotton On shenanigans aside, you can see why we're so pissed off at the structures the way it does, because ultimately it boils down to a big club in Geelong bullying us. It might be more honest to bring forward free agency of out-of-contract players form 8 to 6 or 4 years or whatever, it may not provide any meaning to drafting a good player, but at least the whole system would be more transparent and clubs would operate more honestly with each other if that was the case.

Stepping back a bit philosophically, it's all because Smith had no patience and a massive ego, and didn't want to accept that maybe, in fairness, the systems and the competition are bigger than him, and he should wait until he's a free agent.

You have demonstrated the stark reality of a flawed system.
Currently it relies on the goodwill of all clubs to work out a fair deal.

I won’t condemn Geelong at this point, I expect something will be worked out.
 

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