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AFLW 2024 - Round 2 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
with his injury history can't see it.Doubt you’d get top 20 ,,,20-25 perhaps ,,keep him , will be important with so many kids around
I believe you have NFI what the offer isI believe the offer is under $700k per annum so that in the new world would be band 2 or band 3, meaning end of R1 or after your R2 which will likely be in 2025 a pick between 25 and 30.
Don’t think we need fringe players. It’s not like we are currently in the midst of dual startup clubs.I can categorically assure you from my club contacts that we will not trade for fringe players so they are wasting their breath.
With someone like Will Phillips, you can't just look at exposed form in their AFL career when assessing trade viability.
There would have been many reasons as to why he was taken at pick 3 by North. I understand their recruiting team around that time resembled a bag of potatoes but I refuse to believe that they willingly threw away a pick 3 at someone who was bad.
It's so easy just to say "oh he is crap, shown nothing at AFL level". Sometimes all it takes is a change of scenery or approach to extract the best out of someone.
If we were legitimately interested, I'd back the club in.
You can't just disregard these types of players IMO.
Not a serious bidder ???That is all we can afford which is why I said that we are not the serious bidder for Baker.
My preference would be for Baker to stay put at Punt Rd. We can't afford him in trade currency and I don't want him in Purple.
My reference to what I would pay is not what he is worth but what we can afford to pay. Unlike those tin rattlers from Arden Street, we have not been given welfare tickets by Aunty Laura at AFL house so cannot afford a reasonable asking price.
Surely Hawks wouldn't be silly enough to pay up for a 29 year old given where the rest of their list is at.Word is Hawks are after both and have the cap space.
That is all we can afford which is why I said that we are not the serious bidder for Baker.
My preference would be for Baker to stay put at Punt Rd. We can't afford him in trade currency and I don't want him in Purple.
My reference to what I would pay is not what he is worth but what we can afford to pay. Unlike those tin rattlers from Arden Street, we have not been given welfare tickets by Aunty Laura at AFL house so cannot afford a reasonable asking price.
sounds correct..Hearing Baker gone, Rioli staying... nothing ground breaking there.
I believe the offer is under $700k per annum so that in the new world would be band 2 or band 3, meaning end of R1 or after your R2 which will likely be in 2025 a pick between 25 and 30.
That is all we can afford which is why I said that we are not the serious bidder for Baker.
My preference would be for Baker to stay put at Punt Rd. We can't afford him in trade currency and I don't want him in Purple.
My reference to what I would pay is not what he is worth but what we can afford to pay. Unlike those tin rattlers from Arden Street, we have not been given welfare tickets by Aunty Laura at AFL house so cannot afford a reasonable asking price.
Dogs salary cap would have to be getting up there?SEN reporting Barrass wants out to a Melbourne club maybe Hawks or Dogs which may bring a 1st round pick around 12-15 into play?
English , Smith 1 or both will leave.Dogs salary cap would have to be getting up there?
but both dogs and hawks would be tempting to a player wanting a move.
uh...makes sense.English , Smith 1 or both will leave.
West Coast fans have delusions of grandeur that they will offer peanuts for Baker and if it's rejected, the Eagles will just walk Baker to the PSD. As if Bakes, a dual premiership Richmond player who is clearly torn about whether to leave the club he loves to go back to his home state, or stay where he is already vice captain, would do that to Richmond where he is revered.A far worse situation is to make a contract offer to a player, have them agree and then say ‘oh actually we don’t have the currency to make a trade’. How does that play with any future player and player manager who you want to deal with? Didn’t work when Dons went after Dunkley and then Brad Hill. Didn’t work when Carlton went after Papley.
Reality is that if Baker requests a trade to West Coast, West Coast will have to find a way to satisfy Richmond. I don’t think he’ll be tradedfor pick 3 personally, but anything in the second round is not what his worth is based on similar trades in recent years. So it’ll be on West Coast to make a move in someway that opens up additional trade assets.
The other aspect of this is Matty Clarke obviously knows how Blair Hartley operates; and how Baker is rated internally at Richmond. I find it hard to imagine he’d disregard all that, make an offer to entice Baker to West Coast and then refuse to pay his worth.
I reckon the Hawks love trading players in. Going to the draft must have been painful for them for the last couple of years? But going after a contracted player sounds pretty unethical to me. It's ridiculous to be tempting players who have contracts, but suits WC just fine If he brings a good draft pick inSurely Hawks wouldn't be silly enough to pay up for a 29 year old given where the rest of their list is at.
Would cost them their first pick too.
West Coast fans have delusions of grandeur that they will offer peanuts for Baker and if it's rejected, the Eagles will just walk Baker to the PSD. As if Bakes, a dual premiership Richmond player who is clearly torn about whether to leave the club he loves to go back to his home state, or stay where he is already vice captain, would do that to Richmond where he is revered.
IF he goes they will have to cough up and pay overs or they can gft.
Good for us , significant risk for bakes when there are 5mn deals on the table , tbh you’d need your head read to walk past that , risky business footyI actually like this idea. I can't seeing Baker holding out on the club if a deal can't be arranged and if he signs a 1 year deal it sets us up perfectly for compensation the following year.
Possibly Caleb Daniel and Jack Macrae as well...uh...makes sense.
I reckon Dan Rioli’s price just went up, the Suns murdered so many opportunities then and it’s cost them a finals berth.
I would in their spot tooThey will throw us the kitchen sink.
It’s $900 k x 5 yearsI believe the offer is under $700k per annum so that in the new world would be band 2 or band 3, meaning end of R1 or after your R2 which will likely be in 2025 a pick between 25 and 30.