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Very hard to know how much we'd be willing to pay and what the value of that is.The only we get these obscene offers being bandied around in here is if we pay some very chunky wage contributions. Will be very interesting how all this plays out.
Agree, would be different for every club. I would think GC would need more cap space than Freo, purely based on GC paying everyone overs to keep them.Very hard to know how much we'd be willing to pay and what the value of that is.
If Shai genuinely has issues with regards to wanting to return to WA to surround him and his partner with support for his growing family, we won’t say No imo. But….. only IF the deal is strong enough to warrant the club releasing him from his long term contract.All good in theory but Bolton in this instance was the one who has asked WA teams to pursue him. WA teams now have to weigh up whether they actually want him or if it's worth it.
IMO Richmond will say no.
Doesn’t work that way in reality Mate. If Bolton nominates the Dockers, that’s who we will be negotiating with and will likely trade with.There are 2 clubs in WA. if WC was prepared to give pick 3+++ for Bolton and Baker we could deal with them. Send a pick back to them for their F1. Bolton can not demand to go to Freo as he’s contracted. We determine which club and if he doesn’t like it bad luck. No WA return.
Hopefully he doesn’t nominate, leaving it open for both. As if he truely wanted to go home club wouldn’t matter.Doesn’t work that way in reality Mate. If Bolton nominates the Dockers, that’s who we will be negotiating with and will likely trade with.
Blair will knowVery hard to know how much we'd be willing to pay and what the value of that is.
Stagger their contracts. It's the only way.I understand all this love for first rounders, heck we could have 6 of them and that's great and all, but have any of you stopped to think about the repercussions of this?
Fast forward 5 years, how do you propose we keep all these stars? We need to stagger the rebuild over 10 years, its the safest way.
Blair will know![]()
It will matter if WC don't want him. Can't see them wanting him given they're where we are.Hopefully he doesn’t nominate, leaving it open for both. As if he truely wanted to go home club wouldn’t matter.
How is it a done deal !!!
He is contracted and worth more to Gold Coast and Richmond has to play hard ball with the deal
We simply dont traade unless its way overs
These guys throw away picks like confetti and we MUST stand our ground
they gave away #7 to off load $300k excess cap and paid #2 for Weller
We will have Ross back next season who was playing wing until he got injured.
While i understand our club isn’t a charity.
I wouldn’t be against if it was down to a Kmac v Pickett fighting out a last spot on a delisting that we keep Pickett.
Although this is one of the last reasons you’d do it, the club would probably take into consideration Kmac’s career earnings vs Picketts and if it was a line ball call they help Marlion and his family and retire Kmac as a premiership hero.
I’d probably need to study our list a bit more but if they were both retained it would be insurance on a HRS injury in 2025 and at least we have simple retire/delist options at the end of 2025.
This is where you have gone wrong, 2024 Kmac is a KPF nowHow anyone who watched the game yesterday can advocate retaining Macca is beyond me.
There is 121 midfielders to have played 10+ games in 2024. Macca is ranked 120th… ahead of only Harvey Galllagher.
In 2023 there was 126 mids to play 10+ games. He was ranked 114th. Nearly all below him were kids making their way (Erasmus, Odriscoll, Hollands etc…)
He has been a great servant. He’s clearly a great clubman. But he is now cooked and nearly every action he has in a game of footy is negative, whether it be slowing down ball movement, giving away a free, kicking OOF, turning it over etc…..
Time to move on … if he gets another year and takes games off youngsters next year then Yze is almost dead to me.
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If we can get the picks and have cash to burn on FA's, you would have to think the bounce can be much quicker.Martin retired on $1.4m, Grimes probably retiring was captain 2 years ago so would be on good coin, bolton $850k, Rioli and baker on $600-$800k. we will have trade picks and a huge war chest.
we could do something like, trade rioli for say pick 6 and recruit a mature body half back flanker like d'ambrossio or Markov for a late pick.
play this trade period and draft well and we could set ourselves up for a quick rebuild. plus have luck with injuries. just getting a full season out of Lynch, gibcus and ross will improve us.
That’s usually the case but in this instance we hold all the cards. If west coast were to make a better offer then it’s them or not at all. Or and a big OR, Freo need to up the WC offer.Doesn’t work that way in reality Mate. If Bolton nominates the Dockers, that’s who we will be negotiating with and will likely trade with.
Better to just frontload the contracts of Taranto, Hopper, Vlastuin and Balta and bank the money for future years. It probably makes more sense to just get games into Banks and Smith rather than recruiting average players like Markov.Martin retired on $1.4m, Grimes probably retiring was captain 2 years ago so would be on good coin, bolton $850k, Rioli and baker on $600-$800k. we will have trade picks and a huge war chest.
we could do something like, trade rioli for say pick 6 and recruit a mature body half back flanker like d'ambrossio or Markov for a late pick.
play this trade period and draft well and we could set ourselves up for a quick rebuild. plus have luck with injuries. just getting a full season out of Lynch, gibcus and ross will improve us.
I raised it a couple of years ago. Never heard the club acknowledge it at any point.Thought we wanted to keep Marlion for potential father son
Sis is playing in our aflw team.MRJ out of contract , who thinks he will follow dan?
Dan played yesterday like he is staying.I mean I wouldn’t open the door for him to leave but if he’s going anyways, at least he’s doing us a big favour with his form. Halfbacks are almost always overvalued when they are in top form and that is excellent for us trading with GC.
Right now a trade like Rioli + 33 for 7 + 12 is looking highly likely. But we could push it further for other pick upgrades especially if we help with contract $$$. Then we can potentially look at a half back replacement like travaglia with one of those picks.
Prefer CadmanWe should be putting work into Mac Andrew.
Cap space for picksI understand all this love for first rounders, heck we could have 6 of them and that's great and all, but have any of you stopped to think about the repercussions of this?
Fast forward 5 years, how do you propose we keep all these stars? We need to stagger the rebuild over 10 years, its the safest way.