List Mgmt. Trade & Free Agency talk Pt 6
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Can’t believe Dusty never asked for a trade to the saints
Only nuffies like Higgins actually chase that dream
Hey R2R, I see our Free Agency target both won and saved the game for the Giants this afternoon
This as predicted
Cos we thought we were too good and had so many small forwards we are literally left with none. Gave higgens stengle butler and more all for nothing
Clutch finish by Harry Himmelberg today
Stengle and Butler were uncontrcacted, nothing we could've done about that.
Yep, I know that we didn’t really want to let Butler go and he was traded purely because he was the small forward that happened to be out of contract. Just bad timing
But we also dont play hard ball. Its just frustrating as we need the draft capital to rebuild.
Butler wasn’t getting a game for us in 2018. We forget how bad he was that year when he did play. No one else really wanted him. Carlton made a play but ultimately decided not to, and it was the Saints who were the only suitor. Has obviously been pretty good on occasion since then, but again he was very poor in 2018.
Stengle was more about wanting to go back to South Australia than anything else.
Higgins wanted to go to St Kilda. Remember this was after his major head issues and I’ve no doubt that he would have wanted more playing time to get the best contract he could. His financial future is more likely to come from AFL than post-AFL. A life threatening issue could have out that into perspective.
Context is important in relation to some of our trade out moves of recent times.
We generally don’t try and get in the way of others who are seeking better opportunities or better lifestyle opportunities elsewhere.
Some will rightly state we don’t play hardball to the detriment of our draft position. My counter to that is you listen to why the likes of Lynch, Taranto, Hopper all choose Richmond, as well as likes of Prestia, Bolton, Rioli etc taking less money to stay; the culture (which I think not playing hardball is a huge part of) is one of the key reasons they decided what they did.
If you’ve watched the ‘Show Me The Money’ program on Stan you can clearly see the animosity of some of the ex-Fremantle players because Peter Bell plays hardball. There’s also a lot of Essendon losing out on players because of it as well.
It’s an interesting discussion as to what is promoted by certain teams.
And people here believe HH is no good and not worth $750k as a free agent
Y not that’s much of a factor
We didn’t offer butler a contract , he wasn’t close to getting a game in the end , Stengel we did he chose to leave to play senior footy
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What did the HH haters think of his match winning heroics , you’ll find his spec y and goal on afl web , prob just added 1y to his terms
Considering he plays in a foward line consisting of
Hogan - Cadman - Greene and sometimes Riccardi taking foward space
He is doing fine
perhaps some think he is just another McStay
Tiger_Of_Old
THE_GUN:"Why don't you use your reg acc"7/9/24
I don’t advocate paying 800 ,my position is if we can get 4 x 600 then get it done , similar contract to mcstay
Tiger_Of_Old
THE_GUN:"Why don't you use your reg acc"7/9/24
600k i could live with.
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