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It was a joke, there's absolutely no way he can shoehorn in the Port rejection of Jack Graham conspiracy when talking about it.
List Mgmt. Trade & Free Agency talk Pt 6
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Dr Tigris
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Suns kept pushing back parts of his contract to the last 2 years, now $850K each year. they don't want to pay it and are using pick 7 to bride a club to take the stupid contract on. AFL has green lit this, as he Pies, Giants etc are all in the same boat.
So, e.g., the Giants could push one of their overpaid guys out with a high pick as sweetener.
Basically if you stuff up your salary cap you can buy your way out of it with a team that has cap space getting the pick as well as the over paid player.
How the hell Geelong can do this?? They won the premiership and have $850K sitting around doing nothing + trading in other players. Makes the criticism of the Tigers look stupid.
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Heck, the whole of Bigfooty would break…it’d be glorious!MB will break if it’s first and Soldo
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That's the name! Thanks, I'd heard it previously but couldn't remember.
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Wrong person. I wasn't the first person to mention it in this thread.
Richmond offer 2 guys 7 year contracts at around 750k a year and the system is broken, top teams shouldnt be allowed to trade for players from other struggling teams.
Cats pay $850k for 2 years to a guy who cant even make it into a struggling teams 1st side and get pick 7 as a cherry and its all ok. I say well played cats but STFU to the media pushing one sided narratives because you have beef with a particular side.
He's really not that good but the pick 7 makes it a good deal for them.
I'm assuming they somehow convinced him to spread the payments. Good operators down the highway but make no mistake, he's nowhere near the player of Taranto or Hopper which if why he was stuck in the back pocket taking kick ins.
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We get Hopper, then I could care less what the Cats are doing
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Yes this exactly, great work by Geelong if they can make the payments work, win the premiership and get pick 7, great job.
But as you said the way media see one teams moves as outrageous, ruining the league and needing serious changes for equalization vs. great management, excellent job and everybody should be more like them, is laughable.
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Some GWS bloke on half the salary cap
As I recall, any space in the cap after our flags was used to reward players.
If I was an underpaid Geelong player, I’d be pissed off with Bowes taking the cream ..
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Have to assume they rate him and spread his money across 3-4 years otherwise it makes no sense.
Bowes and O'Halloran are better than Taranto and Hopper. Or so I've heard.
I assume you do realise that his $850k for two years will be restructured over 4 years in all likelihood? It’s a good deal for the Cats
, but we don’t yet know what they are giving upon the deal to get him. And I don’t mind him as a player, he’s got ability that they could well extract
I assume you do realise that his $850k for two years will be restructured over 4 years in all likelihood? It’s a good deal for the Cats, but we don’t yet know what they are giving upon the deal to get him.
, but we don’t yet know what they are giving upon the deal to get him.
He’s owed 1.6 for the next 2 years
If you wanna spread it out over 4 years you still need to pay him the 1.6 and he isn’t playing the final two years for free
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They will restructure it to $400k x 4 years or thereabouts
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Why would he agree to that
He’s owed 1.6 million for the next 2 years
Why would he take 1.6 million for 4 years
They’ll likely have to structure it to be 2 million over 4 and spread it out to fit him in
It’s still 500k a year for 4
It’s a huge risk
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To play for a decent side, and longer security I guess. If he didn’t agree to it, Cats would just let him stay at GCS. It will be interesting to see how it plays out
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Exactly! If I'm not getting my 1.6mil in 2 years from my new club I'm forcing Gold Coast to pay it and staying. Then just request a trade in 2 years.
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But he's for all intents and purposes giving away half a million bucks?
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