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Captain Blood
13 Oct 2003, 13:27
Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy is hopeful that defender Dean Solomon will remain at the club after a phone conversation this morning. Richmond football director Greg Miller arrived back from London this morning and remains confident of enticing Solomon across to Punt Road.
- The Tigers and Bombers disagree as to Solomon’s status. The Bombers maintain there is a three-year deal on the table for Solomon to consider, while the Tigers are convinced he is on the open market.
Can't wait until this one unfolds.
Originally posted by Captain Blood
Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy is hopeful that defender Dean Solomon will remain at the club after a phone conversation this morning. Richmond football director Greg Miller arrived back from London this morning and remains confident of enticing Solomon across to Punt Road.
- The Tigers and Bombers disagree as to Solomon’s status. The Bombers maintain there is a three-year deal on the table for Solomon to consider, while the Tigers are convinced he is on the open market.
Can't wait until this one unfolds.
He wasn't on the open market until those Fckwits offered him 50% over his market value! :mad:
tiger of old
13 Oct 2003, 13:35
Originally posted by TD
He wasn't on the open market until those Fckwits offered him 50% over his market value! :mad: what did he sign a contract beyond 2003?
Sheeds hates greg miller ever since his north days. I doubt richmond will be solomon's destination if sheeds has anything to do with it
Originally posted by tiger of old
what did he sign a contract beyond 2003?
You Tiger fans don't get it, do you? Poaching other Victorian clubs players by offering outlandish amounts of money is going to come back and bite you on the @rse......and I hope Essendon are there when it happens to relieve you of a couple of stars.
The Clokes
13 Oct 2003, 13:43
Collingwood maybe the suprise... they might pick him up...
Heard some news that Holland and Scotland maybe used for the trade.
Collingwood will definitely be after Solomon if Nick Stevens falls through
tigermania
13 Oct 2003, 13:50
Sheedy will not be willing to let Solomon go for nothing.
He can play hard-ball all he likes.
Talk is cheap.
IT'S MILLER TIME
Originally posted by The Clokes
Collingwood maybe the suprise... they might pick him up...
Heard some news that Holland and Scotland maybe used for the trade.
Collingwood will definitely be after Solomon if Nick Stevens falls through
Yeah right, like Holland and Scotland are going to get you Solomon. Offer us something decent and then you may be in with a chance.
Backpocket
13 Oct 2003, 13:51
Personally I don't think its a problem when a team that's been mediocre( to say the least) for 23years decides enough is enough and decides who they want and go after them whatever it takes!!!.
Pay cuts, delistings and aggressive trading is what RFC is going to do like it or not, but after 23years...........this may well work?
The Clokes
13 Oct 2003, 13:54
These Richmond supporters putting their faith in Miller…
You got to laugh at it.
A club that’s all over the place… they think because they may get a few big names… its all going to be okay.
Word of advice… your head coach is a lost cause…. And as long as he is leading your team…. Your team will be a lost cause as well.
Throw all the money you want Richmond… your going to fall flat on your face again.
Originally posted by TheJet
Yeah right, like Holland and Scotland are going to get you Solomon. Offer us something decent and then you may be in with a chance.
Holland and Scotland will be an upgrading of Mesiti/Mercuri and Peverill.
The Bombres (cheersquad spelling) will jump at these two.
Al Bundy
13 Oct 2003, 14:00
Its wonderful to see Richmond being bagged for offering money to a player to come to their club.
I have been appauled that RFC would do such a thing....
It has never been done before by any club (yeah right)...
I wonder why we even have a trade week?
Every club is guilty of it. And if any club squeals about what is happening to it then they are hypocrites. (irrespective which club it is).
Jeff White to Melb $$$$ freo squealed
Holland Brothers (Haw & Rich) $$$ hold their clubs to ransom due to offers from SA clubs
Captain Blood
13 Oct 2003, 14:04
The Bombers are just classic hypocrites - they have been the same thing the Tigers are currently doing for years, and now that someone goes agressively after one of their own they cry foul - biggest cry babies in the league. Get over it Sheeds and move on.
rednugget
13 Oct 2003, 14:10
Originally posted by Captain Blood
The Bombers are just classic hypocrites - they have been the same thing the Tigers are currently doing for years, and now that someone goes agressively after one of their own they cry foul - biggest cry babies in the league. Get over it Sheeds and move on.
I don't recall the Bombers getting a big name player from another club in recent history, correct me if I'm wrong but the Bombers have never really agressively gone after other clubs players, they tend to make there own.
Captain Blood
13 Oct 2003, 14:27
The likelihood of disgruntled Essendon strong man Dean Solomon remaining at Windy Hill is increasing, with the Bombers putting a revised three-year deal on the table.
Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy spoke to Solomon – who is visiting his girlfriend in London - on the telephone this morning and believes the door is ajar for the utility to return to the fold.
Sheedy refused to acknowledge that Solomon had even quit the club.
“I spoke to Dean this morning and we’re pretty keen to keep him,” Sheedy said as he arrived at Optus Oval on Monday for the commencement of trade week discussions.
“He’s never said he doesn’t want to play at Essendon. I can’t remember him saying he’s quit.
“We’ve put three years on the table at approximately $300,000 (a season), so that’s not a bad deal.”
Sheedy’s confidence in the Bombers’ ability to retain Solomon differs to the view of Richmond football director Greg Miller, who had just returned from a speedy visit to London to speak with Solomon.
With an offer of a four-year contract worth $1.6 million on the table, Miller said he left the United Kingdom believing that a move to Punt Road was Solomon’s preferred option.
“It is certainly his preference,” Miller said. “I felt pretty confident about that… but I’m not counting chickens.”
Miller also strongly disputed a claim that the Tigers’ offer to Solomon was ‘over the odds’ for a player of his ability and size.
“I don’t agree they’re getting paid over the odds. That’s a ridiculous thing to say. The offer has been quite reasonable.”
But with reports of Richmond players possibly needing to take pay cuts in order to accommodate Solomon and Bulldog Nathan Brown – another Tiger target - Sheedy said Solomon would have to consider the pressure that would accompany his high price tag.
“I think you’d be under the pump,” the Essendon coach said.
“I’m not sure whether Dean realises that from London, at the moment. I’d say there’d be a fair few faxes getting sent over for him to have a read and think about, because it’s a situation where he probably wouldn’t feel comfortable with that either. He’s a pretty genuine young man.”
However, Sheedy did not deny that Richmond’s offer was very tempting for a 23-year-old with 99 games of experience.
“When I came out of the army, I was 23 years of age. If somebody put $400,000 a year on the table for four years - $1.6 million – it’s a hell of a lot of money for four years.
“At 23 years of age, you’d be thinking it smells good, doesn’t it?”
Sheedy did not rule out of the possibility of key talls Mark Bolton and Danny Jacobs being traded, saying their futures at Windy Hill ‘depends on how much they want’.
Published reports have Bolton linked to Hawthorn as part of a three-way deal that would see Jade Rawlings reach his preferred destination, the Kangaroos.
Miller said Richmond players would ‘not necessarily’ have to take pay cuts in order to accommodate Solomon and Brown, but said the Tigers could ‘definitely’ fit both players under the salary cap, provided new homes could be found for at least two other Tigers.
“It depends on the trade week,” Miller said. “Things can change in a hurry. There’s certainly a couple of players that are leaving. There may be a few more, we’ll see what happens in the next few days.”
Melbourne has already expressed an interest in Ben Holland, who has been told by Richmond he will not be offered a new contract when his existing deal expires at the end of 2004.
Voice of Reason
13 Oct 2003, 14:29
Originally posted by Al Bundy
Jeff White to Melb $$$$ freo squealed
Indeed, Al, rightly as it turned out.
Originally posted by Skoff
Holland and Scotland will be an upgrading of Mesiti/Mercuri and Peverill.
The Bombres (cheersquad spelling) will jump at these two.
Only in your dreams :D