so CharlieCrow mentioned yesterday that an announcement regardings Rory's contract was soon and today we hear reports\and from Sloaney that they are working on some thing details. Sounds like CharlieCrow has some kind of intel and could it suggest that the club knows patty's intentions? double signing on the eve of the first round? yes plzzzzzzzzzzz
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cuts both ways mate.
I would be more than happy to offer realtionship advice.
He went to Richmond for success. You dont laugh at that?I think I've missed something.
Can I ask why?
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I won't guess who brought Pavlich up and that we missed out on him for like the billionth time...it's like a broken record
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Wow, my opinion of Ayres just went lower. Now he is in Robert Shaw territory. And I thought the idea of missing Daniel Wells was bad. Oh well, at least they got Jason Torney.
An interesting point for sure.
I think they are closer with Buddy, but I think they've 2 main stumbling blocks since 2012. Firstly they were seriously lucky to snag a flag in 12, they weren't the best team. Tippett has hurt them, in terms of distractions, regular injury and potentially culturally from a bad contract point of view. I don't think they'd be happy to do that deal again.
An alternative point of view:
Lot of people talking about danger being respected in adelaide if he stays, he'd be a god here, post career etc etc
But what good is that if he doesn't plan on living here when he's done?
Lot of people talking about danger being respected in adelaide if he stays, he'd be a god here, post career etc etc
But what good is that if he doesn't plan on living here when he's done?
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I'm starting to wonder if Crows and Cats have a trade ready to roll out the end of year.
Trading 10 down to 14 a sweetner we gave up this year perhaps.
Tinfoil hat, bizarre musings - yeah sure. But I'll be interested to see if anything else starts to line up with that theory.
Trading 10 down to 14 a sweetner we gave up this year perhaps.
Tinfoil hat, bizarre musings - yeah sure. But I'll be interested to see if anything else starts to line up with that theory.
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Are clubs allowed to do that?
If they're not and we did, I hope we didn't write it down.
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We wouldn't be so stupid...
If that was even a remote possibility why
would we be the ones to trade down?
They are the ones that should be kicking in sweeteners. Also if we knee danger was gone, surely picking a danger clone like cockatoo would have shot up the priority list.
I think you are clutching at straws big fella. It remains nothing more than a very bad decision.
Had Sydney known buddy was coming a year later I'm sure they wouldn't have gone for Tippett.
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Disagree here. Are Sydney a better side with Kurt Tippett in the forward line? The answer is 100% yes. I am just not sure how he has hurt them from a culture perspective? They still made the prelim in 2013 and the grand final in 2014 losing key finals to one of the greatest sides in the history of the AFL.
The deal really didn't hurt them from a bad contract deal either. They went out and signed one of the games top 3 players the following year.
His injury problems are also a bit overstated. The Swans knew he would miss the first 11 games of 2013 before the signed him. Since then he has played 26 of a possible 37 games. Those 11 games he missed were all on the back of the knee injury that happened in the semi final vs Carlton.
I am happy to accept that he probably hasn't been a value for money pickup - but the Swans don't really give a s**t. They are the smartest salary cap operators in the game and have been massively helped by the COLA. Swans would absolutely still do this deal.
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Had we known Gunston would have left us for Hawthorn - we wouldn't have drafted him.
Hindsight is 20/20.
Are you sure about that? Didn't we get more for him than he cost us?
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You happy to spend 2 full seasons and 1 preseason to develop a kid plus paying his salary to get an upgrade from pick 29 to pick 24?
Didn't realise it was that little of an upgrade.
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Plus we upgraded R2 and R3 picks from memory which netted us Jenkins.
Wells was never ours really, we traded pick 4 to the Roos, it was later changed to pick 2 due to the Carlton affair. Both Richmond and Adelaide went on record as saying they wouldn't have traded the pick if they'd known. The big mistake was most definitely ignoring Pavlich.
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