I would think he would be the captains man to take down..Phil will take good care of him, but Im sure at some point he will truely be Mummy's Boy
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So last year we offered the Dogs pick 1 (Tom Boyd) for Ryan Griffen in a straight swap and they said no.
This year the deal is Tom Boyd for Pick 6, Ryan Griffen AND $250,000 per year for 4 years.
And the Doggies fans (and some others) are calling this a win for the Dogs
Kevin Sheedy on Giants & Boyd
Couple more points of interest:
- The Age reported today that a "significant portion" of the $1M for Griffen will be paid this coming year; and
- I heard it reported, could either have been on the radio or a podcast, that the Bulldogs were actually into Tom Boyd all year, not Patton, and were pleased that the media was reporting our interest in the wrong bloke. Only the Dogs, Patton and his manager know if that's true.
Dont worry willi still can't believe the contract Boyd signed, well good on him in on sense but on another note, what a snotty nosed person, does 12 months away - well not even and wants out, i hope the giants come on and smash the bulldogs this year
Are lies excusable when playing 'trade week' poker?
The aspect of the Boyd trade that leaves me a bit perplexed is the Melbourne media's reaction to the Giants 'backflip'. They're asking 'Can we ever trust what the Giants say again?' Implication being GWS were hypocritical. Coz hypocrisy is the worst. (Same as in politics)
I would have thought that the whole trade period is a bit like a game of poker, you don't signal yr moves, hold yr cards close, bluff, all that stuff to win the game. I thought that the Giants did that well, well executed backflip 9 out of 10.
Peter Gordon had said 'wise heads will prevail for a straight swap' Ha_bluff.
What the Giants did do was not let Ryan Griffin hang out to dry. Once he said he wanted to come, a deal was done, as best as could be negotiated.
Did the Giants lie when they said Boyd was staying? Are lies excusable when playing 'trade week' poker?
i still can't believe the contract Boyd signed, well good on him in on sense but on another note, what a snotty nosed person, does 12 months away - well not even and wants out, i hope the giants come on and smash the bulldogs this year
unless you can re-sign the young stars that are out of contract you've got another 12 months of intense speculation.
Oh, list managers tapping up players is fine.
It's just the hypocritical little pissants who, when their club is making the offer, ignore the promises of large sacks of cash when decisions about players deciding if they are homesick or not are made.
The aspect of the Boyd trade that leaves me a bit perplexed is the Melbourne media's reaction to the Giants 'backflip'. They're asking 'Can we ever trust what the Giants say again?' Implication being GWS were hypocritical. Coz hypocrisy is the worst. (Same as in politics)
I would have thought that the whole trade period is a bit like a game of poker, you don't signal yr moves, hold yr cards close, bluff, all that stuff to win the game. I thought that the Giants did that well, well executed backflip 9 out of 10.
Peter Gordon had said 'wise heads will prevail for a straight swap' Ha_bluff.
What the Giants did do was not let Ryan Griffin hang out to dry. Once he said he wanted to come, a deal was done, as best as could be negotiated.
Did the Giants lie when they said Boyd was staying? Are lies excusable when playing 'trade week' poker?
WowThe Giants have to make a stand and show that trying to poach our players behind our back whilst they are contracted is completely unacceptable.
If we let it happen we'd open the floodgates for other clubs to start a feeding frenzy.
If no deal goes ahead the dogs get nothing, McCarthy gets promoted up, and Boyd ends up cutting the oranges for the next year.
You are the biggest hypocrite on this site, so many times you were saying you're club accommodates the players that wish to leave, you are so full of it.Its times like these when Im reminded that stupid burns.
Look at GWS' list. Add three years and another 50 games to it. Find me the sort of holes in it that need extensive use of free agency.
It doesnt. What it needs is cap room, to retain those players, and time.
Now, there was a time when there was a deal that could have been done to spend some draft picks and create some cap room and bring in a bridging midfielder for those three years. But, due to an acute attack of stupid by a panicking club president, that time is gone.
The Dogs are not getting Boyd this year. He is, as I'd said repeatedly, untradeable, as in 'not going to be traded'. Yes, he was tapped up. Yes, he was promised a shitload of cash if he didnt re-sign. Big deal, life in the big city. Have a go next year, together with everyone else, after you've lost surprise (and when we all see who you hire as a coach, and how they deal with things).
Now, imagine the Western Bulldogs new list manager Gordon coming back to the supporter base and saying 'We totally didnt get Boyd, despite the money we promised him. The bastards wouldnt trade. But we did totally trade them our ex-captain, Griffen'.
The same melting flogs who were so angry at the Griffen-for-cap-room trade - in other words, you and people like you - would rip the joint apart, because dammit you got promised Boyd ! And pick 4 ! And pick 7 !
You'll get an offer for Griffen. But he's under contract, and after all thats happened, accepting our new offer will be seen as an insult by a very angry Doggies supporter base.
And this is why you hire professionals, and let them do their job, and dont do amateur hour shenanigans like getting your club president to be your list manager.
But the Dogs were happy to wait till he was out of contract, the Giants were not with GriffenNahh, Boyd had been tapped up all year - this just brought it into the open.
The aspect of the Boyd trade that leaves me a bit perplexed is the Melbourne media's reaction to the Giants 'backflip'. They're asking 'Can we ever trust what the Giants say again?' Implication being GWS were hypocritical. Coz hypocrisy is the worst. (Same as in politics)
don't forget that Gordon intitially wanted a straight swap
he went public on it, an unusual stance for a club pres during trade week
in the end, along with Griffen, we got pick 6 plus the dogs are paying a big slab of his salary
I mean, seriously, we could not have done any better considering Boyd was going to leave at the end of next season, perhaps with very little coming back to us
lol Carlton were into him as well...no doubt it was SOS's plan to give boyd to Carlton next year then join him himselfi still can't believe the contract Boyd signed, well good on him in on sense but on another note, what a snotty nosed person, does 12 months away - well not even and wants out, i hope the giants come on and smash the bulldogs this year
You are the biggest hypocrite on this site, so many times you were saying you're club accommodates the players that wish to leave, you are so full of it.
You are the biggest hypocrite on this site, so many times you were saying you're club accommodates the players that wish to leave, you are so full of it.
If you are familiar with that ointment then all power to you, but no need for it on my behalf as of yet.Time to apply your hemorrhoid cream mate.