News Gone: Eddie Betts traded to Carlton for 2020 4th Round Pick

[Dirty Bird]

I hope Carlton play us here in 2020 and we can cheer him off like the legend he was for us. I feel this is 1 player leaving us who won't be booed

And if does, shame on any Crows that participates

But as sad as the situation is, it's the right move for the club. Stengle and McAdam can now make their mark. The future is now

Ill call it now
Indigenous round
Thursday Night at Adelaide Oval

 

[dude316]

So long Eddie, it was fun whilst it lasted

 

[Large 1]

Yeah, and paying for her first date with your sworn enemy.

They used the shared bank account!!! a-hole

 

[jacz72]

I understand all the list management realities of this, and I have moved home for family reasons in the last couple of years, so I can sympathize with the family aspect.

But honestly, I'm pretty flat. This feels like rock bottom. Going to be hard to look at the signed Eddie Guernsey in my office.

Hopefully it's new coach day tomorrow, then onwards and upwards.

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[Large 1]

We didn’t.

It could not be clearer.

If it was all Eddie we wouldn’t pay any of his contract and he would have to play at Carlton for less. There is some degree of mutuality to the decision.

 

[PCORF]

Eddie = You did a great job at Adelaide and you deserved a premiership, it is a shame that never happened.
Adelaide = meh, gives in easily to a crappy trade. Might work out okay if we get the spoon and #1 pick next year.

 

[6BTS]

I don't understand. We signed him for 3 years and then after 2 years we take a crap trade to send him to Carlton and pay him part of his salary? I reckon the club did this because the club wronged Eddie very badly and this is compensation for whatever harm they did. I know this is speculation, but this club gives me no other choice but to speculate since all they're concerned about is trying to maintain some unattainable perfect public image. This club will literally lie to its members to avoid public accountability for their actions, if the club isn't broken, as Dunstall says, why do so many people want out, even those who are contracted beyond this year? All I know is the club has done something really bad that they will never admit to us if they can get away with it, just like they tried to do with TIppett.

 

[Samcro24]

If it was all Eddie we wouldn’t pay any of his contract and he would have to play at Carlton for less. There is some degree of mutuality to the decision.

Was just about to reply to this but looks like 6BTS is saving me the trouble.

 

[the universal]

Eddie = You did a great job at Adelaide and you deserved a premiership, it is a shame that never happened.
Adelaide = meh, gives in easily to a crappy trade. Might work out okay if we get the spoon and #1 pick next year.

We won't get the wooden spoon.

 

[Dirty Bird]

We won't get the wooden spoon.

Agreed
Have a strong nucleus still
Depends on how good our youth is determines if it's 10-14 or 6-10.
But we wont be bottom 4 (unless the league is as even as this year was and we get the bottom end of the pack. But well still be 3-5 games clear of the bottom 2)

 

[Huntercrow]

Get over the PR aspect, that doesn’t win flags. These are the types of cut throat calls successful clubs like the Hawks make with legends. I have no doubt he will have a couple of decent games next year, but Stengle needs to step up and give us 30+ goals a year.

This was not a cut throat call. It was a case of Eddie wanting out. There’s nothing admirable about what the club has done here and I think a lot of members and supporters will not be happy that by our actions we have bolstered Carltons membership and their salary cap.

 

[thebirdman 24]

Can't we have been ruthless with Mackay if we wanted to free up a spot?

We have clearly wronged Betts.

 

[Red mist]

The fact we had to dump his salary shows how poor the contract given to him was.

We should never have paid so much to a player getting on in years like Betts.

Another poor list management decision that, when I questioned it at the time, I was smashed for.

Agree. To offload half a mil next yr if you include Jenkins is shite management and the list manager who also paid 2 first for Gibbs should get out of Dodge.

 

[6BTS]

So just to get this clear, the club refuses to pay players to stay, but will pay players to leave.....

 

[hey shorty]

Thankyou Eddie, you're a legend.

That said, right move by the club.

 

[Red mist]

So long Eddie, it was fun whilst it lasted

Don’t just leave that here.
That deserves universal recognition from the bf community.

 

[Bovo]

My dad reckons I started the Eddie chant one drunken day on the hill. I was pretty smashed so don’t remember, but the hill won’t be the same without Eddie

 

[MemoryLane]

Reid looking like a donkey yet again.

 

[jackster83]

We won't get the wooden spoon.

Bottom four is a lock.

 

[StonesThrow]

Not fussed for our future but definitely a sad day. One of the most entertaining players I've seen.

Could still be decent next year for a good team I reckon. That team is not us. Not sure it will be Carlton either.

 

[Golumless]

I don't understand. We signed him for 3 years and then after 2 years we take a crap trade to send him to Carlton and pay him part of his salary? I reckon the club did this because the club wronged Eddie very badly and this is compensation for whatever harm they did. I know this is speculation, but this club gives me no other choice but to speculate since all they're concerned about is trying to maintain some unattainable perfect public image. This club will literally lie to its members to avoid public accountability for their actions, if the club isn't broken, as Dunstall says, why do so many people want out, even those who are contracted beyond this year? All I know is the club has done something really bad that they will never admit to us if they can get away with it, just like they tried to do with TIppett.

Or shits changed.

3 years ago and we have a list not only capable of challenging for a premiership, we are.

The past 2 years have seen this club implode, and via that, made the only option left to pick up the pieces, refresh the list and start the process ago. It's not wronging anyone, it's just things change and on our end, Betts is one of the players we need to move on due to his age, and how we've focused small forwards last year.

It's the price of such failure. If we were still top 4-6, you'd probably find that only Douglas, and Jacobs would be moved on, and we'd pony up for Greenwood/Keath.

 

[hey shorty]

Reid looking like a donkey yet again.

How ??

 

[hey shorty]

Bottom four is a lock.

I doubt it.

I think we will be better than this year and we weren't bottom 4 then. How much better remains to be seen.

 

[baldandbroke]

No problem at all with this. I wish we were more ruthless as guys get close to the end ... and we make way for the next superstar.

Ultimately, I dealt with Modra leaving ... I can deal with Betts leaving of his own accord.

 

[douglyzia]

Feels like I've just been through a break up.