Free Agency Hugh Greenwood joins North Melbourne as a DFA

[Lore]

 

[giantroo]

 

[Kings of Lygon]

Has just been pinched by North on a 2 year deal after being psuedo-delisted by GC (promise of redraft).

Scenes.

 

[bird_man]

How bizzare

Firstly the tweet from Greenwood

And I'm not sure why the Roos would want him with Cunnington in there. He'll just be taking midfield minutes away from a quality young mid

 

[Drewie11]

Gold Coast you idiots. This club is a joke

 

[Kreuuuzeurns]

Gold Coast gonna Gold Coast.

Hope we do the same with Thompson.

Well done North.

 

[Chris_6678]

LOL

 

[Buzzasto DaSilva]

If true, this is very bizarre from the Suns.

Completely understood them giving Lyons the flick, but Greenwood has an excellent attitude and seemed to love being a Sun.

 

[bc27]

Why delist him in the first place? Sounds like GC just made a massive mistake tbh. Don’t blame Greenwood on looking after himself.

 

[Tippett2Goal]

Great move by the Roos
horrible backfire by Gold Coast

 

[bird_man]

If true, this is very bizarre from the Suns.

Completely understood them giving Lyons the flick, but Greenwood has an excellent attitude and seemed to love being a Sun.

Sounds like they have been blindsided.

 

[Murraj1966]

Oh no Gold Coast shat the bed again. Better give them 5 more priority picks

 

[PTizzle]

Why delist him in the first place? Sounds like GC just made a massive mistake tbh. Don’t blame Greenwood on looking after himself.

I assume for salary cap/list spot manoeuvrability. Doesn't make a lot of sense doing it with an important player and it has backfired on them

 

[Moist Biscuit]

If true, Greenwood has made himself look like a fool with that tweet lol...

 

[Chaisa]

Gold Coast should have their licence ripped up for this. Give it to a team that actually wants to develop a winning culture.

 

[Wild Bill]

Wow - can't believe we pulled this off!! WTF are the Suns doing!!

 

[bc27]

I assume for salary cap/list spot manoeuvrability. Doesn't make a lot of sense doing it with an important player and it has backfired on them

Wasn’t he still contracted?? How do you delist a bloke that’s still contracted?
If North come to you with a great deal and a club just delisted you I know what I would do.

isn’t he vice captain of Gold Coast? Why would you delist your vice captain? I think Gold Coast should be embarrassed. They’ve been caught out trying to pull a swifty and hope North and Collingwood wouldn’t offer him some coin.
The whole rookie list system is a mess to be honest. The way clubs are using this rookie list system is a shamble.

 

[Thetrader15]

That's brilliant, great news for clubs who manage their list properly and don't do this sort of thing.

All these draft pick and academy concessions the AFL gave them have caused them to lose one of their top 5 players.

#ALFLogic

 

[Dard Ball Get]

 

[STPer18]

Pisser.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I'm still not 100% sure what's happened here but I'm fairly sure GC are morons.

 

[Wild Bill]

I would trade Greenwood for 3.

 

[Thetrader15]

Wasn’t he still contracted?? How do you delist a bloke that’s still contracted?
If North come to you with a great deal and a club just delisted you I know what I would do.

They 'mutually agreed' for him to be delisted, same as with Jarrod Lyons.

I wonder who GC will take with pick 97.

 

[iBeng]

Lyons 2.0, the hits keep coming for the Sun's...

 

[Kings of Lygon]

Wasn’t he still contracted?? How do you delist a bloke that’s still contracted?
If North come to you with a great deal and a club just delisted you I know what I would do.

isn’t he vice captain of Gold Coast? Why would you delist your vice captain? I think Gold Coast should be embarrassed. They’ve been caught out trying to pull a swifty and hope North and Collingwood wouldn’t offer him some coin.
The whole rookie list system is a mess to be honest. The way clubs are using this rookie list system is a shamble.

Anybody can be delisted at any time, but they are owed the value that remains on their contract one way or another and it's going to be included in the teams salary cap. These players are cut and re-drafted as it's usually in the interests of the club to do things like open up a spot on the main list, help reach the minimum required picked at the draft etc. and the players agree to it in order to help out. North are doing the same with Polec this year, Carlton did likewise with Betts. It's fairly routine.

There has been a sort of unspoken agreement that if a club is committed to these types that get chopped with a promise of being re-drafted, other clubs stay away. They are normally not Hugh Greenwood types though; generally they are young players who have struggled with injuries, fringe players who happen to have years on their contract or older veterans who are helping the club out.

This hasn't panned out well for GC.

 

[Hawker55]

This is hilarious, but terrible .