Media Swans Talk in the Media 2024

[Kiama Chris]

Swans Talk throughout

GETTABLE: Bombers eye free agents, Hawks' $6 million play, trio of Pies targets

Riley Beveridge and Cal Twomey discuss the top free agents, answer your questions and are joined by player agent Colin Young

www.afl.com.au

Hayward considered the second "best" free agent (not just OOC). Some nice words and highlights. Gulden ranked with JUH as the top OOC players.

 

[caesar88]

Hayward considered the second "best" free agent (not just OOC). Some nice words and highlights. Gulden ranked with JUH as the top OOC players.

Hayward wouldn't even be our best free agent this year.

 

[bedford]

Craig McRae

Craig Mcrae

Age

50

Ht

176cm

Wt

73kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.9

3star

K

9.0

3star

HB

3.9

3star

M

2.4

3star

T

1.9

4star

G

1.2

4star

No current season stats available

D

16.2

4star

K

10.6

4star

HB

5.6

4star

M

1.8

2star

T

1.2

3star

G

1.4

5star

on SEN a massive fan of the opening round

 

[Adnico26Parker]

Tradies podcast also back today - brief discussion on Logan from 25 min mark

 

[bedford]

Tradies podcast also back today - brief discussion on Logan from 25 min mark

Who runs the podcast ?

 

[Ticky009]

Who runs the podcast ?

Umm - you can't tell by the picture?

 

[caesar88]

Umm - you can't tell by the picture?

Harry Potter and Mad Eye Moody would be my initial guess from the picture

 

[bedford]

Umm - you can't tell by the picture?

Looking for who the Tradies are , is 1 runway head McClure

 

[Adnico26Parker]

Looking for who the Tradies are , is 1 runway head McClure

And Mitch Cleary from 7

 

[Adnico26Parker]

Short story - we're (allegedly) paying Grundy $900k this year, not the $700k we first thought we would be (not including the Collingwood money).

Hence why we didn't give up much in draft picks when we found out.

 

[TheGoatBaron]

Short story - we're actually (allegedly) paying Grundy $900k this year, not the $700k we first thought we would be (not including the Collingwood money).

Hence why we didn't give up much in draft picks when we found out.

Yet the likes of Geelong and Brisbane can afford players left, right and centre every year without questioning their salary cap. I call BS.

 

[bedford]

And Mitch Cleary from 7

Don't really watch 7

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

The last 5 minutes of that might be the most we’ve really gotten out of John. Ever. You can see what the game means to him and that he genuinely wants it to grow in Sydney and he’s passionate about us getting a fair go.

How sad that it’s been the AFL for 35 years and it still, in many ways, is the VFL. They get the most important game of the year, the only one that matters, in their state 99.99999999% of the time (COVID the exception) and it’s not enough. They can’t let anyone else have anything.

It’s absolutely appalling and disgusting if I’m being honest. A lot of Victorian footy fans and media personalities have a lot to answer for. They’re a disgrace.


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I am a Vic and am back living here and would not live elsewhere in Oz BUT I despise the special pleading of every Vic footy club. I would celebrate the extinction of any of them and would shout the Bar if Carlton or Norf bit the dust.

 

[TheGoatBaron]

I am a Vic and am back living here and would not live elsewhere in Oz BUT I despise the special pleading of every Vic footy club. I would celebrate the extinction of any of them and would shout the Bar if Carlton or Norf bit the dust.

I'd be the first to take a pint if Carlton bit the dust, considering what they did to us in the early 90's. It's why I'll never jump on their bandwagon like the Vic media has done.

 

[bloodsbigot]

Hayward considered the second "best" free agent (not just OOC). Some nice words and highlights. Gulden ranked with JUH as the top OOC players.

Good. At least we might get more for him than a packet of Samboys when we trade him.

 

[Kiama Chris]

Hayward wouldn't even be our best free agent this year.

Free agent vs OOC.

 

[caesar88]

Free agent vs OOC.

Yeah I think Florent's a free agent and he's a much better player than Hayward. Not that I think either are anything special.

 

[Adnico26Parker]

Yeah I think Florent's a free agent and he's a much better player than Hayward. Not that I think either are anything special.

They're both restricted free agents.

 

[Adnico26Parker]

Hayward wouldn't even be our best free agent this year.

Harry Cunningham
Ollie Florent
Will Hayward
Lewis Melican
Sam Reid
Robbie Fox

 

[BloodySwan]

Short story - we're (allegedly) paying Grundy $900k this year, not the $700k we first thought we would be (not including the Collingwood money).

Hence why we didn't give up much in draft picks when we found out.

But we apparently threw large amounts of money at McKay and JHF.

 

[caesar88]

Harry Cunningham
Ollie Florent
Will Hayward
Lewis Melican
Sam Reid
Robbie Fox

I honestly think Hayward is only the 3rd best player out of that group, although taking age into account he'd be the 2nd-most valuable going forward.

 

[liz]

If we're paying Grundy $1.2m this season, I imagine it's because we want to. Clubs can, within reason, move total contract amounts between years. The Swans would have been well aware, long before they negotiated a trade, how much Grundy's contract entitled him to over its entire length and how much Collingwood would be contributing. The initial schedule of payments would likely have been set by Collingwood when they entered into the contract with Grundy, but I imagine that could have been renegotiated with Grundy and his manager had the club needed to, particularly given how keen Grundy was to come here once he'd met with the club.

We went after a biggish name this year - Barrass, McKay - and didn't land one. We've possibly got a little still spare that we had expected (wanted) to pay Dawson before he decided to move elsewhere. We know Errol will require a significant pay increase when he re-signs, have a few others to sign up to new contracts (including fighting off Freo for McDonald) and have been putting out feelers for other headliners. So I daresay it made sense for the club to absorb a large chunk of the Grundy contract this year. It might mean we are close to the maximum cap for 2024 but doesn't mean our cap is bursting for 2025, 6, 7 etc.

 

[liz]

I honestly think Hayward is only the 3rd best player out of that group, although taking age into account he'd be the 2nd-most valuable going forward.

I think Hayward and Florent are much of a muchness quality wise. Good solid foot soldiers. Though I think there is more scope for Hayward to improve his value to the club, particularly if he improves his goal conversion. I also think that, despite how maligned he is on here (by a handful), it would be far harder to find a player to replace the role he performs for the team than it would be to find a player to replace Florent.

Reid and Cunningham are pretty near the end of their careers. While Fox and Melican seem to exist on the fringes of the best 23. They're in at the moment but I doubt either feels cemented. Neither would attract the same at the trade table as Hayward or Florent or, in the context of free agency, be offered similar contracts by other clubs.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

I think Hayward and Florent are much of a muchness quality wise. Good solid foot soldiers. Though I think there is more scope for Hayward to improve his value to the club, particularly if he improves his goal conversion. I also think that, despite how maligned he is on here (by a handful), it would be far harder to find a player to replace the role he performs for the team than it would be to find a player to replace Florent.

Reid and Cunningham are pretty near the end of their careers. While Fox and Melican seem to exist on the fringes of the best 23. They're in at the moment but I doubt either feels cemented. Neither would attract the same at the trade table as Hayward or Florent or, in the context of free agency, be offered similar contracts by other clubs.

Ollie is no world beater but I reckon he has proved an invaluable, reliable and adaptable member of the team.

 

[Cadsky]

Gettable have Freo and Crows chasing Errol