List Mgmt. 2025 Trade/FA Thread (Cont’d)

[Crazy Tails]

Gippsland Power exodus at the Suns this off season? Flanders, Ainsworth and Humphrey all from that neck of the woods. Strange co-incidence.

 

[Gabbo64]

Boy, we need to get some currency just to be in the race for a quality UFA.

 

[Scodog10]

Jay Clark reporting that met with Collingwood and Melbourne. At Copeland last night the word was it went very well

Humphrey at the Copeland? Are you able to share? That seems crazy in both its levels of stupidity and ballsyness.

 

[Crazy Tails]

Humphrey meeting with Collingwood went very well apparently

Would be a super get but still not sure how we would get it done. So not getting my hopes up.

 

[sr36]

No, I am right. You can't claim that some clubs are given better deals than others if you don't look at the entire way the clubs are treated. Some get better drafting rules (academies, father sons etc), some get better TV rights and better fixtures. Tasmania is about to get sign-on bonuses. Take it all into account.

The advantages that matter are the one's that make you a better team. Pies get given clear off field advantages they probably have a small impact on recruiting. Northern advantages are much bigger in terms of being a good team

 

[South of the Yarra]

Humphrey at the Copeland? Are you able to share? That seems crazy in both its levels of stupidity and ballsyness.

No Collingwood met with him yesterday. I was at Copeland and the word was meeting went well.

 

[Jen2310]

Jay Clark reporting that met with Collingwood and Melbourne. At Copeland last night the word was it went very well

Maybe not after fly's speech lol

 

[Peters_Nuts]

So I was coming in here to post that I'm still optimistic for next season and if we "only" lose Mihocek but bring in Buller, Blight and see improvement from Houston, Long, Bobby and some of the kids, I still back us for Top 4.

That said, now I want Humphry and feel like he's the difference for us in going further next season.

How does it work for us? Do we have to seek permission from the AFL to trade future picks? I recall Port having to do this with Horne-Francis and they allowed it given his age.

 

[WakeUpPies]

If we land Humphrey without trading Bobby then we need to build Leppa a statue.

 

[Scodog10]

The advantages that matter are the one's that make you a better team. Pies get given clear off field advantages they probably have a small impact on recruiting. Northern advantages are much bigger in terms of being a good team

Agreed, but it’s such a fine balancing act. They need something to counter the advantage we get it’s just gone too far with the academies. I don’t have a solution BTW because if the acquisition cost becomes overly prohibitive does the game suffer? Alternatively you’ve got people like Matthews spouting absolute bullshit about the numbers of representation from the northern states and suggesting they need to rise whilst simultaneously retaining priority access. Essentially he wants SOO teams out of the northern states…

 

[granniewolf]

Humphrey meeting with Collingwood went very well apparently

I reckon if he goes anywhere it will be to Melbourne for Trach

 

[sr36]

So I was coming in here to post that I'm still optimistic for next season and if we "only" lose Mihocek but bring in Buller, Blight and see improvement from Houston, Long, Bobby and some of the kids, I still back us for Top 4.

That said, now I want Humphry and feel like he's the difference for us in going further next season.

How does it work for us? Do we have to seek permission from the AFL to trade future picks? I recall Port having to do this with Horne-Francis and they allowed it given his age.

Me too with the optimism. Partially because I'm much more optimistic about Jordy than most seem to be.

 

[stormskye]

Maybe not after fly's speech lol

I think far too much is being read into his speech. Pretty uneventful to me. Prob would regret his Brownlow comment but it’s not a big deal

 

[JLC]

Surely Humphrey sees Trac as a player

Maybe not after fly's speech lol

Why? Rowell is a gun but didn't deserve to win. I hope we don't rewrite history and all pretend he was the best player in 2025.

 

[NMBB]

So I was coming in here to post that I'm still optimistic for next season and if we "only" lose Mihocek but bring in Buller, Blight and see improvement from Houston, Long, Bobby and some of the kids, I still back us for Top 4.

That said, now I want Humphry and feel like he's the difference for us in going further next season.

How does it work for us? Do we have to seek permission from the AFL to trade future picks? I recall Port having to do this with Horne-Francis and they allowed it given his age.

Can we trade future flags? I'd happily trade 45 of our flags in the next 100 years for 4 in the next decade.

 

[JLC]

I reckon if he goes anywhere it will be to Melbourne for Trach

Not if he has half a brain.

 

[stormskye]

I reckon if he goes anywhere it will be to Melbourne for Trach

Flanders wants to go there which might form part of that deal as previously suggested

 

[WakeUpPies]

I think far too much is being read into his speech. Pretty uneventful to me. Prob would regret his Brownlow comment but it’s not a big deal

Fly makes a joke about Brownlow = everyone outraged

Sniff continuously acting hostile towards women = no one cares

Most AFL fans in a nutshell.

 

[Jen2310]

Why? Rowell is a gun but didn't deserve to win. I hope we don't rewrite history and all pretend he was the best player in 2025.

I think this years brownlow was the most open. Any of the top 5 would have deserved to win. There was no clear front runner.
I never thought Nick would win, dont think he had that great of a year

 

[stormskye]

Surely Humphrey sees Trac as a player


Why? Rowell is a gun but didn't deserve to win. I hope we don't rewrite history and all pretend he was the best player in 2025.

Did nick “deserve” to win? Out of all his seasons this is probably one he didn’t “deserve” to

 

[Jen2310]

Flanders wants to go there which might form part of that deal as previously suggested

 

[stormskye]

My bad I worded that poorly. A 3 way trade was mentioned which made sense to me

 

[NMBB]

Fly makes a joke about Brownlow = everyone outraged
Sniff continuously acting hostile towards women = Geelong protected species - do not disturb

Most AFL fans in a nutshell.

Fixed

 

[Scodog10]

Me too with the optimism. Partially because I'm much more optimistic about Jordy than most seem to be.

Are you comparing his 2026 to 24-25 or 23? I’d be surprised if he gets through hell year at his best without Aisha looking after him extremely well!

 

[sideswipe]

Are you comparing his 2026 to 24-25 or 23? I’d be surprised if he gets through hell year at his best without Aisha looking after him extremely well!

As unsurprised as you would have been if Jordy retired?