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

[Pragmatic Shill]

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Seeing as you’ve spoken to Clarkson and Rawlings, What are north asking?

What?

He’s their captain and contracted until 2029

It doesn’t take “inside knowledge” to know they’ll be wanting at least a first rounder at minimum as part of the deal.

Which imo is already not worth it for us given we’ll need every first rounder we can get next year for Butters if we’re seriously going to have a crack at him

 

[sr36]

Nick is no fool, he also has his father to guide him as well. His pay will go up as he ages. Nick also knows if he fleeces his club, we won't have room for other guns, for us to be at the pointy end each season.
Greed is what causes clubs to buckle, common sense is the way and Nick has a good head on his shoulders to know that his payday will come soon enough.
The Saints will have a few good players but their lowest players will be shite, making their strength around the ground have holes like Swiss cheese.

Top end salaries appear to have gone through the roof since he re-signed. I'd expect a re-negotiation at some stage

 

[Scodog10]

Maybe use this advice to posting

 

[manicpie]

16 other clubs didnt want to touch him.

How do you know

 

[satty]

North fans views on Simpkin worth:

• straight Quaynor - Simpkin swap
• McCreery and their future first for Simpkin and a second
• 2026 F1 and 27 F1 with perhaps a minor pick or two going back to them
• future First and fringeish player
• at least a top 10 pick for him
• Pay 70% of his salary and try and leverage 26 and 27 first rounders

At those prices I would run, not walk, away.

Ummm..... What?
After careful review of the north board. .

 

[Pragmatic Shill]

Fleeced the Dees here.

 

[Scodog10]

That is all sorts of a good outcome considering he was out the door for nothing as a FA. I was fully expecting that future 3rd to be 2027 which was still a win.

 

[manicpie]

What?

He’s their captain and contracted until 2029

It doesn’t take “inside knowledge” to know they’ll be wanting at least a first rounder at minimum as part of the deal.

Which imo is already not worth it for us given we’ll need every first rounder we can get next year for Butters if we’re seriously going to have a crack at him

Norf wants to get rid of him, hardly in a position to demand much. He's a victim of bad recruitment. That's what you get when you have a hundred first round picks and you take all midfielders.

 

[BEEG]

That's actually not bad

 

[nickyds35]

Good deal, both these picks will come in 10-12 places as the new bidding rules will force teams to match bids using higher picks.

 

[satty]

That's actually not bad

Managed to shed a useless pick 71 and gained a potential pick in the 40's in next year's draft .

 

[MooreDaicos]

There is some nuance to this. It is advisable that we don't allow Naicos' contract to drift too far from the top of the competition salary heap.

Essendon signed Zach Merret to an insanely low contract a few years ago and probably celebrated getting such a steal...until he started to become disgruntled and they had to renegotiate his contract anyway. And now he wants to leave.

Nick's still young, he'll get his big payday on his next contract, he knows this.
Merrett agreed to his deal when he should've asked for more. Bad management there. The age difference between the 2 is 8 years.
Nick has plenty of time. The one thing he doesn't want, is being a burden on the club cap. He values premierships more.
Merrett is old and wants to win a premiership, he won't get that at Essendon.

 

[gouki88]

North fans views on Simpkin worth:

• straight Quaynor - Simpkin swap
• McCreery and their future first for Simpkin and a second
• 2026 F1 and 27 F1 with perhaps a minor pick or two going back to them
• future First and fringeish player
• at least a top 10 pick for him
• Pay 70% of his salary and try and leverage 26 and 27 first rounders

At those prices I would run, not walk, away.

All whilst gleefully pushing him out the door!

 

[Pistol Night]

That's actually not bad

Could be a pick in the high 30s the way Melbourne is tracking

 

[Harry O]

Yea, im wrong.... Lets go mortgage our future on Simpkin, a player no other team wanted to touch.

Who said anything about a mortgage? How about you wait for any proposed deal details before cracking the Sads like a grade 2 school girl

 

[nickyds35]

Who said anything about a mortgage? How about you wait for any proposed deal details before cracking the Sads like a grade 2 school girl

First round pick was reported in the article.

 

[SchuPie]

North fans views on Simpkin worth:

• straight Quaynor - Simpkin swap
• McCreery and their future first for Simpkin and a second
• 2026 F1 and 27 F1 with perhaps a minor pick or two going back to them
• future First and fringeish player
• at least a top 10 pick for him
• Pay 70% of his salary and try and leverage 26 and 27 first rounders

At those prices I would run, not walk, away.

This isn’t even close to batsh*t crazy

They should be committed

 

[Pistol Night]

Any truth to the rumour that Trac met with the Giants this week? Maybe all is not roses with Clarry

 

[Matthew_13]

Give 61 to Sydney for Buller

 

[Harry O]

That's actually not bad

It is an excellent outcome
And pick 61 will possibly end up around 50 after bid matching and pick passing

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Norf wants to get rid of him

Uh…this is news to me. Since when?

I thought the talk was that he was a little disgruntled at his role or whatever

 

[Ugene41]

Simpkin needs to be a Adams to Sydney type scenario. Both leaders of the club and former bnf winner that got pushed out from midfield and pushing for a new club.

Second rounder at most.

 

[Linda Lovelace]

Top end salaries appear to have gone through the roof since he re-signed. I'd expect a re-negotiation at some stage

It will definitely happen. But it needs to be based on keeping his salary somewhat in-line with other top players so he doesn't become disgruntled and not based on some potential nonsense Tassie bluff.

There is no chance he will make the same mistake as GAJ.

 

[Pragmatic Shill]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate Charlie Spargo

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Charlie Spargo

Age

26

Ht

172cm

Wt

75kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.7

3star

K

6.4

3star

HB

5.3

4star

M

3.5

4star

T

2.7

4star

G

0.6

4star

D

8.0

2star

K

6.0

2star

HB

2.0

1star

M

1.0

1star

T

0.0

1star

G

0.0

1star

D

13.6

4star

K

6.8

3star

HB

6.8

5star

M

4.4

4star

T

2.6

4star

G

1.2

4star

choosing to go to North - none of this would be possible without him.