Recommitted Buku Khamis [FA 2026] - requested a trade to Carlton, didn't get there

[Pencil case]

“It’s in the balance”

 

[TiAn_]

This is the big one

 

[Bagger72]

Ahhh too bad at least you will get end of third round next year

 

[Anja_Nees]

Welcome back Buku!

 

[BallaratBulldog]

Pretty happy to keep him

 

[Golden_6]

Certainly happy to keep Buku.

He’s vital depth at both ends of the ground for us after losing JUH & Liam Jones

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Liam Jones

Age

34

Ht

199cm

Wt

98kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.4

2star

K

6.5

3star

HB

2.9

3star

M

4.3

4star

T

2.0

4star

MG

134.5

2star

D

7.6

2star

K

6.1

3star

HB

1.4

1star

M

4.1

4star

T

1.4

2star

MG

116.3

2star

D

9.4

3star

K

7.4

3star

HB

2.0

2star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.2

4star

.

 

[Pencil case]

Great news

 

[weltschmerz]

Ahhh too bad at least you will get end of third round next year

That's the pick you offered this year, so we get an extra year out of him.

I have full faith that he'll come back with a smile and give it his all for another year with no hard feelings. He's a good bloke and really liked around the club.

 

[Foxman98]

Ahhh too bad at least you will get end of third round next year

Enjoy watching Lewis Young week in week out next year

 

[TiAn_]

Useful depth at either end next season. Any compo pick at the end of next year will be no worse than the offer this year.

 

[Doggy Dan]

Geez the Baggers have absolutely made a meal of this trade period. How embarrassing for them! Well back Buku!

 

[Doggies7]

So before it gets twisted, Carlton had the choice to bring Buku in, but chose to get more out of the Curnow deal.

Trade pick 31 for Buku and a future 3rd which is perfectly reasonable for a contracted KPP we wanted to keep. Or trade 31 to Sydney to get an additional future pick back which is what they went with.

 

[Skull Face]

So before it gets twisted, Carlton had the choice to bring Buku in, but chose to get more out of the Curnow deal.

Trade pick 31 for Buku and a future 3rd which is perfectly reasonable for a contracted KPP we wanted to keep. Or trade 31 to Sydney to get an additional future pick back which is what they went with.

Carlton gave the dogs a best 22 mid for pick 40, the dogs refused to give up a defender who couldnt get a game despite having no one down back for pick 40.

Now before it gets really twisted, are you telling me with a straight face you would trade pick 31 for 41+50?

 

[weltschmerz]

I'm not sure where the idea that Khamis didn't get any games this year came from? He played more than half the season.

 

[Jeremias]

Enjoy watching Lewis Young week in week out next year

Strange comment given Buku was never going to be a Young replacement.

 

[Foxman98]

Strange comment given Buku was never going to be a Young replacement.

More given the fact you’ve lost 2 KPP and brought in none Dean will be thrown into the fire no doubt but who plays FF now? Kemp?

 

[The Inbetweener]

Carlton gave the dogs a best 22 mid for pick 40, the dogs refused to give up a defender who couldnt get a game despite having no one down back for pick 40.

Now before it gets really twisted, are you telling me with a straight face you would trade pick 31 for 41+50?

Let’s be fair on kennedy - you subbed him in the 2nd quarter of a final and encouraged him to look around.

There was nothing left for us to accept as you used everything (justifiably) in the Curnow trade.

It’s a shame for you guys as you could now really use him in your forward line, but what exactly were you expecting us to accept?

 

[Doggies7]

Carlton gave the dogs a best 22 mid for pick 40, the dogs refused to give up a defender who couldnt get a game despite having no one down back for pick 40.

Now before it gets really twisted, are you telling me with a straight face you would trade pick 31 for 41+50?

Oh the weird Kennedy line again... That is irrelevant, Carlton pushed him out and told him to look for other opportunities as you wanted to play others through the middle. We gave you (through Geelong) a draft pick that you wanted and grabbed a good player with. That doesn't have any bearing the next year on this trade.

Buku "couldn't get a game"... Wrong he got 14 of them this year and 31 over the last two seasons. Is a depth player most likely, but valuable depth that as contracted, we dont have to trade. Still tried to do the right thing for him, but Carlton went a different way in the end. Which is also fine, but onus was on the Blues to meet a reasonable trade requirement to lose a required player.

 

[Jeremias]

More given the fact you’ve lost 2 KPP and brought in none Dean will be thrown into the fire no doubt but who plays FF now? Kemp?

What’s that got to do with Lewis Young?

 

[Skull Face]

Oh the weird Kennedy line again... That is irrelevant, Carlton pushed him out and told him to look for other opportunities as you wanted to play others through the middle. We gave you (through Geelong) a draft pick that you wanted and grabbed a good player with. That doesn't have any bearing the next year on this trade.

Buku "couldn't get a game"... Wrong he got 14 of them this year and 31 over the last two seasons. Is a depth player most likely, but valuable depth that as contracted, we dont have to trade. Still tried to do the right thing for him, but Carlton went a different way in the end. Which is also fine, but onus was on the Blues to meet a reasonable trade requirement to lose a required player.

Please you dumped him after round 16 never to play again, dfa is his heading next year

 

[kaiserchief13]

Poor guy. Did Carlton even try and get him?

 

[weltschmerz]

Please you dumped him after round 16 never to play again, dfa is his heading next year

He might choose to leave next year, that's his right. In the meantime, we get another year out of him, and we get the same 2026 third rounder that was offered this year.

 

[Bagger72]

Poor guy. Did Carlton even try and get him?

Yes twice - but Bulldogs are ballerinas.

 

[threenewpadlocks]

Carlton gave the dogs a best 22 mid for pick 40, the dogs refused to give up a defender who couldnt get a game despite having no one down back for pick 40.

Now before it gets really twisted, are you telling me with a straight face you would trade pick 31 for 41+50?

But the counter factual is that there's an expectation that pick 31 would get a game for us?

We're gunning for a flag next year and are not under salary cap pressure. Pick 31 in a weak draft is kind of meaningless, it's not that much more of a value-add in our chances of winning a flag next year if we didn't have him.

 

[Bagger72]

He might choose to leave next year, that's his right. In the meantime, we get another year out of him, and we get the same 2026 third rounder that was offered this year.

Says who - he has missed out on a five year deal no guarantees anyone would offer him the same contract again.

The opportunity was for 2026 to strut his stuff.. in 2027 we have OFarrell returning so no need for him.