Delisted Callum Ah Chee - Joins Adelaide via the PSD

[Crow till I die]

 

[BangyBangy]

The Crows have stacks of room. Putting up $1.5m for Bailey won't be an issue at all.

$1.5m? Pfffttt, that's rookie money at St Kilda.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

$1.5m? Pfffttt, that's rookie money at St Kilda.

Short-term v long-term contract.

Crows offerred NWM more over the journey & Saints countered with a shorter deal with more per annum.

Reckon Bailey will be looking for a longer-term deal to cash in on free agency. Don't think he will go to a team not in finals contention either.

 

[Happy_Neale]

So Dom speaks with weasel words, I don't think he's that kind of guy, he just got bested this time by Justin Reid.

You win some, you lose some.

wtf

 

[Happy_Neale]

Which is totally understandable.

Just highlights that we thought a pick around the mid 20's was fair value for Cal.

Adelaide wasn't interested in paying what we thought was a fair price & knew they could just take him in the PSD. And that's how it played out.

This is literally the last however many weeks in a nutshell. Crom posters for some reason do not want to acknowledge they used these tactics though. Baffling

 

[Elixuh]

This is kind of the sport version of the billionaire whose Range Rover breaks down on the highway so he just gets a limo to pick him up all the while leaving the Range Rover on the side of the road forever and never picking it up again because he has 3 at home already that do work

I have abandoned this thread but I just wanted to say it was sad to see how broken you were the other night after the draft. My thoughts are with you and the eagles during this difficult time.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

This is literally the last however many weeks in a nutshell. Crom posters for some reason do not want to acknowledge they used these tactics though. Baffling

The vast majority of football journalists believe the Crows were offering a fair deal for Ah Chee.... not just Crows supporters.

Picks are valued more highly by the SA, WA & Victorian clubs than the Queensland & NSW clubs, becuase they don't have the advantages of access to academy players.

The AFL have created this different valuation of picks. Hence why the Crows were never going to be able to compete with the Suns on the Petracca trade as with all their cheap academy players, they were happy to hand over 1st rounders like confetti.

 

[Cleric]

I get why you talk about salt a lot, most of your filthy water that comes out of Victorian and NSW sewerage plants via the Murray is so salt heavy you can float a rock on it. Shame that desal plant keeps getting put back, such a winning state.

Actually though, you've given me a lot of new ammunition there about boring, old serial killers, must make a note of that; oh wait lost interest.

So, the premier team of a minnow state, who is now the most successful of the millennia, and is debt free with a burgeoning membership base got there on handouts? Not a well administrated, resourced and coached club with viral father sons?

Collingwood had three F/S plus an NGA at their last premiership; I guess they were handouts too?

It's the toxic water in SA that causes all your F/S to be stunted, it's not our fault, don't whine fix the water ffs.

I will give this a 2/5, and most of that is just for breaking down your post into paragraphs.

 

[Cleric]

Thank you for the support. Much needed & appreciated.

We've struggled of late retaining required high end talent.....

no wait.......

According to Brisbane, Ah Chee was required and much wanted. Probably not the year for that boast.

 

[Cleric]

Based on our contract offer he wasn’t someone we would move heaven and earth to keep. The salary cap doing its thing really

Lol, you guys cant keep your story straight. Now he was a meh player who the club wasn't really worried about losing....

 

[Happy_Neale]

Lol, you guys cant keep your story straight. Now he was a meh player who the club wasn't really worried about losing....

When did I say that?

 

[ABAB]

wtf

He was still "confident" of re-signing Ah Chee in the interview right after the failed trade and said he hasn't even spoken to Ah Chee, that's the first time I heard Dom speak and he sounded like a prick. Apparently, Brisbane players weren't happy with this.......

 

[Happy_Neale]

The vast majority of football journalists believe the Crows were offering a fair deal for Ah Chee.... not just Crows supporters.

Picks are valued more highly by the SA, WA & Victorian clubs than the Queensland & NSW clubs, becuase they don't have the advantages of access to academy players.

The AFL have created this different valuation of picks. Hence why the Crows were never going to be able to compete with the Suns on the Petracca trade as with all their cheap academy players, they were happy to hand over 1st rounders like confetti.

Why does it matter what the journos think? Even if that were true (it isn’t) it’s irrelevant. Pretty sure the club knows the value of Ah Chee better than Matthew Lloyd.

The suns traded their first in 2023 and turned into two firsts in 2024, then turned one of them plus Lukosius into 2 x 2025 firsts. That plus Flanders going out allowed them to stack first rounders and shuffle picks around to get the points together they needed.

It wasn’t some dumb luck academy thing, they lost picks and players to get those points together over three off-seasons. Easier to just rant about the academy though.

 

[Happy_Neale]

He was still "confident" of re-signing Ah Chee in the interview right after the failed trade and said he hasn't even spoken to Ah Chee, that's the first time I heard Dom speak and he sounded like a prick. Apparently, Brisbane players weren't happy with this.......

Stop making up nonsense

 

[ABAB]

Stop making up nonsense

Stop having your head in the sand.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Why does it matter what the journos think? Even if that were true (it isn’t) it’s irrelevant. Pretty sure the club knows the value of Ah Chee better than Matthew Lloyd.

The suns traded their first in 2023 and turned into two firsts in 2024, then turned one of them plus Lukosius into 2 x 2025 firsts. That plus Flanders going out allowed them to stack first rounders and shuffle picks around to get the points together they needed.

It wasn’t some dumb luck academy thing, they lost picks and players to get those points together over three off-seasons. Easier to just rant about the academy though.

The fact that very few people outside Lions & disgruntled Port supporters thought the Crows were being unreasonable is central to this thread.

Again it's very lost on you that the Northern academies create a different valuation of draft picks. Anyone with critical thinking ability knows this.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

According to Brisbane, Ah Chee was required and much wanted. Probably not the year for that boast.

After the trade fell through, Dom was on record saying that he hoped to re-sign Ah Chee.

How out of touch was he, given Ah Chee & his manager were clear he was leaving regardless. Dom badly misread the situation as he thought that he had a viable backup option.

 

[Happy_Neale]

Stop having your head in the sand.

Post the interview then

 

[Happy_Neale]

The fact that very few people outside Lions & disgruntled Port supporters thought the Crows were being unreasonable is central to this thread.

Again it's very lost on you that the Northern academies create a different valuation of draft picks. Anyone with critical thinking ability knows this.

It doesn’t matter though. Do you care what Matthew Lloyd thinks about walking Jackson Hately to the PSD a few years ago?

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

It doesn’t matter though. Do you care what Matthew Lloyd thinks about walking Jackson Hately to the PSD a few years ago?

You are only saying that expert opinion doesn't matter as it's made your club look silly giving away Ah Chee for nothing.

AFC thank Dom for his incompetence though on this issue.

 

[Happy_Neale]

You are only saying that expert opinion doesn't matter as it's made your club look silly giving away Ah Chee for nothing.

Incorrect. I don’t form my opinions based on what Sam McClure thinks. You clearly do though so whatever works for the individual hey

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Incorrect. I don’t form my opinions based on what Sam McClure thinks. You clearly do though so whatever works for the individual hey

So you are one of those people who never considers they got it wrong, despite the vast majority having the opposite opinion.

Feel free to live your life with your head in the sand.

 

[Happy_Neale]

So you are one of those people who never considers they got it wrong, despite the vast majority having the opposite opinion.

Feel free to live your life with your head in the sand.

Yes that’s exactly what that means

 

[cleanhands]

You are only saying that expert opinion doesn't matter as it's made your club look silly giving away Ah Chee for nothing.

AFC thank Dom for his incompetence though on this issue.

The boy is so out of touch

 

[Crouch]

Dom's worst nightmare:

 

[Blue By Blood]

We didn’t want a first round pick, it was a pick slide from 16 to 23 plus a future second. Values him somewhere around pick 25 which would have been fair IMO

Fair in terms of the valuation of 25.. but how the 25 is achieved not fair/acceptable. In a weak draft dropping from 16 to 23 would have hurt their chances of landing Marsh.