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  1. Miguel Sanchez

    Scandal Tom Wills - not a good guy?

    Tom Wills’ great-great-grandniece seems to have researched his involvement fairly extensively.
  2. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Busted Tim Kelly will be an Eagle next season

    I imagine Geelong are in a difficult position because any benefits they provide the Kelly family would be, at least, football department spending which counts against the soft cap and, at worst, payments to a player which counts against the salary cap. I doubt they're just not willing to...
  3. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Busted Tim Kelly will be an Eagle next season

    As I said, I don't blame Geelong for not accepting the offer. He's clearly worth more to them than the picks would have been. It was still a very reasonable offer though just from an objective standpoint.
  4. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Busted Tim Kelly will be an Eagle next season

    I don't blame Geelong for not accepting it. That's their right. But it was a very reasonable offer. It was a lot more than I personally would have been comfortable giving up. It's in no way a "bucket of scraps".
  5. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Busted Tim Kelly will be an Eagle next season

    If you insist on referring to an offer of pick 20, pick 22 and a future second-rounder as "a bucket of scraps" then the conversation isn't worth having. It's more than you gave up for a contracted Brownlow Medalist 12 months ago. A bucket of scraps is what you got a homesick contracted former...
  6. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Busted Tim Kelly will be an Eagle next season

    I'm fine with the Cats' decision. They had the right to demand an extraordinary deal for their contracted player. Whether it's the best decision, no one will know for at least 12 months. You're going on about how they've shown him how much they value him and how West Coast haven't. Do you...
  7. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Busted Tim Kelly will be an Eagle next season

    Yeah that'll make all the difference in 12 months time when his contract's up and his wife still wants to be back in Perth with family :rolleyes:
  8. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Busted Tim Kelly will be an Eagle next season

    No. Because he won't be a free agent.
  9. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Busted Tim Kelly will be an Eagle next season

    It was reasonable, in fact it was more than reasonable. But Geelong wanted exceptional. Which was their right, of course.
  10. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Busted Tim Kelly will be an Eagle next season

    He didn't "agree to contract terms". He got the standard contract for someone taken at pick 24 in the national draft. Two years at the set rate.
  11. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Busted Tim Kelly will be an Eagle next season

    Ask Brett Chalmers how that works out.
  12. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Busted Tim Kelly will be an Eagle next season

    Who said Geelong got nothing out of this year? "Sure we scraped into the finals and got booted straight out, but we nearly beat the premiers!"
  13. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Busted Tim Kelly will be an Eagle next season

    At least three people have pointed out to you that Sydney have traded that pick away already. Do you have some inside word that Adelaide will ontrade it? Because it seems unlikely.
  14. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Busted Tim Kelly will be an Eagle next season

    13 went to Adelaide overnight in the McGovern trade.
  15. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Busted Tim Kelly will be an Eagle next season

    Because he'll risk going back into the draft, which is how he ended up in Geelong in the first place? That's the only way Geelong get nothing for him. How do people seriously not know the basics of how the system works?
  16. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Busted Tim Kelly will be an Eagle next season

    Has Kelly or his manager actually said he only wants to go to West Coast? Geelong's statement only says he wants to return home. His manager did an interview on SEN today but I haven't seen any quotes from him about Kelly only wanting to go to West Coast and not Freo.
  17. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Busted Tim Kelly will be an Eagle next season

    And Brett Spinks for a first round pick. And David Haynes for a second round pick (that became Sam Butler). I can see why they wouldn't want to be too generous :D
  18. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Gaff back for prelim

    Well, let's assume we got some info that justified an appeal around the time this thread was started. We've already taken two weeks. That's the sort of time that would have the judge asking questions. If he/she gets the impression that we've delayed in order to maximise our chances of getting...
  19. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Gaff back for prelim

    We'd have to show we had a bloody good reason for waiting six weeks from the Tribunal's decision before bringing an "urgent" application.
  20. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Gaff back for prelim

    That isn't the logic at all. The reason players generally aren't charged with criminal assault is that the way the criminal law has developed, it is accepted that participants in contact sports are deemed to have consented to contact that occurs in the ordinary course of the game, including...
  21. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Gaff back for prelim

    Yeah that's not how the legal system works. The DPP isn't going to suddenly consider an assault charge it previously couldn't be bothered with just because a player appeals an sporting organisation tribunal finding in the courts. (Not that there's any chance Gaff is actually going to lodge an...
  22. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Eagles to keep Mitchell

    Not quite. If there's a no-compete clause then the employee might be held to that. For example Gary Buckenara and Paul Harding were unable to walk away from their contracts with Hawthorn and join West Coast, but Buckenara was permitted to play WAFL if he wanted to.
  23. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Eagles to keep Mitchell

    I literally said the opposite in the second half of the same sentence but yeah I think we're all on the same page now. Hopefully WCE and Mitchell are too.
  24. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Eagles to keep Mitchell

    I don't mean casual, or contractor. I mean a fixed term contract such as Mitchell's four year contract. Either side can end it early but it's a breach of contract and damages will flow from that. If there's a statute dealing with that situation I'm not aware of it. It's not covered by the Fair...
  25. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Eagles to keep Mitchell

    The most relevant document is Mitchell's employment contract. The rest is common law. I can't really explain the conjunction of employment law and contract law in a Bigfooty post. And fixed term contracts can be ended at any time by the employer without the employee having the right to pursue...
  26. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Eagles to keep Mitchell

    It's a contract, same as any other. If it's for a fixed term and you terminate it early, you can be liable for the costs incurred by the other party due to your breach.
  27. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Richo gone

    Source?
  28. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Gaff back for prelim

    The tribunal wasn't told that his jaw was smashed into bits, or that he lost five teeth. Give it a rest dude.
  29. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Gaff back for prelim

    Regardless of what was said in the media, the doctor gave pretty specific evidence at the start of the tribunal hearing about the nature of the fracture, the number of teeth displaced etc and the effect it would have on Brayshaw. And that's what the tribunal went on, not the media reports. Are...
  30. Miguel Sanchez

    Rumour Gaff back for prelim

    Yeah nah, I'm no Barry Hall fan and I agree he should've been rubbed out of that GF but in no way was him punching Maguire in the guts worse than Gaff breaking Brayshaw's jaw.

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