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When is TDK out of contract? 🤔

Exactly, are we supposed to believe that, with 24 minutes to go, Geelong said to Cooper, "Feel like playing for the Hawks? Never mind doing a medical or ever touring their facilities or speaking to someone at their club.. yes or no? You've got to decide now!" :D

Personally, I'm happy with how that panned out. Cats get Henry and kept their future first round pick (and Ratugolea). Pies get Mitchell and P25. Hawks get Cooper Stephens and the kid gets an opportunity to play AFL level where I think he'll do well, just needs the opportunities that he's...

Really suspect deals like this are thrashed out a lot earlier and then it's all theatre.

Three way trade between Cats, Hawks and Pies. So Mitchell involved you'd imagine.

Ollie Henry deal about to be lodged.

What are Geelong risking?

But would North want Dunkley at that price for one year knowing he doesn’t want to go to North? I don’t think they would do that. Dunkley would be the highest paid player in the comp for that one season.

Literally about what the Lions can do in the context I’ve seen it discussed, but sure, even that is about Geelong 🙄

I don’t think it’s comparable to racially motivated booing, but the many who did said it wasn’t racially motivated. A player who has seen out the terms of his contract and opted to leave warrants booing though? That kid you’ll boo? I’m just trying to understand where you draw the line. I reserve...

To be fair, I’ve only read about it in context of Dunkley putting a high, like, really high, one year price on his head and then agreeing to smooth it out with the Lions once selected.. where as he could opt not to smooth it out with any other club. You’d think the same applies to Henry given...

Yeah, and after Goodes called out the racial slurs.. did you boo? Many did.

You sure about that? I’ve read it can be smoothed out if the club and player are in agreement.

What about Goodes?

What’d they demand for Clark last season? Very similar scenarios.

Luckily for Geelong, they do with other players retiring and smoothing out other recruits contracts. Also luckily for Geelong they can agree to smooth out his contract over many more years.. something young Henry may opt not to do at a different club.

North do have the salary cap to meet his $600k one-season contract requirements.

It's out of Geelong's hands whether or not P25 gets accepted for Henry. It's unreal that the balance of what Geelong trade/draft in during this off-season could be all of P7, P25, Bruhn, Bowes and Henry while keeping their future first. I would not have predicted that before the trade period...

You really are a bit fixated with his mum's milk... were you.. bottle fed?

I think it's mainly because we're reigning Premiers and have received a draft bounty of Bowes and P7 for a future 3rd round pick. That's "not fair" to the observer because they didn't also get it so it's only "fair" that we pay what they want for the OOC player. You see it with little kids all...

Noooo… we want him to go somewhere he’ll develop still. Can’t have him getting Kellied.

I disagree with the assumption that the Pies agent will be rational 😄

We're up to post # ~4,600... most everything has been said 100 times already in this thread.

Geelong didn't get any benefits of a salary dump, Gold Coast got the benefit of a salary dump. To benefit from a salary dump Gold Coast needed to get a contracted player that they owed a lot of money to agree to move to another club, then they needed to incentivise that club to take the player...

Can you imagine a situation where a player that has sacrificed his salary over 2 years to try to help his club then gets told that the club want to be active in the market and the rest of his salary is a hindrance to them and that he should leave then also gets told when he selects a club, "No...

I think you’re probably right. I think Henry would be a steal at 25 and would’ve been to Geelong’s advantage even at P18. Personally, I’d have no issues with the club trading that F1 for him.. if the AFL would’ve signed off on it.

Win/win for everyone then. Geelong will use P25 at the draft and say the kid they got there was one they would've taken with P18 had they not traded it for Bruhn and one they very seriously considered at P7. In their opinion they feel like they ended up with 4 first round draftees during the...

Or they traded for P25 with a player in mind at the draft already with the expectation that the AFL would sign off on the future 1st being traded given Henry's age profile and how well the club has been run. Problem is with the AFL saying "no" to Port for the same thing they can't well go and...

Freo, way to go.. good get and will look like a bargain price over the fullness of time IMO.