How is Adelaide more distant than Port?
Or Freo? Or West Coast? Or Gold Coast? Or GWS? Or Brisbane?
If you don't see the difference between a wanted player walking out on the club, and a club actively trading out a player who they see as not integral to their structure I don't know what to tell you.
These type of situations are not unique to us. There is no mechanism that specifically targets Adelaide therefore all clubs are equally vulnerable.
Yet we have been stung repeatedly.
I'm amazed that some people are so accepting of this and so keen to shift blame onto "the system" even though all clubs are operating under it.
if the rumors are true then Hendo doesn't want to leave the club. He needs to get back to his family.
Listing GC and GWS ruins your argument because they are shiny and new and throwing cash around. Can't even take the discussion seriously if you put them up as "why don't people leave these clubs".
The Bock and Davis situation, everyone cries out "oh why us, people hate the club and want to leave". Bullshit. Has anyone stopped to think that maybe we got hit because we produce good defenders? We made ourselves a target to raid by producing good players. And then they got big cash bonuses. Anyway, Bock probably didn't mind getting out because after the handbag incident some people found him on the nose and he wanted a fresh start.
I can see the difference between the two, but you can't call to screw loyal players around then get all haemorroidy about players requesting a trade.
Anyway other clubs have players go all the time. Pearce got sick of Port and took his FA chance and they chose not to retain him. Goddard left the Saints for better opportunity at a premiership(..... well that worked out for him....) Wellingham pissed off from the Pies back to WA. People leave clubs all the time and it is highly precious of us to say "we've been stung".
If Hendo is upfront about his reasons and allows the club to make a proper trade, why should it matter? It's only when the club gets screwed over that its a concern. What if we can improve the team? Hendo's form of late has to have improved his trade currency remarkable. I can't see why we couldn't do a deal that works in our favour.
You keep saying "repeadtedly". But in reality Gunston and Tippett are the ones that "wanted out" as it were. Maric wanted opportunity and had nothing to do with hating the club. Bock and Davis got large cash bonuses. So I fail to see the players that hate the club that want out except the two aschlocks who put themselves before the club.
And don't come back and say Hudson... surely that was so far in the past that it hardly relates to the club as it is today.