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The Advertiser reports an offer of pick 13 and out-of-contract midfielder Jarryd Lyons or forward Harry Dear “is falling short of immediately tempting Carlton” and the Crows will need to up their offer.
“Carlton list manager Stephen Silvagni laughed at both proposals during Monday’s talks,” Michelangelo Rucci wrote. “Adelaide will either have to concede a quality player or future draft picks, such as its second-round call next year.”
Mentioning Harry Dear in the trade is laughable but I would have thought 13 and Jarryd Lyons was a fair trade. He played 20 games and had 433 disposals this year and like Young profited from the end of the subs vest.
What's the difference between that situation and us saying to Hamish "We want to trade you to another club, but you can only deal with clubs that are willing to offer us a top 10 (or whatever) pick?" There's no power imbalance. If a player is under contract, both player and club have to agree on any trade.
Port can't 'break' Hartlett's contract, but Port can request that Hartlett agrees to break his contract and be traded to another team. Hartlett then has the right to accept or refuse that request.
Gibbs can't 'break' his contract, but he can request that Carlton agree to break his contract and trade him to another team. Carlton then have the right to accept or refuse that request.
What's the difference? Where's the imbalance?
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I'm completely the opposite, I dont know why we constrict it to a couple weeks. For mine it should just be open slather from after the grand final until a week before the draft. It seems some people think the trade week is for entertainment. It isn't and shouldn't be. It's for teams to spend time making moves to improve their list, sometimes that can happen instantly, sometimes it might take significant shuffling and other times there may be other possibilities that open up as a result, which is something we miss out on by constricting it to 2 weeks.Trade Week should actually run for one week instead of two.
Only day two and this is dragging on already, with not much happening.
No, once was enoughexplain to me why again teams MUST pay atleast 95% of the cap>>
The difference is Adz2332 isn't arguing that Carlton should be allowed to hold Gibbs to his contract (hint: they already are), he's arguing that they should be able to trade him to another workplace against his will.
Yeah but it's not about entertaining us. The trade period length has been played with a bit over the years as yes it does seem to be important to hurry some clubs along. But on the other hand contacting players who have spread out all over the planet is an issue too.Trade Week should actually run for one week instead of two.
Only day two and this is dragging on already, with not much happening.
I'm completely the opposite, I dont know why we constrict it to a couple weeks. For mine it should just be open slather from after the grand final until a week before the draft. It seems some people think the trade week is for entertainment. It isn't and shouldn't be. It's for teams to spend time making moves to improve their list, sometimes that can happen instantly, sometimes it might take significant shuffling and other times there may be other possibilities that open up as a result, which is something we miss out on by constricting it to 2 weeks.
I'm completely the opposite, I dont know why we constrict it to a couple weeks. For mine it should just be open slather from after the grand final until a week before the draft. It seems some people think the trade week is for entertainment. It isn't and shouldn't be. It's for teams to spend time making moves to improve their list, sometimes that can happen instantly, sometimes it might take significant shuffling and other times there may be other possibilities that open up as a result, which is something we miss out on by constricting it to 2 weeks.
Why stop before trade week? I'd be for a transfer window/deadline not unlike the NBA where a team can play well into the season with the ability to shuffle their list as they see fit to cope for a multitude of reasons. (injuries, form and game plan/style).
Imagine Port this year, come round 4 when Lobbe was yet to fire a shot, could go to the Bulldogs who have just lost their captain for the year and an eternity away from being premiers, offer Lobbe up for this years first rounder?
I think a mid-season style draft in addition to what we currently have would work better than a trade period that runs into the start of the season.
I didn't mean it in terms of the rule. I meant it in terms of our list profile. We need to bring in pick 9 and we need to absolutely nail that pick with a mid that turns out to be a gun. We can't afford to keep stacking the 26-29 bracket of our list, when our lower age portion is so loaded with speculative late draft picks.
That's a big table, but ill do my bestI'd be more interested in the median, and seeing what sort of distribution there is around the pick ranges.
Trust me when I say this but my phone is small and hard to type.Misspelt 'incompetent'. And probably should have researched how to spell 'planning'.
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If you follow this stuff for a few years you see the main problem with that is that players come into negotiations that clubs never anticipated. The players, their families and the players' managers all have to get into the negotiating loop. For a club happy with X he is untradeable until Y and a choice pick is offered. For the player he and his family are very happy at the club but an unexpected offer of a contract with 2 more years or a big dollop of money resets their expectations. It does take more time to do this stuff, it can't be preplanned.Yeah I am of the belief if you can't get a trade done in three days .... the deal was never going to get done.
Yeah I just loved where the glitches came. I had my fun, I zapped the post.Trust me when I say this but my phone is small and hard to type.
Its why I sometimes have fullstops mid sentence
Yeah I just loved where the glitches came. I had my fun, I zapped the post.

If you follow this stuff for a few years you see the main problem with that is that players come into negotiations that clubs never anticipated. The players, their families and the players' managers all have to get into the negotiating loop. For a club happy with X he is untradeable until Y and a choice pick is offered. For the player he and his family are very happy at the club but an unexpected offer of a contract with 2 more years or a big dollop of money resets their expectations. It does take more time to do this stuff, it can't be preplanned.
So Barrett just said that an option for Geelong is to offer Bartell a much reduced salary to not play at all next year. He used the example that if say he is on $400k a year then Geelong could offer him $180 or less under the proviso he not play to free up salary space. Is this an acceptable thing? Does it occur already? Would it open up a can of worms? Could we do that with Lobbe if we don't get a trade for him?

The only thing I can say to that that isn't just opinion is that they do seem to look at the process every now and then and make adjustments. And we do get an annual commentary afterwards on how efficiently it all went.They would be planning all year though. Granted that the unexpected comes up but I don't see the difference in a week 2 weeks or a month is going to make .....
