List Mgmt. 2018 St Kilda Trade Thread Part 1

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word over here is he stays, but if he leaves i dont think its too us. i dont think anyone of note is keen to come to what is a basket case of a club right now and before people start huffing and puffing about how great we are, see it from a neutrals perspective with no emotion attached to it. we are a joke.
But,but we beat Gold Coast you know
 

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I think it's a fair and equitable trade both appear to want to head home both have contracts to honor & we get a player that will play a minimum of 10 years for us.
Except that Cerra just got drafted, IE one year to run after this, plus, Freo wouldn't just give him up like that so soon. So....
 

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Are you talking about Acres?
Since when does he want to go home?
This.

We've heard a lot about him wanting to stay in Melbourne and absolutely nothing about any desire to head back West.

That's not to say he doesn't; but there's simply been no indication that he does.
 
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I think that every player manager in the country would be counselling their players not to base their long term life decisions on the immediate form of a team. Every year there will be an Adelaide who flunks and a North who exceeds expectation, and if your decision was premised on team fortunes then disappointment would be all too common.

I think that the following priorities would be primary considerations, in this order:
1. Money/other contractual terms/city
2. Personal affinity with players and coach
3. Facilities/location/convenience
4. Team prospects
1. Premierships the rest takes care of itself
 

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If they are leaving for a pay day, we can pay much much more than Melbourne
Almost never comes down to just that. All the bottom teams would have plenty of money but FA’s never go there.

That’s why we desperately need more picks because we are no chance at a FA. Need to at least look like playing finals before we start dreaming about big names.
 

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Almost never comes down to just that. All the bottom teams would have plenty of money but FA’s never go there.

That’s why we desperately need more picks because we are no chance at a FA. Need to at least look like playing finals before we start dreaming about big names.
I'm hoping that if we can (somehow) pull at Rory's heart strings and convince him the only other place he could possibly play is St Kilda, then we might be able to use that to get someone else with a big profile because we can afford them. And then boom, back in finals contention.
Unlikely but not unreasonable.
 
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