List Mgmt. 2018 Trade/Draft/FA SuperMegaUltra Thread - The Early Edition

[avishka5]

We can get Brad Dick back too.

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And Adam Cockie.

 

[pantskyle]

No f'ing way has North Melbourne offered 1.2 million for Gaff. That's a ridiculous claim. He's an 800k player, nuff said.

It's around the 1.2m mark.

 

[JohnW]

He may decide to stay though if we said we would match $1.2m a year. Which wouldn't line up with the maximum we are prepare to pay him and so wouldn't be a good idea.

I don't think we would match unless we were happy for him to accept the matched offer.

To me there is no chance of that, if he says he wants out, he will be gone. The matching process will not be done in an attempt to make him stay but to get better value.

 

[CM9000]

Miguel Sanchez what I get from that is the opposite of what hungrytiger says is always true.

McGovern is going to Fremantle - he resigns.

Cripps is coming to West Coast - he resigns.

Kennedy is coming back against the Crows - he's actually out for 2 weeks.

Ryan is coming straight back into the side - he spends a number of weeks in the WAFL.

Ballantyne has signed with the Baldivis Brumbies - he resigns.

Nic only has a torn meniscus - it's an ACL.

Based on that, and HT's post that he will put pen to paper soon, I think that confirms Gaff is 100% gone.

 

[Monocle]

Not good news about Gaff's father Paul.

Thats the sort of thing that may well tip the final decision to leave the West and head home.

Andrew is going to have a lot more on his mind now ,his decision just got way more complicated.

None would / should begrudge him going home with his Father not well.

We are not going to get adequately compensated for his departure........ the system sucks balls big time.

 

[campaigner___]

It's around the 1.2m mark.

That's nuts.

 

[Brave Sir Robin]

Not good news about Gaff's father Paul.

Thats the sort of thing that may well tip the final decision to leave the West and head home.

Andrew is going to have a lot more on his mind now ,his decision just got way more complicated.

None would / should begrudge him going home with his Father not well.

We are not going to get adequately compensated for his departure........ the system sucks balls big time.

Depends where he was leaning to before this happened. If he was 50/50 or already leaning towards leaving the decision just got a lot easier.

 

[pantskyle]

That's nuts.

They have a lot of money to spend.

 

[Rowan18]

I feel for Gaff at the moment, made a huge mistake and now smashed by his Dad almost dying. I suspect his contract will be on the backburner until closer to trade week and I can't blame him for that.

 

[greatwhiteshark]

That doesn't worry you?

Well, sure. But if we lose Gaff, it'll be because North have made an outrageous offer over and above what we are willing to pay and he can't bring himself to leave 2 million out there between now and the end of his career. An extra 100k per season to Lycett isn't going to be the dealbreaker.

it doesn't worry me as we have had the best ruckman in the league for many years and still got belted in the midfield. Midfielders are a far more important priority than ruckmen.

I agree on Gaff but I would not want to lose him because we paid Lycett the extra 100k we could of given Gaff.
It will all come out in the wash.

 

[Monocle]

Depends where he was leaning to before this happened. If he was 50/50 or already leaning towards leaving the decision just got a lot easier.

True, it was badly worded by me........ but yes thats the gist of what I was getting at.

 

[ziad]

To me there is no chance of that, if he says he wants out, he will be gone. The matching process will not be done in an attempt to make him stay but to get better value.

spot on

 

[Shmiddy15]

It could potentially work the other way for the Gaffer too if he feels all the love and support from us. I think a similar thing probably happened with shuey when he lost his sister, and it just reinforced to him that we were the club he wanted to spend his time with.

Having said that, wouldn’t begrudge gaffy if he decides to leave. Very understandable given the circumstances, and we all know he always gave everything he had when he was wearing an eagles jumper.

 

[Candiru]

it doesn't worry me as we have had the best ruckman in the league for many years and still got belted in the midfield.

So we'll be better off with a worse ruckman?

I agree on Gaff but I would not want to lose him because we paid Lycett the extra 100k we could of given Gaff.

But that extra 100k isn't going to be the deciding factor either way.

 

[ziad]

It could potentially work the other way for the Gaffer too if he feels all the love and support from us. I think a similar thing probably happened with shuey when he lost his sister, and it just reinforced to him that we were the club he wanted to spend his time with.

Having said that, wouldn’t begrudge gaffy if he decides to leave. Very understandable given the circumstances, and we all know he always gave everything he had when he was wearing an eagles jumper.

Gaff has enough reason to leave - we should help him and work together unless he wants to stay. But it is a personal decision outside of football.

 

[G0ther00s]

If Gaff goes will we go hard for Tim Kelly ?

Tim Kelly is a gun. It's an early call but I think he can develop into a more impactful midfielder than Gaff. Absolute jet.

 

[Candiru]

Gaff has enough reason to leave - we should help him and work together unless he wants to stay. But it is a personal decision outside of football.

Work together how? By just letting him walk and accepting shitty compensation?

 

[CM9000]

Anyone keen on Jarrod Pickett? Out of contract this year (only signed for 2018 with Carlton).

On the surface, he looks like a complete bust of a high draft pick (4 in 2014), but he been struck down by injury in his early years, and now plays for the bottom side in their forward line - he could flourish in a team that is actually going somewhere. Would cost practically nothing as well.

 

[greatwhiteshark]

So we'll be better off with a worse ruckman?

But that extra 100k isn't going to be the deciding factor either way.

I don't think it will have any impact on where the club is going with him or without him.

 

[Candiru]

I don't think it will have any impact on where the club is going with him or without him.

We'll be worse off onfield next year without him.

 

[ziad]

Work together how? By just letting him walk and accepting shitty compensation?

If that is what you think working together is - I am to arrogant to bother

 

[Candiru]

If that is what you think working together is - I am to arrogant to bother

Well I don't know what else we're meant to do? If he says he wants to leave as a free agent, how will we be "working together" beyond rolling over and accepting the shitty compensation on offer? Are we helping him pack his bags and organising his goodbye party at Sizzler? I don't want to "work together". I want him to stay or I want to get something sweet in return if he takes the ridiculous cash being offered by the desperate Kangaroos. I don't want to "still be friends" if he runs off with those tip rats.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

They have a lot of money to spend.

We've front loaded everything after the Kelly/Martin stuff, we kind of need to spend the money sooner rather than later, otherwise Majak is going to be a millionaire in two years time at the rate we are front-loading contracts.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Well I don't know what else we're meant to do? If he says he wants to leave as a free agent, how will we be "working together" beyond rolling over and accepting the shitty compensation on offer? Are we helping him pack his bags and organising his goodbye party at Sizzler? I don't want to "work together". I want him to stay or I want to get something sweet in return if he takes the ridiculous cash being offered by the desperate Kangaroos. I don't want to "still be friends" if he runs off with those tip rats.

Do a deal with his club of choice the way Adelaide did with Geelong over Dangerfield, I assume.

Isn't Sizzler out of business now?

 

[Falco]

Anyone keen on Jarrod Pickett? Out of contract this year (only signed for 2018 with Carlton).

On the surface, he looks like a complete bust of a high draft pick (4 in 2014), but he been struck down by injury in his early years, and now plays for the bottom side in their forward line - he could flourish in a team that is actually going somewhere. Would cost practically nothing as well.

Id take a look, he could be a handy player rotating from the forward line through the midfield. Can play, just needs confidence in his body and the right culture.