Scodog10
Brownlow Medallist
I'm not so sure. It wouldn't be too hard to spruik to "insiders" that you were chasing a fake name player with less hysteria to prevent being "outbid" by another team with similar interests.
Every club knows roughly what everyone else is doing because everyone talks. Recruiters to recruiters, recruiters to players, players to managers, managers to club officials and all of them talk to the media. Putting a decoy out there won’t fool Wells for instance who would know exactly what we’re planning and has the cards to out flank us.
I’m absolutely not saying it won’t happen, but rather the odds of us moving up are slim and slim again that we do it to nab the player you like. All up it’s my advice to not watch more intently to what will be a boring as bat s**t production in the faintest of hopes that an outcome you favour transpires. Do it for other reasons