Rumour 2022 Rumour Discussion Thread

[Scorpus]

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If you post a new rumor here, let me know and I'll copy it over

 

[fortunatecrow]

What if the world ends with the zombie apocalypse

Well, the decision to trade for a future first would look very wise indeed.

 

[Betts are off]

if they don't exist then why are you so offended Mr vaguely slavery related name man?

Would have to be up there with the all time best 7th posts going round!

Well played Rook

 

[Trigger13]

Lol, next year's draft is always the super draft. Until it happens that is.

Not sure who said it was a super draft. Just that it’s rated (by those who know) better than this year’s. Amazing to think some drafts can be better than others .

 

[crow2crow]

if they don't exist then why are you so offended Mr vaguely slavery related name man?

talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity

 

[1970crow]

I don't think it's selfish to want to earn, especially given you have a short shelf life in professional sport. It's not Sloane's job to manage the salary cap so the negative ramifications of paying him too much is not his problem.

Totally agree, players are entitled to get as much as they can. Sloane no exception.

 

[CrowsB4hoes]

I’m sure Riewoldt and Cotchin are being looked after in other ways …

 

[1970crow]

I think the issue with giving big contracts to aging players isn't to do with loyalty or players holding us to ransom or whatever, but just a fundamental mismanagement of how we do/did manage our salary cap long term. Rather than paying players big in their prime years and trailing them off in their later ones we go on an escalating scale and you get your bag when you're 27/28 which then takes you into retirement (or near it). A gold watch farewell present if you will. It worked with Tex in that he made it and now we can continue on with 1 year deals, we've seen it bite us with guys like Sloane, Talia, Jenkins and Betts.

My hope would be with things like us offering big deals to guys like Dawson and Rankine who are in the 22-24 age bracket we're moving away from that, but it's probably been a big reason why we've had trouble attracting young talent previously (and why we lost so much) because we've always operated on the "you gotta play 150-200 games to get your big deal" principal whereas so many teams will pay way more for having done way less.

It didn’t really work with Tex. His 3rd and 2nd last years of his contract were poor given his talent. It’s only the contract years where he’s returned to high quality output. With him we tend to use injury to explain his lack of output, which is quite likely. But fact remains that his 2019 and 2020 were similar to Sloane’s last 2-3 years. Talia was ok through his contract, just bad luck/management with injury the final year.

The rest I agree with and it’s almost certainly one of the main reasons we’re keeping our kids these days.

 

[1970crow]

And we end up paying more for less anyway because we have cooked or underperforming senior players getting underserved retirement funds while our young kids leave and no one joins

Hopefully this is behind us.

 

[Apsaalooke]

talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity

Only if you answer back

 

[Southerntakeover]

if they don't exist then why are you so offended Mr vaguely slavery related name man?

I should have known Chamillionaire and Killer Mike were white supremacists, that's on me.

No one's offended, if you've self assessed and decided you can only win fights with imaginary opponents in the numpty weight class go for it.

 

[Volbeat]

Theyre at it again...

Whats the bet it's announcing that Buckenara, Wallis and Rendell have their own timeslot now?

 

[Runnin Blue]

Theyre at it again...

Whats the bet it's announcing that Buckenara, Wallis and Rendell have their own timeslot now?

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Already?

 

[Volbeat]

Already?

Im not sure Im able to cope with the extended version of Trade Radio

 

[dylan123]

Im not sure Im able to cope with any version of Trade Radio

EFA

 

[spenze]

Theyre at it again...

Whats the bet it's announcing that Buckenara, Wallis and Rendell have their own timeslot now?

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Probably announcing the Queens passing

 

[ams4crows]

AFL need to step in, this pillaging of GWS by big Vic clubs or the most successful is getting out of hand.

The GWS star players are Going to Richmond Collingwood Geelong, none of them are going to bottom Vic sides.

But the one time a good SA kid wants to leave an Expansion club to join Adelaide it's every one is up in arms and demanding top 5 picks exchange hands.

It's almost better to be drafted by a GWS or Gold Coast if you're a good Vic kid as in two years time you can pick whichever team is in the premiership window and join them or alternatively move home on mega cash.

 

[Volbeat]

Probably announcing the Queens passing

The Royals will miss her gut running and disposal. "Here's Matt Rendell on what a trade for the Queen could look like"

 

[baldandbroke]

Theyre at it again...

Whats the bet it's announcing that Buckenara, Wallis and Rendell have their own timeslot now?

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Luke Jackson?

 

[Scorpus]

AFL need to step in, this pillaging of GWS by big Vic clubs or the most successful is getting out of hand.

The GWS star players are Going to Richmond Collingwood Geelong, none of them are going to bottom Vic sides.

But the one time a good SA kid wants to leave an Expansion club to join Adelaide it's every one is up in arms and demanding top 5 picks exchange hands.

It's almost better to be drafted by a GWS or Gold Coast if you're a good Vic kid as in two years time you can pick whichever team is in the premiership window and join them or alternatively move home on mega cash.

The AFL made their bed with GWS when they gave them 9 first round picks in 2011 plus priority access to 12 underagers, plus enough other capital to get another 2 first rounders in 2011, 5 first round picks in 2012, and 3 in 2013 while only losing Dom Tyson

So before they'd really lost anyone, they ended up with 18 first rounders on their list, plus Tom Scully, Phil Davis and Callan Ward, AND underage access to Jeremy Cameron, Dylan Shiel, and Adam Treloar.

They were never going to be able to keep that many top end players on their list. The flow on effect is still occurring today where they lose players due to salary cap constraints and replace them with more first round picks who leave and the cycle continues

 

[MarcusP2]

Luke Jackson?

If that news was out there journos would be breaking on their own shows, not waiting for trade radio.

 

[Scorpus]

For example, the AFL gifts GWS Shiel, Cameron and Treloar as draft concessions. They all leave.

The picks they got for Treloar became Hopper (leaving) and Taranto (leaving) after other pick swaps

Shiel became Caldwell (left) and Ash (still there)

Cameron became Stone, Angwin and Callaghan

So the draft concessions are currently on their second generation of first rounders coming in as players leave. From those three players and strategic repositioning using other picks they've ended up with seven first round picks directly in trade compensation, which causes more list issues and so on

 

[Crow till I die]

you watch GWS end up losing this kid for nothing (like Hately). All their time and energy will be going into Taranto and Hopper trades. But thats ok, because if it happened it would be a Vic club benefiting

 

[D Style]

you watch GWS end up losing this kid for nothing (like Hately). All their time and energy will be going into Taranto and Hopper trades. But thats ok, because if it happened it would be a Vic club benefiting

Isn't it ridiculous. The stronger get stronger. Good young VIC players just cut their teeth, then pick the successful club they want.

 

[Chase13]

Isn't it ridiculous. The stronger get stronger. Good young VIC players just cut their teeth, then pick the successful club they want.

Media go well played by geelong

crows need pay up

media vfl bias no

hope we get rankine cheap stick it up vfl media

 

[refused_]

you watch GWS end up losing this kid for nothing (like Hately). All their time and energy will be going into Taranto and Hopper trades. But thats ok, because if it happened it would be a Vic club benefiting

At the rate it is going it will soon be the Geelong Western Scats. Then just merge Gold Coast and Norf and move them to tassie...