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AFL 2022: Latest trade, free agency and contract updates​

It promises to be one of the craziest trade periods as the Gold Coast pushes to offload players and picks in a dramatic bid to realign their salary cap space. How it could unfold?

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September 26, 2022 - 6:10PM
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Gold Coast list boss Craig Cameron knows his club is about to contravene list management’s only truism — the more first-round picks you amass the stronger your position.
Stuart Dew’s Suns will in coming weeks donate their No. 7 overall pick to a club who takes on Jack Bowes’ contract.
Gold Coast gave up pick 10 for him only six years ago.
Using two top-10 selections to hand on an exciting player doesn’t just alter conventional list management strategy, it turns it on its head.
But as Cameron told the News Corp on Monday of the club’s new-age approach: “Salary cap space is a weapon for clubs”.
As revealed by the News Corp, Gold Coast will this off-season off-load $2 million of salary cap space and overpriced contracts in a dramatic bid to realign their salary cap space.
It will mean they give up top-10 picks they would normally give their back teeth for and hand over players who might become first-choice players in rival sides.
But having been forced to overpay almost every player on their list given the go-home factor amid threats they would join the list of departures, there comes a time to bite the bullet.
Bowes will head to a Victorian club who absorbs his $1 million-plus salary over the next two years, Brayden Fiorini looks set to join Collingwood, and Jeremy Sharp will eventually find his way to the Dockers.

The Suns will give away their No. 7 overall pick to a club who takes on [PLAYERCARD]Jack Bowes[/PLAYERCARD]’ contract.

The Suns will give away their No. 7 overall pick to a club who takes on Jack Bowes’ contract.
What goes unsaid at Gold Coast is that none of these players are in the Suns’ best 22 that is now about building a premiership team rather than gathering random talent.
“We have collected talent,” says Cameron.
“When you collect it you have to retain it and we have had some favourable contracts for guys when a lot of players left back in 2018.
“And we need to tidy that up a bit but we also have the pillars with the young guys and (Jarrod) Witts and (David) Swallow and (Touk) Miller in career-best form. We have the pillars to build on to take the next step.
“To do that we need cap space. We look at what Richmond can do in bringing in two A-grade mids and what Geelong has done. It’s not until you are convinced you have the pillars that you can do what those teams have done.
“They can do it in different ways to us but we still want to try to achieve the same outcome which is to bring in players when we are ready. So we need to engineer enough room in our player payments that we can be active in the market to top off the list.”
Gold Coast will lose Izak Rankine to Adelaide as one of nine first-round picks taken in the past four years including Ben King, Jack Lukosius, Matt Rowell, Noah Anderson, Sam Flanders, Elijah Hollands, Mac Andrew.
[PLAYERCARD]Izak Rankine[/PLAYERCARD] will head to Adelaide as the Suns attempt to get their salary cap back in order.

Izak Rankine will head to Adelaide as the Suns attempt to get their salary cap back in order.
Academy players Mal Rosas Jnr, Alex Davies and Joel Jeffrey add to the exceptional list of talent, but Cameron said the cost of first-round picks is also a drain on an emerging list.
“The easiest way to explain it is if you are anywhere in the top six to eight players you are going to demand nearly $400,000 in your third year, coming off a collective bargaining agreement getting paid $100,000 to $110,000,” he says.
“If you have nine of those in four years, that’s almost $2.7 million in your cap very quickly, before a lot of them have reached that level of performance.”
The club is crestfallen to lose Rankine to Adelaide but knows his family motivations for returning home were out of their control.
“This footy club did everything right for Izak. There is a scenario around his family that we can’t solve,” he said.
St Kilda, Geelong and Essendon are among the clubs interested in Bowes, with Cameron adamant the list space multiple salary dumps will provide will pay off in the long run.
“There are a few clubs in the market that are interested in the package we put to them. For us the outcome is space for us to be active,” he said of the Bowes transaction.
“And we know Jack wants to play midfield and we have spoken to him about that and said we think it’s going to be difficult in our team.
“If the (loss of top-10 picks is) only way you are going to measure the transaction you are going to look at it and scratch your head but it’s part of an overall strategy.
“Each transaction we do leads to an outcome we want which is cap space and the ability to go to the market. That is our strategy. People will have their own view on what we are doing, but the bottom line is we don’t shy away from this. This is a definite strategy we have and if we are doing something different, so be it.”
The crazy early contracts for Ben King and Jack Lukosius are proof the Suns have had to pay more for Victorian stars.
[PLAYERCARD]Brayden Fiorini[/PLAYERCARD] looks set to join Collingwood.

Brayden Fiorini looks set to join Collingwood.
Cameron admits the Suns have often been “a little bit on the back foot” in contract talks but believes the conversation is now evolving.
“We are now feeling there is a shift towards players wanting to come to us not just to pick up money at the end of their career, but because they believe the club is heading in the right direction.”
Cameron says the AFL is on board with their strategy, having made clear to clubs last week they will allow salary dumps of a more extreme nature.
“They understand that salary cap space is a weapon for clubs. It’s not something we will drop on their tables, we will work through it with them.”
Queensland 194cm power forward Jed Walter will be one of the early picks in next year’s draft as a Gold Coast academy player and the Suns will stockpile 2023 picks in a superior national draft.
The Suns will only truly know if they have enough talent when their star midfield marries with a 2023 forward line that will include Ben King, Joel Jeffrey, Mabior Chol and Levi Greenwood.
But they know they cannot continue the doom loop of overpaying for kids without at some stage taking the brave step of setting the team up for a legitimate crack at a premiership.
“It’s always a debate as to whether you have broken through to that point where your list is ready and until you are there you don’t really know but it feels like we have some pillars in place to allow us to compete,” Cameron says.
“We are unique in what we are doing. We have had a lot of picks and we have still got them but now we need to engineer that cap room and we have to be aggressive in that space.”

Pies, Dons, Saints queue up for Suns fire sale​

Gold Coast could shed as much as $2 million in salary cap room in the next 15 days in an aggressive bid to overhaul its total player payments.
The Suns will be the first club in modern history to make dramatic use of the salary dump mechanism which allows clubs to move on highly paid players for little or no draft return.
It will give Victorian clubs the chance to add quality Suns players and draft picks to their lists with very little downside or risk.
Running defender Jack Bowes has interest from multiple clubs who would secure the Suns pick seven to accept the last two-years of back-ended highly paid deal.
[PLAYERCARD]Jack Bowes[/PLAYERCARD] has attracted interest from several clubs. Picture: Paul Kane/Getty Images

Jack Bowes has attracted interest from several clubs. Picture: Paul Kane/Getty Images
The Herald Sun understands that deal is worth over $500,000 in each of the next two seasons, with Essendon, Hawthorn, St Kilda and Geelong among the interested parties.
Essendon has vast cap space, St Kilda wants to get back into the draft, and Hawthorn has already thrived by securing Jack Scrimshaw as a fellow Suns top 10 pick from the same draft.
The Suns would have paid Izak Rankine around $650,000 a season over a long-term deal but will not replace him as a small forward given their confidence in Malcolm Rosas and Ben Ainsworth.
Brayden Fiorini will also be involved in a salary dump, most likely to Collingwood, which could see the Pies absorb his $600,000 salary next year and improve their draft hand.
Alex Sexton is also due over $500,000 on the last year of a back ended deal but if there is little interest from rivals the club and his management might consider restructuring his deal.
The Suns are investigating restructuring some existing contracts after smoothing out Darcy Macpherson’s contract last year over an additional year.
Jeremy Sharp is not well paid but could head to Fremantle, while versatile tall Josh Corbett is also linked to the Dockers.
[PLAYERCARD]Brayden Fiorini[/PLAYERCARD] appears Collingwood-bound. Picture: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images

Brayden Fiorini appears Collingwood-bound. Picture: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images
If the Suns can move on those players or restructure their contracts it will realign their salary cap and give them opportunities to be aggressive in free agency or the trade period in coming years.
After nine first-round picks in the past four years the Suns have judged that having cap space is more critical to their fortunes in coming years than stockpiling more early picks.
The Suns will secure Ben Long on a four-year deal and has some interest in Western Bulldogs defender Jason Johannisen but is not prepared to offer him the three-year deal he has requested.
He has been offered a two-year deal at the Dogs so could stay there if another suitor doesn’t emerge.
 

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AFL 2022: Latest trade, free agency and contract updates​

It promises to be one of the craziest trade periods as the Gold Coast pushes to offload players and picks in a dramatic bid to realign their salary cap space. How it could unfold?

Jon Ralph Jon Ralph
Follow
@RalphyHeraldSun

8 min read
September 26, 2022 - 6:10PM
News Corp Australia Sports Newsroom
31 comments




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Gold Coast list boss Craig Cameron knows his club is about to contravene list management’s only truism — the more first-round picks you amass the stronger your position.
Stuart Dew’s Suns will in coming weeks donate their No. 7 overall pick to a club who takes on Jack Bowes’ contract.
Gold Coast gave up pick 10 for him only six years ago.
Using two top-10 selections to hand on an exciting player doesn’t just alter conventional list management strategy, it turns it on its head.
But as Cameron told the News Corp on Monday of the club’s new-age approach: “Salary cap space is a weapon for clubs”.
As revealed by the News Corp, Gold Coast will this off-season off-load $2 million of salary cap space and overpriced contracts in a dramatic bid to realign their salary cap space.
It will mean they give up top-10 picks they would normally give their back teeth for and hand over players who might become first-choice players in rival sides.
But having been forced to overpay almost every player on their list given the go-home factor amid threats they would join the list of departures, there comes a time to bite the bullet.
Bowes will head to a Victorian club who absorbs his $1 million-plus salary over the next two years, Brayden Fiorini looks set to join Collingwood, and Jeremy Sharp will eventually find his way to the Dockers.

The Suns will give away their No. 7 overall pick to a club who takes on Jack Bowes’ contract.

The Suns will give away their No. 7 overall pick to a club who takes on Jack Bowes’ contract.
What goes unsaid at Gold Coast is that none of these players are in the Suns’ best 22 that is now about building a premiership team rather than gathering random talent.
“We have collected talent,” says Cameron.
“When you collect it you have to retain it and we have had some favourable contracts for guys when a lot of players left back in 2018.
“And we need to tidy that up a bit but we also have the pillars with the young guys and (Jarrod) Witts and (David) Swallow and (Touk) Miller in career-best form. We have the pillars to build on to take the next step.
“To do that we need cap space. We look at what Richmond can do in bringing in two A-grade mids and what Geelong has done. It’s not until you are convinced you have the pillars that you can do what those teams have done.
“They can do it in different ways to us but we still want to try to achieve the same outcome which is to bring in players when we are ready. So we need to engineer enough room in our player payments that we can be active in the market to top off the list.”
Gold Coast will lose Izak Rankine to Adelaide as one of nine first-round picks taken in the past four years including Ben King, Jack Lukosius, Matt Rowell, Noah Anderson, Sam Flanders, Elijah Hollands, Mac Andrew.
Izak Rankine will head to Adelaide as the Suns attempt to get their salary cap back in order.

Izak Rankine will head to Adelaide as the Suns attempt to get their salary cap back in order.
Academy players Mal Rosas Jnr, Alex Davies and Joel Jeffrey add to the exceptional list of talent, but Cameron said the cost of first-round picks is also a drain on an emerging list.
“The easiest way to explain it is if you are anywhere in the top six to eight players you are going to demand nearly $400,000 in your third year, coming off a collective bargaining agreement getting paid $100,000 to $110,000,” he says.
“If you have nine of those in four years, that’s almost $2.7 million in your cap very quickly, before a lot of them have reached that level of performance.”
The club is crestfallen to lose Rankine to Adelaide but knows his family motivations for returning home were out of their control.
“This footy club did everything right for Izak. There is a scenario around his family that we can’t solve,” he said.
St Kilda, Geelong and Essendon are among the clubs interested in Bowes, with Cameron adamant the list space multiple salary dumps will provide will pay off in the long run.
“There are a few clubs in the market that are interested in the package we put to them. For us the outcome is space for us to be active,” he said of the Bowes transaction.
“And we know Jack wants to play midfield and we have spoken to him about that and said we think it’s going to be difficult in our team.
“If the (loss of top-10 picks is) only way you are going to measure the transaction you are going to look at it and scratch your head but it’s part of an overall strategy.
“Each transaction we do leads to an outcome we want which is cap space and the ability to go to the market. That is our strategy. People will have their own view on what we are doing, but the bottom line is we don’t shy away from this. This is a definite strategy we have and if we are doing something different, so be it.”
The crazy early contracts for Ben King and Jack Lukosius are proof the Suns have had to pay more for Victorian stars.
Brayden Fiorini looks set to join Collingwood.

Brayden Fiorini looks set to join Collingwood.
Cameron admits the Suns have often been “a little bit on the back foot” in contract talks but believes the conversation is now evolving.
“We are now feeling there is a shift towards players wanting to come to us not just to pick up money at the end of their career, but because they believe the club is heading in the right direction.”
Cameron says the AFL is on board with their strategy, having made clear to clubs last week they will allow salary dumps of a more extreme nature.
“They understand that salary cap space is a weapon for clubs. It’s not something we will drop on their tables, we will work through it with them.”
Queensland 194cm power forward Jed Walter will be one of the early picks in next year’s draft as a Gold Coast academy player and the Suns will stockpile 2023 picks in a superior national draft.
The Suns will only truly know if they have enough talent when their star midfield marries with a 2023 forward line that will include Ben King, Joel Jeffrey, Mabior Chol and Levi Greenwood.
But they know they cannot continue the doom loop of overpaying for kids without at some stage taking the brave step of setting the team up for a legitimate crack at a premiership.
“It’s always a debate as to whether you have broken through to that point where your list is ready and until you are there you don’t really know but it feels like we have some pillars in place to allow us to compete,” Cameron says.
“We are unique in what we are doing. We have had a lot of picks and we have still got them but now we need to engineer that cap room and we have to be aggressive in that space.”

Pies, Dons, Saints queue up for Suns fire sale​

Gold Coast could shed as much as $2 million in salary cap room in the next 15 days in an aggressive bid to overhaul its total player payments.
The Suns will be the first club in modern history to make dramatic use of the salary dump mechanism which allows clubs to move on highly paid players for little or no draft return.
It will give Victorian clubs the chance to add quality Suns players and draft picks to their lists with very little downside or risk.
Running defender Jack Bowes has interest from multiple clubs who would secure the Suns pick seven to accept the last two-years of back-ended highly paid deal.
Jack Bowes has attracted interest from several clubs. Picture: Paul Kane/Getty Images

Jack Bowes has attracted interest from several clubs. Picture: Paul Kane/Getty Images
The Herald Sun understands that deal is worth over $500,000 in each of the next two seasons, with Essendon, Hawthorn, St Kilda and Geelong among the interested parties.
Essendon has vast cap space, St Kilda wants to get back into the draft, and Hawthorn has already thrived by securing Jack Scrimshaw as a fellow Suns top 10 pick from the same draft.
The Suns would have paid Izak Rankine around $650,000 a season over a long-term deal but will not replace him as a small forward given their confidence in Malcolm Rosas and Ben Ainsworth.
Brayden Fiorini will also be involved in a salary dump, most likely to Collingwood, which could see the Pies absorb his $600,000 salary next year and improve their draft hand.
Alex Sexton is also due over $500,000 on the last year of a back ended deal but if there is little interest from rivals the club and his management might consider restructuring his deal.
The Suns are investigating restructuring some existing contracts after smoothing out Darcy Macpherson’s contract last year over an additional year.
Jeremy Sharp is not well paid but could head to Fremantle, while versatile tall Josh Corbett is also linked to the Dockers.
Brayden Fiorini appears Collingwood-bound. Picture: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images

Brayden Fiorini appears Collingwood-bound. Picture: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images
If the Suns can move on those players or restructure their contracts it will realign their salary cap and give them opportunities to be aggressive in free agency or the trade period in coming years.
After nine first-round picks in the past four years the Suns have judged that having cap space is more critical to their fortunes in coming years than stockpiling more early picks.
The Suns will secure Ben Long on a four-year deal and has some interest in Western Bulldogs defender Jason Johannisen but is not prepared to offer him the three-year deal he has requested.
He has been offered a two-year deal at the Dogs so could stay there if another suitor doesn’t emerge.
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Called Levi Casboult Levi Greenwood. Pretty sure Greenwood retired a few years ago...or mixed up Hugh with both.
 
Mowman said:

AFL 2022: Latest trade, free agency and contract updates​

It promises to be one of the craziest trade periods as the Gold Coast pushes to offload players and picks in a dramatic bid to realign their salary cap space. How it could unfold?

Jon Ralph Jon Ralph
Follow
@RalphyHeraldSun

8 min read
September 26, 2022 - 6:10PM
News Corp Australia Sports Newsroom
31 comments




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AFL: Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin was asked whether the club will be chasing Brodie Grundy in the offseason.


AFL News​

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Gold Coast list boss Craig Cameron knows his club is about to contravene list management’s only truism — the more first-round picks you amass the stronger your position.
Stuart Dew’s Suns will in coming weeks donate their No. 7 overall pick to a club who takes on Jack Bowes’ contract.
Gold Coast gave up pick 10 for him only six years ago.
Using two top-10 selections to hand on an exciting player doesn’t just alter conventional list management strategy, it turns it on its head.
But as Cameron told the News Corp on Monday of the club’s new-age approach: “Salary cap space is a weapon for clubs”.
As revealed by the News Corp, Gold Coast will this off-season off-load $2 million of salary cap space and overpriced contracts in a dramatic bid to realign their salary cap space.
It will mean they give up top-10 picks they would normally give their back teeth for and hand over players who might become first-choice players in rival sides.
But having been forced to overpay almost every player on their list given the go-home factor amid threats they would join the list of departures, there comes a time to bite the bullet.
Bowes will head to a Victorian club who absorbs his $1 million-plus salary over the next two years, Brayden Fiorini looks set to join Collingwood, and Jeremy Sharp will eventually find his way to the Dockers.

The Suns will give away their No. 7 overall pick to a club who takes on Jack Bowes’ contract.

The Suns will give away their No. 7 overall pick to a club who takes on Jack Bowes’ contract.
What goes unsaid at Gold Coast is that none of these players are in the Suns’ best 22 that is now about building a premiership team rather than gathering random talent.
“We have collected talent,” says Cameron.
“When you collect it you have to retain it and we have had some favourable contracts for guys when a lot of players left back in 2018.
“And we need to tidy that up a bit but we also have the pillars with the young guys and (Jarrod) Witts and (David) Swallow and (Touk) Miller in career-best form. We have the pillars to build on to take the next step.
“To do that we need cap space. We look at what Richmond can do in bringing in two A-grade mids and what Geelong has done. It’s not until you are convinced you have the pillars that you can do what those teams have done.
“They can do it in different ways to us but we still want to try to achieve the same outcome which is to bring in players when we are ready. So we need to engineer enough room in our player payments that we can be active in the market to top off the list.”
Gold Coast will lose Izak Rankine to Adelaide as one of nine first-round picks taken in the past four years including Ben King, Jack Lukosius, Matt Rowell, Noah Anderson, Sam Flanders, Elijah Hollands, Mac Andrew.
Izak Rankine will head to Adelaide as the Suns attempt to get their salary cap back in order.

Izak Rankine will head to Adelaide as the Suns attempt to get their salary cap back in order.
Academy players Mal Rosas Jnr, Alex Davies and Joel Jeffrey add to the exceptional list of talent, but Cameron said the cost of first-round picks is also a drain on an emerging list.
“The easiest way to explain it is if you are anywhere in the top six to eight players you are going to demand nearly $400,000 in your third year, coming off a collective bargaining agreement getting paid $100,000 to $110,000,” he says.
“If you have nine of those in four years, that’s almost $2.7 million in your cap very quickly, before a lot of them have reached that level of performance.”
The club is crestfallen to lose Rankine to Adelaide but knows his family motivations for returning home were out of their control.
“This footy club did everything right for Izak. There is a scenario around his family that we can’t solve,” he said.
St Kilda, Geelong and Essendon are among the clubs interested in Bowes, with Cameron adamant the list space multiple salary dumps will provide will pay off in the long run.
“There are a few clubs in the market that are interested in the package we put to them. For us the outcome is space for us to be active,” he said of the Bowes transaction.
“And we know Jack wants to play midfield and we have spoken to him about that and said we think it’s going to be difficult in our team.
“If the (loss of top-10 picks is) only way you are going to measure the transaction you are going to look at it and scratch your head but it’s part of an overall strategy.
“Each transaction we do leads to an outcome we want which is cap space and the ability to go to the market. That is our strategy. People will have their own view on what we are doing, but the bottom line is we don’t shy away from this. This is a definite strategy we have and if we are doing something different, so be it.”
The crazy early contracts for Ben King and Jack Lukosius are proof the Suns have had to pay more for Victorian stars.
Brayden Fiorini looks set to join Collingwood.

Brayden Fiorini looks set to join Collingwood.
Cameron admits the Suns have often been “a little bit on the back foot” in contract talks but believes the conversation is now evolving.
“We are now feeling there is a shift towards players wanting to come to us not just to pick up money at the end of their career, but because they believe the club is heading in the right direction.”
Cameron says the AFL is on board with their strategy, having made clear to clubs last week they will allow salary dumps of a more extreme nature.
“They understand that salary cap space is a weapon for clubs. It’s not something we will drop on their tables, we will work through it with them.”
Queensland 194cm power forward Jed Walter will be one of the early picks in next year’s draft as a Gold Coast academy player and the Suns will stockpile 2023 picks in a superior national draft.
The Suns will only truly know if they have enough talent when their star midfield marries with a 2023 forward line that will include Ben King, Joel Jeffrey, Mabior Chol and Levi Greenwood.
But they know they cannot continue the doom loop of overpaying for kids without at some stage taking the brave step of setting the team up for a legitimate crack at a premiership.
“It’s always a debate as to whether you have broken through to that point where your list is ready and until you are there you don’t really know but it feels like we have some pillars in place to allow us to compete,” Cameron says.
“We are unique in what we are doing. We have had a lot of picks and we have still got them but now we need to engineer that cap room and we have to be aggressive in that space.”

Pies, Dons, Saints queue up for Suns fire sale​

Gold Coast could shed as much as $2 million in salary cap room in the next 15 days in an aggressive bid to overhaul its total player payments.
The Suns will be the first club in modern history to make dramatic use of the salary dump mechanism which allows clubs to move on highly paid players for little or no draft return.
It will give Victorian clubs the chance to add quality Suns players and draft picks to their lists with very little downside or risk.
Running defender Jack Bowes has interest from multiple clubs who would secure the Suns pick seven to accept the last two-years of back-ended highly paid deal.
Jack Bowes has attracted interest from several clubs. Picture: Paul Kane/Getty Images

Jack Bowes has attracted interest from several clubs. Picture: Paul Kane/Getty Images
The Herald Sun understands that deal is worth over $500,000 in each of the next two seasons, with Essendon, Hawthorn, St Kilda and Geelong among the interested parties.
Essendon has vast cap space, St Kilda wants to get back into the draft, and Hawthorn has already thrived by securing Jack Scrimshaw as a fellow Suns top 10 pick from the same draft.
The Suns would have paid Izak Rankine around $650,000 a season over a long-term deal but will not replace him as a small forward given their confidence in Malcolm Rosas and Ben Ainsworth.
Brayden Fiorini will also be involved in a salary dump, most likely to Collingwood, which could see the Pies absorb his $600,000 salary next year and improve their draft hand.
Alex Sexton is also due over $500,000 on the last year of a back ended deal but if there is little interest from rivals the club and his management might consider restructuring his deal.
The Suns are investigating restructuring some existing contracts after smoothing out Darcy Macpherson’s contract last year over an additional year.
Jeremy Sharp is not well paid but could head to Fremantle, while versatile tall Josh Corbett is also linked to the Dockers.
Brayden Fiorini appears Collingwood-bound. Picture: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images

Brayden Fiorini appears Collingwood-bound. Picture: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images
If the Suns can move on those players or restructure their contracts it will realign their salary cap and give them opportunities to be aggressive in free agency or the trade period in coming years.
After nine first-round picks in the past four years the Suns have judged that having cap space is more critical to their fortunes in coming years than stockpiling more early picks.
The Suns will secure Ben Long on a four-year deal and has some interest in Western Bulldogs defender Jason Johannisen but is not prepared to offer him the three-year deal he has requested.
He has been offered a two-year deal at the Dogs so could stay there if another suitor doesn’t emerge.
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Talked about the crazy money they had to pay King and Lukoscious toretain them…pretty sure a lot of that was paid by the AFL as ambassador money.
 
Diehard Saint said:
Talked about the crazy money they had to pay King and Lukoscious toretain them…pretty sure a lot of that was paid by the AFL as ambassador money.
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Gotta be in the box seat since long is already on his way up there
 
Mowman said:

AFL 2022: Latest trade, free agency and contract updates​

It promises to be one of the craziest trade periods as the Gold Coast pushes to offload players and picks in a dramatic bid to realign their salary cap space. How it could unfold?

Jon Ralph Jon Ralph
Follow
@RalphyHeraldSun

8 min read
September 26, 2022 - 6:10PM
News Corp Australia Sports Newsroom
31 comments




01:31
Goodwin very coy on Brodie Grundy question

AFL: Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin was asked whether the club will be chasing Brodie Grundy in the offseason.


AFL News​

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Gold Coast list boss Craig Cameron knows his club is about to contravene list management’s only truism — the more first-round picks you amass the stronger your position.
Stuart Dew’s Suns will in coming weeks donate their No. 7 overall pick to a club who takes on Jack Bowes’ contract.
Gold Coast gave up pick 10 for him only six years ago.
Using two top-10 selections to hand on an exciting player doesn’t just alter conventional list management strategy, it turns it on its head.
But as Cameron told the News Corp on Monday of the club’s new-age approach: “Salary cap space is a weapon for clubs”.
As revealed by the News Corp, Gold Coast will this off-season off-load $2 million of salary cap space and overpriced contracts in a dramatic bid to realign their salary cap space.
It will mean they give up top-10 picks they would normally give their back teeth for and hand over players who might become first-choice players in rival sides.
But having been forced to overpay almost every player on their list given the go-home factor amid threats they would join the list of departures, there comes a time to bite the bullet.
Bowes will head to a Victorian club who absorbs his $1 million-plus salary over the next two years, Brayden Fiorini looks set to join Collingwood, and Jeremy Sharp will eventually find his way to the Dockers.

The Suns will give away their No. 7 overall pick to a club who takes on Jack Bowes’ contract.

The Suns will give away their No. 7 overall pick to a club who takes on Jack Bowes’ contract.
What goes unsaid at Gold Coast is that none of these players are in the Suns’ best 22 that is now about building a premiership team rather than gathering random talent.
“We have collected talent,” says Cameron.
“When you collect it you have to retain it and we have had some favourable contracts for guys when a lot of players left back in 2018.
“And we need to tidy that up a bit but we also have the pillars with the young guys and (Jarrod) Witts and (David) Swallow and (Touk) Miller in career-best form. We have the pillars to build on to take the next step.
“To do that we need cap space. We look at what Richmond can do in bringing in two A-grade mids and what Geelong has done. It’s not until you are convinced you have the pillars that you can do what those teams have done.
“They can do it in different ways to us but we still want to try to achieve the same outcome which is to bring in players when we are ready. So we need to engineer enough room in our player payments that we can be active in the market to top off the list.”
Gold Coast will lose Izak Rankine to Adelaide as one of nine first-round picks taken in the past four years including Ben King, Jack Lukosius, Matt Rowell, Noah Anderson, Sam Flanders, Elijah Hollands, Mac Andrew.
Izak Rankine will head to Adelaide as the Suns attempt to get their salary cap back in order.

Izak Rankine will head to Adelaide as the Suns attempt to get their salary cap back in order.
Academy players Mal Rosas Jnr, Alex Davies and Joel Jeffrey add to the exceptional list of talent, but Cameron said the cost of first-round picks is also a drain on an emerging list.
“The easiest way to explain it is if you are anywhere in the top six to eight players you are going to demand nearly $400,000 in your third year, coming off a collective bargaining agreement getting paid $100,000 to $110,000,” he says.
“If you have nine of those in four years, that’s almost $2.7 million in your cap very quickly, before a lot of them have reached that level of performance.”
The club is crestfallen to lose Rankine to Adelaide but knows his family motivations for returning home were out of their control.
“This footy club did everything right for Izak. There is a scenario around his family that we can’t solve,” he said.
St Kilda, Geelong and Essendon are among the clubs interested in Bowes, with Cameron adamant the list space multiple salary dumps will provide will pay off in the long run.
“There are a few clubs in the market that are interested in the package we put to them. For us the outcome is space for us to be active,” he said of the Bowes transaction.
“And we know Jack wants to play midfield and we have spoken to him about that and said we think it’s going to be difficult in our team.
“If the (loss of top-10 picks is) only way you are going to measure the transaction you are going to look at it and scratch your head but it’s part of an overall strategy.
“Each transaction we do leads to an outcome we want which is cap space and the ability to go to the market. That is our strategy. People will have their own view on what we are doing, but the bottom line is we don’t shy away from this. This is a definite strategy we have and if we are doing something different, so be it.”
The crazy early contracts for Ben King and Jack Lukosius are proof the Suns have had to pay more for Victorian stars.
Brayden Fiorini looks set to join Collingwood.

Brayden Fiorini looks set to join Collingwood.
Cameron admits the Suns have often been “a little bit on the back foot” in contract talks but believes the conversation is now evolving.
“We are now feeling there is a shift towards players wanting to come to us not just to pick up money at the end of their career, but because they believe the club is heading in the right direction.”
Cameron says the AFL is on board with their strategy, having made clear to clubs last week they will allow salary dumps of a more extreme nature.
“They understand that salary cap space is a weapon for clubs. It’s not something we will drop on their tables, we will work through it with them.”
Queensland 194cm power forward Jed Walter will be one of the early picks in next year’s draft as a Gold Coast academy player and the Suns will stockpile 2023 picks in a superior national draft.
The Suns will only truly know if they have enough talent when their star midfield marries with a 2023 forward line that will include Ben King, Joel Jeffrey, Mabior Chol and Levi Greenwood.
But they know they cannot continue the doom loop of overpaying for kids without at some stage taking the brave step of setting the team up for a legitimate crack at a premiership.
“It’s always a debate as to whether you have broken through to that point where your list is ready and until you are there you don’t really know but it feels like we have some pillars in place to allow us to compete,” Cameron says.
“We are unique in what we are doing. We have had a lot of picks and we have still got them but now we need to engineer that cap room and we have to be aggressive in that space.”

Pies, Dons, Saints queue up for Suns fire sale​

Gold Coast could shed as much as $2 million in salary cap room in the next 15 days in an aggressive bid to overhaul its total player payments.
The Suns will be the first club in modern history to make dramatic use of the salary dump mechanism which allows clubs to move on highly paid players for little or no draft return.
It will give Victorian clubs the chance to add quality Suns players and draft picks to their lists with very little downside or risk.
Running defender Jack Bowes has interest from multiple clubs who would secure the Suns pick seven to accept the last two-years of back-ended highly paid deal.
Jack Bowes has attracted interest from several clubs. Picture: Paul Kane/Getty Images

Jack Bowes has attracted interest from several clubs. Picture: Paul Kane/Getty Images
The Herald Sun understands that deal is worth over $500,000 in each of the next two seasons, with Essendon, Hawthorn, St Kilda and Geelong among the interested parties.
Essendon has vast cap space, St Kilda wants to get back into the draft, and Hawthorn has already thrived by securing Jack Scrimshaw as a fellow Suns top 10 pick from the same draft.
The Suns would have paid Izak Rankine around $650,000 a season over a long-term deal but will not replace him as a small forward given their confidence in Malcolm Rosas and Ben Ainsworth.
Brayden Fiorini will also be involved in a salary dump, most likely to Collingwood, which could see the Pies absorb his $600,000 salary next year and improve their draft hand.
Alex Sexton is also due over $500,000 on the last year of a back ended deal but if there is little interest from rivals the club and his management might consider restructuring his deal.
The Suns are investigating restructuring some existing contracts after smoothing out Darcy Macpherson’s contract last year over an additional year.
Jeremy Sharp is not well paid but could head to Fremantle, while versatile tall Josh Corbett is also linked to the Dockers.
Brayden Fiorini appears Collingwood-bound. Picture: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images

Brayden Fiorini appears Collingwood-bound. Picture: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images
If the Suns can move on those players or restructure their contracts it will realign their salary cap and give them opportunities to be aggressive in free agency or the trade period in coming years.
After nine first-round picks in the past four years the Suns have judged that having cap space is more critical to their fortunes in coming years than stockpiling more early picks.
The Suns will secure Ben Long on a four-year deal and has some interest in Western Bulldogs defender Jason Johannisen but is not prepared to offer him the three-year deal he has requested.
He has been offered a two-year deal at the Dogs so could stay there if another suitor doesn’t emerge.
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This is great news, surely when we take contracted King , he has to come with 2 first round draft picks.
 

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phantom13 said:
All speculation obviously but if he wants home I’m sure a few clubs would be keen. If we’re not doing some intense recruiting it would be poor.
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Well yeah that article says a few including us are keen. I don't actually know where it says we weren't interested, maybe I missed it? Was it that dickhead Ralphy on the couch saying we weren't up for paying the salary? Because the article that says we're interested is also from Ralphy lmao
 
George said:
Well yeah that article says a few including us are keen. I don't actually know where it says we weren't interested, maybe I missed it? Was it that dickhead Ralphy on the couch saying we weren't up for paying the salary? Because the article that says we're interested is also from Ralphy lmao
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Surely salary would be the least of our concerns.

Bowes seems a talent, we have a bucket of cash to spend and if we can drag pick 7 out of it in the same move then its a great overall win.
 
phantom13 said:
Surely salary would be the least of our concerns.

Bowes seems a talent, we have a bucket of cash to spend and if we can drag pick 7 out of it in the same move then its a great overall win.
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Surely that's dependent on the many moving pieces, and we don't know where they will fall. The club wouldn't either at this stage.

If we get De Goey, and we can't move Hill, and we don't get a deal for Clark, how much salary do we have left to buy pick 7?

I sure as hell don't know the answer.
 
Dr Spaceman said:
Surely that's dependent on the many moving pieces, and we don't know where they will fall. The club wouldn't either at this stage.

If we get De Goey, and we can't move Hill, and we don't get a deal for Clark, how much salary do we have left to buy pick 7?

I sure as hell don't know the answer.
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Big if on DeGoey, frankly think his management is only using us to sweeten his Collingwood deal.

In any event Hannebery freed up heaps of space and bowes is $500 a year (not $800 or a mil).

I think regardless of what else we bring in we’ve probably got the space for Bowes and DeGoey right now. If he free up Hill money we probably just top up a few other contracts to front load them
 
 

AFL 2022 news: St Kilda wants to sign Geoff Walsh as football operations boss​

The man who helped orchestrate Collingwood’s 2010 premiership has been headhunted to help another club end its long premiership drought.

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St Kilda has made a major play to land respected football administrator Geoff Walsh as new football operations boss.
The man who has led searing club-wide reviews at North Melbourne and Carlton over the past two years and helped guide Collingwood to the 2010 premiership has been headhunted to assist Brett Ratten at St Kilda.
Walsh would bring a lifetime of football experience to the role and will be trusted to help make key decisions on the list, coaching structure and staff.
As football boss he would likely oversee football trends guru David Rath and list boss James Gallagher.
St Kilda has already lost assistant coach Brendon Lade to Western Bulldogs and could also part ways with footy operations lieutenant Danny Sexton.
The Saints are also at risk of losing hard nut midfielder Hunter Clark to North Melbourne in next month’s trade period.
St Kilda has headhunted Geoff Walsh.

St Kilda has headhunted Geoff Walsh.
Walsh is renowned for his hard edge and football acumen and will not shirk any difficult decisions as the Saints look to climb back up the AFL ladder.
St Kilda, which has won only one premiership in the club’s history, is at another key juncture this year as the club decides whether to head back to the draft or continue to top-up with mature-age talent.
There remains a glimmer of hope the club will land Jordan De Goey from Collingwood as the Magpies wrestle with behavioural clauses in his contract.

De Goey wants to sign a five-year deal at Collingwood but has baulked at the general nature of the termination clauses in his contract offer from the Magpies.
[PLAYERCARD]Brett Ratten[/PLAYERCARD] speaks to his players.

Brett Ratten speaks to his players.
Collingwood was confident it would reach a compromise with De Goey who is a restricted free agent, meaning the Magpies could match a free agency bid if De Goey wanted to join the Saints.
It means the Pies could secure a better return from a trade than one single draft pick as free agency compensation in the same way GWS Giants secured three draft picks from Geelong in return for superstar forward Jeremy Cameron.
The Saints have engaged former North Melbourne coach David Noble to lead a review of the club’s operations, including its list management plan, after missing finals this year.
Noble has spent recent weeks interviewing key people from the club.
The club has topped up with a string of mature-age recruits in recent years including Daniel Hannebery (retired), Zak Jones, Brad Hill, Brad Crouch, Dougal Howard, Paddy Ryder, Dan Butler, James Frawley (retired), Dean Kent (retired) and Shaun Mckernan (retired).
But St Kilda champion Nick Riewoldt has strongly urged the club to cut back on its veterans and zero in some top-end young talent to help restock the list with young guns.

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“I’d be cutting and cutting pretty hard. I think it’s critical they bring in more young talent into that group,” Riewoldt said.
 
Star defender Nick Haynes is also gettable as his salary balloons to almost $1 million a year this season as part of a back-ended deal.

It is the kind of money the Giants have had to pay in the past to keep talented interstaters up north amid constant big-money interest from Victorian rivals.

But this year’s bold moves could signal a change in direction, if not for a renewed push for a cost-of-living allowance (COLA).

As the Giants say, renting a house in Geelong is a lot more affordable than a pad anywhere near a beach in Sydney.

GWS will go back to the draft under new coach Adam Kingsley.

St Kilda are yet to work out if they’ll attack the trade period or the draft.

The Saints have topped up in recent years with a flurry of B-graders and could yet lose Hunter Clark, one of its brightest young players, to North Melbourne.

So does St Kilda zig or zag from here? More top-ups or back to the draft?

The nucleus of talent currently may not be enough to help catapult it into the top-four with more big calls.

Western Bulldogs will prime its defence with the additions of Liam Jones (ex-Carlton) and potentially Adam Tomlinson (Melbourne) who could not get a game, as well as contracted Fremantle tall forward Rory Lobb.

They’ll face a fight on Lobb but his agent, Colin Young, is also helping Griffin Logue exit Fremantle to most likely North.

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With Jamarra Ugle-Hagan and Sam Darcy in tow, the Dogs are braced for a major play this October in a bid to bounce back up into flag contention.

Watch them be brave.
 
Mowman said:
Star defender Nick Haynes is also gettable as his salary balloons to almost $1 million a year this season as part of a back-ended deal.

It is the kind of money the Giants have had to pay in the past to keep talented interstaters up north amid constant big-money interest from Victorian rivals.

But this year’s bold moves could signal a change in direction, if not for a renewed push for a cost-of-living allowance (COLA).

As the Giants say, renting a house in Geelong is a lot more affordable than a pad anywhere near a beach in Sydney.

GWS will go back to the draft under new coach Adam Kingsley.

St Kilda are yet to work out if they’ll attack the trade period or the draft.

The Saints have topped up in recent years with a flurry of B-graders and could yet lose Hunter Clark, one of its brightest young players, to North Melbourne.

So does St Kilda zig or zag from here? More top-ups or back to the draft?

The nucleus of talent currently may not be enough to help catapult it into the top-four with more big calls.

Western Bulldogs will prime its defence with the additions of Liam Jones (ex-Carlton) and potentially Adam Tomlinson (Melbourne) who could not get a game, as well as contracted Fremantle tall forward Rory Lobb.

They’ll face a fight on Lobb but his agent, Colin Young, is also helping Griffin Logue exit Fremantle to most likely North.

More Coverage​

Trade guide: Every club’s targets and possible departuresWhich clubs will win in Suns’ $2m salary cap dump?Rules under microscope: the trio which will be looked at
With Jamarra Ugle-Hagan and Sam Darcy in tow, the Dogs are braced for a major play this October in a bid to bounce back up into flag contention.

Watch them be brave.
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How can we loose Clark if he is contracted
 
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