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i highly doubt the Lions would be using trade time to send a message to players. We clearly have a strong relationship with our players - so any messaging is done behind closed doors.
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See my view is when an opposition wants to "poach" our players they would be players still under contract.
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That's my understanding of the situation too. They both haggled over the trade offers for the entire trade period but Adelaide didn't never went and got other picks elsewhere in pick swaos, like Hawthorn & Collingwood & Carlton did, to get the trade done for Cal.
A bit full of myself replying to my own post (next i’ll be talking in the 3rd person…), but listen to the full chat with Dom Ambrosio here:
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Your view and the AFL contract rules are 2 different things though. When a player signs an afl contract with a club, then that club holds the rights to that player until the player reaches free agency - and this is the situation with Cal. This is to give the club who made the initial investment in a player some protection against a player signing for 2-years of development, then walking out where-ever they want.
Not sure Hawthorn's offer really set anyone up for the future because those future first round picks are going to be fairly late - if Merrett really wanted out he should've asked to be traded to any top 12 club that could make the best offer rather than picking a single club. In a vacuum Essendon probably should've traded Merrett though.
Must have known or should have known?
Dom is so well spoken there - we're incredibly lucky to have someone of his caliber watching over our list build.A bit full of myself replying to my own post (next i’ll be talking in the 3rd person…), but listen to the full chat with Dom Ambrosio here:
'Ridiculous, unusual, strong': What your club said after the trade period
Hear from all 18 clubs after the final day of the 2025 Continental Tyres AFL Trade Period
About halfway in he is questioned about “the message to the rest of the competition”. He explains it very well… no message, just doing what’s best for the footy club. The cost of losing Cal for nothing isn’t significantly different compared to the offer from Adelaide.
A good backhander to Adelaide at the end about courting a player but the not getting the deal done (as compared to Brisbane who always got the deal done because we owed it to the player).
Now my thought regarding losing Cal for nothing: With the proposed changes to the f/s and bidding system picks in the late 30’s onwards really lose their trade value from next year (unless it’s a deep draft). Picks at the top end are way more valuable - so this is the last draft where we will see clubs trading our their first for a handful of picks at the backend. There’s little point accumulating those future picks because in the end we’ll be stuck with them. Further, even trading surplus picks next year into 2027 will be a loss. The “natural” round-2 in 2027 will start at pick 24, round-3 at pick 43, before any FA compo or other bonuses get thrown in. Round-1 in 2027 could end in the early 30’s!
Cal (at Adelaide) finishes in the top 10 ... see what a good system we have and how much he improved once he got here!
I think 10 and 22 this year coupled with their current picks gives them a good hand to get osme good talent into their club prior to the Tassie inclusion. Now they've got a 30 year old disgruntled former captain to deal with instead of additional talent to help them build something positive moving forward.
If you cared enough, you’d have followed up my other posts which clearly note that the Crows were more at fault than the Lions. Where have I said the Lions were solely responsible for this debacle?
