Confirmed Andrew Gaff [re-signed]

Status
Not open for further replies.

Rad Roo

All Australian
Joined
Aug 2, 2017
Posts
927
Likes
349
AFL Club
North Melbourne
Gaff should take the money. There is no guarantee or even a siginifucant chance if finals let alone success. I can foresee gaff staying and wce fall down the ladder due a much harder draw as a result of their high finish position. Gaff will have to endure a tough final gew years. There is no cure for regret. He should gking to melbourne as melbourne has got one more gear and in 2019 lever fully fit with gaff will take melb to another level. He is 26 at the prime. If he comes to us then with josh kelly at the end of 2019 and perhaps david swallow 2020 is the flag year.
 

(Log in to remove this ad.)

Obeanie1

Brownlow Medallist
Joined
Jul 26, 2007
Posts
18,343
Likes
11,407
Location
Darwin
AFL Club
West Coast
Thread starter #1,677
Gaff should take the money. There is no guarantee or even a siginifucant chance if finals let alone success. I can foresee gaff staying and wce fall down the ladder due a much harder draw as a result of their high finish position. Gaff will have to endure a tough final gew years. There is no cure for regret. He should gking to melbourne as melbourne has got one more gear and in 2019 lever fully fit with gaff will take melb to another level. He is 26 at the prime. If he comes to us then with josh kelly at the end of 2019 and perhaps david swallow 2020 is the flag year.
Wow Rad you are a glass half full sort of guy aren't you. The only way is up for Norths and the only way is down for the Eagles!

Dont worry you blue and white paws about the Eagles. They have a very nicely balanced list across all lines and ages. The club misses finals eveey now and again but knows how to rebuild and with a shinny new stadium and a brand new training base and facilities Im sure players wont be too unhappy being at a long term successful club.
 

Rad Roo

All Australian
Joined
Aug 2, 2017
Posts
927
Likes
349
AFL Club
North Melbourne
Wow Rad you are a glass half full sort of guy aren't you. The only way is up for Norths and the only way is down for the Eagles!

Dont worry you blue and white paws about the Eagles. They have a very nicely balanced list across all lines and ages. The club misses finals eveey now and again but knows how to rebuild and with a shinny new stadium and a brand new training base and facilities Im sure players wont be too unhappy being at a long term successful club.
very balanced indeed, let's see, struggle at MCG, maybe down at Blundstone Arena and occasionally down at Ethihad...........He Gaff just have to look at Jason Johannessian, signed a 5 year deal but now he is stuck at bulldogs where there are other teams that have moved past them...
 

Obeanie1

Brownlow Medallist
Joined
Jul 26, 2007
Posts
18,343
Likes
11,407
Location
Darwin
AFL Club
West Coast
Thread starter #1,680
Can West Coast afford to fit both Gaff and McGovern into their salary?
Yes as long as they dont demand ridiculous coin.

Gaff offered $750 for six years.

Gov they could pay around $850-$900k.

Naitanui is out of contract next year and he will continue to get those marketing and AFL ambassador tops ups I feel his base either wont increase or come back a tad.

The Gaff offer is very competitive and in tabling that the Eagles are saying to get Gaff as a FA a club will need to pay well over market rates or trade for him.
 

ghostbat12

Club Legend
Joined
Aug 17, 2009
Posts
1,272
Likes
1,000
Location
Perth
AFL Club
West Coast
Can West Coast afford to fit both Gaff and McGovern into their salary?
We can’t afford the monster offers for both. But we can pay them by sounds of it, approx 850 each.

Which is decent and it’s different sort of cap squeeze as we go hunting elsewhere really hard if we lose one.

There is not much point matching gaff’s 1.1mill if that makes him highest paid and isnt our most important player. That 1.1 mill can be used to hunt a Cripps or coniglio.
 

Turbocat

Premium Platinum
Joined
Dec 10, 2003
Posts
35,940
Likes
31,502
Location
Newtown
AFL Club
Geelong
Yes as long as they dont demand ridiculous coin.

Gaff offered $750 for six years.

Gov they could pay around $850-$900k.

Naitanui is out of contract next year and he will continue to get those marketing and AFL ambassador tops ups I feel his base either wont increase or come back a tad.

The Gaff offer is very competitive and in tabling that the Eagles are saying to get Gaff as a FA a club will need to pay well over market rates or trade for him.
and a FA?
 

(Log in to remove this ad.)

Established1870

Norm Smith Medallist
Joined
Jun 28, 2016
Posts
7,144
Likes
12,968
Location
Tigris River
AFL Club
Port Adelaide
Other Teams
Baghdad Bombers
Word on the street is St Kilda and North Hobart are both sniffing around Polec and offering him $850k per annum. I do think that's absolute bullshit for a wide variety of reasons but the main takeaway is that both clubs were in for Gaff and now they're looking elsewhere.

Gaff to Melbourne.
 

Obeanie1

Brownlow Medallist
Joined
Jul 26, 2007
Posts
18,343
Likes
11,407
Location
Darwin
AFL Club
West Coast
Thread starter #1,688
Word on the street is St Kilda and North Hobart are both sniffing around Polec and offering him $850k per annum. I do think that's absolute bullshit for a wide variety of reasons but the main takeaway is that both clubs were in for Gaff and now they're looking elsewhere.

Gaff to Melbourne.
Gaff to stay:D
 

kane249

New cup, who dis?
Joined
Oct 27, 2006
Posts
39,988
Likes
36,993
Location
Behind enemy Lines
AFL Club
West Coast
Other Teams
Sth Freo, Liverpool, Chicago Bulls
Word on the street is St Kilda and North Hobart are both sniffing around Polec and offering him $850k per annum. I do think that's absolute bullshit for a wide variety of reasons but the main takeaway is that both clubs were in for Gaff and now they're looking elsewhere.

Gaff to Melbourne.
Polec is a SA boy who left the Lions to move home, why would he leave the Power and move to Melbourne?
 

Established1870

Norm Smith Medallist
Joined
Jun 28, 2016
Posts
7,144
Likes
12,968
Location
Tigris River
AFL Club
Port Adelaide
Other Teams
Baghdad Bombers
Polec is a SA boy who left the Lions to move home, why would he leave the Power and move to Melbourne?
You have just listed many of my "reasons of a wide variety to assume it's bullshit" but people on the Port board who are genuinely ITK are saying that it's got legs. Again, both were in for Gaff, and now they're looking at Polly, so I'm assuming that Gaff has made up his mind already or is close to it.
 

HereComesJuddy

Norm Smith Medallist
Joined
Apr 16, 2008
Posts
6,293
Likes
9,155
Location
Geelong
AFL Club
Carlton
Other Teams
Calgary Flames
If Carlton want to start getting competitive again, this is the guy they should go after (along with Shiel).
If Melbourne want to challenge for the flag in the next few years, this is the guy they should go after.
Gaff is ideal
Take best available with our top 3 pick
Take shiel next year as a FA
 
Last edited:
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top Bottom