Free Agency Brad Crouch [joins St Kilda as a RFA for pick 23]

[arsene wenger1]

He would have wasted that pick anyway

So if crows match, assuming saints need a 1st for this to happen.

Well saints said they wouldn’t trade for him, Adelaide said if it’s not band 1 they would match.

At least we legit get to see who was bluffing after all

 

[Saints43]

He won't. I genuinely do believe he wants to stay - given his GF does not want to leave. This whole exercise has been one of seeing if Pick 2 was possible, and then if it wasn', giving him the terms he wants.

Crouch wants to stay, Crouch's GF wants to stay, Crows aren't getting anywhere near what they want and both St Kilda and Adelaide have respectively said they aren't trading/will match.

It's over, lol. This won't go on any longer, and you might even throw your hat in the ring again for Caldwell or chase Treloar

Nominating St Kilda as his preferred destination, negotiating and signing a contract with St Kilda makes you believe he wants to stay at Adelaide?
Righto.

 

[marty36]

All good.

Just making sure you were ok bro?

It’s just footy at the end of the day.

Its just social media actually and anonymous at that

Hahahaha

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[marty36]

Thought pick 2 was a certainty?

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Or we match i have quoted that enough times

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[40porpoise]

600k is really cheap. I would have preferred pick 2 but keeping Brad on that low a contract is a pretty good result

 

[marty36]

Well saints said they wouldn’t trade for him, Adelaide said if it’s not band 1 they would match.

At least we legit get to see who was bluffing after all

Keen to see who's lying

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[HereComesJuddy]

I'm so hoping Adelaide follow through and match, get him back into the club, then have him sit out the first 2 weeks. Entertaining as F!

 

[Longmembrey]

Doubtful that an 8 pick upgrade would be commensurate to the Pick 2 they were chasing.

That's like asking for an elephant and ending up with a millipede

Ok we will chuck in McKenzie

 

[Verdun]

Does any poster actually know what the Saints have offered?

thought so

 

[triggering bro]

The Crows actively pushed Crouch out of their club in an attempt to manipulate the free agency system. They read the market wrong. The market has spoken & Crouch is worth 4 x 600k which I believe is about right. Given his injury issues maybe 50k & 1 year over but you pay that to extract players from their existing club.

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

Well if the deal is 600k surely the compo is pick 39 odd like Ellis

Or the mighty afl just making shit up as usual

 

[Northernsoul74]

600k is really cheap. I would have preferred pick 2 but keeping Brad on that low a contract is a pretty good result

I honestly don’t think you are interested in keeping him. If you were this whole saga has been a terrible way of showing it. Crows got greedy and tried to force him out.

 

[StCicatriz]

Its a bit sad your club don't rate him that highly.

Is it?

Yet we rate him higher than the other 17 clubs including Adelaide?

But we are the sad ones?

 

[CharacterFirst]

Channel 9 still think no AFC players went to the Brownlow event at AO cos they weren't invited.

They have their finger firmly on the pulse.

Did any Adelaide players poll a vote this year? I didn't watch.

 

[GoTheMightyCrows]

Its rather irrelevant we will receive pick 2 everyone knows it

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[HereComesJuddy]

Does any poster actually know what the Saints have offered?

thought so

Your 1st round pick now

 

[Shadow89]

Nominating St Kilda as his preferred destination, negotiating and signing a contract with St Kilda makes you believe he wants to stay at Adelaide?
Righto.

You can believe what you want to believe, but no contract has actually been set in stone - hence the whole RFA process. There's no animosity between Brad and Adelaide, and they used their final finishing position as wooden spooners to see if they could eke out a ridiculously high pick for a player who isn't worth as much. They did the same last year with GC.

I'm just presenting to you the facts as they have been laid out. He only chose you guys to test the market. It's most likely that he probably always wanted to stay in Adelaide (as he's said numerous times) and knew that by accepting your offer it wouldn't trigger Band 1 - and the Crows would therefore choose to keep him.

I could be wrong, but there's no party that has come right out and said 'Crouch wants to play for St Kilda and will make every effort to do so.' He said himself a month ago that his preference was to remain at home - just on a longer contract. Once Adelaide matches, he gets his longer contract and the same salary and he's set for the next 4-5 years. He doesn't need to move now.

 

[The Underdogs]

Where is every clown that posted 750-800k per year?

 

[StCicatriz]

Where is every clown that posted 750-800k per year?

In the fetal position

 

[Verdun]

Your 1st round pick now

So you have no idea

 

[Suma Magic]

Well if the deal is 600k surely the compo is pick 39 odd like Ellis

Or the mighty afl just making sh*t up as usual

You should read up on the bands element of the policy.

 

[HereComesJuddy]

Where is every clown that posted 750-800k per year?

Should have offered more than what you did though

 

[HereComesJuddy]

So you have no idea

That's what it will be

 

[manureid]

I was under the impression reading this thread on and off last few days pick 2 was a given? What happened?

 

[marty36]

In the fetal position

Seriously would they be

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