It's Adelaide calling again. Don't answer!
BRYCE Gibbs's proposed move to Adelaide has hit a wall with The Advertiser reporting Carlton is refusing to take calls from the Crows.
The Blues are reportedly content on the 27-year-old contracted star staying at the club unless the Crows blow them out of the water with an offer.
That appears unlikely unless the Crows significantly change their stance, with young stars Mitch McGovern, Jake Lever and Charlie Cameron unwilling to be involved in a trade.
So again it comes back to Adelaide wanting to TAKE without GIVING anything in return.
The media are all in on it...wanting Gibbs to get to Adelaide. One fawning report from the AFL's Phelan even had this to say:
"With Carlton hell bent on convincing Gibbs to stay or
extracting a king's ransom from Adelaide (who have already baulked at parting with Charlie Cameron or Mitch McGovern), it seems the Crows are going to have to get creative."
Hello, do these people not get it. These type of emotional phrases FROM JOURNALISTS just make me more determined for SOS to dig his heels in.
Carlton is not in this business to help any club, and if the club doesn't get a fair trade then they shouldn't trade.
Getting draft picks is getting crumbs at the table, because we are gambling on the future of an unknown player.
Carlton want a ready made player - that is fair.
If they don't get what is fair then the whole drafting/trading system needs to be reformed.
eg Daniel Wells for Collingwood - can you look at that and say that is fair for North?
There are so many examples of this system needing reformation.
The article by this Adelaide fan - Jason Phelan - brought up the Jarman/Salmon trade. Overlooking the key point. In that trade EVERYONE won.
Paul Salmon btw was a "fair" trade for Hawthorn when they gave Adelaide Jarman.
What Adelaide is proposing "we will give you a couple of crappy draft picks" is NOT FAIR AND BALANCED.
Get it in your skulls.
Carlton getting a player that was ranked in their top 12 players is a fair trade - plus a draft pick. Fair. Get it.
Not one journalist looks at this from Carlton's viewpoint.