The sooner you guys just accept that a 2nd rounder is the best draft pick you're getting for Yarran, the sooner you guys can focus on your rebuild and getting elite talent back into the club again, and rebuilding.
It was only a theory/opinion before, but now the factual thoughts of Carlton, Richmond, as well as Yarran himself, are being confirmed daily. And those thoughts are simple:
- Despite being contracted, Carlton knows Yarran is gone.
- Despite being contracted, Yarran knows he's leaving.
- Despite wanting a 1st round pick, Carlton (the club, not you guys on BF) KNOW they aren't going to get one.
- Carlton seem to understand that a 2nd round pick + maybe another player, or an exchange of lower picks, is going to be the best they're going to get, because they ALSO know that....
- Despite being contracted, there is absolutely no way Chris Yarran is staying on Carlton's list for another year, therefore other clubs have the bargaining power in this one, not Carlton.
Whilst it's probably not fair, given your draft investment in Yarran, him being contracted for 2016 is now
officially irrelevant in on-going negotiations, due to the
context of the situation - which was my whole point earlier in the thread.
At this point, anybody from Carlton who's thinking you're getting a 1st rounder for Yarran, contracted or not contracted, and fair or not fair, I'm sorry to say is doing this: