Dustin Martin Contract Thread [GWS Will Not Offer Dusty a Contract]

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Just seen on the news that GWS are keen to get him for nothing in the PSD :(

Regardless if this happens or not this rule needs to be changed. We shouldn't have got Houli for nothing and neither should GWS with Martin.

Only guys delisted should be eligible for the PSD not guys willing to walk knowing the first club in the PSD are waiting for them. Everyone else should be made sit out a year :thumbsu:
What a dog of club. Gifted everything and still not enough.

Any flags they win will have absolutely no credibility or integrity about them.:thumbsdown:
 

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Just seen on the news that GWS are keen to get him for nothing in the PSD :(

Regardless if this happens or not this rule needs to be changed. We shouldn't have got Houli for nothing and neither should GWS with Martin.

Only guys delisted should be eligible for the PSD not guys willing to walk knowing the first club in the PSD are waiting for them. Everyone else should be made sit out a year :thumbsu:
That would be GWS making an instant enemy & starting a war in there 3rd season. Not real Smart. We would attack their young talent Tyson , Adams anyone else that Chocco thinks is worth chasing or is wanting to come home to play in front of 95,000 in finals!.I doubt ex tigers Leon Cameron & Sheedy would want to shaft us & start a war. It is in their best interests to trade with us for future relationships. What goes around comes around!
 

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That would be GWS making an instant enemy & starting a war in there 3rd season. Not real Smart. We would attack their young talent Tyson , Adams anyone else that Chocco thinks is worth chasing or is wanting to come home to play in front of 95,000 in finals!.I doubt ex tigers Leon Cameron & Sheedy would want to shaft us & start a war. It is in their best interests to trade with us for future relationships. What goes around comes around!
Cameron is a 'scragger first & foremost and Sheedy's been undermining us for three decades.
 

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That would be GWS making an instant enemy & starting a war in there 3rd season. Not real Smart. We would attack their young talent Tyson , Adams anyone else that Chocco thinks is worth chasing or is wanting to come home to play in front of 95,000 in finals!.I doubt ex tigers Leon Cameron & Sheedy would want to shaft us & start a war. It is in their best interests to trade with us for future relationships. What goes around comes around!
We are already into Adams and maybe others? Why wouldn't they return the favour?

All more reason for this rule to be changed so this doesn't happen again. It's not going to stop Martin walking this year but it might stop happening to someone else!
 
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I love Dustin but the club must come first so I must rely on the powers that be to make the right decisions.
I agree with an earlier poster that a couple of months ago I noticed that when the players were singing the club song, that Dusty was mouthing the words with no gusto and at least in one moment, was not even singing - it showed me then that he was not committed.

I also noted that after the game and song, not may players went up to him or he to the to talk, pat on back etc.

I think it is best he moves on but I suspect he will turn out to be a brilliant player that fails due to other personal problems.

I, like others', now want to see us sign up Conca who has readily displayed his club spirit.

If Dusty signs, well and good, but I think it is a lost cause. Let's move on, sign Adams and a good back- up ruckman and whatever else we need.
 

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That would be GWS making an instant enemy & starting a war in there 3rd season. Not real Smart. We would attack their young talent Tyson , Adams anyone else that Chocco thinks is worth chasing or is wanting to come home to play in front of 95,000 in finals!.I doubt ex tigers Leon Cameron & Sheedy would want to shaft us & start a war. It is in their best interests to trade with us for future relationships. What goes around comes around!
it has been stated previously in the dustin martin threads (both here and the main board), that the AFL has final sign off on all GWS deals, and to a lesser extent on al Melbourne deals, as they are the controlling party of GWS, and have somewhat taken the reigns at MFC, this will not happen, the AFL will not allow it. RELAX, if he goes, we are going to be compensated...
 

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I don't understand the reasoning that it's ok to leave a club for a lot more money but not for a little more money.

Using Ablett as an example. Sure the money was huge but he had a couple of flags up his sleeve, the opportunity to lead a new club from scratch and try and help build a premiership team in a great climate would have been pretty tempting also. .
*cough*
 

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Just seen on the news that GWS are keen to get him for nothing in the PSD :(

Regardless if this happens or not this rule needs to be changed. We shouldn't have got Houli for nothing and neither should GWS with Martin.

Only guys delisted should be eligible for the PSD not guys willing to walk knowing the first club in the PSD are waiting for them. Everyone else should be made sit out a year :thumbsu:
Leon Cameron :oops:
 

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If that's Martin going to that concert then let him walk, don't need that sort of shit behaviour around the club. Seriously grown men going to see teenage girl pop music. glory be me; someone throw him a few metal CD's. Jebus.
 
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it has been stated previously in the dustin martin threads (both here and the main board), that the AFL has final sign off on all GWS deals, and to a lesser extent on al Melbourne deals, as they are the controlling party of GWS, and have somewhat taken the reigns at MFC, this will not happen, the AFL will not allow it. RELAX, if he goes, we are going to be compensated...
We better. If Martin leaves us & we get nothing. He has not seen anything in regards to our hatred & fury. He would be best advised to pull a heart muscle & not play against us!
 

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If that's Martin going to that concert then let him walk, don't need that sort of shit behaviour around the club. Seriously grown men going to see teenage girl pop music. glory be me; someone throw him a few metal CD's. Jebus.
Here's one direction for ya Dustin - out the ******* door!:thumbsdown:
 

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We are already into Adams and maybe others? Why wouldn't they return the favour?

All more reason for this rule to be changed so this doesn't happen again. It's not going to stop Martin walking this year but it might stop happening to someone else!
AFL wont change any rules. They freed up trading to make it more unlikely that any restriction of trade action by a player / manager would eventuate. They aren't going to backtrack.
 

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New tweet from Rolph Carr
@RalphCarrRCM: “Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.”
Now he thinks he's Deepak Chopra

My instincts tell me to quit working, stop paying taxes, drink top shelf scotch in the morning, and snort likes of coke off the back of the neighbours 16 year old. Although, I can see what he's getting at in a William Blake 'the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdon' kind of way. I doubt I will find true wisdom being someone's wife in a prison cell.

Or he may just be saying take the money and run. Either way, the bloke needs a bottle of regaine and a good old fashioned clip across the earole.Manifests itself...Pfff
 

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We are already into Adams and maybe others? Why wouldn't they return the favour?

All more reason for this rule to be changed so this doesn't happen again. It's not going to stop Martin walking this year but it might stop happening to someone else!
Vlad is not happy....... don't be surprised if this loop hole isn't tightened up before this year's trade period.
 

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Vlad is not happy....... don't be surprised if this loop hole isn't tightened up before this year's trade period.
Hopefully he saw the 94,000 crowd and finally realised Richmond are actually very important to the competition and our success would be a windfall for the AFL.
 

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Vlad has told dusty to stay. I doubt he will let him walk to GWS in the pre season draft. I'd take Adams for Martin in a heartbeat. Adams actually plays pretty similar and isn't a flog.
 

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That would be GWS making an instant enemy & starting a war in there 3rd season. Not real Smart. We would attack their young talent Tyson , Adams anyone else that Chocco thinks is worth chasing or is wanting to come home to play in front of 95,000 in finals!.I doubt ex tigers Leon Cameron & Sheedy would want to shaft us & start a war. It is in their best interests to trade with us for future relationships. What goes around comes around!

Pretty sure they said they will "raid" your list after it was found out you were trying to poach Dom Tyson last year.

They've been after Martin since his first year in the AFL though.
 

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AFL wont change any rules. They freed up trading to make it more unlikely that any restriction of trade action by a player / manager would eventuate. They aren't going to backtrack.
A guy walking another club through the PSD instead of via a trade is not what the AFL were trying to do with recent changes. It's just a loophole that can be easily used.
 
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