Gibbs requests trade to Adelaide

[MRB37]

If we don't get Gibbs the club has failed and Roo has failed.

And people will say the same thing if we do get him.

 

[BunjiMac]

If we are indeed calling their bluff then yeah I like it.

But what it does is leaves us with the same squad we had this year, and its not enough

And pick 13.

Carlton will crumble though, you watch, just before 5pm this evening.

The way we've gone about this negotiation is very empowering.

I feel like we've called the shots and are not getting pushed around.

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[Elite Crow]

If it's true that Carlton knocked back Lyons and Atkins, you can almost guarantee both will be in All Australian consideration next year.

Its not true re Atkins as we never offered him.

 

[footywedge]

You know this for a fact?

He knows nothing as a fact. Everything he posts is nonsense.

 

[arsene wenger1]

Carlton board already convincing themselves that this tweet somehow proves SOS is god lol

 

[n4sir]

If we don't get Gibbs the club has failed and Roo has failed.

In contrast, if we don't get Gibbs I think the club has dodged a massive bullet.

 

[Niximus]

If we don't get Gibbs the club has failed and Roo has failed.

If Carlton are stubborn and demand ridiculous overs we can pay it or walk away.

We can't force them to take less, walking away is the better outcome in that situation.

 

[Drakescoffeecake]

He knows nothing as a fact. Everything he posts is nonsense.

He certainly posts it as if it's fact though.

 

[hey shorty]

And pick 13.

Carlton will crumble though, you watch, just before 5pm this evening.

The way we've gone about this negotiation is very empowering.

I feel like we've called the shots and are not getting pushed around.

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If he costs us 13 I'm fine by that but if we hang onto it then we are further away from a flag than we were this year.

 

[Red mist]

Rockliff. Get him.

 

[Big Gazoongas]

If we don't get Gibbs the club has failed and Roo has failed.

If we don't get Gibbs it means we're not going to screw ourselves and help our competitors at the same time.

Its easy to overpay, anyone without any intelligence can do that.

Its harder to draw a line in the sand and walk away when the asking price is too much.

 

[dogs105]

He knows nothing as a fact. Everything he posts is nonsense.

Play the ball and not the man. It's obvious that was an opinion statement.

 

[Elite Crow]

If Carlton are stubborn and demand ridiculous overs we can pay it or walk away.

We can't force them to take less, walking away is the better outcome in that situation.

It would be a fail because we have brought in no one when we need a midfielder or 2.

It looks like we have put all our eggs in the one basket.

 

[OldMatePales]

Hey gold coast we'll have Prestia for 13 and Lyons cheers thanks.

Feel like the Cuban missile crisis in here right now a touch of a button and things could go off!!

it's much more serious than that!

 

[Elite Crow]

Rockliff. Get him.

This, he has to happen if we dont get Gibbs.

 

[dogs105]

It would be a fail because we have brought in no one when we need a midfielder or 2.

It looks like we have put all our eggs in the one basket.

We don't know this yet. Wait until 1:30pm tomorrow.

 

[GROTTO]

If we don't get Gibbs the club has failed and Roo has failed.

I agree to an extent but where do we draw a line. Maybe SOS is wanting more and more.

 

[jenny61_99]

LOL 310 pages for this?

If that happens, then BF Adelaide Board, we have failed in our job!

Fairly typical I would have thought?

 

[MRB37]

It would be a fail because we have brought in no one when we need a midfielder or 2.

It looks like we have put all our eggs in the one basket.

Yes. Doesn't look like we had any plan until Gibbs nominated us. If we did we should have moved on from Gibbs the moment they wanted Lever + 13 or two 1st round picks and gone to what we originally had planned.

The fact we haven't either shows they didn't have anyone willing to come over, or they had the mistaken belief that "natural progression" was enough to win a premiership.

 

[Sam_Malone]

If we don't get Gibbs the club has failed and Roo has failed.

No it doesn't. It shows they are being calculated and just in how they are assessing the list now and future.

 

[SloaneysDanger]

Would you be happier giving up, say 13, next years first and McGovern to get Gibbs?
Is there a line where you would say "too much"?

We won't have to give up two first rounders and McGovern. Lol.

 

[Big Gazoongas]

Carlton board already convincing themselves that this tweet somehow proves SOS is god lol

Ye but a god among men or a god among hamsters?

 

[cmndstab]

It would be a fail because we have brought in no one when we need a midfielder or 2.

It looks like we have put all our eggs in the one basket.

This is the kind of thinking that always occurs on this board, though. There is this prevailing mentality that the club is thinking and focusing on exactly what we are.

Just because we (the posters on this forum) have spent the week thinking about Gibbs and nothing more, doesn't mean that's what our list manager has been doing.

 

[dogs105]

We won't have to give up two first rounders and McGovern. Lol.

So where is the line for you? 2 firsts okay?

 

[jenny61_99]

I think this shows we will not be using 2 firsts round picks for Gibbs

Depends who blinks first.