If Cloke Does Leave.....

[johnjinsf]

If Travis Cloke does decide to leave Collingwood, who do you think the Pies
would 'chase' with the $500,000+ that would open up in their salary cap?

 

[Peter Sidorkiewicz]

No one. I believe Sidebottom, Beams, Wellingham and Ball all have to be re-signed so that 'extra money' will go towards those players.

If Jolly retires then they will use his wage to get another experienced ruckman like Jamar.

 

[Number 10]

I would hope they went ****ing hard for Goddard. Or a young big forward, lynch, Cameron?

 

[Shade]

if cloke left we would be ****ED for a very long time dawes couldn't carry the forward line

id be going after the best young KPF possible.

 

[Baltimore Jack]

I'd go after a couple of young kids from GWS or the Suns.

But I don't think Cloke is going anywhere

 

[mattys123]

Don't worry we have a contingency plan, in fact it's pretty common knowledge that Collingwood have already approached managers of some of the big free agents and just registered their interest, just in case Cloke leaves.

Let's say Trav leaves, well there's a 700k (our latest offer to him) in the Cap, and yes, some of that would go to the other uncontracted players, but it's likely most of them will be signed by the time Trav makes up his mind anyway.

We would get someone, it may not be a Goddard type massive name, but we would pick up a free agent from somewhere, of that I have no doubt.

 

[Shade]

Chris Knights is someone i would look at not on that kinda coin obviously but he could be a very handy depth player

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

If Cloke goes, they will 100% not only go for, but they'll get Goddard.

 

[Bay Pie]

Tom Lynch from the Suns. He's going to be a star.

 

[The Royal Sampler]

Pick up Cameron from GWS. Love the way he plays.

Seriously though, we'd probably have a look at midfield because KP forwards just aren't available.

 

[the distributer]

Goddard? lol, yeah, let's go for a 28 yr old HB.

 

[SquirrelGrrripp]

Taylor Walker would be a decent proposition... Not to sure about his contract status though.

 

[the mighty T]

Goddard? lol, yeah, let's go for a 28 yr old HB.

Goddard is more than that mate. He is a seriously talented footballer. I'd have him in a heartbeat.

 

[Swooop]

Goddard? lol, yeah, let's go for a 28 yr old HB.

My thoughts exactly.

Most overrated player in the league.

 

[the distributer]

Goddard is more than that mate. He is a seriously talented footballer. I'd have him in a heartbeat.

He's done F All since 2010.

 

[Hva sher a]

still don't think he'll leave but if he does we'll restructure our game plan, build it around more mobile kpp's like Dawes, Paine, groom Witts as the power forward with stints as relief ruck and then, maybe a strong marking type like Charlie Dixon from the Suns (who could do well being fed by a good midfield)

Not sure if Jeremy Cameron would be available right now. And don't want to get into a bidding war for him - he's not that good yet

Let's not try to get a Cloke V2 either - that type of player is too hard to find and takes a while to groom.

 

[jonesy86]

The only tall forwards who are free agents are Kosi and Q.Lynch.

 

[ipswichpies]

F----- if I know why we are even speculating about him leaving,I think the list of suitable destinations for Cloke to go to are growing shorter by the week.

 

[Frankie23]

The one and only LRT

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

He's done F All since 2010.

I don't want to be contraversial, but you could say much the same about Thomas.

 

[ipswichpies]

I don't want to be contraversial, but you could say much the same about Thomas.

MMD
I think you wrong there his 1st half of 2011 was very good he only lost his way after his 2 suspensions,speaking of suspensions I heard a rumour he might be trouble for incident with Chapman does anyone know anything about this.

 

[NeRFaHoLIc]

I don't want to be contraversial, but you could say much the same about Thomas.

You mean the guy who was All Australian last year and has had 4 games for us to judge him on this year?

 

[blaze036]

MMD
I think you wrong there his 1st half of 2011 was very good he only lost his way after his 2 suspensions,speaking of suspensions I heard a rumour he might be trouble for incident with Chapman does anyone know anything about this.

He kind of open handed bnked him on the head... pretty low force though and he immediately apologized, chapman got a big angry but i think a reprimand or nothing will be the outcome

 

[rhys_22]

Cloke will not go anywhere.

Any interstate club he will not go to.You do know his old man is good mates with people up at gws,if he was going to go anywhere it would be there but they already said they dont want him. The clokes are a very close family and will not be apart from eachother.

He even said himself it is not all about the money.

He has several very good mates at collingwood,he gets on with bucks.

He will not go to Melbourne,i mean look at them this year,why would he leave collingwood to go to melbourne..

He wont go to richmond they dont have enough money.And they rejected him and his brothers already under the father/son rule years ago.

He wont go to the dogs.He was offered more money at the end of his last contract to play with essendon.He rejected it.

All david cloke is trying to do is get the best deal for his son and looking out for travs best interest.It is normal he is going to entertain talks with other clubs to rival whatever collingwood offers.

Im confident.He'll stay.Not worried one bit

 

[eddiebankbalance]

still don't think he'll leave but if he does we'll restructure our game plan, build it around more mobile kpp's like Dawes, Paine, groom Witts

God give me strength! Cloke is going anywhere, thank f.a.r.k!