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Ah yes I remember that now. Ouch. Still, wish him well.Was a bad move letting him go for free when he was happy to stay and fight for his spot.
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Ah yes I remember that now. Ouch. Still, wish him well.Was a bad move letting him go for free when he was happy to stay and fight for his spot.
That’s BF for youDifferent situations, I know. But a lot of us thought Jonas was totally cooked when he was out of form a few years back - now he's our captain.
In his early Port career, I thought Jack was destined to hold down our backline for a decade and would captain the club one day. It was a shame that didn't pan out, so I guess I'm just glad he's playing good footy somewhere.
I didn’t see him play but I doubt he would have been in the side against Brisbane.
Two separate ones here.Stoked to see Hombschy playing some great footy for the Suns.
His form, Howard's lack thereof and Watts' injury does beg the question of whether our list management blundered by moving him on though. I think we've made more good list management decisions than bad in recent years, but we do have a knack for moving on good depth players for limited or no currency.
He was a whipping boy on here and plenty wanted him gone for being too slow.
I hope we got something reasonable for him but can’t remember.
Top top bloke and wish him all the best.
At the time I said it was s**t to let him go for a fourth rounder and it’s true today.
Even if he wasn’t in our 22 this year his value at the magpies and club would be worth more than pick 60odd
Having said that it’s not exactly a decision that will haunt us.
Two separate ones here.
1. Was the decision to move him on correct? Yes then and still yes.
2. Did we get unders? Yes, Port are s**t at getting value for players. What's the last player we've had left you'd say we got good value for? Let alone having a clear win like clubs have had our expense like Wingard and Polec for the last two.
Have you ever thought that languishing in the Magpies over playing first team AFL may not have been in Jack's plans?
People rewriting history! Hombsch was playing some terrible footy last year ... Terrible! He was told that he was not in the clubs plans for first-22, and he elected to look at other opportunities. The club & his management looked for other offers, but none came! In the end Gold Coast was the only club willing to take a punt on his cooked hips. So who was in the box seat to demand anything for him!Then I would have found him a place to play.
But I would be asking more than pick 60odd after we’ve already given said team a 1st 22 player for a pick 60odd recently in young.
But as I said I’m not cut up about it. It’s just I thought poet should have asked for more instead of playing very friendly at the trade table as we always do. I’m not convinced it gets paid back.
People rewriting history! Hombsch was playing some terrible footy last year ... Terrible! He was told that he was not in the clubs plans for first-22, and he elected to look at other opportunities. The club & his management looked for other offers, but none came! In the end Gold Coast was the only club willing to take a punt on his cooked hips. So who was in the box seat to demand anything for him!
He is playing well in a really young & poor side ATM, suddenly he is worth much more to the "expert" list managers here on BF.
Go figure!
A future third for us sending a future fourth their way. I'm not expecting to have gotten a pick in the 20's for him. I'd even have taken a swap of our third for their third as a better deal. A fourth round pick is 'a pick to look like you aren't being screwed'.Serious questions. What would have been adequate compensation for Jack in your opinion? And how close to what Gold Coast would pay do you think that would have actually been?
If you go back people were saying we got short-changed for Hombsch, Young, Austin and Pittard (we got below nothing for Pittard ffs) as the trades happened, not 6 months later.He is playing well in a really young & poor side ATM, suddenly he is worth much more to the "expert" list managers here on BF.!
YepTwo separate ones here.
1. Was the decision to move him on correct? Yes then and still yes.
2. Did we get unders? Yes, Port are s**t at getting value for players. What's the last player we've had left you'd say we got good value for? Let alone having a clear win like clubs have had our expense like Wingard and Polec for the last two.
We seem to look after the players’ wants and needs before our own needs in getting fair value. I guess we are a rather an empathetic club towards our players. I guess that comes with some positives and negatives but it is frustrating that we seem to get unders.If you go back people were saying we got short-changed for Hombsch, Young, Austin and Pittard (we got below nothing for Pittard ffs) as the trades happened, not 6 months later.
The club needs to get more value rather than late picks that don't help us much.
I'm not asking to be unreasonable at the trade table either. But I know we do it as a favour for these guys, but it seems like we don't get favours coming our way much.We seem to look after the players wants and needs before our own needs in getting fair value. I guess we are a rather an empathetic club towards our players. I guess that comes with some positives and negatives but it is frustrating that we seem to get unders.
Mind you, at this stage, it seems Crows might have got unders for Cameron and paid overs for Gibbs, so that’s a positive.
True thatI'm not asking to be unreasonable at the trade table either. But I know we do it as a favour for these guys, but it seems like we don't get favours coming our way much.