Confirmed Jaeger O'Meara [traded to Hawthorn for pick 10 and GWS's 2017 2nd rd pick]

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The thing is, he's not a free agent.

So he can say he'll only go to Hawthorn all he wants, but if he's forced to hit the draft he goes where the draft takes him. And that looks dang likely to be back to the GC Suns. He can't enter the draft without agreeing to that term in the same way any young player had to agree to that.

So basically? He's shit out of luck in demanding to get to choose him next club if the great Tony Cochrane decides he's getting f***ed. And Tony seems to think he feels a presence niggling right at the entrance to his dark passage at the moment... :)
None of that has anything to do with the Swans talk from Monday.
 

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Tony Sheahan is pretty confident Suns and Swans are talking. What the hell is going on.

Someone slap some sense into me.
You really think if there was an offer on the table from the Swans (or anyone else) that GC would keep that secret from the Hawks instead of just starting a bidding war? Its not a silent auction..
 

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Then change the landscape, change the nomination system. It's awful that a club gets hamstrung because player can nominate where they want to go. Nominate a state, there's 2 clubs in every state at least. Let the club with the best offer win.
It doesn't matter what the nomination system is for clubs who can't hold onto highly rated talent and can't attract highly rated mature aged players.

Also, it's super easy to say 'change the landscape', but the reality is it's damn near impossible to do it without opening up a bunch of loopholes and other downsides, and that's before you even get to the potential legal risks.
 
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And everything to do with the fact he can't actually dictate he will "only go to hawthorn" if the two clubs can't agree on equity in the trade :)
It's a players market now....Everyone knows that except Cochrane, it seems.

O'Meara won't be going to Sydney.

Expect plenty more Cochrane ruses & hi-jinx before 2pm 2moz.
 

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That's the AFL landscape these days. GC can make it as difficult as they like, but the reality is that as long as players (and especially elite youngsters) want to leave the club, they will often find themselves in a situation where they can't get full value for the player. The successful clubs tend to allow players to leave their club, even when they don't get full value, but they also create an environment where elite players don't want to leave year in year out. GC taking a stand is admirable, but the problem is that once a player decides they want out, the club has already lost the battle, regardless of whether they get a good trade.

GC can talk all they want about wanting to get mature players, but until they can convince players to actually go there, it's nothing but a distraction. They have picks 4, 6, 8, and could have 10, and yet the only players they can convince to come to their club are Hanley and Lyons? Some combination of those picks would be more than enough to satisfy another club in a trade for an elite player, or at least a very high level player, yet GC have been unable to get any of those players to want to come to the club. And that's where GC have to take advantage of the current situation. There is nothing stopping them from poaching players from other clubs, and forcing those clubs to trade players for less than their value.
Theres no point trying to poach players from other clubs if nobody wants to go there. The fact that the Chairman is involved so publicly is a testament to the way the club is run - highly unprofessionally!
None of the other Chairman behave in this manner - Marcus Ashcroft is the List Manager and he has been treated so disrespectfully and unprofessionally in this Omeara deal.
 

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It doesn't matter what the nomination system is for clubs who can't hold onto highly rated talent and can't attract highly rated mature aged players.

Also, it's super easy to say 'change the landscape', but the reality is it's damn near impossible to do it without opening up a bunch of loopholes and other downsides, and that's before you even get to the potential legal risks.
Then include anti poaching rules so clubs can only talk to players that aren't under their contracts during Trade and FA time. It will stop a whole lot of situations like this where clubs promise players everything then can't find the right capital to get the trade through. Sure it might be the Suns fault we can't attract talent but it isn't our fault the Hawks can't find a deal that matches our wishes.
 

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Theres no point trying to poach players from other clubs if nobody wants to go there. The fact that the Chairman is involved so publicly is a testament to the way the club is run - highly unprofessionally!
None of the other Chairman behave in this manner - Marcus Ashcroft is the List Manager and he has been treated so disrespectfully and unprofessionally in this Omeara deal.
Yea he's been treated disrespectfully by Hawks fans calling him out just because he won't accept just any deal Hawthorn offers.
 

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Every single GC fan in this thread: "We aren't taking an offer we find unders"

Every single Hawks fan in this thread "FU and your shitty club no one wants go there."

It's a broken record in here
 

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Every single GC fan in this thread: "We aren't taking an offer we find unders"

Every single Hawks fan in this thread "FU and your shitty club no one wants go there."

It's a broken record in here
This thread is truly awful, the worst of the worst. Had to check out for 50 pages or so.
 

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You really think if there was an offer on the table from the Swans (or anyone else) that GC would keep that secret from the Hawks instead of just starting a bidding war? Its not a silent auction..
You mean like how the Hawks said to the Suns hay we are talking to judus OMeara 12 months ago

Maybe you taught us to just to just blind side like without integrity
 
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