Confirmed Jake Stringer [traded to Essendon]

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of course you're supportive! you want him to sign @ your club. i wonder how supportive you'll be when he's turning up late to training, not being a team player, being unfit, not preparing well and sleeping with 17 year olds when his second wife is pregnant with his fourth child...
Well hand him over and move on then if he is so much trouble and disruptive...

Comments like this i don't get... is he ultra valuable or is he damaging goods???
 

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of course you're supportive! you want him to sign @ your club. i wonder how supportive you'll be when he's turning up late to training, not being a team player, being unfit, not preparing well and sleeping with 17 year olds when his second wife is pregnant with his fourth child...
Mate he will move in with natrat. Problem solved
 

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Essendon won't get Stringer for just pick 25.
They have offered 25 and 30 and aren't going to deviate too much from that. It's all about another club giving up a first rd pick for those picks to satisfy the Dogs.
Issue is, who does that trade? Pick 25+30 is worth 11 on points this year. But it's a shallow draft so you'd be crazy to trade an early pick for two in the middle, and is why Richmond and others have not when offered.

Dogs only have 9 and 28 this year in a fairly weak draft. They could take another two second rounders, but this is not a draft to bring on players from the second round and everyone knows it.

No idea how this one ends, but it's looking less and less likely to see everyone around a campfire with marshmallows and hot chocolate. Someone is going to be left salty.
 
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For a start pro athletes operate under a different IR system to regualar folk.
do they?

I mean, they have individually negotiated contracts, yes, but so do many workers; and in any case that doesn't mean they exist in a detached environment. They are still workplace contracts, they still have all the inherent rights of any other worker.

What specifically are you referring to with this comment?

And, further, what justification do you have to claim that a pro athlete wouldn't get paid for taking the equivalent of stress leave? You must have some specific example or contractual mechanism to reference, surely?
 

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do they?

I mean, they have individually negotiated contracts, yes, but so do many workers; and in any case that doesn't mean they exist in a detached environment. They are still workplace contracts, they still have all the inherent rights of any other worker.

What specifically are you referring to with this comment?

And, further, what justification do you have to claim that a pro athlete wouldn't get paid for taking the equivalent of stress leave? You must have some specific example or contractual mechanism to reference, surely?

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Our first 2018 is likely to be above your first 2018...
As stated he meant 2nd rounder, but are bulldog fans not confident of a return to previous form? Or do you just rate the bombers?

I'd have thought that in saying the club is only taking 2 live picks the feeling was 2017 was a bit of an aberration for you lot, and there's also every chance the bombers (fairly unimpressive) 2017 had a bit of honeymoon about it and the other sides will have a better idea of what they're up against in 2018 as well.
 

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Jake isn't the only person who's been involved with a club that didn't necessarily want him but may not be able to get rid of him. Pretty simple
This issue is more Jake wanting to get away, rather than you not being able to get rid of him.


Your club could mutually terminate jakes contract at this very moment if you wanted.
 

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Jake regularly attending mental health therapy? A great outcome

Not likely but if he does every chance he would wake up to himself.
He is a 23 year old making his way through life. Easy for us to say we didn't make the same mistakes as him, but we weren't wearing a Premiership medal with a beefed up salary and women falling over us anytime we went outside.
 
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