Traded Jake Stringer [traded to Essendon]

[the PILL]

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???

 

[Dennis Trumpet]

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

 

[Dazer]

The Dogs can't trade him now, they'll look like idiots. Probably lose their jobs too! Baulked at a first rounder for 2 second rounders... sheesh! This trade won't happen.

 

[Ari]

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.

 

[chef]

James Hird hung around after he wasn't wanted... Not sure if many of you remember but your club has the worst case of drug cheating in Australian history and probably the world?

What has this got to do with the Stringer trade?

 

[BRWB]

How do you not pay him?

Any employee gets paid for stress leave. How would this be different?

For a start pro athletes operate under a different IR system to regualar folk.

 

[Scotland]

Who gives a **** about points?

Pick 3 is "worth" 33, 36, 37 and 43.

Not relevant. Not useful.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

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?

 

[chef]

They have superGordo.

I guess it depends how old you are, to me he's Super Gordo but I can remember 89.

 

[Dave]

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?

Tom Boyd says hello.

 

[Dave]

I guess it depends how old you are, to me he's Super Gordo but I can remember 89.

So can I my friend, all too well.

 

[yodellinhank]

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.

 

[Halloween Jack]

Who gives a **** about points?

Pick 3 is "worth" 33, 36, 37 and 43.

Not relevant. Not useful.

this should be posted in every trade thread

 

[go you pups]

Maybe in points value. You have no forward line, backline and a shit ruckman.

And we beat you

 

[brmi]

What has this got to do with the Stringer trade?

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

 

[chef]

So can I my friend, all too well.

I don't get the hate he cops, as a dogs supporter the guys a frickin legend.

 

[yebiga]

Jake regularly attending mental health therapy? A great outcome

Not likely but if he does every chance he would wake up to himself.

 

[Dennis Trumpet]

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.

 

[chef]

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

More the unsubtle dig at the end which only fuels the trolling flames. Do we need that?

 

[Scotland]

Exactly how many Essendon mouthpieces are there in the media commenting on this trade?

Also predictable that the mental health card has been played.

 

[Ari]

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.

 

[reload141]

Exactly how many Essendon mouthpieces are there in the media commenting on this trade?

Also predictable that the mental health card has been played.

You mean his manager is playing the mental health card?

 

[Ari]

Also predictable that the mental health card has been played.

I hate that it has.

 

[Scotland]

You mean his manager is playing the mental health card?

Yes.

 

[chef]

Drug scandals can't be mentioned yet tin rattling references are welcomed with open arms

I have a crack at Bombers supporters when they do the same. It's a two way street.