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Does anyone know if he is staying at Collingwood?

Mate bumped into him OS this week, and he suggested he was coming to Freo via one of the drafts. Not sure we want/need him.

Has he walked out on them?
 
Belele said:
Does anyone know if he is staying at Collingwood?

Mate bumped into him OS this week, and he suggested he was coming to Freo via one of the drafts. Not sure we want/need him.

Has he walked out on them?
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We need a full forward, which he is. Whether he is good enough is another story, but I'd be happy to give him a crack.
 

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Did Jack say that himself?

Gold if he did.
EDIT: OS you say? I am becoming a bit skeptical.;)
 
If the big question about his character is true...ie: he is a massive pole smoker...

Then no.

The kick to the crotch region of MM and Eddie would cause massive lulz tho.
 
This would be very funny indeed. But cant see why Freo didn't just trade for him. Pick 72 or PSD would be a long shot given that Carlton are apparently into JA.
 
ballanFYNE said:
Did Jack say that himself?

Gold if he did.
EDIT: OS you say? I am becoming a bit skeptical.;)
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I'm not. Was in Thailand with my old man when i was a kid, the Carlton boys staying at our hotel, the old boy starts chatting to David Parkin who tells him Stephen ORielly is lock and load, and for what pick.

Fair while back yeah, but they know us random joes aren't journos.

Did a count of lists slots this morning, and we have 4 free afaik, so 3 in the draft + 1 PSD pick......

I reckon this could be legit. All of a sudden the Tarrant deal looks a hell of alot better xD
 
ballanFYNE said:
Did Jack say that himself?

Gold if he did.
EDIT: OS you say? I am becoming a bit skeptical.;)
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Hence why I flagged the post as a rumor, not stated it as fact.

Yes OS in Vegas last week, from JA's mouth. Mate is a Carlton supporter and was ribbing him to go to CFC which he responded to by saying he will be at Freo, "done deal".

I know my mate isn't talking shit, but JA may well be, is known to be a bigger FIGJAM than Buckley.
 
So, let me think this through;
A) Pies knew they couldn't fit him into their cap and try offload (and will Noe delist)
B) we reject him in a trade for Tarrant but are not happy with what we did get, implying we either really don't want or, we do want him but weren't smart enough to say throw him in and the deal's done.
C) we don't want him.

Or
D) we don want him

Or
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theGav56 said:
So, let me think this through;
A) Pies knew they couldn't fit him into their cap and try offload (and will Noe delist)
B) we reject him in a trade for Tarrant but are not happy with what we did get, implying we either really don't want or, we do want him but weren't smart enough to say throw him in and the deal's done.
C) we don't want him.

Or
D) we don want him

Or
Etc
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Or we always knew we would take him in the PSD, so just got as much as we could from Collingwood not including him. Which wasn't all that much. It makes some sort of sense .
 
theGav56 said:
So, let me think this through;
A) Pies knew they couldn't fit him into their cap and try offload (and will Noe delist)
B) we reject him in a trade for Tarrant but are not happy with what we did get, implying we either really don't want or, we do want him but weren't smart enough to say throw him in and the deal's done.
C) we don't want him.

Or
D) we don want him

Or
Etc
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Or we did want him, but not at the price Collingwood was asking?

Occam's Razor and all that :(
 
kp junior said:
Or we always knew we would take him in the PSD, so just got as much as we could from Collingwood not including him. Which wasn't all that much. It makes some sort of sense .
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It does make sense. If you believe that there is zero interest from any other club, or that we are going to pay him so highly that no one else can afford him.
 
theGav56 said:
We got a next to nothing pick, and thet are going to delist him for nothing. Do you think they would have been holding out for us to chuck in Hill??
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We got hosed on that deal through an ungrateful player a bastard agent and the Pies bullshit tactics. I hope that we get Anthony/Blight pre season/Rookie List and they both turn out to be stars.

I also hope that Taz mentally goes surfing again and is TOTALLY crap for the Pies. Not to mention that whoever we pick up at Pick 55 wins the BROWNLOW! Please GOD one time!!!!
 

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My biggest concern would be around his attitude if he is as much of a tosser as everybody reports. We have a very tight knit group of players coming through and developing together. The older guys are thriving on the youngsters energy and providing leadership and guidance. Seems to be a pretty good balance at the moment. If there is a risk of him upsetting team harmony I'd be very careful in weighing up what he offers against the damage he could do. Having said that, most teams have a prick or two and the players are generally professional enough to deal with it, but...
 
Selggad said:
My biggest concern would be around his attitude if he is as much of a tosser as everybody reports. We have a very tight knit group of players coming through and developing together. The older guys are thriving on the youngsters energy and providing leadership and guidance. Seems to be a pretty good balance at the moment. If there is a risk of him upsetting team harmony I'd be very careful in weighing up what he offers against the damage he could do. Having said that, most teams have a prick or two and the players are generally professional enough to deal with it, but...
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Yeah maybe, and you are probably right. But we did lose a required player in Tarrant, had issues with MJ and Palmer, lost several off-field staff and have had some ordinary process from Rosich. I doubt if everything is ever perfect at a club.
 
theGav56 said:
We got a next to nothing pick, and thet are going to delist him for nothing. Do you think they would have been holding out for us to chuck in Hill??
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No, but to use your analogy, perhaps they were asking for us to chuck in Hill, and we said FOAD? Essendon did the same thing with Keplar, they took the piss, we refused to be bent over, so we picked him up for what we thought was a fair price in the draft.

The rumour doing the rounds at the time is they wanted Taz + an earlyish pick for Anthony. Can you see why we didn't want a part of that?

If Collingwood offer Anthony a contract, but he refuses to sign as he can go to a side where he will get a game, ala Freo, they aren't delisting him because they don't want him, they're delisting him because he clearly doesn't want to play for them and would therefore be wasting a list slot.

It's like the McPhee scenario last year man, they wanted him, but he didn't want them. It's not hard to grasp.
 
I'd take him in a heartbeat. If he wants to be over here in WA, welcome aboard son. If they'd wanted to delist him, he'd already be. Opportunities wont come to him at Collingwood, not ever.
 
I'd have him in our setup too. Think he would take a bit of pressure off of Mayne up front and be good backup in defence. Think Ballantyne would find him the perfect foil although Ballantyne seems to have almost an intuitive knack to be where Pav needs him!
 

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