List Mgmt. OFFICIAL: Dangerfield + Pick 50 for Picks 9, 28 and Dean Gore

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I highly doubt they have the funds to do it.
You should check who the crows have resigned recently and who hasn't been signed up by the crows. That will give you a better picture.
Perhaps. And if we don't have the funds to match then so be it. But I believe that Danger is coming off a 3 year deal worth 2.4 million dollars so there's that money floating about. Plus, we have yet to re-sign several fringe players who would be on reasonable coin. By all accounts, the club has a pretty healthy amount of money to play with in the salary cap.
 

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I think its safe to assume that FA was drawn up by professionals from several organisations and interested parties.
No doubt.
You asked me what I thought, I told you on the basis of my recollection of discussions at the time, and if you don't like my answer, I guess that's something we'll both have to live with.:D
 

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of course it is. you are suggesting your club doesn't care about the league it plays in and is beholden to or the body that represents its players....

thats like the local mayor not giving a crap about what the union or government has to say about how they run their council.
 
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You don't mate.
You think you do but you don't.
Paddy will walk either way he just wants to go home.
Regardless which club he goes too in Victoria the Crows at best will get pick 14.
Once again no different to any other trade scenario.....not sure why it's been made to look like it is. (assuming the offer is matched)
 
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Perhaps. And if we don't have the funds to match then so be it. But I believe that Danger is coming off a 3 year deal worth 2.4 million dollars so there's that money floating about. Plus, we have yet to re-sign several fringe players who would be on reasonable coin. By all accounts, the club has a pretty healthy amount of money to play with in the salary cap.
Crows are a million short. Just crunched the numbers.
 

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Should have moved Moggs Cteek closer to Adelaide. What were they thinking?
Oh please, as I said we have many interstate players at geelong and they have stayed because of the environment. One would imagine that anyone who enjoyed where they grew up would like to get back their one day. Or is it that all of the SA boys playing for geelong hate it at home, thus decided geelong was a beetter place to live!
 

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of course it is. you are suggesting your club doesn't care about the league it plays in and is beholden to or the body that represents its players....

thats like the local mayor not giving a crap about what the union or government has to say about how they run their council.
Ok fair enough but it was the PA that agreed to the RFA rules. Did they agree to this just to keep the clubs happy, then when the scenario arrises they kick up a fuss?
 

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Ok fair enough but it was the PA that agreed to the RFA rules. Did they agree to this just to keep the clubs happy, then when the scenario arrises they kick up a fuss?
when the rules are abused yes. that is what is happening. you have the right to match to keep him at your club, not simply to manipulate the system. when rules don't function correctly they get changed, the AFL do it every year. you really think that Adelaide abusing the rule won't lead to it being changed, and in the process of it being changed the PA will push alot harder to ensure the same abuse can't happen leading to a system far more favorable to the players than the current system?

play it out logically and you will see that the AFL and the AFLPA will both be putting serious pressure on adelaide not to abuse the system.

Also dont waste more space in this thread about how it is 'within the rules' blah blah. hawthorn rushing behinds every time a geelong player looked at them in the 08 GF was within the rules. the AFL changed the rules because it was seen as an abuse. Hawthorn tackling players and holding them down during link up handball through the middle was on the edge of legal, but the AFL saw it as an abuse and changed the rule...

you see my point? the afl always change rules to prevent abuse that is seen to look bad, and those two things looked bad. This situation if it enters a protracted fight and possible ultimatums when all that is happening is a player trying to move under free agency, you can guarantee that it will end in a rule change, and the AFLPA will ensure the change will not be in the clubs best interests so the AFL and likely other clubs will all be pressuring the Crows to think it through long term. Otherwise, you may want to only recruit local lads in the future.
 

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Thanks, Stan. But I've been peddling the same theory for the last few days. But I suppose that this thread has exploded over the the same period, so I'm sure that I too have missed some gems posted on here.;)
It seems anyone who engages them gets rather worked up. There is no point until they have to deal with reality in 2 weeks.
 

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Hmmm - Jacobs out scored Dangerfield for votes in the semi; was Jacobs actually more influential/better player or just a slight hint of sour grapes to not let Danger be bog in his final game for the Crows?
 
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