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

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I've heard plenty of Geelong people say Adelaide is within its rights to get the best compensation it can. Yet to hear a Crow (or the media for that matter) say Geelong is entitled to seek to get it done at least cost. Weird.
Don't worry, when the whole "matching" story gets old and the media needs to look for a new angle, they will change tact and begin to talk about how unjust it is that a FA wants to go home to start a family, is prepared to play for a club at under market value yet is being prevented from doing so.

Give it a week, two at the most, and this will happen. I guarantee it.
 

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By moving him the way we want instead of the way you want
By preventing the way he wants to move... stop playing a game of semantics.. accept you are preventing movement to maximise the best deal for yourself. Revel in it..don't be shy.. stand up and yell we will deny all their rights to ensure we as well placed as we can be.

Geelong must do what it must do as well.... and Danger must do what he must do... but don't pretend you are not preventing him from moving... the prevention is the weapon you are using to get the best deal possible.
 

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Don't worry, when the whole "matching" story gets old and the media needs to look for a new angle, they will change tact and begin to talk about how unjust it is that a FA wants to go home to start a family, is prepared to play for a club at under market value yet is being prevented from doing so.

Give it a week, two at the most, and this will happen. I guarantee it.
I also should have added that as the opinion and slant of the media begins to change, so too will the opinion of the football public. Sad, but true.
 

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Dangerfield wins it, said leaving Adelaide is the hardest decision he has had to make, and that it was purely a family based decision.
Walks on stage .. Well hello all the people that bagged my better half , hello to all the people saying stuff about my family ... hello and good bye...good bye to this club that I have give all to for 8 years , and now you are telling me that I have less rights than other players than have played 8 years for you , well thank YOU VERY MUCH........

Yeah I dont think so.... PD knows what they want to hear.
 
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I watched his speech, a few references to the "lure of home" and how Adelaide has been "a home away from home."

There was clearly a lot of awkwardness in the room and Laird (2nd place) and Betts (3rd) got much larger cheers from the crowd than Danger did.
 

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I watched his speech, a few references to the "lure of home" and how Adelaide has been "a home away from home."

There was clearly a lot of awkwardness in the room and Laird (2nd place) and Betts (3rd) got much larger cheers from the crowd than Danger did.
I noticed that when they mention Laird in second place. Be a tough situation for Danger that one, but I thought he handled it as well as he could.

On a separate, but similar note. I can't WAIT to see him in the blue and white hoops.

Ohhhh the Randymarsh.jpg! :D
 
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By preventing the way he wants to move... stop playing a game of semantics.. accept you are preventing movement to maximise the best deal for yourself. Revel in it..don't be shy.. stand up and yell we will deny all their rights to ensure we as well placed as we can be.

Geelong must do what it must do as well.... and Danger must do what he must do... but don't pretend you are not preventing him from moving... the prevention is the weapon you are using to get the best deal possible.
I'm sorry, but what exactly is it that the Crows have supposedly done that is so untoward? Can you point to an official statement made by the club that would suggest they are planning on doing anything outside the rules or that would prevent Danger from ending up at his club of choice?

Having said that, I agree with many on this board that he has been unfairly criticised by our supporters. While I am disappointed he is leaving, it is what it is but I certainly wish him no ill will and good luck to him in the future. He's a gun and is the type of player that makes football worth watching. I just hope that, if possible, the Crows can engineer a halfway reasonable trade. Cheers.
 

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Don't worry, when the whole "matching" story gets old and the media needs to look for a new angle, they will change tact and begin to talk about how unjust it is that a FA wants to go home to start a family, is prepared to play for a club at under market value yet is being prevented from doing so.

Give it a week, two at the most, and this will happen. I guarantee it.
Who is the underdog here? The narrative has to eventually follow the individual (Patrick) vs the behemoth (The Adelaide Football Club) doesn't it? At the moment Geelong are still just a sweet note on the whispering wind, and we will be until something concrete has emerged.
 

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I'm sorry, but what exactly is it that the Crows have supposedly done that is so untoward? Can you point to an official statement made by the club that would suggest they are planning on doing anything outside the rules or that would prevent Danger from ending up at his club of choice?

Having said that, I agree with many on this board that he has been unfairly criticised by our supporters. While I am disappointed he is leaving, it is what it is but I certainly wish him no ill will and good luck to him in the future. He's a gun and is the type of player that makes football worth watching. I just hope that, if possible, the Crows can engineer a halfway reasonable trade. Cheers.
For a start...you're not sorry.

And the debate was rel. to movement. Your preventing ..or should I say your intention to match is a prevention of movement. Nothing untoward..you're doing what you see is in your immediate best interest. Don't deny what your doing... bathe in the full glow of the master servant relationship... enjoy that even after 8 years of indentured servitude you get to influence his hard earned free agency. You have done nothing ..."wrong"..or illegal... far from it... i'm sure plenty of high flying legal manipulators know that it matters not anyway if your are right or wrong...its just what the rules are.
 
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