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Heard a few rumors Welshy is being offered a more lucrative 2 year contract from a Melbourne based team. Adelaide are supposedly only offering a 1 year, performance based contract with the option of a 2nd year if he plays a certain amount of games. Where would this leave our thin forward line if he left?
 
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Freddy Bassett said:
Heard a few rumors Welshy is being offered a more lucrative 2 year contract from a Melbourne based team. Adelaide are supposedly only offering a 1 year, performance based contract with the option of a 2nd year if he plays a certain amount of games. Where would this leave our thin forward line if he left?
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If he (I thought he signed a new contract the week preceding the finals loss) walks away and accept this offer in the short term in a bit of trouble but every negative has a positive and this will hopefully fast track one of the younger boys next year.

It will give extra opportunities to Tippett, Sellar, Walker or any forward we may draft to push for senior selection next year.

Hopefully he stays but if he takes the better offer (as you have alluded to with this rumour) and doesn’t stay it’s not the end of the world. IMO
 
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What Melbourne-based club would offer him two years?

Richmond, Carlton, Geelong, Essendon, Collingwood, Hawthorn, North Melbourne = no.

Melbourne, Bulldogs, St. Kilda would be the only chances.
 
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Rookie said:
What Melbourne-based club would offer him two years?

Richmond, Carlton, Geelong, Essendon, Collingwood, Hawthorn, North Melbourne = no.

Melbourne, Bulldogs, St. Kilda would be the only chances.
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Why couldn't Richmond or Essendon. You know these two clubs have a bit left in their salary caps because they were both trying to nab Brennan. In fact I would say Essedon were probably the most likely of the Melbourne clubs. Unlike Richmond and Carlton they don't have a youth policy and a foward line containing Welsh, Lucas and Lloyd would be pretty formidable

I would say North and Hawthorn were also chances
 

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Would =! could. Richmond and Essendon both probably wouldn't want him.
 
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Rookie said:
What Melbourne-based club would offer him two years?

Richmond, Carlton, Geelong, Essendon, Collingwood, Hawthorn, North Melbourne = no.

Melbourne, Bulldogs, St. Kilda would be the only chances.
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From what I heard and take it or leave it, Melbourne..
 
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He has been great, but too be honest the Welsh plays as a forward he seems to go missing every other week in between kicking the occasional bag.
 
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From a lawyer mate who works with a certain player manager. Take it or leave it as i said before and dont shoot the messenger, Im just trying to contribute to the Crows Forum. Im certainly not making up threads for the sake of it. I will stick my neck out and say judge what I have posted in a week or two...
 
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With Scott Welsh, I've noticed he tends to have one good year, then has one ruined by injury, followed by a good one. Going on that theory, he's up for a bad one, I hope he doesn't, but if he were to leave it may not be the worst of times. It would also create opportunities for our youngsters as well as giving us perhaps a pick in the PSD, which we could use to pick up one of the blokes training at port of something.

Saying that I really hope he doesn't, he is a great player, a great shot on goal, however I think we play him out of position too often, I think he is best as a leading full-forward and he doesn't do that too often with the crows set up. It might be good for Scott also in that he probably has at best 1 or 2 more years in the side before becomes a victim of our more youthful outlook and the on set of Walker, Sellar and Tippet.
 
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As someone else said, Welshy has a good year and follows it up with an injury riddled one, then again a good one and so on.

If he goes, it will affect us in the short term but it would open up an opportunity for one of the youngesters to step in and develop. We might see more of Vince or Jericho :D as a result. Texas Ranger would also be some chance.
 

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I think people are under-estimating how much we would miss Welsh if he left. He led our goal-kicking being played mostly out of position (should be a flanker).

If true, I'm sick of these Melbourne teams poaching other team players. Time to give them taste of their own medicine. eg. Offer Gibbs or Griffen a big contract to leave.
 
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Kane McGoodwin said:
I think people are under-estimating how much we would miss Welsh if he left. He led our goal-kicking being played mostly out of position (should be a flanker).

If true, I'm sick of these Melbourne teams poaching other team players. Time to give them taste of their own medicine. eg. Offer Gibbs or Griffen a big contract to leave.
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No doubt he would be missed short term. Especially since he is by far our most reliable shot on goal from anywhere inside 50. However, in the long run we will need to find someone to take over from Welsh.

Welsh won't be around for much longer either way and relying on him in the next 2-3 years would be a bit pointless. What we should be doing is grooming someone now to take his spot and hopefully become better than Welsh.
 
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RichosGuns said:
Why couldn't Richmond or Essendon. You know these two clubs have a bit left in their salary caps because they were both trying to nab Brennan. In fact I would say Essedon were probably the most likely of the Melbourne clubs. Unlike Richmond and Carlton they don't have a youth policy and a foward line containing Welsh, Lucas and Lloyd would be pretty formidable

I would say North and Hawthorn were also chances
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Essendon wouldn't look at him, not with Neagle, Gumby, et al to develop.

Yeah, North and Hawthorn could be chances. Hawks go okay with tall forwards but they could always move Roughead back I suppose. Brennan can be played forward or back and Essendon need tall defenders (or will by the time Mal and Fletcher retire), so that's why they'd look at him. I don't think interest in Brennan equates to interest in Welsh.
 
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Nooooooooooooo! Now that Perrie has left (woo hoo) Welshy should be back to his greatness......I was sick of Perrie always spoiling him!
 

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Kane McGoodwin said:
I think people are under-estimating how much we would miss Welsh if he left. He led our goal-kicking being played mostly out of position (should be a flanker).
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While I agree that ideally he should be a flanker, I would argue that he led our goal-kicking because he was being played out of position, rather than despite the fact that he was played out of position.

The fact he gets to lead out of the goal square and be the primary inside 50 target more often than most means that he should have be the leading goal-kicker - just like Burton (again, a more natural flanker) led the goalkicking in 2002 as a full forward.
 
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Wouldn't surprise me at all if he's been offered a two year contract interstate......particularly given our policy with players approaching 30.

However he moved back to Adelaide for lifestyle / familiy reasons and I hardly think he'll move back interstate for one extra year.

On a year to year contract rest assured he'll be performing to his peak
 
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Wayne's-World said:
Wouldn't surprise me at all if he's been offered a two year contract interstate......particularly given our policy with players approaching 30.

However he moved back to Adelaide for lifestyle / familiy reasons and I hardly think he'll move back interstate for one extra year.

On a year to year contract rest assured he'll be performing to his peak
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Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't he on a year by year performance based contract because of his injuries past?

Surely if he was going to be offered a two year contract it would definately look better than the one he was getting with us.

Besides that, he would have to go into the PSD and there is no surety that the club who offered him in the first place would get him anyway unless it was one who had 1st or 2nd pick.
 
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In the PSD you can name a contract, he would and any club that wants to pick him up would have to give him 2 years if he put that down.
 

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