The AFL needs to fix free agency before it cripples GWS

[GC2015]

The AFL needs to protect their baby from the dark world of free agency when quite a few of their significant players becomes free agents for the first time next year. 2019 names include - Stephen Coniglio, Dylan Shiel, Nick Haynes, Adam Tomlinson and Matt Buntine. 2020 names include - Jeremy Cameron, Lachie Whitfield, Jonathan Patton, Zac Williams and Adam Kennedy.

The AFL simply can't allow those players to enter a free market because it will obliterate GWS's stocks.

 

[coniglio_number1]

The AFL needs to protect their baby from the dark world of free agency when quite a few of their significant players becomes free agents for the first time next year. 2019 names include - Stephen Coniglio, Dylan Shiel, Nick Haynes, Adam Tomlinson and Matt Buntine. 2020 names include - Jeremy Cameron, Lachie Whitfield, Jonathan Patton, Zac Williams and Adam Kennedy.

The AFL simply can't allow those players to enter a free market because it will obliterate GWS's stocks.

Every team has to endure and plan for free agency accordingly. Can’t rules for some and not others. I say bring it on

 

[Madness101]

They clearly have the most talented list, even better than ours by a healthy margin too.

They will lose a few, naturally, but thats what happens when you are given that many draft picks and yiu nail so many of then.

Good problem to have.

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

This is really funny

 

[Bluelegs]

I guess there's more appeal to living in Sydney than the Gold Coast.

 

[Cmarsh]

The AFL needs to protect their baby from the dark world of free agency when quite a few of their significant players becomes free agents for the first time next year. 2019 names include - Stephen Coniglio, Dylan Shiel, Nick Haynes, Adam Tomlinson and Matt Buntine. 2020 names include - Jeremy Cameron, Lachie Whitfield, Jonathan Patton, Zac Williams and Adam Kennedy.

The AFL simply can't allow those players to enter a free market because it will obliterate GWS's stocks.

Thanks for your concern.

 

[FISTO]

I like Turtles

 

[Noobz0r]

Someone is trying to distract from Tom Lynch...

 

[kranky al]

I guess there's more appeal to living in Sydney than the Gold Coast.

I just dont get that.

Really dont - id want buddy coin to live in stinkney.

 

[Colonial]

The AFL needs to protect their baby from the dark world of free agency when quite a few of their significant players becomes free agents for the first time next year. 2019 names include - Stephen Coniglio, Dylan Shiel, Nick Haynes, Adam Tomlinson and Matt Buntine. 2020 names include - Jeremy Cameron, Lachie Whitfield, Jonathan Patton, Zac Williams and Adam Kennedy.

The AFL simply can't allow those players to enter a free market because it will obliterate GWS's stocks.

Thank you for caring but FA is something everyone deals with.

Will we lose some? Most probably.

Will we keep them? Most probably.

Will we be crippled? No.

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[Skeppersap]

The AFL needs to protect their baby from the dark world of free agency when quite a few of their significant players becomes free agents for the first time next year. 2019 names include - Stephen Coniglio, Dylan Shiel, Nick Haynes, Adam Tomlinson and Matt Buntine. 2020 names include - Jeremy Cameron, Lachie Whitfield, Jonathan Patton, Zac Williams and Adam Kennedy.

The AFL simply can't allow those players to enter a free market because it will obliterate GWS's stocks.

The Suns loved being able to take Ablett from Geelong, but can't handle it when players go the other way...

 

[Gavin Excell]

The AFL should treat the Saints in the same way the WAFC are dealing with West Perth, handouts to a mob that have been around for more than 100 years & still have trouble pulling a crowd, attracting sponsors & unable to run a break even operation (the Saints subsidised by pokies) ... no wonder you bitch about a team that hasnt been about even 10 years, denial is so easy, get along to your club AGM & demand a better effort by all associated with your own mob, what a disgrace !!!
How do continue to make excuses for continued sub standard performance.

Whack

 

[Ichabod Noodle]

The AFL needs to protect their baby from the dark world of free agency when quite a few of their significant players becomes free agents for the first time next year. 2019 names include - Stephen Coniglio, Dylan Shiel, Nick Haynes, Adam Tomlinson and Matt Buntine. 2020 names include - Jeremy Cameron, Lachie Whitfield, Jonathan Patton, Zac Williams and Adam Kennedy.

The AFL simply can't allow those players to enter a free market because it will obliterate GWS's stocks.

Love how you put Adam Kennedy in that list. Not a single club wanted him with any of the 112 picks in the 2010 draft - and Zac Williams (affectively pick 161 after nobody took him in the draft and he came to us pick 54 in the rookie draft)

But hey - they’re all just first round top pick guns - that’s all we have at this club.

People said we’d never re-sign a player as they would walk at the very first opportunity, that nobody would ever want to play for us. Then one by one they re-signed - and then re-signed again.

Most of the names in that list were definitely, categorically, absolutely, without a doubt, bet your house on it, coming back to Victoria, pretty much every year for the last 6 years.

But you know..... that whole “mass exodus” thing just never happened.

Will we lose players? Yeah.... every club does.

Will we lose all of them? Don’t be stupid. Does every free agent walk?

Will we be “crippled”? Not a chance in hell.

This is a STUPID, STUPID thread - designed pretty much just to attract the trolls.

 

[MVille Swan]

Historically the Swans haven't lost many All Australian level players over the years (Tom Mitchell is an obvious one they would have liked to have kept) and
probably Treloar is the only gun GWS have really lost. Sure there are a few guys at other teams (Smith, Hoskin-Elliott etc) who are going quite well at their
current clubs but a number of them were struggling to get a game every week at the Giants. They were, in a sense, loseable.
I suppose it's possible living on the Gold Coast has it's appeal to some people, but you'd have to think living in Sydney has a lot of appeal to a bunch of young
blokes on very nice six figure salaries. My understanding is a lot of them live in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, which is where a lot of the Swans live.
Also, by the time a player is a free agent they are a minimum 25 or 26 years old and like most other people
this age probably grown up enough not to need to live next door to their parents anymore. I can't really see a mass exodus at GWS.

 

[HTT]

As Gil said, if a player wants to leave they'll leave with or without free agency. FA just cuts the bullshit of trade negotiations.
If GWS have too much talent on their list due to being loaded with draft picks, players will inevitably move for more money/opportunity. That then makes it fair as they effectively lose those extra concessions
If they don't have too much talent on their list, players won't be able to get a better pay or more opportunities elsewhere so they are more likely to stay. Then their concessions were already fair anyway.
I don't see an issue.

 

[Power Raid]

it's a great part of the league to have players shift clubs to create interest from one year to the next

sure no club likes loosing players but it's swings and round abouts

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

For what other club would people feel comfortable describing events which may or may not happen a year and a half in the future mainboard worthy?
You start with a myth at our birth that we'll face a mass exodus of players, then spend years clutching at the thinnest of straws to justify it.

Time to move on people.

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

Perhaps the Giants should not have over-paid so many of their players and are now in a situation where they are trying to re-negotiate contracts down. Doubt that breeds a lot of employee engagement....

 

[Colonial]

Perhaps the Giants should not have over-paid so many of their players and are now in a situation where they are trying to re-negotiate contracts down. Doubt that breeds a lot of employee engagement....

Not actually true.

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[Isaac Cumming No 1]

Perhaps the Giants should not have over-paid so many of their players and are now in a situation where they are trying to re-negotiate contracts down. Doubt that breeds a lot of employee engagement....

Got any evidence we've overpaid players?

 

[Tiger2709]

Perhaps the Giants should not have over-paid so many of their players and are now in a situation where they are trying to re-negotiate contracts down. Doubt that breeds a lot of employee engagement....

If they're winning most players will accept a lot less moola, success has its own way of paying off for players. How else did Hawthorn keep all those Premiership players, obviously Buddy liked the bucks more than the cups and got exactly that, each to there own.

 

[ShockersBoy11]

Nah let it happen

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

If they're winning most players will accept a lot less moola, success has its own way of paying off for players. How else did Hawthorn keep all those Premiership players, obviously Buddy liked the bucks more than the cups and got exactly that, each to there own.

That's the crux of the matter. It seems to be happening at the Tigers where players put a premium on remaining part of the group that's had success.
We haven't reached the pinnacle but the players could rightfully feel our prospects are good.

 

[Colonial]

The AFL didn't give a stuff about the other 16 clubs when they ruthlessly compromised drafts for their plastic franchises back then so I don't give a stuff if those same 16 clubs ruthlessly pillage the Free Agents of their plastic franchises now..

What goes around and all..

You cant get your s**t together in 100 years yet blame new clubs for your failures.

Whose the next player North will throw millions at only to be rejected.

Didn't your club sell yourselves all over the country? Yet you call us plastic. Hilarious.

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[Power Raid]

Cameron to Port please