So Pies flag they will have the cap space to chase Lynch next year. How will we play it? We'd have to be formulating some sort of plan now, but Bont's contract will need to be extended, probably during the next 6-12 months, Boyd's p.a. is reducing, but can we afford all 3 on the list at the same time, with many others forced to accept potential unders. From where I sit, Bont has to be retained at virtually any cost.
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/afl-trades-day-10-live-20171017-gz2zey.html
Magpies football department boss Geoff Walsh says the Pies will have the salary-cap space to pursue Gold Coast captain Tom Lynch next year - should he opt to leave the struggling club.
"It's 12 months out and (Lynch) is still contracted, so it's a bit wishlist stuff, but suffice to say, he's a top-of-the-tree player," Walsh said on AFL Trade Radio.
"I think I speak for all clubs, in that if you do set yourself long-term goals – and list managers and recruiting staff do that all the time – you're working in two and three-year cycles to see just what the future does unfold.
"Encapsulated in that is the ability to massage and manage your cap, so that if you do get an opportunity to bring players in, you find yourself in a situation where you either create that room or that you've planned for that room to coincide with players coming in. So, I don't think that's an issue here."
(Maybe making an offer such as we did for Leigh Colbert when he left the Cats might swing it with Suns. At the time, we offered Romero, Ellis and a third player who slips my mind - I'm not even sure if we obtained their consent to be part of the trade either!)
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/afl-trades-day-10-live-20171017-gz2zey.html
Magpies football department boss Geoff Walsh says the Pies will have the salary-cap space to pursue Gold Coast captain Tom Lynch next year - should he opt to leave the struggling club.
"It's 12 months out and (Lynch) is still contracted, so it's a bit wishlist stuff, but suffice to say, he's a top-of-the-tree player," Walsh said on AFL Trade Radio.
"I think I speak for all clubs, in that if you do set yourself long-term goals – and list managers and recruiting staff do that all the time – you're working in two and three-year cycles to see just what the future does unfold.
"Encapsulated in that is the ability to massage and manage your cap, so that if you do get an opportunity to bring players in, you find yourself in a situation where you either create that room or that you've planned for that room to coincide with players coming in. So, I don't think that's an issue here."
(Maybe making an offer such as we did for Leigh Colbert when he left the Cats might swing it with Suns. At the time, we offered Romero, Ellis and a third player who slips my mind - I'm not even sure if we obtained their consent to be part of the trade either!)
