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Not sure how I feel about first year players demanding trades even before their first contract has expired.
I agree to an extent.

He has just asked for a shiteload of pressure to be applied to himself…

He may suck it up and become the next Wayne Carey. Or he may sink and we all get stuck in about the brash kid who talked the talk but couldn't walk the walk and asked for a trade before his first contract even expired…

Kinda like how we all think of Tom Scully now.

In either case…football is more than ever a business. There will still be the loyal ones, but that has become the exception rather than the norm. And as slashin_velvet pointed out, if he'd nominated Carlton we'd all be doing cartwheels.
 

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We used to be so good at forging things.....
I guess so..................ahhhhhhhhh, for the good old days :)

Why do we feel a sense of entitlement over Boyd anyway?
He barracked for Carlton. We don't own him.

Anyway, just because he has nominated a club doesn't mean he'll get there. Let's wait and see.
 

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Find it hard to believe that we haven't been in Boyd's ear for just as long as the Dogs have. I wonder what swayed his decision?

Most likely thing was money, I guess. Our salary cap must have less room than I thought. A million a season is a lot, but surely we could have that cleared that out if Boyd wanted to come? Waite retires. Judd with a pay cut. Delist a few better paid players like McClean and Warnock. I don't know. Maybe we just don't have the room.

Or maybe we just got completely schooled by the Bullies on how to get a big deal done.
it's been mentioned, but as a player wanting to return to melbourne, griffen on the table gives boyd a better opportunity of making his way to melbourne. i don't know what we might have proposed at the trade table, but were we willing to offer up a griffen equivalent to make it happen? other than having a terrible year w/ high draft pick, and/or a player having a massive breakout year ala greenwood (who we then decide to trade...) i'm not sure we'd easily have the currency to get boyd here next year either.
 

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I guess so..................ahhhhhhhhh, for the good old days :)

Why do we feel a sense of entitlement over Boyd anyway?
He barracked for Carlton. We don't own him.
I guess it is because we are craving that big key forward to cheer again, we were infatuated with Kernahan, Whitnall and Fev in recent years.

If Boyd leaves for the kennel we will just turn up the heat on Jeremy Cameron.;)
 

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I agree to an extent.

He has just asked for a shiteload of pressure to be applied to himself…

He may suck it up and become the next Wayne Carey. Or he may sink and we all get stuck in about the brash kid who talked the talk but couldn't walk the walk and asked for a trade before his first contract even expired…

Kinda like how we all think of Tom Scully now.

In either case…football is more than ever a business. There will still be the loyal ones, but that has become the exception rather than the norm. And as slashin_velvet pointed out, if he'd nominated Carlton we'd all be doing cartwheels.

Scully laughed all the way to the bank.

Everthing was set up perfect for him. The timing he was drafted, the rules at the time, when his first contract expired. A unproven player of his talent should never have got the contract he did. There was no way he could say no to it. He essentially won the lotto.
 
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Dogs are doing their absolute best to be a really good side in a few years. Liberatore, Wallis, Bontempelli, Stringer, Boyd (if they pull it off). Not just getting mids now. If anybody needed a gun full forward prospect after years of patching a forward line together, it's the Dogs.
 

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Watch stk throw pick 1 @ GWS for Boyd now. Maybe GWS would like that deal better?
In hindsight I was naive to do it but I sent Tom Boyd a letter with a 50 cent coin in it and pretended that I was a 6 year old kid giving up my pocket money in the hope he would come to Carlton. Okay, so potentially some Bulldogs kid put a 50 and two 20's in his but it still isn't right!!! :mad:
 
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So #7 may not have the currency it did have if Boyd is traded. Seems we are almost bound by it anyway.

Giants will try to hold on to Boyd for a year, thinking his value will go up and he won't go to PSD. They will offer up #4 and #7 for Griffen for certain now as the Dogs have them spooked.
 

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Find it hard to believe that we haven't been in Boyd's ear for just as long as the Dogs have. I wonder what swayed his decision?

Most likely thing was money, I guess. Our salary cap must have less room than I thought. A million a season is a lot, but surely we could have that cleared that out if Boyd wanted to come? Waite retires. Judd with a pay cut. Delist a few better paid players like McClean and Warnock. I don't know. Maybe we just don't have the room.

Or maybe we just got completely schooled by the Bullies on how to get a big deal done.
A more likely scenario is he knew the Dogs had the currency to get the job done (eg. Griffen and picks) compared to us. Have the Doggies lucked into this with Griffen asking to leave? Yes. Do you blame them for going after him? No. Can we be angry at Carlton? No.

What it will mean though is he will be double teamed being the only decent KPF they have on their list and from such a young age with such huge pressure on him to be the messiah, he may find his career never takes off.
 

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So #7 may not have the currency it did have if Boyd is traded. Seems we are almost bound by it anyway.

Giants will try to hold on to Boyd for a year, thinking his value will go up and he won't go to PSD. They will offer up #4 and #7 for Griffen for certain now as the Dogs have them spooked.
Our number 7 pick is now starting to have currency akin to the Greek Drachma before the Euro took over!! :(
 

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In hindsight I was naive to do it but I sent Tom Boyd a letter with a 50 cent coin in it and pretended that I was a 6 year old kid giving up my pocket money in the hope he would come to Carlton. Okay, so potentially some Bulldogs kid put a 50 and two 20's in his but it still isn't right!!! :mad:
Should of thrown your tom-bowler in to seal the deal....
 
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