Mega Thread Trade Targets 2014

[Just Kreuzing]

I assume you're referring to James Gwilt?

That is St Vinnie's....

 

[No1Suspect]

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

The go home factor is exploited far to easily i think..... it should be 3 yr 1st off contract with 2 years mandatory....

 

[Burgers45]

Anyone know who Mitch Cleary is. Is he someone of authority, or just a journo?

 

[HARKER]

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.

The ability to get the deal done is a big help also.

What's the point of him nominating Carlton when we haven't the picks and available players to forge a deal?

 

[Aphrodite]

Anyone know who Mitch Cleary is. Is he someone of authority, or just a journo?

Journo & producer @FootyClassified, @AFLFootyShow, @traderadio, @sportsdayradio, @RexFootballLife & @GreatAusLives.…

 

[Just Kreuzing]

The ability to get the deal done is a big help also.

What's the point of him nominating Carlton when we haven't the picks and available players to forge a deal?

We used to be so good at forging things.....

 

[SBYM]

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.

 

[etsal1]

He really should've waited one more year

 

[MC_Doggy_Frog18]

If Boyd goes to the Dogs he won't win a premiership in his career that's a fact.

 

[thylacine60]

How are they different from us? Or aren't they?

 

[HARKER]

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.

 

[Jatz]

So does that mean Whiley is on the way?

Anyone?

 

[SBYM]

If Boyd goes to the Dogs he won't win a premiership in his career that's a fact.

I see.

Just out of interest, when is our next flag?

 

[Pick7]

Things got weird and meta ever since pick 7 turned up to protest itself being traded

I do what I can.

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[slashin_velvet]

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.

Dont we?

 

[etsal1]

So does that mean Whiley is on the way?

Anyone?

Mate, take my strategic like of your last post as a hint

 

[etsal1]

Watch stk throw pick 1 @ GWS for Boyd now. Maybe GWS would like that deal better?

 

[dumb]

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.

 

[Just Kreuzing]

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.

 

[I bleed Blue]

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.

 

[MC_Doggy_Frog18]

If Boyd goes to the Dogs he won't win a premiership in his career that's a fact.

If I was Boyd I would stay at GWS until they win a premiership. He will end up at Carlton one way or another before his career ends.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

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.

 

[Jatz]

Mate, take my strategic like of your last post as a hint

Yeah, I totally picked up on that

#sosmooth

 

[Tony Lynn 15]

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!!!

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

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.