List Mgmt. Will the Hawks end up landing a big fish? Trade and FA news discussion of Hawthorn targets

Who should Hawks make a play for?

  • Lynch

  • McGovern

  • Cogs

  • We don't need any of these players

  • Gaff

  • Another player not mentioned above (specify in comments)

  • B.Hill


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The only danger with front ending is if players either retire or are traded out prior to the end of the contract. You end up paying them a lot more for one year of service.
How do we make the min cap payments though if we don't?

Risk of retiring them all at once and not getting quality back in. Now people know we need to get them in and can leverage us
 

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We're not that dumb.

At a minimum you'd re-do a lot of deals to be front ended and keep the cap space open for the following year...

But people, please don't fear. The Club is not North Melbourne, we don't announce targets. We get deals done and announce when appropriate.
That's right we are a destination club so I fully expect Lynch and Gaff are coming.
 

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We're not that dumb.

At a minimum you'd re-do a lot of deals to be front ended and keep the cap space open for the following year...

But people, please don't fear. The Club is not North Melbourne, we don't announce targets. We get deals done and announce when appropriate.
Correct. Wright doesn't leak.
 

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Seriously optimistic views here.

FA are dropping like flys....

Gaff, Big Mac, Lynch; where is it at?

We could get all 3 if the club wanted & we would still have change next year for Cogs.
 

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Let’s hope we do something constructive with our cap space, not like we can trade it for draft picks.
Not directly, but it might be possible to structure the reverse situation to what GWS does.

Over the last few years, they have been flush with talent but tight on space. From what I have read, their strategy is to trade overs in talent if they can get the other side to agree to wear some of the salary of the incoming player. This effectively trades talent for salary cap space.

We could just try to do the reverse.
 
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Cockring's asking about Breust now. Sounds like negotiations are heating up.
As I said a week or so ago, they will NOT back down from their earlier strategy when we got jaeger. It will be the same names thrown at us, Breust, gunston , Shiels and Smith .
This doesn’t mean Lynch has told them where he’s going though, they don’t know, so they’re just gonna talk a pre-trade negotiations with all three clubs to cover all angles.
Why they can’t just accept compo pick is mind boggling!
 

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As I said a week or so ago, they will NOT back down from their earlier strategy when we got jaeger. It will be the same names thrown at us, Breust, gunston , Shiels and Smith .
This doesn’t mean Lynch has told them where he’s going though, they don’t know, so they’re just gonna talk a pre-trade negotiations with all three clubs to cover all angles.
Why they can’t just accept compo pick is mind boggling!
Watch the melts when Lynch nominates the $tains.
 

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As I said a week or so ago, they will NOT back down from their earlier strategy when we got jaeger. It will be the same names thrown at us, Breust, gunston , Shiels and Smith .
This doesn’t mean Lynch has told them where he’s going though, they don’t know, so they’re just gonna talk a pre-trade negotiations with all three clubs to cover all angles.
Why they can’t just accept compo pick is mind boggling!
You’ve nailed it. I’m told they want to make a statement here. He wants to make the other club bleed.
 
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