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How would you two know??? Did SOS really make him a paltry contract offer or was it more in line with what he should be being paid, because he was paid well and truly "overs" under the contract endorsed by the Kernahan/Swann/Malthouse/McKay/Rogers/Hughes regime??? If we are to believe SOS when he took over our list management, there were plenty of players who were "very spoiled" and didn't exactly have to work too hard to activate bonus clauses within their contracts. Tuohy may very well have been one of those and being brought back to reality may not sit well with him, because he feels he's entitled to more. However, as we know SOS has taken up Bolton's mantra, "There can be no sense of entitlement". If the first quote in this post is correct, then I doubt Geelong would be offering Tuohy much, if any, more than SOS is, just a longer deal.

SOS may very well be happy to trade Tuohy for the right pick/player, but if no trade can be achieved he has all the time between the end of Trade Week and the Preseason Draft to get a contract sorted. That being the case, I'm not quite sure how SOS can be accused of mismanaging Tuohy's contract negotiations. Far too many people are prepared to pass judgement before the game's been allowed to be played out IMO.
The figure posted by those we trust here was that of a below AFL average wage as a starting figure with incentive payments from memory. I would call that paltry for a player we are trying to get a first round pick or thereabouts for.
 

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I expect to see this deal done first today. Unlikely to involve a player. Pick may help unlock Marchbank / Pickett.
Have they tried for 38 & 42 to on-trade to GWS for points? Might be less messy and more advantageous to GWS if they interact with GC & the Roos.
 
If 42 gets us Hrovat/Richards and 38 can be used with 23 instead of 13 (and maybe a later pick thrown back to us) it's a reasonable trade.
 
If 42 gets us Hrovat/Richards and 38 can be used with 23 instead of 13 (and maybe a later pick thrown back to us) it's a reasonable trade.


We have been in to Hrovat for a while, so if he nominates us, I suspect we will take him over Richards.
 

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Given the recent blumours of Geelong's future first plus a pick swap. I feel cockatoo is a chance to get traded to the GC for a first rounder leaving Geelong with the ability to trade next years first..
 
Given the recent blumours of Geelong's future first plus a pick swap. I feel cockatoo is a chance to get traded to the GC for a first rounder leaving Geelong with the ability to trade next years first..


Which will be totes hilair given how emphatic they were about him not being traded.
 

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So do we have a definite yes or no about Geelong being allowed to trade their 17 first?

If not, what about their 17 second?

Sounds like it'll rely on them getting another first rounder in this year. Cockatoo to GC would make sense as they'd be getting a top 10 pick this year, and only be trading their 14-18 for next year.
 
What a state of affairs and what an indictment on the inequality of clubs and the impossibility for bottom teams to move up the ladder that we are scrabbling with another irrelevant club over a reserves player.
 
Greg Denham has just said that it's Tuohy for Smedts and shuffling a few draft picks also.
Another list clogger. Thanks Geelong.

That's a bad deal for us assuming the picks aspect is underwhelming.

The picks aspect would want to involve us getting at minimum a pick that we can use to bundle and ontrade else be a pick under 40
 

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