Didn't quite work that way for Hawthorn though...

Pffffff

Makes the FA compo mean SFA in terms of weaker clubs losing experienced players.

We did better than the Hawks.

Disgrace

Already a compo thread guys...

well i would've expected a pick around 30-35 but anyway...

Pick 49 would be a decent result for Pedersen/ray. probably ray would be better at that pick and pedersen at 68.

Not so bad because I reckon it's going to North for Pederson anyway so better pick 49 than 27 or so.

The Roos can get stuffed.

  On 19/10/2012 at 07:44, Bitter but optimistic said:

Please explain, in lurid detail, your self flagellation.

you'd like to think it occurred whilst looking at your avatar wouldn't you? Sorry to disappoint you.

The whole compo scenario for free agency is flawed anyway - in a perfect world we shouldnt be getting anything for either.

Wow. That amounts to almost nothing. We should have just waited until Byrnes was delisted like everyone else did and it would have made a bit of a difference. Spewing.

  On 19/10/2012 at 08:14, Nasher said:

Wow. That amounts to almost nothing. We should have just waited until Byrnes was delisted like everyone else did and it would have made a bit of a difference. Spewing.

probably would just mean pick 49 + 50 (ie two band 5's) so really no big deal

  On 19/10/2012 at 08:14, Nasher said:

Wow. That amounts to almost nothing. We should have just waited until Byrnes was delisted like everyone else did and it would have made a bit of a difference. Spewing.

It really wouldn't have. It would have just given us two crappy picks or 1 pick and what Adelaide got for Knights - nothing.

I don't think they will ever release how they came to these conclusions but I really think this is near proof that they are making it up as they go along if they release a 'minimum FA comp of 3rd round and then abandon it at the last minute.'

Half arsed effort.

We got 49 as a third rounder. I thought we'd get 48 as an end of second rounder. For us as a team that finished 16th, there wasn't much difference between bands 4 and 5. Bring on the final week of the trade period and our delistings.

Hawthorn were pretty stiff - thought Young would have been worth more than pick 66.

Ah yes, I still had the idea that they added together, but the Port compo shows otherwise. Brain fail.

Riv and Moloney must be on Maccas level wages.

Maybe be the 2 2nd rnd picks for Port is the AFL's devious way of giving them 'Priority Picks' having previously decided that no Club would get them this year.

  On 19/10/2012 at 08:18, rpfc said:

I don't think they will ever release how they came to these conclusions but I really think this is near proof that they are making it up as they go along if they release a 'minimum FA comp of 3rd round and then abandon it at the last minute.'

That's probably the big genuine gripe supporters of clubs like Adelaide, Melbourne and Hawthorn can have. The goalposts seem to have been shifted, and clubs that may have been happy to lose players in FA for compo would have been more proactive about trading them had they known they would get little or no compo for players.

I'm comfortable with what's been handed out tonight, except that I think Port made off like bandits. I think the way clubs approached free agency compo was against the spirit of the compensation and has endangered its existence in the future. It's not being handed out so that teams can dangle their unwanted flotsam out there for someone to take and then receive a reward. It's there for teams like St. Kilda who lose one of their best players to an offer they couldn't reasonably match. I'd be absolutely filthy if this farcical FA period led to the abolition of compo picks and someone like Frawley (I just use him as an example as he's one of our best players) bailed for nothing in a couple of years. The system has some tweaking to do, but compensation definitely has merit. Hopefully the clubs and the league have learned something and it works better next year.

  On 19/10/2012 at 07:50, Satan said:

Pffffff

Makes the FA compo mean SFA in terms of weaker clubs losing experienced players.

Congratulations Satan on opening up a thread.

A dead set stupid move as it is a duplicate.

  On 19/10/2012 at 08:24, Lucifer said:

Maybe be the 2 2nd rnd picks for Port is the

AFL's devious way of giving them 'Priority Picks' having previously decided that no Club would get them this year.

A good conspiracy theory, but I reckon the salary thing is more likely. Pearce and Chaplin would have been moving on reasonable money while Rivers and Moloney would just take whatever they could get, hence the imbalance in compensation.

Trading RFA is understandable, because the home club has a right to keep the player.

Trading UFA is not going to happen. The club has no right to hold on to the player. The player is completely free and any trade should not really be an option.

  On 19/10/2012 at 08:17, daisycutter said:

probably would just mean pick 49 + 50 (ie two band 5's) so really no big deal

still be handy

Ok, I would like the club to have a chat to Andersen about this - if Knights is worth nothing, then so is Byrnes. Which means that surely Moloney should get us a third rounder on his own.

I want to know what BS they used to decide this.

I guess it shows the value of our senior players, we shouldn't be too surprised.

The lack of transparency in the AFLs conclusions is mind boggling. In an effort to keep players contract $ private, they have got the fans offside. Riv and Beamer must be getting paid 2 live chickens and stale loaf of bread, while we must be paying Byrnes a ton of caviar and 100 crates of French bubbly, by that reckoning.