Richmond offering him 550k per year, he wants more

MFC should step in and off him 800k over 5 years

With the nugget of playing under Eade or Choco, as he needs that experienced father figure type to guide him and keep him on the straight and narrow

Signed a two year deal. Pretty sure.

Reported on SEN yesterday that he had agreed to term with RFC.

God damn it

MFC missed out on a huge opportunity here

Should have paid him massive overs

I wonder if we even made an approach

I'm much happier with Dustin Martin at Richmond.

He doesn't make the tigers side, and would be a liability in more ways than one, in our club environment.

Taylor Adams is the must-get target, in my opinion.

Martin would have been a massive win.

We should start getting used to it. No one is going to want to come to us this year.

And for all those people saying it cant get any worse ... it will. Wooden spoon for us next year. GWS will suprass us in leaps and bounds from here on in.

Going to be a long year again next year.

Overestimating St Kilda there.

Conca is ripe for the picking IMO, by paying overs for Martin, they can't afford Conca, we could comfortably offer him $200,000 more than Richmond can afford. A quality player who would walk into our top 7

Agree.

If they cost the same, I'd choose Conca every time.

Conca is ripe for the picking IMO, by paying overs for Martin, they can't afford Conca, we could comfortably offer him $200,000 more than Richmond can afford. A quality player who would walk into our top 7

Hes the one alright, Conca manager has already stated that he wants to play for the Tigers but hes not going to do it for nothing.

Martin would have been a massive win.

We should start getting used to it. No one is going to want to come to us this year.

And for all those people saying it cant get any worse ... it will. Wooden spoon for us next year. GWS will suprass us in leaps and bounds from here on in.

Glad we missed him.

FFS, name and quality players have been avoiding us for the past seven year. You are hardly being Nostradamus with this.

And it cant get any worse. We been fined and exposed for tanking, dumped the President, CEO and Coach with huge contract payments, we have been tish all year, we are in AFL administration and we have a co captain wondering whether he has been given a banned substance.....and you think it can get worse...Good grief.

Conca it is then

Glad we missed him.

FFS, name and quality players have been avoiding us for the past seven year. You are hardly being Nostradamus with this.

And it cant get any worse. We been fined and exposed for tanking, dumped the President, CEO and Coach with huge contract payments, we have been tish all year, we are in AFL administration and we have a co captain wondering whether he has been given a banned substance.....and you think it can get worse...Good grief.

We will finish 17th this year. 18th next year.

I'm not trying to be Nostradamus. Just trying to discuss football. Dawes and Clarke both came to us over the last two years. So I say you are wrong there. None will come to us this year.

Pass on Conca ... just an average onballer. Not worth throwing the kitchen sink at.

We will finish 17th this year. 18th next year.

I'm not trying to be Nostradamus. Just trying to discuss football. Dawes and Clarke both came to us over the last two years. So I say you are wrong there. None will come to us this year.

You are short of the facts.

We may finish last next year because GWS may have got better. We couldn't possibly be worse.

Dawes came to us as discard from Collingwood who was hardly a name player even though we have paid overs for him has not justified any such tag this year.

Clark came to us in unusual situation where he had planned to return West for family reasons. It was planned that he would play with Freo. It would appear that when he did go home the family situation had become more difficult and he chose to opt out of the West. We were lucky that the family situation provided a bounty for us. MFC was hardly employer of choice for players. Pity Clark has been injured.

And you are certainly not being Nostradamus about next year.

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Martin or Conca would hardly be great acquisitions to our team. We need good mids with experience and on field leadership to change our fortunes around.

Pass on Conca ... just an average onballer. Not worth throwing the kitchen sink at.

Incorrect.

The best pressure act player at the tigers, and no slouch when the ball gets into his hands.

Will be more important to them than Martin in the future, in my opinion.

28 disposals and 3 goals today from Conca. Pretty low pressure game, but he is doing all the right things and goes a bit under the radar at the Tiges due to the big names like Cotchin, Martin, Deledio.
If we can get Conca across, then we'd be fools to try. He can play as an inside mid, or an outside running mid who kicks goals. He is well rounded. If we get him across, I'd draft a bigger bodied inside midfielder like Nathan Freeman come draft time.

Incorrect.

The best pressure act player at the tigers, and no slouch when the ball gets into his hands.

Will be more important to them than Martin in the future, in my opinion.

He would be worth what we pay him and we would hardly be paying overs. The Tigers, I believe, can't pay him what he is worth, we can offer him a bit more than he is worth. Not exactly throwing the kitchen sink at him.

Is this the thread where we say we should pay a ridiculous amount for a player and when he invariably re-signs with his current club we say we didn't actually want him anyway??

I'm much happier with Dustin Martin at Richmond.

He doesn't make the tigers side, and would be a liability in more ways than one, in our club environment.

What the hell does this even mean?

People saying a player shouldn't be drafted because they wouldn't fit into the "culture" have either been living under a rock, or grossly misinterpret the club's culture as it is.

I love how people think that guys like Conca would even hint at the idea of ever coming to melbourne. Is in a team thats bound for sucess for the next ten years and destined to become one of the biggest clubs in the AFL. Conca would absolutely laugh in our face. Not many players are not wanna come to melbourne and this is thanks to Cam Schwab and Chris Connelly and the culture they set up. Its going to take a while to get rid of this Cancer Culture but we will get there.

I love how people think that guys like Conca would even hint at the idea of ever coming to melbourne. Is in a team thats bound for sucess for the next ten years and destined to become one of the biggest clubs in the AFL. Conca would absolutely laugh in our face. Not many players are not wanna come to melbourne and this is thanks to Cam Schwab and Chris Connelly and the culture they set up. Its going to take a while to get rid of this Cancer Culture but we will get there.

i tend to agree, would have to double his paycheck to even get a second look, having said that it would be stupid not to put in a call and just ask him, they should be asking anyone with even a 1% chance of moving.

I love how people think that guys like Conca would even hint at the idea of ever coming to melbourne. Is in a team thats bound for sucess for the next ten years and destined to become one of the biggest clubs in the AFL. Conca would absolutely laugh in our face. Not many players are not wanna come to melbourne and this is thanks to Cam Schwab and Chris Connelly and the culture they set up. Its going to take a while to get rid of this Cancer Culture but we will get there.

Yeah, good point.

Might as well not even ask the question.

Might as well not try.

Might as well give up.

Martin still hasn't signed and Conca has a big money offer from the Eagles.

Neck Tatts wants to go to the Swans but they don't want him for cultural rather than monetary reasons.

I imagine both will stick with the Tigers.