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I just wondered if anyone knew who the eight players Roos spoke to last week were and whether they included Jack Watts.

I imagine they would primarily have been leadership group - Trenners, Grimes, Jones, Garland, Frawley, Clark and Dawes - but just wondered if anyone knew categorically?

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I just wondered if anyone knew who the eight players Roos spoke to last week were and whether they included Jack Watts.

I imagine they would primarily have been leadership group - Trenners, Grimes, Jones, Garland, Frawley, Clark and Dawes - but just wondered if anyone knew categorically?

Thanks.

Love to tell you but I wasn't there. He will have spoken to the entire list very soon, so it probably doesn't matter, does it?

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I just wondered if anyone knew who the eight players Roos spoke to last week were and whether they included Jack Watts.

I imagine they would primarily have been leadership group - Trenners, Grimes, Jones, Garland, Frawley, Clark and Dawes - but just wondered if anyone knew categorically?

Thanks.

McKenzie and Byrnes are also in the leadership group.

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More importantly, who sent the text messages to Roos. You have to love the commitment of our players, they have been whack from pilar to post for the past 6 years, they were a big key getting Roos to our club. They have worked extremely hard over the past 2 years to get their training up to AFL standards, Chis Dawes said this recently that the boys trained harder than Collingwood and their commitment can not be questioned, Roos mentioned this today. They want to get better and now they will have a coach that will give them every chance to be the best football team they can be.

Things will turn and turn quickly. Expect Watts to re-sign over the next couple of days, it would be hard not to.

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More importantly, who sent the text messages to Roos. You have to love the commitment of our players, they have been whack from pilar to post for the past 6 years, they were a big key getting Roos to our club. They have worked extremely hard over the past 2 years to get their training up to AFL standards, Chis Dawes said this recently that the boys trained harder than Collingwood and their commitment can not be questioned, Roos mentioned this today. They want to get better and now they will have a coach that will give them every chance to be the best football team they can be.

Things will turn and turn quickly. Expect Watts to resign over the next couple of days, it would be hard not to.

Hopefully that is re-sign, not resign

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I've heard / seen rumours about him verbally committing to Carlton, but the Roos announcement would shake things up, and there is no commitment that can bind him to another team whilst he is still contracted to us.

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I've heard / seen rumours about him verbally committing to Carlton, but the Roos announcement would shake things up, and there is no commitment that can bind him to another team whilst he is still contracted to us.

Yes there is. It's called I don't like the club and my heart will never be in it here. I have no commitment. - Let me go. ...........Please

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My weekend couldn't get that good.

Surely you'd concede that if Roos can instill a hunger for the contest, a disregard for his personal safety, and a willingness to gut run, Watts'd be a must keep.

Big IF, but if anyone can, I know who my money would be on...

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I just wondered if anyone knew who the eight players Roos spoke to last week were and whether they included Jack Watts.

I imagine they would primarily have been leadership group - Trenners, Grimes, Jones, Garland, Frawley, Clark and Dawes - but just wondered if anyone knew categorically?

Thanks

just hope it wasnt silvia or jackie boy!

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maybe resign might be the right word here.... I am a supporter of Watts... But I've heard that he is already commited to another team....

That can't happen under the AFL rules, only the expansion teams were able to do it when they first entered the competition

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Yes there is. It's called I don't like the club and my heart will never be in it here. I have no commitment. - Let me go. ...........Please

True,... good luck to the club that takes on a player that thinks like that though :D

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... I am a supporter of Watts... But I've heard that he is already commited to another team....

Can't believe some of the hysterical comments about Watts that are still going on. Even after our experience with Roos, who never actually said that he wouldn't sign up with us, but that things would have to take place before he did. Watts to has never said that he wasn't signing, just that (to paraphrase) he'd have to be sure he was on solid ground before he did. I'd say that his ground just got a whole lot more solid.

He has NOT committed to another team. By all accounts, he is simply waiting to see how things pan out at Melbourne - and IMHO, to see whether he's actually a required player - before re-committing to us.

Given his experience last time we were in this situation, he's probably just not taking it for granted that he's a required player until he hears it from the horse's mouth face to face. Which is only sensible.

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Can't believe some of the hysterical comments about Watts that are still going on. Even after our experience with Roos, who never actually said that he wouldn't sign up with us, but that things would have to take place before he did. Watts to has never said that he wasn't signing, just that (to paraphrase) he'd have to be sure he was on solid ground before he did. I'd say that his ground just got a whole lot more solid.

He has NOT committed to another team. By all accounts, he is simply waiting to see how things pan out at Melbourne - and IMHO, to see whether he's actually a required player - before re-committing to us.

Given his experience last time we were in this situation, he's probably just not taking it for granted that he's a required player until he hears it from the horse's mouth face to face. Which is only sensible.

I feel better now

thanks for that

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I've heard / seen rumours about him verbally committing to Carlton, but the Roos announcement would shake things up, and there is no commitment that can bind him to another team whilst he is still contracted to us.

I thought he was waiting to see who the coach was before decision time? Now that a rolled gold " A Grader" is on board it's easy for Jack to pick up the pen. Would seem a bit silly for him to raise a credibility issue. Hasn't got others very far.

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I was told one was Watts. Don't know if this is correct but it could be :)

No, he said in his presser that he would be talking to Sylvia on his return from Col's O/S trip and that he would be talking to Watts asap (forget the exact phrasing).

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Can't believe some of the hysterical comments about Watts that are still going on. Even after our experience with Roos, who never actually said that he wouldn't sign up with us, but that things would have to take place before he did. Watts to has never said that he wasn't signing, just that (to paraphrase) he'd have to be sure he was on solid ground before he did. I'd say that his ground just got a whole lot more solid.

He has NOT committed to another team. By all accounts, he is simply waiting to see how things pan out at Melbourne - and IMHO, to see whether he's actually a required player - before re-committing to us.

Given his experience last time we were in this situation, he's probably just not taking it for granted that he's a required player until he hears it from the horse's mouth face to face. Which is only sensible.

until he hears it from the horse's mouth face to face. - are you suggesting that he is off to Sydney ? :-))

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