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Carlton definitely the frontrunner here and we appear to be lagging well behind.

What do we have to offer that could better Carlton?

A coach called Mr P Roos

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As much as Damien Barett is an idiot he gets a lot right. He confirmed last night Mitchell is currently on 400k a season. How can the swans pay him that much? and is love to see their books.

Other Media outlets has reported that for a long time already.

Barrett is solid but it makes me sick how he is presented as the best in the business, newbreaker BS.

It's not that Barrett's good, it's just that everyone else in the media is worse.

He makes educated guesses as much as anyone to fill content.

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They've had quite a few senior players retire in recent years, another couple will be off the books this year and have an extra 9.8% in the salary cap.

I appreciate that, the extra mill goes along way. Looking at their line up in the paper, every line has quality and class. What didn't sit with me was a kid that was drafted in 2011 getting limited game time can take home 400k. I hope the story that other players signed for less to keep the team together only to find out their money was being used to lure Buddy is true. So our offer to Mitchell must be based on game time more than money considering he's already cleaning up. Ive said this before but for all the talk about Danger id be offering the big dollars to Parker.
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I appreciate that, the extra mill goes along way. Looking at their line up in the paper, every line has quality and class. What didn't sit with me was a kid that was drafted in 2011 getting limited game time can take home 400k. I hope the story that other players signed for less to keep the team together only to find out their money was being used to lure Buddy is true. So our offer to Mitchell must be based on game time more than money considering he's already cleaning up. Ive said this before but for all the talk about Danger id be offering the big dollars to Parker.

Better option.

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Carlton apparently meeting with him after the GF, prepared to offer pick 6 to the swans if he wants to move back to Victoria.

Ummmm...Roos, get on the phone please :) Pick 3 for Mitchell and Malceski?

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I was talking to Dan Robinson from the Swans yesterday and he told me that Tom Mitchell is almost 100% off to Carlton as they are giving him a $2 million deal! He was all but certain that he was at the blues next year. This is coming from a guy that lived with Tom Mitchell..

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Geez that's disappointing. Surely Roos would've been all over him if he got the faintest sniff he wanted to come home!?

Of course he would be.

What makes you think Mitchell would want to come to Melbourne though?

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I was talking to Dan Robinson from the Swans yesterday and he told me that Tom Mitchell is almost 100% off to Carlton as they are giving him a $2 million deal! He was all but certain that he was at the blues next year. This is coming from a guy that lived with Tom Mitchell..

If that is true we would certainly be in a better position to get Jaksch in a Frost deal with GWS.

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Not sure if we are in fact in the race for Mitchell, but it is often Carlton that beats us to the player we want. Sometimes for the better for us.

They took Warnock when we wanted him and he has failed and they took Camporeale in the draft, but left us with Yze and then of course Judd and quite a few others.

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Geez that's disappointing. Surely Roos would've been all over him if he got the faintest sniff he wanted to come home!?

We might not be that interested at the price.

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We might not be that interested at the price.

I guess Roos would have a better idea than most about his talent, but 500k seems a bargain to me if he's as good as they say.

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I guess Roos would have a better idea than most about his talent, but 500k seems a bargain to me if he's as good as they say.

It's not just the financial cost though 'Lamashtu', it's the cost of the trade. Roos would be right on top of this as you say.

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Geez, I know I'm dreaming but just imagine an off season with recruits like Danger, Mitchell, Malceski and Lamumba. And that would be from just picks 2 and 3 (assuming Sydney package M&M and Colonwood trade Clark for Lamumba).

Back to real life now!

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When is the bloody COLA being phased out? Ridiculously unfair advantage.

IF, big IF, there can be any justification at all for a COLA then it should be distributed evenly across their whole list, rookies included, OR even weighted towards the lower paid players.

After all they all have the (supposed) extra cost of living - except I guess some prominent players perhaps have far more "expensive tastes"

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I was talking to Dan Robinson from the Swans yesterday and he told me that Tom Mitchell is almost 100% off to Carlton as they are giving him a $2 million deal! He was all but certain that he was at the blues next year. This is coming from a guy that lived with Tom Mitchell..

The guy that lives with Tom Mitchell has the wrong information.

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The guy that lives with Tom Mitchell has the wrong information.

Demonstrating why many of the rumours you read about on the internet should be treated with a grain of salt.

I had a small amount of experience with Barry Mitchell when involved in administration of my sons' junior football club and can say he is a headstrong individual and that trait has been passed on to young Tom. A rare attribute in these days of big money offers and limited measures of loyalty among players.

Plain to see the family name isn't "Scully".

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Demonstrating why many of the rumours you read about on the internet should be treated with a grain of salt.

I had a small amount of experience with Barry Mitchell when involved in administration of my sons' junior football club and can say he is a headstrong individual and that trait has been passed on to young Tom. A rare attribute in these days of big money offers and limited measures of loyalty among players.

Plain to see the family name isn't "Scully".

"Headstrong" is fine, but if he overdoes it, it may come to mean "tearing it up in the NEAFL".

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After today thevSwans won't be letting this kid go. In fact Horse is probably lamenting he didn't go with an extra running player or two. Reid was a waste of space, they had Buddy, Tippett, Goodes but they were smashed around the ball so it didn't matter who you had up forward.

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