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If he is flexible in terms of where he goes, there is no way he will knock back the coin Melbourne is offering. I don't even really care if he comes to us. Geelong has been super arrogant this whole time, lowballing their contract offer, which they knew Adelaide would match, and then expecting him to get to them for nothing.

If Adelaide match the offer doesn't that mean he has to stay with them? What does the "restricted" part of restricted fee agency actually mean?

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Agreed. My point is that he may not be flexible in where he goes now. But if Adelaide match the offer and Geelong won't come to the party with a trade he may suddenly become a bit more flexible (i.e. "lots of money is a acceptable second choice")

When Danger's options become "got to MFC" or "chance it in the draft", he may be more likely to choose the certainty of MFC.

Hopefully Adelaide make a stand.

I also think it's amusing that the one's publicly stating that talks have been amicable between the parties are all those who have a vested interest in Danger's move to the cats being seamless. And cheap.

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If Adelaide match the offer doesn't that mean he has to stay with them? What does the "restricted" part of restricted fee agency actually mean?

If Adelaide match, it means that he can't automatically join another club.

It sets the terms, and then his options are to sign with the club who owns his rights (Crows), the Crows to trade those rights to another club, or for him to elect to not sign the contract and enter the draft (most likely Carlton, or even better Brisbane).

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If Adelaide match the offer doesn't that mean he has to stay with them? What does the "restricted" part of restricted fee agency actually mean?

He can opt to go to the draft or adelaide can trade. The restricted part means that the club can match the offer, if he were unrestricted they wouldn't be able to.

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If Adelaide match, it means that he can't automatically join another club.

It sets the terms, and then his options are to sign with the club who owns his rights (Crows), the Crows to trade those rights to another club, or for him to elect to not sign the contract and enter the draft (most likely Carlton, or even better Brisbane).

Thanks. Why would Geelong be arrogant and low ball if that is the result of Adelaide matching?

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Agreed. My point is that he may not be flexible in where he goes now. But if Adelaide match the offer and Geelong won't come to the party with a trade he may suddenly become a bit more flexible (i.e. "lots of money is a acceptable second choice")

once fa officially starts

danger lodges request to go to club x for y contract

adel have option to match

if they do match danger can stay on offered contract or go into draft

as i understand it there can only be one iteration of the rfa request by danger/match opportunity by adelaide

of course danger/adelaide may decide to bypass rfa procedure and go to trade

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Thanks. Why would Geelong be arrogant and low ball if that is the result of Adelaide matching?

Because they are blinded by their arrogance. They obviously think it'll just get done like a number of other deals have in the past. But this is why making a stand is such a big thing in the context of FA and could have a bit of a ripple effect.

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once fa officially starts

danger lodges request to go to club x for y contract

adel have option to match

if they do match danger can stay on offered contract or go into draft

as i understand it there can only be one iteration of the rfa request by danger/match opportunity by adelaide

of course danger/adelaide may decide to bypass rfa procedure and go to trade

Alai is there anything stopping Dangerfield signing with Geelong on a 1 year, 2 million contract to avoid the "matching" by adelaide then shortly after resigning for 5 years at a lesser value?

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Alai is there anything stopping Dangerfield signing with Geelong on a 1 year, 2 million contract to avoid the "matching" by adelaide then shortly after resigning for 5 years at a lesser value?

nothing wrong with a 2m 1yr contract in principle. of course the afl would need satisfying it was genuine and passed the sniff test, which i think would be doubtful

if they shortly after resigned him to a more conventional contract i'm sure the afl would be all over it for draft tampering

in short, they'd need to come up with something more subtle than that

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It's called an opinion. Just like I thought Hogan was the best talent I'd seen at Melbourne in 40 years BEFORE he'd played a game.

While I understand your man crush on Hogan (have one myself), I watched him at training and went out to Casey just to see him play that first year and also think he could be the forward of his generation.

Personally, I think Schwartz before he did his knees was a better talent.

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While I understand your man crush on Hogan (have one myself), I watched him at training and went out to Casey just to see him play that first year and also think he could be the forward of his generation.

Personally, I think Schwartz before he did his knees was a better talent.

oooh...an interesting observation

I think thats more about Swarta than Hogan

the Ox was one out of the box for sure. ...and cruelled. He was a genuine X+X factor player

Players then didnt suffer so much hype and I think Jesse has done wonderfully well in that regard. Hogan is ...as Bruce would have it.."special" Lucky us !!

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