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Let me start by prefacing this as saying I don't see us as being a chance to get Dangerdive.

But....

If Adelaide match the Cats offer and there is no chance of a deal happening, Danger could wet his pants and decide not to risk ending up in the draft and at Carlscum so rather than take his chances, elects to go with some certainty, signs with us on a 5mill, 5 year deal that has 2 mill in the first year, 750,000 for the next four years. The first years front loading ensures the crows can't match it. (Nb figures made up)

Not going to happen, but thought I would post it to give the dreamers some hope.

Sorry to break it to you, but the "matching contract" requirement of RFA's is for the entirety of a contract, not just the first year.

So even if it was a $5M first year and $1 for each remaining year, all Adelaide have to do is match the total sum of the entire contract.

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No need to apologise, thanks though, as I made pretty clear, I can't see the scenario happening regardless

In a perfect world it would. :(

Nonetheless, he's nominated the Cats (as was inexplicably accidentally revealed tonight on Fox), so the only way he gets to the Dees is if he's had some kind of identity crisis and decides to renege on his agreement.

Call me crazy, but I'm not sure many other clubs would match our offer.

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Mitchell Hodge Lake Hale all retiring at the end of 2016? I reckon the hawks are in deep with Danger and are willing to pay more than the cats. Its the hawks or the dees imo. money talks.

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Mitchell Hodge Lake Hale all retiring at the end of 2016? I reckon the hawks are in deep with Danger and are willing to pay more than the cats. Its the hawks or the dees imo. money talks.

If Dangerfield goes to the Hawks, you can bet that they'll be playing in their fifth straight grand final, and likely winning their fourth straight premiership. What a disgusting thought that is...I'd rather see him go to Geelong.

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Danger to break his silence

If a deal can’t be done and Dangerfield enters the national draft, he runs the risk of ending up anywhere.

Some interstate clubs with selections before Geelong at pick 9 yesterday ruled themselves out of the race for Dangerfield’s services.

But Victorian clubs including Melbourne, St Kilda and Carlton declined to comment on their interest or prospective bids.

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If Dangerfield goes to the Hawks, you can bet that they'll be playing in their fifth straight grand final, and likely winning their fourth straight premiership. What a disgusting thought that is...I'd rather see him go to Geelong.

If that happens & they play in their fith gf .. It's a mockery of the equalisation of the afl as they never wanted 1 team dominating

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That and all eggs in one basket is fraught with potential havoc.

More the thing for mine is ONE person is not a team.

Yes lets gets some really good ready to go's to boost our existing and developing players but we need to lift the team...not supercharge sporadically.

Just mho

Danger for a mill plus ?? Mayve..but.. all things need to be balanced

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Absolutely agree. He is a very good player and we need mids but I am against the mega-deal offer to any one player. Always just one injury from disaster.

Very true, though I have confidence that our list management team know what they're doing.

Your injury fear made me think of Rick DiPietro, the former New York Islanders' goalie in the NHL. He signed a 15-year/ $67.5million deal in 2006, but only managed to average 18 games a year over the next 6 years due to injury issues (NHL seasons are 82 games long). This stat is flattering, too, as he played 63 games in the first year of the contract. The Islanders eventually gave up on him due to a combination of injury issues and poor form, and bought out his contract at the end of the 2013 season. As a result of this, DiPietro will be getting paid $1.5m/year until 2029, which counts against the Islanders' salary cap.

This case should be thought about every time any team in any sport is considering signing a player to a long-term contract.

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Would love Dangerfield, but would prefer Prestia to be honest. Hope we can still lure Bennell too. Getting those two elite talents won't necessarily say to the football world that we're a destination club, but it will certainly start turning the wheels.

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It is a lot of money but it may be necrssary to get us in to the market of being a 'favourable destination'. A lot of supporters are saying 'let's save the cash, we could get Prestia and Bennell with that money'. Could we really though? We are probably the last club on their list of lovely destinations. Particularly at that price.

However if we have danger, with our current mids, tracca gets on the park, kents gets up n going again and we are kicking it to hogan n jeffy, all of a sudden that formula looks promising and other players might like the look of it, particularly if we can win lol. I'm confident Roos and goody won't compromise hogan, there would be plenty to keep him provided he wants to stay. Even if we were spending a lot of our cap (we arent) one contract could be front loaded and the other back loaded or something like that to make it work.

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How do you like this, typical of the trash that comes from the mouth of the Scott twins:

http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/patrick-dangerfield-exit-chris-scott-says-free-agents-should-get-to-club-of-choice/story-fndv862c-1227545021005

The arrogance of them also letting it known to the media that they expect the crows to accept pick 14 would, if I was at the Crows, make me even more determine to make the Cats pay out the backside for Danger. I hope they do.

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There are essentially two elements to the Dangerfield comedy.

1: Is he leaving and preferred destination.

2: The path to facilitate 1

1 is a given

2 is a bit murky and path littered with impediments.

There is a defacto 3rd for mine. That being, depending upon the ease and speed of Paddy making his transition there might problems with other trades until it does...or stalls.

am loving this parody on the Dangerfield trade sen ario...

is there any chance we could change the thread title to, 'Paroddy Dangerfield' ?

just askin ;)

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I've heard a number of quite wealthy people say the same thing.

Impossible to put the extra 40 grand into context, unless you have a starting point.

Knocking back 40 is easy if you already earn 200.

I would bet my left nut that if the reported figures are correct, then there simply must be some outside deals involved. No westerner in his right mind knocks back $700k, just to be 1hr closer to his parents. (and if he did, what a whimpy little mummies boy he must be). He could buy his own helicopter with the difference, and be at mums house for din dins every night.

I agree, if he is offered $800,000.00 per year at the Cats, & he turns down $M1.5 per Yr with us... I smell something very fishy in all this.

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We don't need a $1.5mil a year player. I'd rather save the money for Hoges, Brayshaw, Viney, Petrac etc.

He obviously wants to play for and live in Geelong. Let it go.

agree, there are a lot of dangers in paying one player $1.5Mill over 5 or 6 years. not to mention our other young players getting dirty on the money he gets.

I'd take him but do not really want to loose our first pick on him... when you look at Stringer, Wines etc, over the last couple of seasons, I think Curnow is not to be missed.

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I agree, if he is offered $800,000.00 per year at the Cats, & he turns down $M1.5 per Yr with us... I smell something very fishy in all this.

The figures bandied around by the press rarely end up being accurate. Don't believe for one minute that we'd compromise our salary cap with that sort of money for a mid even if it's Dangerman. Is he worth the same money as Buddy?

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