Key forward and mid??

I could live with it.

GOTTA LOVE FREE AGENCY TANKING !!!

GOTTA LOVE FREE AGENCY TANKING !!!

Well if we thought Jones was gonna leave next year and at round 18 we were competing for bottom spot, I bet we'd think twice about winning more games so we can secure pick 1&2.

Charming competition we got!

If we did a normal trade (ie team to team) and they offered #3 for him we'd sign before they'd finished speaking.

Thanks for the memories Chip. Enjoy Box Hill.

Yes it would cancel out our compo. So we will give mal a wide berth methinks.

What I don't get is

Let's say we trade pick 3 for Player X tomorrow and sign Malceski as a FA on Wed. What happens then?

Pick 3 is already gone.

Lets not [censored] it up for a change.

But then what we talk about on this forum??

What I don't get is

Let's say we trade pick 3 for Player X tomorrow and sign Malceski as a FA on Wed. What happens then?

Pick 3 is already gone.

Once you trade a compensation pick you can't bring in a free agent.

What I don't get is

Let's say we trade pick 3 for Player X tomorrow and sign Malceski as a FA on Wed. What happens then?

Pick 3 is already gone.

As Lamashtu implies - it's a hypothetical scenario that can't happen.

As Lamashtu implies - it's a hypothetical scenario that can't happen.

nor need it. Any other FA can be done via trade ...if amenable,

Yeeeeaaaahhhh !!

Well played PJ (and the club)

Fingers crossed we get value out of the pick.

This is oh so relevant.

Also Hirdy staying on at the Druggers. Essendrug is dying a slow, painful and very public death? What a day!

I hird suspect, that he'll fly North for the next few subtropical Winters.

'Bomb's away', to stay ?

The mass outrage on social media makes me so happy

#hatersgonnahate

Scythe, on 06 Oct 2014 - 5:35 PM, said:

Me.

U look like a yellow teletubbie dude!

looks like Billy on the footy show

Currently watching our Rnd 7 win v the Crows. Chip having a shocker - 8 disposals at 40% late in the game.

Pick 3, you pearler.

Currently watching our Rnd 7 win v the Crows. Chip having a shocker - 8 disposals at 40% late in the game.

Pick 3, you pearler.

Also watching, what a game, Crossy doesn't stop.

Some guy in number 8 doing sfa.

Edited October 6, 201410 yr by Ethan Tremblay

Love how we've gone from "he's an All Australian!" "He's our best defender!" "He's one of our best players, we deserve band 1 compo" to "thank Christ this spud is gone."

Thank god, now we can finally move on and try to get something of value from this pick.

On the argument of whether Frawley is worth pick 3 is one part of this debate, straight up I would say no. But the fact is we are a lower club having one of our most important players (if he played is position to his ability) poached. Now his value to other clubs may not be pick 3, but on his ability he would be around that point for us. This means we are not be torn apart player by player.

This is the equalization we should've got last year.

Edited October 6, 201410 yr by Pates

A fully fit and committed Frawley is a gun player, let's not lose sight of that. He's one of the best key defenders in the game and only 26, so should play another 6 seasons at least.

However, there's no way an OOC player coming off a fairly ordinary season is worth pick 3 on the open market. He'd barely be worth a pick in the top 10.

We should be absolutely stoked. The AFL will cop plenty for their compensation formula but they won't be too worried about us getting the pick, the fact the premiers just poached the bottom team's full back is a bigger concern for them IMO.

Haha, I read that while watching the idiotic out of bounds on the full kick by Frawley, 30 seconds remaining in the Adelaide match, inside Adelaide's forward half. Wanted to see us improve as a team apparently, should've looked at himself in the mirror.

Almost cost us that game.

Edited October 6, 201410 yr by Lamashtu

Even when I voted that I thought he'd stay mid-year (which I never bothered to change), I'd have taken pick 3 for Chip. Win-win this one. Don't wish him the best, but I'm pretty comfortable with how it ended up.

Still bodes poorly for our future if we can't improve on our position next year.

Edited October 6, 201410 yr by Yossarian

Love how we've gone from "he's an All Australian!" "He's our best defender!" "He's one of our best players, we deserve band 1 compo" to "thank Christ this spud is gone."

He's not a spud. But he's not worth #3 either. And last season he may have well stayed home in most of his games for all he influenced them.

And that' bleed red and blue', want to be a one club player', 'I want to see Roos commit' blah de blah just made a very cynical supporter base shrug and say 'just give us the #3 and go already'

I just feel that the timing of Chips departure and where we're positioned as a club, including the playing list, is perfectly timed.

I flicked over to watch the last 5min of the cross win and I gave a cheeky chuckle when he kicked that ball out on the full that gave them a chance of snatching it. Thanks for the memories and thanks for pick 3!