Its simple. You have to pay the money. you don't have a choice.

We are just getting crap value

Well the club should be doing something about that.

prescribing the money but deducting amounts from the payment for non performance, someone suggested players paying members fees, who knows creative stuff that may make the players wake up that they too can be creative and maybe that this is serious maybe that they must GAF.

I wrote this in another thread.

Article in todays HUN about Melbourne trying to recruit Tom Lynch.

Further in it says Melbourne is adamant it will not over pay Howe.

List Chief Todd Viney said the club " cannot be foolish about how we spend our money"

"we need to be really disciplined the way we manage our list , so Jeremy is an important player for us, but within the constraints of the model we have got " Viney said.

" We will pay him what we think he is worth and hopefully he is going to be happy with that along with ( how) all the Geelong and Hawthorn players have done".

If there was any doubt Howe will not be at the MFC next year that settles it for me.

I read between the lines that Howe wants more than the MFC thinks he is worth.

Big signal to the fans IMO from Viney and the club.

We're finally taking a stand....about bloody time.

No more overpaying hacks.

What a concept.

No more Dawes deals.

What makes it worse is that he is probably only playing within his limits and to stop himself from getting injured maybe even under instruction.

This would probably present ill feeling in the team ether and should have something done about cases like this by the ratbag AFL if they care...

I'm definitely tired of the player culture around poorer clubs that in order to retain players they need to pay massive overs as compensation for staying in a poor club.

I'm glad Howe is getting the same treatment as Frawley. The only question is whether we're trying to get a player or a pick in return, and if the latter then what will we demand? Inside the top 10?

I wrote this in another thread.

Article in todays HUN about Melbourne trying to recruit Tom Lynch.

Further in it says Melbourne is adamant it will not over pay Howe.

List Chief Todd Viney said the club " cannot be foolish about how we spend our money"

"we need to be really disciplined the way we manage our list , so Jeremy is an important player for us, but within the constraints of the model we have got " Viney said.

" We will pay him what we think he is worth and hopefully he is going to be happy with that along with ( how) all the Geelong and Hawthorn players have done".

If there was any doubt Howe will not be at the MFC next year that settles it for me.

I read between the lines that Howe wants more than the MFC thinks he is worth.

Big signal to the fans IMO from Viney and the club.

I agree with your assessment od. The Club has drawn a line in the sand, and more credit to them for doing it. It's about time!

I wrote this in another thread.

Article in todays HUN about Melbourne trying to recruit Tom Lynch.

Further in it says Melbourne is adamant it will not over pay Howe.

List Chief Todd Viney said the club " cannot be foolish about how we spend our money"

"we need to be really disciplined the way we manage our list , so Jeremy is an important player for us, but within the constraints of the model we have got " Viney said.

" We will pay him what we think he is worth and hopefully he is going to be happy with that along with ( how) all the Geelong and Hawthorn players have done".

If there was any doubt Howe will not be at the MFC next year that settles it for me.

I read between the lines that Howe wants more than the MFC thinks he is worth.

Big signal to the fans IMO from Viney and the club.

I get the feeling Howe copped a bit of shock when he saw Melbournes initial offer.

The truth hurts, and it must've have hurt to see what you're really worth instead of what you think you're worth.

I get the feeling Howe copped a bit of shock when he saw Melbournes initial offer.

The truth hurts, and it must've have hurt to see what you're really worth instead of what you think you're worth.

Hes worth $120 k per year max

Whatever we get back in a trade will be an upgrade

So I've heard today that he wants $700k. I am presuming that he's having a laff, and just wants out of the Dees.

I wonder if we have since reduced that offer given the last few games he has played. He would gave expected Melbourne to help him bid his salary up, guess he will be sadly mistaken. obviously has delusions of grandeur.

Trade week can't come soon enough.

Most recent article fro the Hun (about our play for Lynch) says Gold Coast are leading the chase at the moment.

I find that interesting. Could Bennell be the "A Grader" and "match winner" Roos was talking about? Would it be weird to think that GC might want to offload him?

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So I've heard today that he wants $700k. I am presuming that he's having a laff, and just wants out of the Dees.

Well we did try to trade him last season (and with good reason ND7 for Howe is larceny), so I am sure their is resentment.

And don't give me the whole "we don't know the club wanted to trade him" nonsense - he admitted he had an offer in front of him to move which means we agreed to the trade prior to that.

It would be best for all concerned - he can take hangers and kick a goal or two in someones forward line and we get Pick 20 and him out of Hogan's forward line or out of Salem's way...

As I said in the Colin Garland post, what we need are above average players with leadership qualities.

Apart from his ability to take a hangar, he is a below average player with absolutely no leadership qualities.

His field kicking is abysmal. What makes Hawthorn so great? Their field kicking.

If he wants to go, let him go, and see if we can pickup an above average mid-fielder in return.

Howe is yet another player who has been a part of our very poor playing group for several years now - nothing to lose by trading him while we can.

So I've heard today that he wants $700k. I am presuming that he's having a laff, and just wants out of the Dees.

Tell him he's dreaming.

I reckon that's what Jones earns. Seriously if that's true and he gets that elsewhere, that is the biggest daylight robbery since we paid Clark $1mil to walk out on us.

So I've heard today that he wants $700k. I am presuming that he's having a laff, and just wants out of the Dees.

Counter offer: $83 240.

Do we know where he's going?

Fremantle

Fremantle

Doubt it. I reckon he'll stay in Melbourne.

Howe to Giants for Tomlinson... straight swap

The problem with Howe is, when he tries he is a bloody good player to have in your side.

But he gives up oh so easily so many times in the one game.

Howe plus a pick or player ( Queensland boy Spencer maybe) for Bennell and Hall.

Howe plus a pick or player ( Queensland boy Spencer maybe) for Bennell and Hall.

Not sure if there'd be much chance of that happening.

Howe for Tomlinson sounds like a decent transaction to me, although if we pick up Lynch from the Crows we'd be looking for something else for Howe I'd say.

Howe plus a pick or player ( Queensland boy Spencer maybe) for Bennell and Hall.

If the Suns did that trade then we know there is a serious drug problem within the whole club.

Scarily, on 98 games, Jeremy Howe has played the 6th most games for Melbourne of any player currently on the list.

Given that we've nursed Howe to 100 games, I hope he starts breeding soon. Otherwise I'm not sure why he has played every game this year.