9 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

Weren't Tom Doedee's too?

.... Maybe we should be recruiting Talia and Hartigan ?

Edited September 3, 20196 yr by John Demonic

 

31 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

Thank goodness.  Hopefully that means we are closer to locking up the Frostmeister.  No more defenders until 2020 trade period pls.

9 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

Thank goodness.  Hopefully that means we are closer to locking up the Frostmeister.  No more defenders until 2020 trade period pls.

Reckon? From that article: "Melbourne has seriously lowballed the out-of-contract key defender, who looks certain to reject that contract offer and join a third AFL club."

9 minutes ago, General Malaise said:

Reckon? From that article: "Melbourne has seriously lowballed the out-of-contract key defender, who looks certain to reject that contract offer and join a third AFL club."

The Age also ran an article on the Frost situation which had a quote from his manager, who said we hadn't yet tabled an offer to him but preliminary talks had been positive.  

I don't know who to believe really.

Is Alex Keath really asking for 600k?? Bizzare..

1 hour ago, General Malaise said:

Reckon? From that article: "Melbourne has seriously lowballed the out-of-contract key defender, who looks certain to reject that contract offer and join a third AFL club."

Lots of mixed messages ...not unusual at trade time GM..

...."When contacted by The Age, Frost's manager Anthony McConville said he was yet to receive a formal contract offer from Melbourne, but he was confident the two parties were having positive discussions."

Courtesy of Sam McClure from the Age

Keith of to the Doggies.  Things starting to move a little at Adelaide.  Will obviously ratchet up across the board from next Monday...

ADELAIDE defender Alex Keath has requested a trade to the Western Bulldogs.

The 27-year-old informed the Crows and other interested parties – including St Kilda – of his decision early on Thursday afternoon.

6 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

Keith of to the Doggies.  Things starting to move a little at Adelaide.  Will obviously ratchet up across the board from next Monday...

ADELAIDE defender Alex Keath has requested a trade to the Western Bulldogs.

The 27-year-old informed the Crows and other interested parties – including St Kilda – of his decision early on Thursday afternoon.

Doggies improving by adding a CHB and a FF.

16 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Doggies improving by adding a CHB and a FF.

Havent seen that confirmed as a lock.  Is that another exclusive Mr Leg?

50 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

Keith of to the Doggies.  Things starting to move a little at Adelaide.  Will obviously ratchet up across the board from next Monday...

ADELAIDE defender Alex Keath has requested a trade to the Western Bulldogs.

The 27-year-old informed the Crows and other interested parties – including St Kilda – of his decision early on Thursday afternoon.

Huge loss for us.

Who do we have to play as a key defender now?

This was always going to be just banter......Why would he come to the Dees for a start? I mean with Lever, May, Oscar & Frosty he was never going to get in.

Hard to believe after 18 games for the cows this season that they would let him go?

That's bizzare.....

14 minutes ago, Laughing Goat said:

This was always going to be just banter......Why would he come to the Dees for a start? I mean with Lever, May, Oscar & Frosty he was never going to get in.

Hard to believe after 18 games for the cows this season that they would let him go?

That's bizzare.....

He's about to turn 28 and has bobbed around on cricket and footy lists for years without landing a big pay day. This was his one chance to get the kind of contract that makes over a decade of pro sport worth the effort (compared to his peers). He's taking that chance and the Crows probably can't do much about it.

Adelaide are going to be paying Jenkins and Betts not to play for them next year as well as taking as many top 30 draft picks as they can get. It's as an aggressive a rebuild from a non hopeless team as I can remember and I think it's very wise.

1 hour ago, Redleg said:

Doggies improving by adding a CHB and a FF.

Short term improving, long term has me wondering if Keath and Bruce are actually better than Lewis Young and Schache who might be relegated to the VFL. Or if 3 talls at either end is the desired set up, down back maybe, up forward I don't like the Naughton, Bruce, Schache combination.

Their coach does very well when given 22 adequate players who fill positional needs and play together. Start giving him options or deficiencies and the man goes a little haywire. 

2 hours ago, Rusty Nails said:

Havent seen that confirmed as a lock.  Is that another exclusive Mr Leg?

Yep.

 

7 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

That is poor.  Bulldogs force him to cancel a holiday to have surgery that Adelaide didn't think he needed then don't get the deal done.

Edited October 16, 20196 yr by Lucifer's Hero

3 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

That is poor.  Bulldogs force him to cancel a holiday for surgery that Adelaide didn't think he needed then don't get the deal done.

Does this mean he could walk into the pre-season draft?

 

Could we pick him up for nothing if of course, Gold Coast have no interest?

 

Edited October 16, 20196 yr by The Stigga

14 minutes ago, The Stigga said:

Does this mean he could walk into the pre-season draft?

Could we pick him up for nothing if of course, Gold Coast have no interest?

Apparently Crows have a 2yr low-ball contract available.  So I guess he could walk

Its a terrible situation for Keath:  Crows low-ball his contract but demand high draft picks.  Bulldogs offer him big 3+1 contract but only want to offer ho hum draft picks.  Keath the meat in the sandwich.

We could pick him up but I'd say we have moved on.

Edited October 16, 20196 yr by Lucifer's Hero

GC Suns in the box seat here

10 minutes ago, Mach5 said:

GC Suns in the box seat here

be funny if he ends up at gc17 via the psd as he was originally signed there was a 17 year old pre-draft listing before deciding on cricket

Apparently Dogs identified an injury that required surgery that Crows knew about (but their docs said surgery not required).

Injury flared up and he's gone in for surgery and will miss first part of the year.

Dogs didn't want to pay original trade price, and deal has fallen over.

Could be quite a cheap pick up for someone. 

Just now, ChaserJ said:

Apparently Dogs identified an injury that required surgery that Crows knew about (but their docs said surgery not required).

Injury flared up and he's gone in for surgery and will miss first part of the year.

Dogs didn't want to pay original trade price, and deal has fallen over.

Could be quite a cheap pick up for someone. 

Apparently Saints medical staff identified same issue as Dogs and came up with the same outcome 

I'd definitely pick him up as a cheap option.