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Whilst we have TMac's Salary on the Books, we can't afford Philips. Club is definitely interested, but we planned to move on TMac, and that hasn't happened.

The Club still has not been given list sizes from the AFL!!

 

Can we suspend our outrage about MFC's trading etc until after the dust has settled and all constraints clearer.  Those posters who are firing off rockets are doing their own reputations no good IMO. 

It may end up being portrayed differently in the media but Tom wants to stay at Collingwood.

As has been reported he may be squeezed out. I’d say in the last week or so he’s had a discussion with the club and gone from “not going anywhere” to “going elsewhere if forced to”.

Absolute amateur hour at Collingwood at the moment. Morale would have to be extremely low.

 
2 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Extremely disappointing. 

Besides Brown what a crud trade period this will be.

A chance to fill in a position that we've been screaming out for and it goes straight through our hands.

You should know by now dazzle, players pick clubs and not the other way around. 

If a player wants more money/longer terms/role etc they eill pick the realvent club. 

For all we know Phillips has rejected us and or we don't have the cap space for his demands.

Edited by Unleash Hell

Could it be as simple as he just didn’t want to come to MFC? 


2 hours ago, Redleg said:

Not sure that’s true. 

Maybe we don't have appropriate trade assets to satisfy Collingwood and Hawthorn do?

2 minutes ago, Domgus Petrogan said:

Maybe we don't have appropriate trade assets to satisfy Collingwood and Hawthorn do?

From our perspective may need the trade assets (picks) for other prioritised targets and/or it could be a salary cap issue (either now or the implications for next year when several key contracts come up for renewal).

For Hawthorn it's a neat fit, I.Smith out and T.Phillips in.

3 hours ago, adonski said:

My thinking too. 

Me three.

While Smith was perfect as he was free and could fill a hole for 2-3 years while somebody else developed. Phillips cost draft picks and would be excess once Macrea?? is ready.

 
6 minutes ago, Grimes Times said:

Me three.

While Smith was perfect as he was free and could fill a hole for 2-3 years while somebody else developed. Phillips cost draft picks and would be excess once Macrea?? is ready.

Wouldn't shock me if the logic behind Smith was almost a succession plan for 1/2 years while the drafted kid developed the tank required for the position. With Phillips only 24 you'd be 'stuck' with him should you pick up a good kid in the draft at the same position. 

8 minutes ago, adonski said:

Wouldn't shock me if the logic behind Smith was almost a succession plan for 1/2 years while the drafted kid developed the tank required for the position. With Phillips only 24 you'd be 'stuck' with him should you pick up a good kid in the draft at the same position. 

I think it’s more about shedding Tmc $$$. If he stays , we probably can’t add too much in terms of players costing us $$$. 


4 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

I think it’s more about shedding Tmc $$$. If he stays , we probably can’t add too much in terms of players costing us $$$. 

Not sure about that. Phillips might be on decent coin but they'd find a way if they really wanted to. 

2 hours ago, Demons11 said:

?

So are we having a real sniff D11?

7 minutes ago, DemonOX said:

So are we having a real sniff D11?

Nah, I mentioned last week he was off to the Hawks.  Dazzle said I was throwing darts 

3 hours ago, one_demon said:

Genuine wingman don't grow on trees

Only Flowers which grow well! 


3 hours ago, sue said:

Can we suspend our outrage about MFC's trading etc until after the dust has settled and all constraints clearer.  Those posters who are firing off rockets are doing their own reputations no good IMO. 

Yeah well that's ok but Meanwhile many other clubs are making more moves than I did on the disco dance floors in the seventies. Other than Brown.... we dont appear to have fired a shot!!! Floundering yet again!

Edited by picket fence

1 hour ago, picket fence said:

 Other than Brown.... we dont appear to have fired a shot!!! Floundering yet again!

There's always a bit of FOMO this time of year

4 hours ago, Demons11 said:

Nah, I mentioned last week he was off to the Hawks.  Dazzle said I was throwing darts 

if a player voluntarily wants to go to hawthorn rn instead of us then we are in a far more ugly place than i thought.

16 minutes ago, Turner said:

if a player voluntarily wants to go to hawthorn rn instead of us then we are in a far more ugly place than i thought.

Why’s that? Because they had 1 bad year,  We have had 50 of them 

2 hours ago, Demons11 said:

Why’s that? Because they had 1 bad year,  We have had 50 of them 

56 to be exact!


24 minutes ago, The Third Eye said:

Hawks fan I know reckons that they’re going to get both Phillips and Treloar.

Could be right, they have shed a few of their players in the last few years, so they have both spots and cash.

On 11/6/2020 at 3:06 PM, Demons11 said:

Nah, I mentioned last week he was off to the Hawks.  Dazzle said I was throwing darts 

Collingwood's Tom Phillips could return to the club next season, with Hawthorn "unlikely" to advance its interest in the wingman.

....

 
15 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Collingwood's Tom Phillips could return to the club next season, with Hawthorn "unlikely" to advance its interest in the wingman.

....

Well, if we want him he could now be ours for the taking, as no apparent interest from other clubs and Pies desperate to make cap space. One would think with Langdon controlling one wing, Phillips with some help from Baker, Hunt and Tomlinson, could manage the other. Wing positions filled.

Edited by Redleg

44 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Collingwood's Tom Phillips could return to the club next season, with Hawthorn "unlikely" to advance its interest in the wingman.

....

So what’s your point?  As I have said 1000 times, I’m happy to pass on some of the mail I get.  It doesn’t always come off but Hawks are still definitely interested but also might have their eyes on someone else at the Pies


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