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Hugh Greenwood jumps ship to North Melbourne

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I wonder if this just creates bad blood at North, though....

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    Good pickup for them

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    GCS planned for one pick at the draft but AFL rules require each club to make 3 draft picks or upgrade rookies.  To achieve that GCS delisted Greenwood intending to redraft him late in the draft.

    They snookered themselves.  Serves them right.  How they thought no club would draft him before their late pick is beyond me.  

    Carlton have been playing similar silly games in delisting players only to re-draft them.  

    It is not what the draft is for.  Hopefully the Greenwood heist stops those silly games.

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    A bit embarrassing for Gold Coast to have the Kangaroos poach Hugh Greenwood from them!

    Oh well....I can't say I have much sympathy for the Gold Coast

    Perhaps it will give former Demon Aaron vandenBerg a chance of getting picked up by the Suns?

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    There are so many parts of this I don't understand.

    How can a club delist a player that still has 2 years to run on their contract without paying it out?

    Why would they play silly buggers with one of their best midfielders?

    If you can do something as blatent as this, why not just do this with a player who is not getting games and represents zero risk?

    The article reeks of spin - everyone is happy, Hugh is awesome we wish him all the best, GC is an awesome place, so much better than when I arrived, really set up for success.

    The duration of the contract is exactly what he had (and they broke) at GC so either the dollars must be substantially better or he had no faith he would be redrafted. What a strange turn of events.

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    31 minutes ago, FlashInThePan said:

    There are so many parts of this I don't understand.

    How can a club delist a player that still has 2 years to run on their contract without paying it out?

    Why would they play silly buggers with one of their best midfielders?

    If you can do something as blatent as this, why not just do this with a player who is not getting games and represents zero risk?

    The article reeks of spin - everyone is happy, Hugh is awesome we wish him all the best, GC is an awesome place, so much better than when I arrived, really set up for success.

    The duration of the contract is exactly what he had (and they broke) at GC so either the dollars must be substantially better or he had no faith he would be redrafted. What a strange turn of events.

    gc17 gonna gc17

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    it smells of a salary cap dump.With the trade period well and truly closed I  can see no other way the Suns could have done it if that was the clubs intention .

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    Gold Coast are the worst run team by a country mile they just should pack it in.

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    What a debacle. This is up there with the  all time list management own goals.

    As Luci said, clubs have been too cute with the risk free manipulation of primary and rookie list spots and it’s about time another club took advantage. 

    GC probably regretting letting pick 19 go for what effectively amounted to a salary dump right now. Wonder how keen they are on a 2nd rd pick?

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    Nifty move by North. The Suns wearing the dunces hat. Again. Disband them or pack them off to Tasmania

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    43 minutes ago, BAMF said:

    Seriously?

    Yep.....(You were supposed to reply Not Who, Hugh)

    So here is a player now at his 3rd club, who has jumped ship/snatched from the team that was 16th to the team that was last.  Averages just over a goal every second game and will be 30 at the start of the season.

    Is North Melbourne the new Geelong?

    What twisted reality have I fallen into. Is GC being run by a chipmunk collective?. FMSWs.

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    All a bit strange this. A few weeks ago the Suns were struggling with their salary cap to the point where they tried desperately to ditch a player who ended up not wanting to leave.

    Now, they've managed to ditch a player to North Melbourne which is taking up the Suns' contractual obligations.

    I'm not a conspiracy theorist but ...

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    1 hour ago, WERRIDEE said:

    Gold Coast are the worst run team by a country mile they just should pack it in.

    If that was the reason for clubs packing it in, we would have closed some time in the early 2010s. The better response is that they should get their act together (unless this was something they actually wanted to achieve, given the player concerned doesn't really fit their profile given his age).  

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    3 hours ago, Demonstone said:

    No, Hugh.

    Hugh's gone first?

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    Hard to see Gold Coast not folding.

    A decade in the league and never even got close to finals, even with all the concessions they were given. GWS have at least had decent onfield success. GC are a mile off and now have another embarrassing list move to add to an existence of blunders and failure. They’ve got bugger all supporters, surely they get moved to Tassie or fold?!

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    I'd be livid if I were a GC supporter.

    I mean, for one, I'd have had no finals in 11 years.

    But to take one of the club's better players and turf him because list management is so poor you couldn't find the minimum three picks without having to delist him, only to have a rival take him for free, is a failure of the highest order.

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    Didn’t we do a similar thing last year when we dropped James Jordon off the senior list and then rookied him. It sounded like a smart move to enable us to have an extra pick in the main draft but could it also have backfired?

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