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I'd recruit him just because of his name. They dont get much cooler.

 
4 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

I'd recruit him just because of his name. They dont get much cooler.

Sounds like a porn star

12 hours ago, Rednblueriseing said:

Fox footy's new mid week show suggesting the cats are going to throw everything at getting Oliver... 

interesting

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1 hour ago, FireInTheBennelly said:

How many hectares?

Climate change -> Karma


Melbourne not mentioned yet again. Just once I want our club associated with a top end talent that is out of contract.

I loved it when we got Jordan Lewis as a free agent - it felt like such a great acqusition, Hibbo, Melksham also great gets too and Maudie / Lever (with draft picks) 

Go hard or go home.

The sliding doors are extra bigulous on this one, plus the random 2020 draft. We got done by Geelong though. They beat us to Isaac Smith, then jumped us in the draft for Holmes. So we looked to Rosman for wing2, then plugged, first with Hunter and now with Billings (also shout out to Gus). Got a flag, they got a flag. Lingers is a bit down since. 

10 hours ago, layzie said:

She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene.

Put it in 'H'!


11 hours ago, Gawndy the Great said:

Melbourne not mentioned yet again. Just once I want our club associated with a top end talent that is out of contract.

I loved it when we got Jordan Lewis as a free agent - it felt like such a great acqusition, Hibbo, Melksham also great gets too and Maudie / Lever (with draft picks) 

Go hard or go home.

I'm sure we're very active in the players market and sniffing around a lot however it doesn't worry me to have our name attached all the time.

I continually see Hawthorns name attached to everyone it seems and they never land anyone of merit.  I think this looks a lot worse rather then enquiring quietly.

  • 5 months later...

He's involved in this trade, or Geelong can eat a bag of [censored]. 

Let's demand this from the club.

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7 minutes ago, John Demonic said:

He's involved in this trade, or Geelong can eat a bag of [censored]. 

Let's demand this from the club.

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Yeah nah that's not how it works.

Secondly why on earth would he leave Geelong to come to a club that's a current rabble.

3 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Yeah nah that's not how it works.

Secondly why on earth would he leave Geelong to come to a club that's a current rabble.

Holmes or comparative value.

Taking a hardline trade approach is not how this works? I guess he stays then.

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The point is simply that if a club does not have the value to make a trade, they need to ruffle the feathers of some of their own players and their fan base, to come up with the value. Why should another club make NO concessions or sacrifice any relationship (to an up and coming star) to make a trade happen? A future 1st is not worth the sacrifice we are making, if thats all thats on the table to take his contract and his playing ability.

We called them, if they want it to happen, find your player that wants to come to us.

The hardline approach is the trade demand, or it doesn't get done.

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1 minute ago, John Demonic said:

The point is simply that if a club does not have the value to make a trade, they need to ruffle the feathers of some of their own players and their fan base, to come up with the value. Why should another club have to make NO concessions or sacrifice any relationship (to an up and coming star) to make a trade happen?

The hardline approach is the asking price or he stays. 

We are pushing Oliver out the door, we have no power in any trade negotiation, we will be lucky if we get away with a future 1st rounder and not picking up any of his salary.

25 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

We are pushing Oliver out the door, we have no power in any trade negotiation, we will be lucky if we get away with a future 1st rounder and not picking up any of his salary.

What happened to the power being in the clubs hand with the writing of a long term contract? If Geelong are desperate enough they can move the pieces to get it done. I don't see why 'we' have to accept what is offered when the long term contract permits us the lee-way to keep him and repair the relationship without fear of him walking to the draft. Is sitting out really such a fearful scenario that we'd accept so little compensation?

Of course the full picture is not clear and we dont know how unified the 'we' is that's pushing him out the door and whether things are beyond repair or not. The ball is in the Cats court to come to the table with something substantial imo. 

 

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Cornes will love this if it came to fruition…. new material for his volkano.

 

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