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The Bailey Humphrey Thread

dazzledavey36
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18 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

They are missing key players and i think Trac definitely gives them something more to work with ahead of the ball. He is more valuable to GCS than Humphrey is to us so we need a pick on top to complete the deal.

Completely disagree. The age difference and our desperation not to stink makes Humphrey as important to us. We’ll have to send the pick in any deal.

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    Getting Humphrey to the Dees has 3 boxes we need to tick off.

    1.      Trac commits to GC (Tick)

    2.      Humphrey commits to Dees (Pending)

    3.      Negotiating with GC on the trade details. (Pending)

    Stage 1 is locked in, if stage 2 happens (The hardest part IMO) I believe stage 3 will be straight forward. We just really need to do whatever we can to convince Bailey we are the place for him to thrive / get paid! 🤣

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    I do not believe that GCS or GWS have an actual salary cap. My belief is that the AFL turn a blind eye to the contracts and payments their players get. I have no intel, but I find it impossible to believe that franchise clubs can keep all their guns without paying them ridiculous amounts.

    Bailey Humphrey simply wants his two slices of the GCS money pie, just like all their other stars

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    Predicting the BH story will fizzle out fairly quickly from here. Reckon Dimma will be speaking to him fairly quickly and firmly. His manager just playing everyone in the process like a fiddle for some more coin.

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    3 minutes ago, The Jackson FIX said:

    Predicting the BH story will fizzle out fairly quickly from here. Reckon Dimma will be speaking to him fairly quickly and firmly. His manager just playing everyone in the process like a fiddle for some more coin.

    Is the AFL industry that callas they play with young players lives? Manager are paid to do a role for their client./players.

    Clubs and the AFL hold the same responsibility

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    4 minutes ago, The Jackson FIX said:

    Predicting the BH story will fizzle out fairly quickly from here. Reckon Dimma will be speaking to him fairly quickly and firmly. His manager just playing everyone in the process like a fiddle for some more coin.

    Reckon the call Dimma is on is from AFL HQ telling him to make the Trac deal happen.

    Predicting this will blow up (not fizzle) and will be about money.

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    11 minutes ago, The Jackson FIX said:

    Predicting the BH story will fizzle out fairly quickly from here. Reckon Dimma will be speaking to him fairly quickly and firmly. His manager just playing everyone in the process like a fiddle for some more coin.

    And what if the Petracca to GC story fizzles with it? Dimma "que sera!"?

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    Whilst Humphrey's will be a good young player to get. Im not yet sold on him and hype.

    He has a lot of work to do to be an elite mid/fwd, he currently sits in the Jake Stringer mold, he needs to decide if from here he wants to be a De Goey and have a pretty good career or put the effort in and become a Dusty, Petracca, Dangerfield type player.

    He has the tools, if we can lure him over, hopefully we can help him reach his full potential

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    1 minute ago, Travy14 said:

    Whilst Humphrey's will be a good young player to get. Im not yet sold on him and hype.

    He has a lot of work to do to be an elite mid/fwd, he currently sits in the Jake Stringer mold, he needs to decide if from here he wants to be a De Goey and have a pretty good career or put the effort in and become a Dusty, Petracca, Dangerfield type player.

    He has the tools, if we can lure him over, hopefully we can help him reach his full potential

    1 minute ago, Travy14 said:

    Whilst Humphrey's will be a good young player to get. Im not yet sold on him and hype.

    He has a lot of work to do to be an elite mid/fwd, he currently sits in the Jake Stringer mold, he needs to decide if from here he wants to be a De Goey and have a pretty good career or put the effort in and become a Dusty, Petracca, Dangerfield type player.

    He has the tools, if we can lure him over, hopefully we can help him reach his full potential

    He is a star!

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    15 minutes ago, Demons11 said:
      14 minutes ago, Travy14 said:

    Whilst Humphrey's will be a good young player to get. Im not yet sold on him and hype.

    15 minutes ago, Demons11 said:
      14 minutes ago, Travy14 said:

    Whilst Humphrey's will be a good young player to get. Im not yet sold on him and hype.

    Petracca is a star, and if you go and look at his first three years up against Humphrey's, this is a huge difference. That's off a knee reco as well.

    Like I said he has potential, but he has to put in the work. He clearly doesn't have the tank to be a midfielder besides bursts. Its in his hands to go to the next level or he will be Jake Stringer 2.0

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    6 minutes ago, Travy14 said:
      20 minutes ago, Demons11 said:

    Whilst Humphrey's will be a good young player to get. Im not yet sold on him and hype.

    Petracca is a star, and if you go and look at his first three years up against Humphrey's, this is a huge difference. That's off a knee reco as well.

    Like I said he has potential, but he has to put in the work. He clearly doesn't have the tank to be a midfielder besides bursts. Its in his hands to go to the next level or he will be Jake Stringer 2.0

    Here are the stat comparisons at the same age. Very similar. The reason Bailey isn't getting full time mid minutes is due to the surplus of mids they have on the GC list. Anderson, Rowell, Miller, Flanders, Fiorini, Swallow, Ainsworth have all been sharing midfield time over the past few years. Bailey just happens to be the best of the lot up forward. He is on track to stardom.

    Screenshot 2025-10-05 180521.png

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    36 minutes ago, Travy14 said:

    Whilst Humphrey's will be a good young player to get. Im not yet sold on him and hype.

    He has a lot of work to do to be an elite mid/fwd, he currently sits in the Jake Stringer mold, he needs to decide if from here he wants to be a De Goey and have a pretty good career or put the effort in and become a Dusty, Petracca, Dangerfield type player.

    He has the tools, if we can lure him over, hopefully we can help him reach his full potential

    Great post.Exactly my thoughts.

    Out of the GC and the Dees I know where he can get more midfield minutes. Hopefully that is why he met with King.

    All he is at the moment is a half forward and don’t think this changing anytime soon, especially with Trac coming on board at GC.

    Time to change ships Bailey. Come home Bailey.

    We have one Bayley but no Bailey.

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    13 minutes ago, Brenno said:

    Here are the stat comparisons at the same age. Very similar. The reason Bailey isn't getting full time mid minutes is due to the surplus of mids they have on the GC list. Anderson, Rowell, Miller, Flanders, Fiorini, Swallow, Ainsworth have all been sharing midfield time over the past few years. Bailey just happens to be the best of the lot up forward. He is on track to stardom.

    Screenshot 2025-10-05 180521.png

    3-4 years of his career too, and he won the club goal kicking when he was there. Apples and oranges.

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    @dazzledavey36 can you please post a tweet saying that BH has decided to come to Melbourne! Cheers

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    All the media in the last 24 hours suggesting a straight swap of Petracca & Humphrey at best for Dees and we may have to sweeten the deal. We need to get a lot more proactive with the media as that narrative is ridiculous.

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    16 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

    Well, if nobody else will do it ...

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    Can't get any more factual then this @Ted Lasso

    Its Happening Ron Paul GIF

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    3 hours ago, Stiff Arm said:

    I do not believe that GCS or GWS have an actual salary cap. My belief is that the AFL turn a blind eye to the contracts and payments their players get. I have no intel, but I find it impossible to believe that franchise clubs can keep all their guns without paying them ridiculous amounts.

    Bailey Humphrey simply wants his two slices of the GCS money pie, just like all their other stars

    They had to cap dump a few years back and gave the cats a pick for the privilege.

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    26 minutes ago, Radar Detector said:

    All the media in the last 24 hours suggesting a straight swap of Petracca & Humphrey at best for Dees and we may have to sweeten the deal. We need to get. Lot more proactive with the media as that narrative is ridiculous.

    I think it's pretty fair tbh.

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    1 hour ago, Demonstone said:

    Well, if nobody else will do it ...

    2f6eavc.jpg

    Seems legit.

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    Just now, The Jackson FIX said:

    Similar in many ways though

    Because both these scenarios were total fantasy?

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    Chris judds grandma just told me Bailey Humphrey is coming

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