Ethan Tremblay

I thought at the time that tweet or whatever it was from Russell Robertson was a weird one. Yze was allegedly shattered that he couldn’t get to us because Hawthorn were making him honour the last year of his contract, then today it’s announced he’s extended said contract until end of 2022. Weird.

Gut feel is he’ll stay at Collingwood because they have or they will up their offer to three years. I agree with DL that we were a pawn used by Elliott and his management to get an extra year out of Collingwood. It failed. Now the same tactic is being applied using Brisbane with his management upping the ante, this time cameras were on stand-by filming Elliott’s arrival and entering of Brisbane’s facilities. Elliott is a fan favourite, Eddie won’t let him leave.

I reckon he’s put a line through us. It was Brisbane until Collingwood upped their offer to three years. He’ll re-sign with Collingwood on a three year deal, bookmark it.

Do dwarves call mini golf just golf? Just something I’ve always wondered. This rumour smelt suspicious from the beginning, good investigationing DL.

And they don’t land, they descend over the water and you have to jump in while they’re still flying.

Yep they have a fleet of three biplanes, you get complementary goggles.

He could say he’s from Brisbane and goes for the Lions and has been following him since he toured Brisbane’s facilities. And then tell him he’s staying in the room next door, “just knock if you need anything, see you at dinner I’ve reserved the table next to you”.

Just the ones where I attempt to actually be serious. So all 4.

Yep correct, disregard my posts!

I thought that could be the case and slightly covered off on that in my initial post. So if an RFA announces they are going to explore free agency their current club can make them an offer anytime? I thought they had to wait and see if he accepted a rival clubs offer then match it. Edit: Irrelevant now as grey wolf has brought to my attention Elliott is a UFA.

Apologies I should have said Nixon’s report. I suppose my point was that I don’t believe Collingwood would have increased their offer as they know Elliott is exploring his rights as a free agent.. Surely they’d hold off and see what offer he accepts then match it if they want to. Therefore I don’t believe Collingwood have increased their offer.

No way.

Elliott is a RFA so Collingwood have the right to march a rivals offer and retain Elliott. There’s reports that Collingwood have increased their offer, are these perhaps incorrect given the above or are they attempting to get Elliott to re-sign before he accepts a rival teams contract?

Yep it really isn’t. Let’s not forget he’s not leaving a basket-case, he’s leaving Collingwood, the second biggest club in the land. He’s leaving for the club that offered him the best contract in terms of length and money. No indictment at all.

Didn’t want him anyway, he can’t even spell Adam. Comedy gold aside, surely his next gig will be as a senior coach? Jeez if we have another poor season, what might be at the end of next year? Clubs are happy for assistants to break contracts to allow them to pick up a senior gig. Food for thought.

Might need a bigger belt Andy, lots of notches being added lately. #ETthetradebreaker. How does he do it? #Hejustdoes.

Jack Newnes might get picked up via free agency and Jack Steven might end up at Geelong so there’s a couple of extra picks.

Didn’t I post this yesterday? Is Nixon following me? Am I Nixon? What’s going on?

Nixon’s been reading Demonland.

Collingwood have offered him 3 years and just by coincidence he starts his internship at CGU on Monday which pays 500k a year.

In determining compensation I didn’t think what the players original club offered/didn’t offer affected the compensation formula, perhaps it comes under the bolded part below? https://m.afl.com.au/afl-hq/the-afl-explained/free-agency COMPENSATION A club that has a net loss of players transferring to/from other clubs as free agents in one transfer period is entitled to compensation via National Draft picks allocated by the AFL. The compensation formula produces a points rating for players based on: 1. The new contract of the free agent; 2. The age of the free agent. Draft picks are allocated to clubs based on the net total points for free agents lost and gained during the transfer period. Draft picks will be allocated to one of five places: • 1st round • end of 1st round • 2nd round • end of 2nd round • 3rd round In applying the formula, an expert committee reviews the formula outcomes. The committee has the power to recommend alternative outcomes to GM – Football Operations where the formula produces a materially anomalous result.

Richmond weren’t expecting a first round compensation pick because it was Ellis, they were expecting one because of the length and amount of the contract dictated they should have received one. The Eagles received an end of first round compensation pick for Lycett who’s deal to go to Port was the same as Ellis’. Geelong received also received end of first round compensation for Motlop after he accepted a 4 year 550k a season deal from Port. I’d also be asking the question that Gale did. The AFL’s rules on free agency compensation aren’t transparent and they like it that way so they can change it at anytime to suit their agenda.

Would Fagan have taken him on a ‘journey’ though? I bet Goody did.

Haha. He’s got a family member that works for Freo (so he says..). Even then they’d probably manage to stuff up the passing on of info.