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Didn't one of the best players from the Premiers leave in FA? It is only a disaster if you don't work out how to use it to your advantage. I will let you whinge for a couple years, but at some point you are going to have to build that bridge because it is here to stay.

If Coll wants to keep pick 11 for Thomas then we could do something if they wanted Sylvia. But the sweetener may be ours as they would lose more should we not agree. Getting Shaw for effectively pick 21 is overs. The same pick got us Dawes and he will be of more, and better service than Shaw. Long ways to go before this is something to stress over however.

It's inevitable in sports, and we have a soft one with compensation, and that comp is tailored to the lower clubs when they lose players. Tinkering can be made and should be done, but FA is here to stay and it will not destroy those not already heading for destruction. There is no evil here.

I don't think too much weighting is given to past contracts. Only the new one. And Jara - FA is new, and it will hurt some teams that have talent. Nobody is immune and St Kilda, Hawthorn, and Collingwood are finding that out. Dawes was a trade, he was not an FA. If a team does not want to come off second best in this environment then treat your players well, and try to make good decisions on players to bring in. You have at least 8 years before they can just '[censored] off' and it will not just mean that the best teams pick the bones of the worst teams. It won't. It's not the end of the world.

The formula is the AFLs and they don't just give it away. But weight is given to B+F results, the size of the new contract, and a couple of other less meaningful criteria. I say Franklin is Band 1 because he is a star and on huge dollars, I say Sylvia is Band 3 because Chaplin and Pearce got that for Port, and neither of them is as good as Sylvia. So the compensation is weighted to the worse teams as B1, B3, and B5 follow the clubs pick in the first three rounds. Franklin for pick 17. Sylvia for Pick 21. Watch it happen if they both leave.

That is mooted somewhat by the fact that you like to spam am entire board of threads when you are bored with content simply stating that you are bored.

The Hood and others - you either need to do proper research or simply look for my posts; the Bands for compensation are; 1 - the pick after the clubs first round pick. 2 - an end of first round pick 3 - the pick after the clubs second round pick 4 - an end of second round pick 5 - the pick after the clubs third round pick Therefore, Franklin will net Hawthorn pick 17 for Band 1 and the MFC for Sylvia pick 21 for Band 3 (IMO). That's if both clubs don't do anything else in FA. Which is seperate to DFA, but don't get me started on that.

Rumours please. Everything else stop.

= getting no-one to the MFC

Shaw and 10 for 2... It's not good, it is the kind of thing that we will be told over and over again is fair though. If Shaw gets 4 years it will be his last contract. It's not how you build a list. And that is why I don't think it is on the cards. I can see Roos giving up 2 for a couple of fringe mids who are young. Shaw is neither.

The formula to decide what 'Band' a player is considered is secret, known only to the AFL executive and the Commission. With that said, and what I have said often - Pearce and Chaplin each got Band 3 compensation for Port. I expect that.

Crows fan?

I would get him. I would hope that they delist him to make it easier for him to go where he wants, but if not a minor trade will get it done. Same with Cross. The hard part is getting them to want to come, the easy part is bringing them here without affecting any comp or Sylvia.

Meeting a contract that another team has given and that your player has signed means overpaying for someone who wants to leave. I understand what you are saying and I would keep Frawley too, but if he signed an offer sheet, I will take the top 5 pick.

Band 3 is 2 picks later... Pretty much the same.

That was 'I believe in.' The failure you are referring to is God. As in 'In God we trust'...

The FA compensation tailors to the clubs situation. Band 1, Band 3 and Band 5 follow the clubs pick. So if Frawley left next year and we finish with Pick 3, I expect to get Pick 4. If Hawthorn loses Franklin, they will get Pick 17. I would keep the compo, simplify the bands (have 2) and have only losing of the best players getting compensation. As for Colin, if Coll or Haw get him we may be able to trade him but it would be after they lose Thomas and Franklin reapectively; so they don't lose their comp picks. If we lose him through FA I would expect Band 3 and Pick 20. And, again, Delisted FA is seperate to FA and picking up any delisted players does not count against our compensation for Sylvia. Please try to understand that.

It really doesn't matter whether we think he should get a chance to redeem himself, he has a chance - two in fact... Although I have heard he is not on a great deal of money so a payout might be possible should lie spots become scarce at the end of 2014.

I am pretty happy with him from the tanking saga where we were on the same page. I agree that it was a cowardly recommendation from Evans about the PP, and one that will probably be re-thought next year. But I have always agreed with the expansion ideal and the maintenance of the ober clubs, and he has driven that.

Band 2 would be pick 18.

And I want a toilet made out of solid gold but it's just not in the cards now is it? Rumours people, rumours. Dustin Martin to re-sign because no one wants to give up anything to get him. That is the only rumour I have heard outside of this site. Auf wiedersehn.

Oh, ok, then... Not that it matters a great deal but he is an MFC supporter. He would take pride in the fact you have no idea.

It in the 4th last post but 7 on the PL, 6 with Hogan.

Talking about Howe. I want an O'Keefe clone. If he can't do it, he's trade bait with value. Unlike our other bait...

We should go where Port went before last year...