demoncat

It’s really incumbent on Bailey and his management to push for a trade now As much as I don’t like it GC won’t budge unless a formal request comes through I still believe if push came to shove GC would trade him as part of the Trac deal, but unfortunately without Humphrey driving it GC holds all the leverage

Geez he’s a hypocrite So it’s fine for Trac to shop himself to you but not for Humphrey to shop himself to us/other clubs?

GC don’t want picks from this year - they don’t need them as they already have enough to bid on their academy players We also have just as many future picks as the Hawks, and everyone in the league would bet our future picks would be worth more Not sure where this myth that the Hawks have great draft capital is coming from - the only thing of worth they have is pick 8 (or whatever that is now), which again, the Suns won’t be interested in Only us - or Carlton if Curnow becomes a possibility again - have an asset they want

While I’m still desperately hoping Humphrey requests a trade, I’m glad the discourse has moved from us receiving only one of picks 7 and 8, to both potentially being on the table I think most of us could stomach that if it came to it

He’s apparently feeling very sheepish about it

Can we tempt him with a year long Myki pass?

Offer him the house and land package in Cranbourne now!

Especially in sports like the NBA and NFL where there are conferences that you need to win through to get a better spot in the playoffs Don’t need to be strengthening your rivals

Maybe they can perform with (Matthew) Jefferson Airplane?

Morris reported that there is a “personal situation” with Humphrey that is in part driving clubs’ interest in him I’m just speculating here but I would think that if those personal reasons are the primary reason Humphrey wants to move home, that he’d be more open to moving to whichever Vic club can make a deal happen, rather than nominating a specific club

Also, if he has requested a trade, it could be like the Cerra situation a few years ago Wanted to come to us but we had no assets and couldn’t get the deal done while Carlton could, and for Cerra it was more important to get back to Vic then play hardball over going to his preferred club

@Demon Forever coming through with the goods again Desperately hoping that he nominates us or at least requests a general trade back to Vic, as I still believe we’d be best placed to trade with GC Lamb better be booking a reservation at an Italian restaurant for tonight!

Even more reason not to worry about the Bombers having our first round pick this year 🤣

I don’t love it but unfortunately given he’s out of contact we don’t have much leverage We’ve always preferred to get these types of deals done early so that we can get creative with our picks But give how the last few years have gone under Lamb, can’t say I have a lot of faith in that…

Is King the right guy thread started yet?

Whispers that the tyres on the van were in fact Tokyo Tyres It’s so over

Never said they didn’t, but we’re literally posting on a fan forum right now where people are going to have opinions about what the club does And as fans - most of us paid members - we’re entitled to have a view on what the club does Besides, I don’t think the club would think that’s a good deal for them either, otherwise they could get it done in an instant for that price (no way Suns would hold out to pay less)

Mate I understand that us supporters can be a sensitive bunch, but why on earth will you be cheering for people to react negatively if we only trade him for pick 7 and change? That’s not a good outcome for the club and people would have every right to be upset at it, and to gleefully sit there and hope it happens is just bizarre

“The Suns are adamant they will get a Petracca deal done (likely involving pick 7)” Wow does Lamb know the deal is already done?

Doesn’t that risk putting us on the back foot though? Especially if other clubs jump the queue and offer him a contract first

Any sense on whether Humphrey will nominate us?

Hawks can’t trade for both Humphrey and Merrett, plus any future first round picks they have are likely going to be in the late teens I still maintain that IF Humphrey wants to come home and doesn’t nominate a specific club, we’re significantly better placed than anyone else to get a deal done

One of the posts of the year

Have to pull out all the stops to get him to nominate us then, because there’s no way GC holds him if he wants out and we say it’s the only way to unlock the Trac deal

Is this intel or just your opinion @BLWNBA ? Because like a few others have pointed out it doesn’t match the public stance of King and Guerra Reading into it it seems like King would prefer Trac to be there next year in a way that he doesn’t for Oliver and May And why wouldn’t he? We’re a significantly worse side without Trac if we don’t have a high quality player coming back the other way Personally I hope we play as hard ball as possible, and be willing to bring Trac back in if Suns don’t play ball