KozzyCan

So you agree. Long term contracts are a big risk.

If he didn't ask Suns for the same thing then that just tells you Adelaide never appealed to him.

Maybe they just snore?

Injuries are a part of the sport though. Many careers have been derailed by injuries. Long term deals are buyer beware. The AFL is hardly punishing us, they gave us three years of relief.

Brayshaw deserves all the money in his contract and more but from the club's point of view it was a risk to give someone with injury history like that a long term deal, and it clearly backfired.

There was no real policy beforehand and the other players who had retired from concussions had very modest deals. Brayshaw's was a gamechanger.

We stupidly gave a guy with a long history of concussions a 6 year deal. The AFL gave us three years of relief for it but there has to be some level of consequence for risking these long term deals.

Cornes just shifts the goalposts to wherever he needs them so that he can keep bagging people. All year he was saying we spend all our energy trying to placate guys like Oliver and Petracca. They get moved on and he's still having a crack.

I didn't say Petracca was as good as Martin. I said they fill the same role. Which you appear to agree with?

OR the conjecture about him being obsessed with his 'brand' and playing in front of big crowds is BS?

If people think Oliver's last few games were anywhere near his best they have forgotten just how dominant he was at his peak.

Don't think it's that complex. Hardwick is looking at the age profile of his team and knows he needs more senior players. To get one who could also play the Dustin Martin role in his new team makes complete sense. They have so much young talent around that they know they will have to lose a bit of it here or there. The only thing that will make the suns more marketable is competing for flags.

Awesome news. He's going to the Suns.

I don't see it happening but if we turned Petracca into humphrey it would be an incredible coup for the club.

Viney and Oliver basically fill the same role. Viney is also a leader so club clearly happy to keep good old heads around.

No, it didn't but if we truly believed he was going to be a part of the future then the notion of him 'exploring his options' would not have even been raised.

I absolutely agree the club is pushing him out. Just playing devil's advocate. I really don't know what other role Oliver could excel at.

The last bit is the most telling. You don't talk about players exploring their options if that's not a big possibility.

So if we take what the club said at face value. What role do they actually expect Oliver to play outside of the midfield?

I'm honestly surprised he wasn't asked about Oliver regardless.

Tbh I was expecting a little more based on your earlier post.

Hmm seen some conflicting reports about that.

Don't really see the comparison. Neeld came to a young team filled with outside runners and flankers and tried to turn them into Collingwood lite. It was a square peg in a round hole. King is in rebuild mode and being given the chance to get clean air.

$1.3m - $700k = $600k.

This is the most hilarious result after two years and 27 pages about a guy who has never played a game.