Redleg

The market is actually only the two negotiating clubs.

I hope not. 2nd round and nothing else imo would see us paying very little of his contract. If we are paying a chunk of his salary we are looking at 12. Anyway we will know soon enough.

We are not doing Clarry for 32. Crows and maybe others also have interest in him for their midfield. We are talking one of the best contested players of all time, 4 x B and F , AA , premiership player, with if we pay some part of salary isn’t expensive and is only 28. That is not pick 32 in any world. I expect 12 or maybe 32 and a decent player to be the deal and I also think it will be done well before the end of trade period.

No ifs, Tracc and Oliver deals will be done and that is your midfield clarity.

Suns out of Curnow chase.

Thanks, I feel better now.

If Flanders knocks us back we need to get Humphrey. I am sure that knowing players were leaving and our dislike of this draft, we must be talking to other players, as we might only use one pick in this draft and we will have list spots to fill. I don’t think we would be planning to get Fullarton/Schache VFL types again.

Agree we wouldn’t take 7 For Tracc but what is the combo we would do. We would do Flanders and 6. Humphrey is more than 6 so IF we can get both to nominate us it would take Tracc and some of Oliver deal added to get it done. I will say it again, if both boys nominate us we will get it done. It could be up to King to convince both boys to select us. At least we have a midfield with plenty of room now and they get to play together if that interests them. It is getting interesting.

What we need is Tracc to choose Suns and they tell Flanders it is Dees or you stay with us on current contract money. They can even pay him a bit to match or better other offers. If they want Tracc they need to find the deal. Then there is Humphrey. If Clarry goes, to say the Giants, we pass on pick to Suns if we can convince Humphrey to join his team mate playing for his former Coach in our midfield.

But 50% of the Cats 2022 team weren’t in the GF side this year, so they have made changes.

Tracc apparently up on the GC today, on another beautiful GC day. The weather alone would be tempting him. If Tracc is happy to go to GC we might have Crows and Cats looking at Clarry. Also a Flanders deal and pick 6 could be on the table. We will see if anything eventuates. Standby for a couple of surprises if May, Tracc, Clarry and Judd are traded. We will have some list spots that we don’t want to fill by the draft.

After a year this goes belly up. Wonder why. Maybe we have someone better in mind.

What if he brought back Flanders, pick 6 and an offer from GC to pay all of his salary and a bit of Flanders?

Clarry is going nowhere. He is my pre post favourite to win our next B & F.

I basically don’t accept anything in trade week as gospel until proved or it happens. Accusations are easy, retractions harder.

That last bit that we have been pushing him out, if in fact he said it, is pathetic.

I prefer multigrain.

This is probably nitpicking, but can we please use another word/phrase than “dead” to me. Especially in these times we can use another description.

Agree but they were still mentioned at the time.

You mean by giving him the chance to play AFL, which no other club did in his National Draft year including Freo, welcomed him in, looked after him, paid him, Coached and developed him in a team of premiership players, offered him a new contract and agreed to amend it several times, while believing his word he would recommit and gave him the time to do so, until he told then he wouldn’t. We have basically given him a chance to get poached at lucrative money, that he wouldn’t have if we never gave him that chance in the first place. Yes we were horrible to him. Gratitude doesn’t exist, does it?

And a player rated in the top 10 players of those mentioned as possible trades this trade period. Yes pick 11 is the start and maybe the finish too, or a player we all like and value, can go home but to WC.

An even better call was my posting while Clark was playing in the VFL for the Cats and before leaving was even mentioned, that we should go after him. The exact same scenario happened for Bolton, Treacy and Meek existed when I also posted often about them. I don’t write this to show that I am brilliant, which of course I am, but rather to highlight the disappointment I have, that we got none of them. I don’t need the excuses about each player as I already know them, but the disappointment is still there anyway. Apparently we never even tried to get any of them. That is disappointing to me. Given the players we have traded in in the same period, it is more disappointing. Anyway here’s hoping we get a few good ones this off season.

Chris Judd says hi. Having the worst facilities in the AFL actually hinders your recruitment. If it’s us or them that can be a tipping point.

Maybe the ground has changed it’s mind and now wants to be the Dockers new Training ground.

This needs to get announced very soon, as it will assist with Trading in players.