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29 minutes ago, DV8 said:

Well, if none are leaving...  if all pre-Agent '020' are staying home we will have to go to draft.

 One question 'wwsw'.  How can GWS afford to keep them all ?

Traded our Shiel, Lobb, and $cully - there’s upwards of $2m ($800k, $800k, $400k) off the books

13 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Upgraded my internet speed yesterday to 500Mbs (only getting around 300Mbs so I will need to have a chat with the ISP) but the Kayo streaming was wonderful last night and for the tennis this morning.

Getting used to the remote on the Nvidia Shield has been a challenge but I think I am getting close to mastering it. I think it's well designed with only a few buttons but it is very different.

 

Wow!

if I’m lucky I get 5mbps

coniglio - free agent who is likely to stay at gw$
josh kelly - likely to stay there too
whitfield - same again

i wonder who we're targeting, if anyone

14 minutes ago, DubDee said:

right now he has played 3 good games and a dozen anonymous games. if he has a consistent strong year then give him a bigger contract.  but right now he is no where near a 600K contract

you don't pay for output tho, you pay for potential

tall forwards are vital commodities and commany big bikkies as a result

8 minutes ago, DubDee said:

what do you think he is worth over the next two years?

we can't have too many on big/biggish money.  if he wants to be part of premiership he can't be on 700K after 20 games

he should command at least $450k, and if his year is as good as we need it to be from him, he should be well within his rights to claim more than $600k

he's currently going at a goal a game, but we need to see him imposing himself on the contest etc.

fwiw, hogan was on around $900k this year if he's stayed with us, and charlie curnow signed a five year deal midway through last worth about $800k a year

so if weed really steps up and has geelong finals-like games on the regular in 2019, then $700k is well within the realms of possibilities

26 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Luckily Weeds is a level headed young man. He will take a contract at 350K for a couple of years and back himself to develop and get a better deal.

the rest is media/manager BS

that'd be a terrible deal if he was a manager; below the average wage

he's a key forward, which are pretty rare, and our whole structure is built around him and t mac

i'm very confident he'll sign up

head-scratcher!

good luck to the kid, but what role will he play??

Old Dee is just Hanrahan, and believes all is doom and gloom

As Crackers used to say, when things are glum, there’s worse to come!

Yarra Park still moving ahead as a best case scenario 

Kayo is not 4k

Fox have been at pains to promote that the only way to get 4K is to have an iq4 box

there is no way amazon would be looking at small fry like afl; if he's lucky, it'll be disney thru espn / espn+ / cbs (channel 10), but his best bet is that uncle rupert lives for another three years and he wants to pony up the cash again for nrl / afl / cricket, all of which are out of contract at the same time for the first time (and i'm not even counting super rugby and ffa deals, which will also be up for renewal at the start of 2023)

gilligan is dreaming and afl is just a skinny idiot waiting to be squished by the real business men

1 hour ago, old dee said:

Are you another who thinks with his heart and not his head.

is that you, hanrahan? we'll all be rooned!

2 hours ago, old dee said:

I think your heart has got the better of you LH, after a bad loss this weekend at the cattery we will struggle to get past 45000.

After a great win at taxpayer stadium this Saturday we’ll rocket past 50k

spargo knows how to use the footy when he finds it, and actually has some pace - he just doesn't lay a tackle as he's a 19 year old, still developing strength

i personally don't think you can play frost and hunt in the same side; yes, they both have line-breaking speed, but neither can hit a target by foot

couldn't disagree with you more re lewis - the loss of him on the eve of round 1 was a massive blow as he controls our backline and is a must to have someone with a semblance of understanding of where to position themselves defensively, cos hibberd as our other backline leader can't / doesn't do it, and jetta leads by example rather than instruction, and to compare him to watts is laughable

brayshaw's skills are terrible, but he's brilliant at finding the footy - he's nowhere near mitchell's class at this stage

it's one game in, there's nothing to panic about, but there are obvious concerns at this stage

we got SMASHED for contested ball against meth coke, in the jlt match-ups, and against the pear

if you don't win the ball, you always look slow

Freo bringing the lols in week 1 of the season

Bennell getting punchy with bikies 

Freo having a ripper offseason

1 hour ago, Demonland said:

Please confine discussion to information released by mainstream sources. Discussion on other incidents circulating will be removed. If those incidents become reported in the mainstream media then you may discuss. Until then moderators have the right to remove such content and it's discussion. Just covering ourselves. 

jon ralph is running with the getting belted in the carpark / broken ribs angle too, at least on twitter

60k is realistic in 2020 if we make finals again

70k might be a shot in 2020 if we win the premiership this year

9 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

Coincidentally, Jones' contract is up at the end of this year. I wonder how much of a paycut he'll be taking. I'd imagine the club will be big winners fromt he sun-costs-fallacy here, where Jones is absolutely determined to make good on all the sacrifices and hardship he's already been through, and as a result does the team thing even more intensely.

Hmm, and I can't help wondering where we might find a reasonably young, say 22-23 year old, strong midfielder to replace Jones when he retires in a couple of years, y'know, post-premiership?

i can't help but wonder...if another club offers jones a three year contract, would he take it?

Andrew looks like a very good user of the ball, would defo have him at the Dees - but having shifted Hogan, we simply don’t have the WA-bred assets to move to Freo to get him

29 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Has that been confirmed?

Goodwin said he’d be fine

They showed Viney in the rooms at one stage - big limp on, but that might be his natural gait or he might’ve copped a corkie or what have you

23 minutes ago, ENYAW said:

How many members do we need to avoid playing Geelong at their home. We then would get the same advantage as Collingwood.

and essendon, and carlton, and richmond...

3 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I haven’t looked but I imagine those deals end the same year both players become free agents. 

not just that, but it means their next two to five year contract after that takes them part way thru the next cba, which is due for renewal at the end of 2022

I....can’t see it

In terms of supporter base we have one of the smallest in the AFL 

To double membership base from 35k to 70k in the space of four years (2015-19) is unlikely and in some respects I fear Pert is setting himself - and the club, by extension - to fail

28 minutes ago, maximum bob said:

I wouldn't put too much emphasis on the performances in a praccie match played in Shepp in 38 plus degrees heat. Regardless, you underrate Spargo. What is he? 19/20? This year is his second year in the big league.  A very smart footy brain and mature beyond his years. ANB I have no issue with. Garlett is very secondary backup if he, at his mature age (for a footballer), ever gets his body right again. That's the ruthless way it is if we are serious about winning the flag...and about time.

I completely agree with you, fwiw, but I was still pleased to see Garlett’s attack on the ball and man - something that went missing for him big time in 2018

Spargo is a little ripper but still so young

14 minutes ago, maximum bob said:

Barring injuries from our preferred team, I'd be surprised to see Jeff Garlett out on the G again.

i wouldn't

of the nominal small forwards who played last weekend - garlett, spargo, and anb - i thought he offered the most