Undeeterred

Don't panic folks. In 10 years, we'll be saying 'Thank God Jordie McMahon could kick straight, and we got that champion along with that nobody who went off to that club that used to play at that empty stadium in Sydney.'

Source? Just plain old brainpower, my friend.

I can't believe I'm doing this, but, actually, they aren't. Rumor, like color and humor and all of those spellings are American. They aren't correct in Australian English. If you put them in a job application, it might get turfed in the bin. Just putting it out there.

I hear the clattering hooves of a hobby horse.

Good work tiger. Subtle as a sledgehammer.

This thread title is very misleading. We don't 'lose' 13, it just becomes '14'. Not exactly Armageddon...

We need Dawes only so Collingwood don't have him. Imagine how rooted we would be on QB with Rivers gone, Frawley on Cloke, TMac on Lynch and, what, Watts on Dawes? Tongue only slightly in cheek. Edit: Sorry, forgot Dunn. He can take Dawes I guess. Scary.

Bingo. Don't get what all the hand-wringing is about on here. Who would we prefer? Martin? Seriously? His brain takes 5 seconds to tell his foot to kick it. Give me Dawes any day of the week.

Not in a million years. Neeld would shred him into little pieces.

Completely factually inaccurate, and shows you weren't actually watching.

As if, they've had months to work that one out. They know exactly what they are going to do, although good on him for muddying the waters.

It is an interesting question though - what's 'silly money'? I would thought paying overs for a big name for a couple of years is not going to make a dent in our long term plans. Even if you just look at departures, and ignore the fact that we already only pay (I think) the minimum 92.5% of the TPP, we must have almost a million bucks just to break even. I wouldn't have thought paying a Wellingham or Lynch that for a couple of years is a big deal, even if it is overs. When our junior players come on, hopefully they will be worth a fortune. But they aren't now, and filling that gap with a couple of players on more money than they are worth wouldn't be the end of the world, I reckon. Equally, we could bring in nobody, front load the bejesus out of everybody's contracts, and have even more money to play with down the track... I should say, I'm not advocating paying one player like Wellingham or Lynch $1mil a season! Ooops. More just saying that, with that additional cap space freed up by Green, Moloney and, sadly, probably Rivers, we can afford 2 or 3 players to make up that shortfall.

Ok, fair enough. But that comes completely out of left field, given the post you were responding to...

Interesting - it seems odd to suggest that they were after none of them.After all the ho-ha about how we are going to go after players, who exactly is left when you take out that top tier? Surely they didn't raise $750k to go after Cam Pedersen and Shannon Byrnes....

Gosh you talk some bollocks sometimes. Everybody understands that players are going to push their market value, just like every other employee in the history of the world. It doesn't mean that if things don't work out, we won't keep him. Play this scenario out - Rivers comes to Neeld and says 'Actually, Neeldy, I've been thinking. I wouldn't mind hanging around after all'. Neeld says 'Oh well, Jared. Sorry old son, but we're going to delist you'. FMD.

Um, kinda the point.

Come on, be serious. He isn't going anywhere.

Pretty dumb for a bloke out of contract, who has to convince Malthouse to give him another one...

That was a really, really impressive interview.

Or maybe you confuse reality with negativity.

Honestly mate, if that's right, that is absolutely astounding. Sounds like a good few of them would have had their card stamped by Neeld waaaay before round 1.

Would almost be worth my membership to throw a beer in his face. Objective? Come on.

I can think of one or two reasons... Maybe he was told he had to??

Oh, priceless...

Well, only because everybody has their opinion, and by their nature, opinions differ. All I've said is that I wish Liam well, because I am sure what he is going through sucks. However, I'm not really interested in justifications. I haven't made any comments about whether so-and-so should make X statements or not, or on Liam wanting to play for us or not, or for anyone. That's his call entirely, and I respect it. I just found that post really patronising.