Diamond_Jim

Wood signed a four-year contract with the Roos in 2016, estimated to be in the range of $450-500,000 a season, which will expire at the end of 2020.Aug 15, 2019 https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-08-15/roos-future-uncertain-could-be-up-for-endofyear-trade

Showed in 2018 that he has an excellent football brain. Something few in our team seem to readily exhibit. Needs to regain his ability to find space and then deliver to advantage. His Casey form in 2019 was rather low which to say the least is worrying. I say that because most players look good in a winning team and thus at AFL level the whole team struggled but Casey had a reasonable season and one might have expected better. I don't think the seemingly unstated policy of resting players after dropping them from the senior team did him any favours either.

Being reported that Essendon may be interested in Mason Cox from the Pies. Opens up the possibility of trade of Weideman to the Pies. Now that would be a hard one to value.

must say I wondered the same thing but at the very least it gave some context to what he will be asking for and one can assume that it is in the ballpark of what the Blues are offering.

didn't a few teams isolate him and he lost out badly in his first few matches. For this trade to make sense given the picks traded and his salary he needs to deliver big in 2020

That's not right when you are one of the also rans such as ourselves, Bulldogs Saints etc. It's all about giving your supporters both a competitive team and some hope. Whatever you may say North have done that very well over the last twenty odd years. I think most of us on this board would be quite happy to have North's record rather than our own

North aren't worried about winning a flag. (would be nice to have though).Their aim is to remain relevant and push for the 5-10 position. You have to admit they do a good job at it.

I was there that day. His job was to run with the likes of Cousins and Kerr take the handball and dish it back to them as they streamed down the field. He did his job perfectly

does raise a significant salary cap issue including pay relativity for the likes of Brayshaw, Oliver and Petracca. He's no superstar this guy

North are reported to be offering Papley 800k plus per season https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/afl-trade-wrap-swans-star-given-monster-offer-daniher-wants-to-be-at-swans/news-story/8f232007cc6fd48a1a3ba1ab0a27a7f4

they're from years ago. (2016 !!) Boy someone must have nothing to do to have noticed that exchange

hopefully he delivers but 4 years helps me understand why other clubs weren't interested. It's a long contract if he is NQR. Good luck to him. The salary at around 600k puts him objectively in the top 30% of the list which is around our top 14 players so it's not high if he delivers. Four years ?

Take your point but as I understand the award the votes by the coaches are heavily weighted to team contribution,adherence to gameplan etc. If Viney's efforts were so valued by the coaches it suggests to me that they set the wrong KPI's for him.

and I'll raise you May for pick 6

we always cave... It's the Melbourne way and Goodwin is desperate

just wouldn't fit in at Melbourne with those attributes

hope not... it means we caved. Why doesn't that surprise me

along with Oliver handballing to someone's feet and Viney getting caught with the ball it does say something about the coaching staff and their Band F voting. A very underwhelming performance in a totally underwhelming year. I hope we get to rate Goodwin in this activity

Would be surprised if he stays at Collingwood simply because he ranks behind De Goey and Stephenson and maybe Mihochek in the forward area.When Cox returns that's another place up forward gone. Oh well back to the drawing board

Langdon deal will take a while given we are in the box seat due to the PSD. If we are going to give up the second rounder I hope we trade for a later second round pick and thus get value. Given where we finished the season our second and third round picks are very high value. Long way between pick 20 and pick 38 all of which are second rounders.

do we put this activity on hold now?

Believe it or not but his goalkicking may have improved in 2019. 19G 23 B in 2018 22G 14 B in 2019 https://finalsiren.com/PlayerStats.asp?PlayerID=2626

Kenny and his port a loos spring to mind. Nothing better than the smell of a port a loo in the hot summer sun !!! I have a wonderfully eclectic photo collection of alternative toilet designs from a recent trip to India if we need inspiration.

Will be interesting AFL said when Buddy went to the Swans instead of the AFL preferred GWS that they would strongly resist any salary cap relief should Buddy not be able to play out his entire contract. Times change though and AFL want a strong Sydney

"Insiders at Pies confident " Are they ever anything else. How could any Collingwood desired player ever wish to leave the bosom of the magpie nest for an also ran such as MFC. Play regularly before crowds of 70k plus diehard fans or go to the Alice and play a home game before a 10k crowd of which 60% or more barrack for the away team.