Diamond_Jim

Richo will not have come cheap

At Elliot's stage of life it's all about contract term and dollars. At 26 this is his big signing. Finals footy is just a cherry if other things are equal.

$750k for Elliot would be madness if it it didn't come with some heavy KPI's. If real there is no way Pies would match it

the soft cap IS the football department. Its success drives almost every other aspect of our revenue. If you cut (which may be necessary) the last place is in the football department. On the membership side a lot of those new members were increased contra from sponsorship deals. We could be in for a big hit in 2020 membership wise due to the decreased contribution from NT and who knows what from Jaguar. Also we would have budgeted for big money from our home MCG games (the last three). Probably cost us a million bucks just there. 2019 has been such a bad year for this club on so many fronts. Let's hope 2020 delivers.

If you don't have enough money to spend the full soft cap a club is in trouble. For those who can remember the requirement to spend 90% of the salary cap was brought into pressure Fitzroy

One of the few developmental success stories of recent seasons. Hopefully Hore (showed promise in 2019) joins him next year and we get solid contributions from both Fritsch and Hannan.

If he does command $650k at Hawthorn ... the flip side is that he is worth a second round pick albeit a late one .

This has always been a grey area and you can expect the Players Association to try to expand player ownership of their image and associated promotional rights. $25 for a simple signature does sound high in the scheme of things. Would be interesting to see the context (background) to the signature as a lot of the meaningful emblems are owned by the club or the AFL.. eg the Tiger emblem, the trophy etc

I suppose GCS could just tell us that they weren't intending to take him at the designated salary and term which would give us the upper hand in negotiations. In reality it's not a high risk play as GCS would be unlikely to take him interstate against his will. The law is full of definitions of the term "understanding" but they rarely extend it to the concept of merely being informed.

Can you do that. I recall there being rarely enforced rules about manipulating the draft. With the luck of the MFC we'd be the fist for them to be enforced against. I assume you cannot trade spots in the PSD.

That Smith was offered and accepted a one year deal was interesting in this regard. The cynic in me suggests that the injury level is still "unclear." I had thought we signed KK on a one year deal but someone posted in recent weeks that it was in fact a three year deal. The cumulative risk factor of adding Bennell plus possibly Jamie Elliot is not sensible list management. Pity because most of us are at the stage that we would take any risk to get this club going somewhere.

no Tomlinson and bye to Frost perhaps

as an aside what is the latest on JKH. If he goes as well which he probably should our midfield depth is looking thin

Andrew Brayshaw was pick 2 and now has 50 odd games under his belt. Out of interest why do people say he wouldn't be worth pick 3? Thanks

I think that is called a gameplan Mr T. Something our illustrious coach struggles with. On a serious note the number of times he was free for the handpass in a damaging forward position during the finals was amazing

one lot got Warwick whereas the other got Rupert Strange what a different outcome

Club should have given serious thought to cancelling this activity. Might have finally sent the right message.

half a million puts you in the top one third of players. Now that is not the top one third of 22 but the top one third of the list ... ie top 15. At age 25 players tend to maximise their value so 500k for either Tomlinson or Frost is not outrageous.

The only positive I saw in 2019 is that we got rid of Darwin. Hopefully 2020 sees no trip to any of Launceston, Hobart or Kardinia Park but methinks we will as usual see two out of three.

It's not a them it's a "her"but I agree she was bad Definitely time for National geographic or similar before watching Roosters V Storm

Taking Tomlinson and paying him the rumoured salary would be so Melbourne

nah ... I'm pretty sure we hold that. I think we even broke our own record Would be nice to lose that record though

GWS letting him go reminds me of that agricultural term... "culling"

Richmond starting to run away.....

must admit ... that decision floored me. Time Gawn learnt to take advantage of the new rules