Diamond_Jim

GCS are in serious trouble most managers of the top 8 draftees would have been having a word with GCS re the difficulties their charges would face if moving to the club. The comments by the Port list manager are to be expected. What is the worst the AFL will do... "you should not have said it" and we all move on. GCS need to get in senior players that they can keep and build from there. They really are a serious basket case

Cannot believe how the AFL has managed to extend its product into the October/November period. Other sports cannot get any media coverage. Brilliant startegy even if I hate it. Listening to an Age journo speaking on the ABC this morning their trade pieces get bigger clicks than those on the finals simply because every follower is interested in the trades.

Agree it's a bargain but remember that GWS are agreeing to it. While Scully is not entitled to say I will only go to Hawthorn he is entitled to reject being traded to a named club. Same as what Hogan has done to us with Freo. Obviously the Giants modelled their salary cap on a flag in 2017 and 2018. Understandable if you think about it. Now they have to do something drastic. Heard on the radio yesterday that Collingwood might be a chance for Patton. If so makes the decision to trade Lobb even more puzzling.

must say that is my concern... I'm big for trading Hogan for value but I don't see equivalent value in May and change. The only way you can justify it is to say that Hogan going forward is not as important to us as he was perceived going into the 2018 season. At the start of the 2018 season I firmly believed that Hogan at CHF had the ability a la Jack Riewoldt to win us a flag.

now that was a serious up market biscuit Did you live by the river?

ah... we are now moving into the realm of the known unknowns or is it one of those things that we don't know that we don't know only three days to go

This thread has brought back memories of the arnotts family all sorts except that the tic tocs were always gone by the time I got there. Could this be the cause of my extreme MFCSS?

We really have been softened up by Freo Honestly ... how many people six weeks ago would have agreed that trading Hogan for May plus steak knives was a good deal.

was it that long

Would that be the Defoe of Robinson Crusoe fame?

Interesting that the equivalent race in the US is the Pegaus worth A$15M at A$1.25M a slot. In 2018 there were 4 unsold slots. We definitely are a nation of gamblers ?

at 10-1 the odds of picking all 10 in correct order is around 1 billion to one... good luck !!!

very strange odds...9 of the twelve runners at or almost at 10-1 Punters nightmare

he won't be going for a pay cut but his $1M a year deal ran out a few years back. I would expect he's somewhere round the 500-600K mark. Not much more than we would have been paying Tyson. Just cannot believe the lack of interest in him generally. Hawks have offered a 4 year deal which seems reasonable and he's passed a medical.

Fascinating concept the Everest. I assume someone owns the rights to the concept because why would you not see it extended to other races and also other animal races such as greyhounds and trotters. Can the slot owners syndicate their slots by the way. Would be a nice earner if you bought one for $600k and then on sold to 20 people at $30k while retaining 20% ownership for yourself.

Dockerland is at 20 pages on this subject and we are at 312. Does this say anything about either team's following or is it just that weather in Perth is too good to be worried about such matters?

Can we now move on to Nietzche perhaps ?

I had intended a double negative in the sense that you cannot ever be disappointed because you will never find out that he doesn't

Pascal was the inventor of game theory.. (mind you it was not called that at the time). Game theory works on the concept that both sides will take the probability that seems to give them the best outcome. A belief in God was the example he used to demonstrate his theory in that it is better to believe that he exists because you can never be disappointed when you find out he doesn't.

works only if Freo are near enough to the bottom to ensure no other club takes him first. If Hogan rejects the offer he doesn't play. Big stakes and in a way a silly deal from Hogan's perspective in the sense that the picks are inter club... he's only interested in the length of contract and dollars per year. So in short unless Freo end up bottom any deal from this year is on the table next year if not better. As an aside I cannot understand why Hogan does not want to go to WCE at the end of next year instead of to the perennial cellar dweller that Freo could be destined to become.

Dockerland thinking..... "I think Bell offering pick 11 for Kelly was a master stroke, I think he knew there was no chance he would accept the offer but at the same time Melbourne would've been peeing in their pants thinking that Freo is now trading away the pick we were offering up for Hogan. This may be the attitude adjustment Melbourne need to take our offer of pick 11 plus our 2nd pick next year. "

Could it be another version of MFCSS Are we managing to seize a perceived loss out of an an unloseable transaction

This thread is beginning to resemble Pascal's wager. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager

needs a player to be added.... someone who is regular 22 and ranked in that 8-15 area of the playing list. Perhaps a Fritsch might do it but I would hate to see him go. Then of course you need to find the money.... sure we could back end but that will get in the way of more money for the likes of Oliver etc as they come out of contract. Never say never but it just strikes me as a bridge too far.

seems too good to be true... is it the ankle issue? If not us you would think there would be at least 4 or five other clubs very interested.