Trade week targets & rumours [merged]

[10 FLAGS]

Richmond wont sign any big names at all. Chaplin and Knights is it unfortunately.

[mightytiges]

The thing about overpaying for a big fish is that you rule yourself out of free agency in the coming years and put yourself under salary cap pressure that you're more likely to lose a good player rather than gain one in a year or two.

A question for everyone? If Gold Coast can't do a trade for Caddy I believe he automatically becomes an unrestricted free agent once his contract runs out and he is delisted. Now can he still choose which club he wants to go to and get there no questions asked as a free agent or would he have to still take the lottery risk of getting picked up by anyone in either the National or Preseason drafts? I'm asking because what is stopping a club (say us) telling Caddy to wait out the trade period and us picking him up as a free agent for nothing rather than trading away our first pick plus more?

[10 FLAGS]

The thing about overpaying for a big fish is that you rule yourself out of free agency in the coming years and put yourself under salary cap pressure that you're more likely to lose a good player rather than gain one in a year or two.

A question for everyone? If Gold Coast can't do a trade for Caddy I believe he automatically becomes an unrestricted free agent once his contract runs out and he is delisted. Now can he still choose which club he wants to go to and get there no questions asked as a free agent or would he have to still take the lottery risk of getting picked up by anyone in either the National or Preseason drafts? I'm asking because what is stopping a club (say us) telling Caddy to wait out the trade period and us picking him up as a free agent for nothing rather than trading away our first pick plus more?

I doubt the AFL would be so negligent as to allow us or Collingwood or Essendon etc to plunder the GWS and GCS under these circumstances.

[mightytiges]

The thing about overpaying for a big fish is that you rule yourself out of free agency in the coming years and put yourself under salary cap pressure that you're more likely to lose a good player rather than gain one in a year or two.

A question for everyone? If Gold Coast can't do a trade for Caddy I believe he automatically becomes an unrestricted free agent once his contract runs out and he is delisted. Now can he still choose which club he wants to go to and get there no questions asked as a free agent or would he have to still take the lottery risk of getting picked up by anyone in either the National or Preseason drafts? I'm asking because what is stopping a club (say us) telling Caddy to wait out the trade period and us picking him up as a free agent for nothing rather than trading away our first pick plus more?

I doubt the AFL would be so negligent as to allow us or Collingwood or Essendon etc to plunder the GWS and GCS under these circumstances.

I would to Ramps but with dopey AA in charge of setting up these free agency rules you never know and I'm looking to see if there's a loophole somewhere in there as North found with the old 10-year rule back in the early 70s.

[tigs2011]

Doesn't become a Free Agent if he walks. Only if he's pushed which is not the case.

[JVT]

I believe he goes into the draft, doesn't get a say in where he goes unfortunately.

[bojangles17]

Caddy has done nothing to enhance his reputation since beng drafted, at this stage he looks to be a jacko type...r3 selection at best, no one would swap a first rounder
 

[gerkin greg]

he's no addam maric whoa

[dwaino]

I must admit at the start of the year I was keen on us going after Caddy, but this year he has done diddly squat and certainly doesn't warrant the hype.

[Owl]

he has been feeling the slap of ball on hands like steel traps, arms like a gorilla,  legs like a gazelle and a head like a baramundy on steroids

[dwaino]

he has been feeling the slap of ball on hands like steel traps, arms like a gorilla,  legs like a gazelle and a head like a baramundy on steroids

 

[one-eyed]

SEN saying Robert Murphy wants out of the Bulldogs.

[Ruanaidh]

SEN saying Robert Murphy wants out of the Bulldogs.

Post for Murphy seems fair..........

[dwaino]

Get it done, Tiges 

[WilliamPowell]

SEN saying Robert Murphy wants out of the Bulldogs.

Now that is laughable

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