Trade week rumours and innuendo

[one-eyed]

Higgins being offered around 400k x 4 years at Roos.

Dogs almost no chance to match it. Already looking at options to trade the compo pick.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/breaking-news/jarrad-waite-joins-north-melbourne-as-free-agent-roos-make-offer-to-shaun-higgins/story-fnect155-1227078234033

[Chuck17]

Wouldnt be paying that for that length of time

[tony_montana]

ouch

Surely they are salary cap squeezed with Waite and Higgins

[Phil Mrakov]

ouch

Surely they are salary cap squeezed with Waite and Higgins

and being norf they'd have to offer even more than other clubs because nobody wants to play for them. They should be investigated if they sign Greenwood too

[Yeahright]

Didn't Hawks get pick around 20 for Buddy not to mention they also lost Ellis who is a nothing player really but don't they add all the players together and give you one pick? How to Dogs get away with pick 26(?).

[Francois Jackson]

Didn't Hawks get pick around 20 for Buddy not to mention they also lost Ellis who is a nothing player really but don't they add all the players together and give you one pick? How to Dogs get away with pick 26(?).

Yes

Goddard 12ish also. Gee the afl are a bunch of morons. They need to ditch the compo all together complete and utter waste of time and unfair

[Judge Roughneck]

If they ditch it now its harsh on Richmond

[Penelope]

the problem with dumping the compensation is that the workings of free agency seems to be generally robbing the bottom sides to favour the better sides, so getting rid of compo would further disadvantage bottom sides

[🏅Dooks]

They need to rejig the draft to indirectly compensate free agency.

Why do teams who are having a serious crack at a premiership need any first round picks in the first place?? If you finish top 4 you shouldnt get a first rounder.

That way teams finish 5th to 18th get a quicker drink too.

18th - 1
17th - 2
16th - 3
15th - 4
14th - 5
13th - 6
12th - 7
11th - 8
10th - 9
9th- 10
8th - 11
7th - 12
6th - 13
5th - 14
18th - 15
17th - 16
16th - 18
15th - 19
14th - 20
13th - 21
12th - 22
11th - 23
10th - 24
9th- 25
8th - 26
7th - 27
6th - 28
5th - 29
4th - 30
3rd - 31
2nd - 32
1st 33

[WA Tiger]

They need to rejig the draft to indirectly compensate free agency.

Why do teams who are having a serious crack at a premiership need any first round picks in the first place?? If you finish top 4 you shouldnt get a first rounder.

That way teams finish 5th to 18th get a quicker drink too.

18th - 1
17th - 2
16th - 3
15th - 4
14th - 5
13th - 6
12th - 7
11th - 8
10th - 9
9th- 10
8th - 11
7th - 12
6th - 13
5th - 14
18th - 15
17th - 16
16th - 18
15th - 19
14th - 20
13th - 21
12th - 22
11th - 23
10th - 24
9th- 25
8th - 26
7th - 27
6th - 28
5th - 29
4th - 30
3rd - 31
2nd - 32
1st 33

I like this!!

[dwaino]

the problem with dumping the compensation is that the workings of free agency seems to be generally robbing the bottom sides to favour the better sides, so getting rid of compo would further disadvantage bottom sides

This is fair to the single club being affected, but it is unfair to the rest of the clubs. Why should we lose a draft position because Frawley leaves Melbourne to go to Hawks? Nothing to do with us. That has always been my beef with compo.

[Owl]

the system is an absolute abortion.  what it does is perpetuate a system that will keep the middle teams under constant downward pressure and the bottom teams will constantly be losing their better talent to the top teams, so u have this little closed circuit effect of the middle and bottom teams cycling around and the top lot parasiting off of them maintaining their position. 

[one-eyed]

Hawthorn's official website jumped the gun releasing a video of Frawley as a Hawk before it's been officially announced.


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More Pies are leaving Eddieville.

The Herald-Sun's Sam Landsberger is reporting Collingwood's Kyle Martin has retired from AFL Football to head back to Noble Park.

[Penelope]

the problem with dumping the compensation is that the workings of free agency seems to be generally robbing the bottom sides to favour the better sides, so getting rid of compo would further disadvantage bottom sides

This is fair to the single club being affected, but it is unfair to the rest of the clubs. Why should we lose a draft position because Frawley leaves Melbourne to go to Hawks? Nothing to do with us. That has always been my beef with compo.

i can understand where you are coming from, although i feel that the 1-3 drop in the first round is not as disadvantageous as loosing quality players for the bottom clubs is.

I think in the Major league Baseball the free agency compo is draft picks taken from one club and given to another. They have many more draft picks than we do, but something along those lines would be more equitable and would probably make clubs think twice about plundering the vulnerable.

[Phil Mrakov]

I hope hawks don't win another flag with this current group just so Frawley doesn't get to experience one. How much are they paying him by the way