Biggie Nyuon off to North for pick 65 [merged]

[one-eyed]

Do we get token compo if he's an UFA?

No. FA compo is based on salary. If a player's deal is in the bottom 30% of contracts (as Biggie would be) then there's no compo.

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If a free agent’s deal is in the top five per cent of contracts for that year, the former club will receive a first-round pick directly after its own.

If a deal is in the next 10 per cent of contracts, the compensation would come at the end of the first round. The next 15 per cent result in second-round compensation while those in the bottom 30 per cent result in no compensation.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2023-free-agency-rules-explained-key-dates-details-how-it-works-compensation-biggest-names-to-watch-clubs-ben-mckay-essendon-bombers-jade-gresham-tom-doedee-latest/news-story/83d1d6c06b39d26c76fe5615a898cf12

[Hard Roar Tiger]

Norf can have him

[the claw]

geez we should be delisting him and here we have people splitting hairs because NM may pick him up.

We have regressed in a big way and gone back into bad old days of practice. We have got absolutely nothing out of this guy in how many seasons.
Time to move on and if a club is prepared to take him on and he improves who cares? thats the system.

[The Machine]

Let him go to give him a chance to have a career as he hasn't done much with us. Provide an opportunity for a young tall should we select one in the draft.

[the claw]

Has anyone, anyone at all even the minor leagues made an enquiry on his availability.
Surely some one is asking about him.

[one-eyed]

A young Richmond player is set to join North Melbourne as an unrestricted free agent, per Tom Morris.

https://twitter.com/1116sen/status/1711859399122407556

[one-eyed]

Bigoa Nyuon was set to join @NMFCOfficial as an unrestricted free agent by 5pm but it would have diluted the club’s compensation for Ben McKay.

He’s still likely to get to Arden Street, though it will need to be via a trade or the pre-season draft now.

https://twitter.com/tommorris32/status/1712735561054920891

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The Kangaroos are also set to ramp up discussions with free agent key defender Bigoa Nyuon from Richmond in the coming days, but have not yet offered the 22-year-old a formal contract.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1052231/inside-trading-hawks-want-more-dees-make-move-giant-going-nowhere

[one-eyed]

Bigoa Nyuon

The Richmond youngster looks likely to join North Melbourne, but the Roos didn't want to sign him as a free agent so not to risk any diluting of the compensation pick (No.3 overall) they received for Ben McKay's exit to Essendon. They can either trade in the versatile tall or wait and grab him in the pre-season draft but he looks headed to Arden Street.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1052352/so-many-deals-so-little-time-which-trades-will-get-done-before-deadline

[FooffooValve]

Gone to Norf for pick 65.

[Simonator]

You’d have to think that pick won’t even be used unless it’s traded but then who would want it. A team that needs points ?

[tdy]

We gave him up for a set of steak knives. I thought he had potential but I was only going to give him this year. He needed to body contact more IMHO, impose himself on contests. He was athletic enough. The thing is do we have something in the wings? We've had quite a few tall prospects come and go now.

[FooffooValve]

According to the experts only about 45-50 picks will actually be used, so if we use it, it will effectively be pick 45-50-odd.

[one-eyed]

Nyuon has played just one AFL game, making his debut for the Tigers against Hawthorn in round nine, 2022.

"Biggie is an athletic key defender who stood out to us with his ability to take intercept marks and his versatility to play as ruck," North head of football talent Brady Rawlings said.

"The Tigers have a few tall options down back and in the ruck, so he's searching for an opportunity to play senior football.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1054609

[the claw]

Smart move by Nyuon. As mentioned North don't have a lot of tall options and will be in real strife if injuries hit their big men.
He really should be able to at least get an opportunity there to show what he has.

[one-eyed]

Ex-Tiger Will Thursfield (North's recruiting manager) got Biggie across to them.

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Nyuon says after that initial interest was floated, things began to ramp up after the season when former Tiger and current Kangaroos recruiting manager Will Thursfield sent him a text.

“Mid-year I sort of got an idea that North might have had an interest, through my manager Julian Petracca,” Nyoun said on AFL Trade Radio.

“We sort of just kept that in the back of our mind and the goal was just to sort of finish of the year off, finish really strong and try to put my best foot forward.

“Then eventually after the season finished, I ended up getting in touch with one of the great men in footy, Will Thursfield, who was also at Richmond and when I first got drafted.

“He chucked me a text and we just got the ball rolling. I came in, did an interview, just as any normal process would be and it kicked off from there.”

Thursfield joined North Melbourne from Richmond last off-season and there’s no surprise that Nyuon’s move followed him one year later.

Nyuon says his relationship with the former Tiger played a big part in his move as the now North Melbourne national recruiting manager has always been a big believer in his abilities.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2023/10/18/how-an-ex-tiger-helped-versatile-defender-move-from-richmond-to-north/