The 3 Trades: Best Case vs Worst Case

[Diocletian]

Should be heavily front loading at least Hopper's contract so it won't cost us as much to pay him to play for another club for the last 2-3 years of his contract......

[Andyy]

Balta would be the only one your missing I rekn. He’s got to resign first as he’s out of contract at the end of next year but provided he does I would front load that contract as much as humanely possible.

Should be offering extensions already you'd hope

[Tiger Khosh]

Balta would be the only one your missing I rekn. He’s got to resign first as he’s out of contract at the end of next year but provided he does I would front load that contract as much as humanely possible.

Should be offering extensions already you'd hope

Rekn he’ll have plenty of suitors next season. Not a lock to re-sign, can see him pursuing free agency. We’ve got plenty of cap space to match any bid, so will force a team to trade with us if we’re not satisfied with the compo.

[Hard Roar Tiger]

TBH, to start negotiations I'd be pushing hard not pay any of Bolton's salary.

IMHO it is up to Freo to come up with a deal that suits the RFC. We tell them what we want and it's up to them to facilitate.

Granted as time goes on you'd compromise but to begin with we have to play hardball...

These 3 blokes want out now that we are struggling, we hold the aces for at least 2 of them. Other Clubs need to appease us

I’d be offering up some salary subsidy in return for draft collateral. We will have cap space for a few years with the exodus of players due to retirement and trading.

[Simonator]

No doubt we will pay probably 1mil+ for Bolton and Rioli but it’ll be worth it.

Playing hardball to start is the right move but as time goes on we will settle for 2 first round picks for Rioli and Bolton and about half their salary too. Worth it imo

[WilliamPowell]

No doubt we will pay probably 1mil+ for Bolton and Rioli but it’ll be worth it.

Playing hardball to start is the right move but as time goes on we will settle for 2 first round picks for Rioli and Bolton and about half their salary too. Worth it imo

Exactly!

As I said hardball to begin with

Compromise as it drags on

[Hard Roar Tiger]

Play hardball. Stay hardball. They’re both under contract. This is a unique window that we must leverage. Only give is subsidised salary.

We gave up picks 12,19,31 in 2022 and pick 7 in 2023 for Hopper and Taranto.
Need to get at least 3 top 10 picks and another couple inside top 25 for the 3 who are going.
If we can somehow shoehorn pick 3 from Eagles, then we will have nailed it