Richmond interested in Dylan Shiel [merged]

[dwaino]

Nothing wrong with driving his price up.

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The game is lost.

They're not even specialist athletes.
 Mercenaries is what they are.

Prostituting what little form they may have shown to the highest bidder.

Recruiting Gen Y or I limp in this free agency environment will only perpetuate their
inflated sense of worth.

AFL footballers are idiots.

Give everyone a base of 120k (what they MAY make one day if they had have stayed plumbers) with performance based incentive.
 Redneck skippie shitmen.

[Andyy]

The game is lost.

They're not even specialist athletes.
 Mercenaries is what they are.

Prostituting what little form they may have shown to the highest bidder.

Recruiting Gen Y or I limps in this free agency environment will only perpetuate their
inflated sense of worth.

AFL footballers are idiots.

Give everyone a base of 120k (what they MAY make one day if they had have stayed plumbers) with performance based incentive.
 Redneck skippie poomen.

So if you made say $80,000/year in your job and another company offered you a longer term of security at a wage of $100-110,000 you'd say 'no, I'm not a mercenary!'?

Mate it's a game yes but also a job for these blokes. Some of them have little employability post football and need to make the most of it while they can EG Matty White.

[Francois Jackson]

Andy this bloke gave nothing to his club for how many years then all of a sudden in the final year produces his best footy.

brackets spot on.

stuff him.

[dwaino]

I thought he only started to look better after North started to get their full midfield on the park at the same time which was the second half of the season.

[Andyy]

Andy this bloke gave nothing to his club for how many years then all of a sudden in the final year produces his best footy.

brackets spot on.

stuff him.

You pay for good players.

Good form warrants better money and longer contracts. For example: Jack Riewoldt after bagging 78 goals in his BREAKOUT SEASON.

So were we wrong to give Jack a payrise? No. Otherwise somebody else would pay him what he's worth.


Pretty simple. Put your silly emotions aside. It's basic business. You guys couldn't manage a team to save you lives LOL.

[Loui Tufga]

Andy this bloke gave nothing to his club for how many years then all of a sudden in the final year produces his best footy.

brackets spot on.

stuff him.

You pay for good players.

Good form warrants better money and longer contracts. For example: Jack Riewoldt after bagging 78 goals in his BREAKOUT SEASON.

So were we wrong to give Jack a payrise? No. Otherwise somebody else would pay him what he's worth.


Pretty simple. Put your silly emotions aside. It's basic business. You guys couldn't manage a team to save you lives LOL.

So paying 400k a year to a player who has proven nothing is good team management??
He's had one good year, just like Jackson did last year, it means nothing. Let Collingwood take the risk , pass unless we can get him for way less (not likely though)

[Andyy]

Never suggested $400k/year but I think $1 million over three years would be a very reasonable offer for a bloke who just missed out on the B&F in a prelim team by one vote.

You wanna wait until a bloke has three or more years of consistent A grade footy behind him? Guess what, you won't land a player like that. We throw money at chumps like Chaplin, Knights and Hampson who couldn't hold a candle to a bloke like Greenwood.

This is one of our biggest problems with our list management. People want good players for SFA. Don't want to pay to lure blokes like Taylor Adams from last year. So teams like Collingwood and Geelong, who chase good players and offer them good money, clean us out and we end up with the crumbs.

[Loui Tufga]

Hang on, the whole argument here is about paying overs for a player who has played 50 games in 6 years and now your agreeing with me?? Collingwood have put $400k on the table, I'm saying its to much and I'm wrapped we're not caught up in such a bidding war.
If Greenwood A. Wanted to come to us. and B. accepted a deal that's more around his worth ($300 to $350k tops IMO) then I'd take him in a heart beat. At the end of the day we would still have to satisfy North with a reasonable trade, this opens another can of worms of what's he worth in that respect?
Again a late second round pick would be all I'd be parting with probably throw in a Dea or a Arnot to sweeten the deal but that would the tops. You wouldn't part with pick 12 in a million years.

[Andyy]

Nah I'm mostly responding to brackets for having a dig at players for whoring themselves out, and for people suggesting we shouldn't offer money to players who have only played 1 solid year on the grounds that if you wait too long you will simply miss out to a team who is prepared to pay.

Yeah I think $400k is over, but I'm saying I have no issue making a play for a dude who has played just 77 games etc

[WA Tiger]

Pies offering 400k for 4 years - Greenwood.

[Chuck17]

Pies offering 400k for 4 years - Greenwood.

Link please or it gets removed

[Phil Mrakov]

Would give him 420

[WA Tiger]

Pies offering 400k for 4 years - Greenwood.

Link please or it gets removed

SEN.

[Loui Tufga]

Pies offering 400k for 4 years - Greenwood.

This is so yesterday's news