Has Hawkins retired?
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What a fkn joke. Ah well, it’s done now and we need to back the big fella in.
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Get that man an Essendon polo
These AFL transfer regulations are very complicated - they seem to have been dreamed up in Hogwarts.
If Norf “elected not to match the offer” that we made, why do they get a “Round One Compensation pick (currently pick 3)” ? And where does this “pick 3” come from ? - we don’t have that high a pick…
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Well because if they elected to match the offer and he stayed, there’d be no need for them to be compensated, would there?
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Of course not. But tnat doen 't answer my question ! Why if they chose not to match our offer are they due compensation at all, never mind a first round pick ?
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My only issue with signing Ben is that it will have strengthened Norf’s draft hand and weakened ours by pushing pick 8 to pick 9.
This is where I feel like list management decisions like these has let us down over the past 20 odd years.
Surely this is easy to rort. We pay $850K for a Freo spud, they get pick 1 compo then throw us a decent player as steak knives and pay the spud’s salary.
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Depending on how serious North were about matching a non-pick 3 compensation contract, it could have weakened our draft hand far more than sliding back 1 pick.
Okay - I see he’s only been 7 years at Norf, instead of 8, so the RFA rules don’t apply. God, it’s complicated - and deliberately so, I reckon.
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Kings Birthday Eve
Mckay vs Mckay
Looking forward to that match up
History suggests one of them will be injured/suspended.
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BMck is much better than someone we dont have atm
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Hopefully that is a role that Duursma can embrace.
Ridley will be over the moon to have this man next to him
Ridley and Mckay to be the best keys back duo LID OFF
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You reckon they’ll be better than May and Lever?
I hope you are right but, well, it’s a really high bar.
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Probably not but May and Lever are both coming towards the end