My personal issue is that compensation picks shouldn’t be on par with their actual trade value. It undermines the structure of restricted free agency if there’s no incentive to engage with the restricted part of it.
Edit: I’m not outraged by it though. I just think it’s a bad system.
Haven’t posted the whole article, just the important bits. I think this is part of the Dogs exit strategy for Stringer. To continue to say that he’s coming back and then when he’s traded for cheap, they can then say that the player didn’t want to come back blah blah. I can absolutely see the Dogs pot shot Stringer after he’s traded just to hide from the fact that they farked this whole thing up.
That pissant Gordon will be on Jon Faine as soon as he’s traded to spin absolute garbage about their handling of Stringer.
AFL trade period: Western Bulldogs, manager at loggerheads over Jake Stringer
Jon Pierik
3 hrs ago
The Western Bulldogs and Jake Stringer are at loggerheads, with the Dogs declaring the estranged forward could yet return to the club.
As tensions rise heading into the final days of the AFL trade period, the Bulldogs on Saturday insisted there is “every chance” Stringer could return next season unless a suitable deal was struck.
However, Stringer’s manager Robbie D’Orazio told Fairfax Media on Saturday he “won’t be going back”. D’Orazio had already made it clear it would be best for the premiership forward to head to a new club, having nominated Essendon as his preference.
I can be boring but they do cover other AFL news as well. Plus they have players, player managers on. I don’t mind it cause news on trades and developments come through ASAP. Also there’s no racing news