It’s amazing how often we say in hindsight we got that wrong, instead of in hindsight we got that right.
Because we always want something brighter and shinier than what we already have. Human nature = manure.
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What a festering mess this has become as supporters haggle over pointless historical detail. Right now it’s all about the best return for the club? Think the AFL will look after Essendon with a pick straight after theirs. Of course, what we can debate is… how not letting Joe go last year farked with the clubs fragile culture. A whole year of will he or won’t he… just stupid Essendon.
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Because things people get right are rarely discussed with as much vigour. People dwell only on the negatives.
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Yep. Supporters shouldn’t be unhappy with Joe right now. He put in a trade request last year, we didn’t trade him. He’s now decided to exercise his FA rights. As if we couldn’t see that a mile off! The club should have traded him last year when we would’ve got a better return than we will this time. So direct the anger at the club and not Joe…
The tin foil hat brigade have arrived i see.
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So Brisbane have said they won’t trade for Daniher.
Essendon unlikely to receive first-round compensation pick for free agent Joe Daniher
Essendon faces the possibility of missing out on pick 7 in free agency compensation for Joe Daniher, or losing him for nothing if the Lions walk away from the deal — and another club is ready to pounce.
Brisbane has made clear it is not prepared to trade for free agent Joe Daniher, adamant it will walk away and retain its two first-round picks if Essendon threatens to match its offer.
Essendon would ideally secure pick 7 as free agency compensation to smooth Daniher’s path north, but the Lions’ offer is likely to fall short of that first-round return.
It could mean Essendon would receive only an end-of-first-round compensation pick, and would consider matching the bid, trying to retain Daniher for the second straight season.
But Essendon would then potentially lose Daniher for nothing if it matched a free agency bid because he could then walk into the pre-season draft, where Sydney has the third overall pick.
Sydney remains interested in Daniher despite losing out to the Lions and would snap him up in a heartbeat.
He requested a trade to Sydney last year and despite their low-profile approach this year, the Swans continued to pitch to Daniher for his services.
It means the Dons will have to consider whether an end-of-first-round selection for Daniher is better than nothing.
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The Lions’ brilliant injury management has turned around the careers of Grant Birchall and Lincoln McCarthy, with Geelong’s Nakia Cockatoo and Daniher their next restoration projects.
Yet the Lions will have to play a delicate game of brinkmanship to secure Daniher as a free agent given Essendon’s determination to get maximum value from his loss.
The Herald Sun reported this week only guaranteed money in a contract is used to assess the free agency compensation for a departing player.
In an ideal world the Dons would secure pick 7 for Daniher and move on.
But the closest parallel is the end-of-first-round compensation handed to Brisbane when Tom Rockliff signed a four-year deal with Port Adelaide on around $650,000-$700,000 a season.
Joe Daniher faces a complicated path to get to Brisbane.
Daniher’s deal will not be dissimilar in guaranteed money — with more based on incentives — meaning it is hard to see how it would be worthy of first-round compensation immediately after Essendon’s No.6 selection.
Daniher has told some friends he would like to play more ruck at Brisbane because it frees him up to get up the ground.
But Brisbane is planning to recruit him as a key forward who they believe can play alongside Eric Hipwood and Dan McStay.
The Herald Sun understands Brisbane coach Chris Fagan has spoken to his key forwards to assure them he wants Daniher to play alongside them.
Brisbane customarily plays two rucks in Stef Martin and Oscar McInerney, so something may have to give instead of playing five key talls in the ruck and attack.
But Fagan continues to reassure his forwards they are all required in his system in 2021.
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A couple of days ago they said in the press the Rockliff deal was $600k a year so what was it. The media just getting clickbait at this time of the year. It shouldn’t be hard to verify what the Rockliff deal was. Anyway the whole compensation scheme for free agents is a joke. There shouldn’t be any.
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This is bizarre if it’s true, so probably is just posturing or misreporting. A club can’t lure a big name and then say but we will give up nothing and we’ll only take you if we don’t lose any draft picks.
Hey so what picks did Sydney offer us and we rejected ? 
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Well they can but it does mean if he breaks down (quite possible) that they still have to include his salary in their cap.
Agreed. Clickbait.
No actual quotes either. But told some friends’
On Rockliff scenario. Daniher a year younger and getting an extra year on contract.
The AFL will manipulate it so we get pick 7. After all the money they lost this year they won’t want one of there bigger cash cows down for long.
So it also means he wants to go to a club that doesn’t rate him enough to trade for him and only interested in getting him for free or not at all? How would that make you feel if you were the player. Yeah we really want you but only if you come for free.
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I would match it and call their bluff
I don’t think he would care as long as he gets paid. Just like Saad says he’s happy to get to Carlton via PSD
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Becuase we are always trying to improve and get even better than before, right team?
If we miss out on a top 10 pick for Joe then whoever made the decision to hang onto him last year needs to be sacked immediately.
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People claim Dodoro was overruled if that’s the case the people responsible for blocking the trade should be sacked.
So only three factions involved here?