isnt it embarrassing for North Melbourne if they keep making ridiculously large pay offers and noone accepts an offer to join them?
go away north. establish if footballers want to play with you before making an offer.
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does anyone legit know if bellchambers is a monty to re-sign. or likely to head elsewhere?
surely would be in demand as a free agent.
I reckon Nic Nat holds the same appeal and we would dominate with him.
Surely his mate Hooker will make him re-sign
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Doubt very much he would go anywhere.
You’d reckon Bellcho just backed himself for a big year. His contract $ would have doubled since the start of the year.
What currency do North have to successfully recruit De Goey? Won’t they use their first draft pick on that Thomas kid? I don’t understand how they can get anyone besides an unrestricted free agent and that goes for next year too.
Now days you don’t need specific picks to pick up father son and academy picks, you just need sufficient “points”. Each draft pick you have is worth a certain amount of points. And you can pay for a player via several picks, not just one. Because the selection is done on the draft day (late November) rather than during trade period (October), you can trade out early picks, pick up some later ones, and still be fine.
So theoretically North could trade their 2018 1st and 2019 2nd, and get De Goey and some later picks from Collingwood. Then, if Thomas was (say) picked at #5, they could use several later picks in conjunction to pay for their matching bid.
Sydney did the same thing in 2015 with Heeney, that is why they were part of the Carlisle trade. It was better for them to trade out #14 and get back our third rounder and St Kilda’s second because it gave them more points to pay Heeney’s bid with.
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I still can’t see that getting the job done considering Levers worth last trade period. Also majority of their contributors are getting on in age, doesn’t seem like the wisest choice long term.
Not true. Heeney was the reason they changed the rules to what we have now. Mills was the first time the AFL and Sydney had to deal under the new rule.
Was touted to be the #1 or #2 pick by nearly every recruiter and Swans got him for pick 18 (or there abouts). Clubs kicked up a stink saying its not fair that F/S and academy pick ups only cost next available pick. Because what was stopping a club trading their first 2 picks and only having to cough up a later one?
Ok, so I got Mills and Heeney mixed up. My points still stand.
Gee North are desprate lols
Even if all they do is significantly bump up what Collingwood has to pay for him, it’s a good thing I reckon
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North’s salary cap space makes them a threat to any other trade we might want to pursue. Once they blow their budget on Degoey, they’ll be less of a problem. So I hope they get their man this time.
Then it will just be STK with more money than they know what to do with…and probably GC…anyone else?
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Hahahaha
Something about a pot and a kettle.
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At least it takes North’s attention off Wallis.
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really before trade week did any of us know that any of the three Ss would be coming our way or were targets?
expecting a bunch of suprises this year too. hope we are involved just as much.
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If anyone knew, they kept it very quiet.
Usually the players/trades talked about at this time of year don’t happen.
I think players who fall under FA the following year especially those at interstate clubs will become hot property soon, Clubs will be more willing to cash in on them or at least entertain the idea as the years go on IMO.
Teams will shake the tree more often to see what falls out.
North playing better this year will help their cause. I don’t mind then running around jacking up the price of stars for other clubs. Keep it coming!