I actually think it is far more important. Clarko is proving that, so too the cats at the moment.
If you have a top line development team who can fast track players to AFL level and beyond you don’t need top ten picks. You could off load them for a higher quantity 15-36 and he better off.
Yes - Development is a big help but some can’t accept that recruiters get picks wrong - Some more than others.
LOL!! He’s good but not that good. At least the Hawks wont get him.
Watch North double it
The article says the Cats have cooled off on him. Maybe an indication that Kelly is open to staying.
Or maybe they just can’t afford the sort of cash St K etc will be hurling at him.
Saints have denied this.
Didnt they offer the same amount of dosh for Shiel last year too?
Imagine if we somehow swoop in and get him.
We couldn’t afford Shiel but got him anyway.
We could afford Shiel
Just not the $300k/yr extra other clubs offering
Cats won’t fark with their pay structure to go up against depserado’s like the Saints for Coniglio. Already noted on the Kelly offer he’d be in top 4 highest paid Cats at $800k
And Coniglio surely wouldn’t go to Saints as per Shiel choosing otherwise last year.
Rk- Draper Shiel Cognilio.
That was my point. We couldn’t afford the offers that were being thrown around but we got him for a lot less. Same thing could happen with the cats. If he’s willing to leave money on the table for a club that he thinks has more chance of success.
If Kelly stays he’ll demand a similar amount. They’ll have to cough up either way.
Kelly would have been the buy of the century last season for the eagles.
Speaking of the Eagles, isnt Nic Nat a free agent this year?
Cognillio, Lav, Raz. The Italian dream team
Cats never really wanted to trade him but if Eagles had have been able to convert their two 2nd rounders into a high 1st, or were prepared to throw in another future 2nd it’d been done.
Now he’s going to cost wayyyy more than that plus increased $$ in contract.
Not to mention how much better West Coast would have been this year with him. Massive missed opportunity.
Would be a good result for Essendon. The more the really good players disperse to battling clubs instead of concentrating at a few rising juggernauts the better.
