If he regains focus and that's a big if.
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Could the club got one of the players close to Abbey to spill the beans.
Meaning the club doesn't want to get rid of him but just to give him a big kick up the backside.
They said he's on the table and want a good offer or he will stay.
Rumors go out about his professionalism.
Down to two clubs may be willing to take a chance.
One drops off and they his ex drops a bombshell.
Offers dropped off to minimal and the package is only a matchbox.
In steps Bevo and tells him to pull his finger out because the football world doesn't want you.
Stays on the list with a new attitude and wins a Brownlow in a complete turn around.
I don't think the Abby Gilmore article impacts the trade worth. The football industry largely knew about this anyway.
Interestingly that Scott Clayton assessed Stringers value as mid first round but after the news over the last couple of weeks it might have pulled back a bit. When asked if he thought it was early in the 2nd round he dismissed it and said not that far back.
Based on Clayton's assessment that means probably somewhere between 12 and 17 and I think that makes some sense to me.
I'd certainly consider anything inside of 15 positively but beyond that I'm not so sure. I'd also exhaust every chance to keep Stringer at the club between now and Friday but he would need to be very convincing that he wanted to be there and that he was switched on.
Sorry to side track things, wasn't Jake/Connors already meant to have publicly picked a club on their timetable?
Yea I thought they said he would by the GF but that was said before the article. It might of complicated things.
I thought so. But I also think the silence may indicate things going on in the background, either by us, or by he & Connors. Like we've said, we don't want Essendon distracting us from our strategy in the trade period. But if Connors knows nothing is likely to happen because his value is below our expectation, he and his people might not want to spend days worth of time on a trade that won't happen. Perhaps, we all now know that all this time being taken up in a time sensitive window isn't worth it. It might be best for everyone to see if there's a way he can stay, and what he needs to do and if he will do it. Assuming we can see that working.
If I know anything about AFL or its clubs, it's that they will happily move along from pretending to respect women in order to add benefit to their mens' sides.
It's purely a judgement of how much will he help the side vs how many back page bullets can we take.