Who's the best-paid Dog?

[LostDoggy]

Wait until Cameron comes on the market!!
It would have been a feeding frenzy in 12 months time.

It's going to be difficult, but i think we can manage him aswell.

[Greystache]

Agree, but IMO we paid way to much.

I hope like hell im wrong.

Maybe some of our supporters are so wired to us throwing out a token late pick for a nothing tall on the fringes at another club, who'll never offer us anything but is cheap, that any trade for an actual talent seems like too big a risk.

When I think about how much we've wasted over the past 2 decades on "cheap" long shots we could have rebuilt Whitten Oval.

[chef]

Maybe some of our supporters are so wired to us throwing out a token late pick for a nothing tall on the fringes at another club, who'll never offer us anything but is cheap, that any trade for an actual talent seems like too big a risk.

When I think about how much we've wasted over the past 2 decades on "cheap" long shots we could have rebuilt Whitten Oval.

Or maybe that's not it at all.

[Remi Moses]

Maybe some of our supporters are so wired to us throwing out a token late pick for a nothing tall on the fringes at another club, who'll never offer us anything but is cheap, that any trade for an actual talent seems like too big a risk.

When I think about how much we've wasted over the past 2 decades on "cheap" long shots we could have rebuilt Whitten Oval.

Exactly,and the same supporters are the ones shouting from the roof tops when we recruit another fringe failure forward.

[LostDoggy]

Some people see the trade as desperate and so many never believed we could not only pull something like this off but that someone like Tom Boyd would ever want to come to the Western Bulldogs so the haters are plentiful. We made people look silly so they will line up hoping it and we fail.

Personally I think it's courageous what we have done, we have pulled of 'the great gws robbery'. I don't care what the cost we now have somebody we can build a side around. We are not going to build a side like 08 and 09 then try and find the missing piece, we have him now and we didn't stumble across him we went and got him.

We mustn't hold our breath and hope it works out, let the haters hold theirs that it doesn't. Back Tom Boyd and the rest of the boys to grow and become the force we dream about. Let this new breed of Bulldog have the sharpest of teeth.

For Who Dares Wins.

[Remi Moses]

I read it as $1.5m over 3 years, or $500k per year after next year

She's saying about 1.5 mil. Key word being about .
I think she's having a bit of a stab in the dark

[Twodogs]

She's saying about 1.5 mil. Key word being about .
I think she's having a bit of a stab in the dark

I wondered how many assumptions were being treated as fact.

[chef]

Exactly,and the same supporters are the ones shouting from the roof tops when we recruit another fringe failure forward.

Is anyone here saying thst?

[chef]

I wondered how many assumptions were being treated as fact.

Its been one of those summers, a lot of assumptions about Macca/Monty/Griffin/Boyd are been treated like facts.

[Bulldog Joe]

Just being realistic mate, I dont mean to burst anyone's bubble.

A realist is a pessimist to an optimist, but an optimist has a happier outlook on life.

[chef]

A realist is a pessimist to an optimist, but an optimist has a happier outlook on life.

Thats true, im optimistic about most things in life but when it comes to the Dogs I try not to get to far in front of myself. I guess 35 years of close calls have done that to me.

[FrediKanoute]

Whilst the 1m we are paying is a lot, what it says to me is that we have room in our salary cap to do 2 things next year:

1) lock in some younger guys coming out of contract that we want to keep; and
2) raid GWS or GCS or any other club again for key talent.

That puts us in a good position, especially if we finish bottom 3 next season (which I suspect we will).

[F'scary]

We didn't overpay. Overpaying would have been winning the bidding war against St Kilda and Carlton next year who would have been more than happy to do the deal we did.

We got exclusive access to Boyd through being the only ones with the trade bait both players & picks and the salary cap room to do the deal once Tom Boyd was on the market.

The deal done if Boyd waited until the end of 2015 to leave would have left this one for dead. A Key Forward, number 1 draft pick, best player in TAC Cup history does not grow on trees.

Franklin got $10m over 9 years if he plays until age 36. If he retires at 33, that's $1.7m per year for the last years of his career, not his prime.

Also, we had to put up enough $$$ carrot to get Boyd via his manager to say that he didn't want to remain at GWS. That was a massive blow to them and instrumental in getting him to the Kennel.

[Flamethrower]

Memo to the chief football writer of The Age.......

"She who writes about this story last, thinks the slowest".

The other mob wrote about this weeks ago.

The closest the story came to reporting the facts is when it calls the former captain a "dog".

[G-Mo77]

Thats true, im optimistic about most things in life but when it comes to the Dogs I try not to get to far in front of myself. I guess 35 years of close calls have done that to me.

Can completely understand mate. Last time I got ahead of myself was at half time of the 97 Prelim finals. It still burns 17 years later!