Trade Dunkley

[1eyedog]

Asking Collingwood to pay $300k while only giving up a second round pick for Treloar would (on face value) go down as one of the great deals. Can't see Pies going for it myself.

I agree but they are royally screwed. I mean they'll probably negotiate up to us paying 650K a year which is still fine by me. They really don't want him there next year but yeah, they'll definitely be gunning for pick 14 to lessen the pain.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Yeah, hard to see them agreeing to it. I also think the more the Pies pay, the higher trade price they can rightfully demand.

Agreed. What's the preference for us:

Treloar at 600k this year but then 900k for 4 years for basically nothing (3rd rounder) OR
Treloar at 600k for our first OR
No Treloar?

[Templeton31]

Many said we wouldn't trade AA Premiership Player Jake 'The Package' Stringer for just two second rounders.

In 8 hours we will know.

Yeh but we wanted Jake out the door. Not so Dunks.

[Grantysghost]

If the Pies pay 1. 5 mill for Treloar to play for us for the next 5 years then we need to knock down EJ and erect a statue of the Power man himself. Sammy P.

[1eyedog]

Many said we wouldn't trade AA Premiership Player Jake 'The Package' Stringer for just two second rounders.

In 8 hours we will know.

Dunkley is contracted and a required player. Massive difference.

[bornadog]

Many said we wouldn't trade AA Premiership Player Jake 'The Package' Stringer for just two second rounders.

In 8 hours we will know.

The difference is we wanted to get rid of Stringer

[EasternWest]

Media reporting Dunkley deal is a case of who blinks first, Dodo adamant it won't be two firsts (top tens), Sam Power says otherwise.

Talks with Treloar are well down the track, report is we've offered him 600k a year + Collingwood pay the rest

This would be a remarkable outcome for us.

[bornadog]

Asking Collingwood to pay $300k while only giving up a second round pick for Treloar would (on face value) go down as one of the great deals. Can't see Pies going for it myself.

What about to balance the books, we give them a player maybe Dale/Schache and contribute salary? That way we have Treloar on $600k and doesn't upset others.

[soupman]

The difference is we wanted to get rid of Stringer

Well there have to be some warning signs regardless of salary cap if Collingwood are legitimately prepared to trade Treloar out of nowhere near his full value and contribute a significant amount of his salary as well.

[bulldogtragic]

We wanted Stringer out though for well documented reasons. He was also raising a stink saying he'd not come back to the Dogs next year. This is a little bit different as far as our bargaining position.

The article dropped just now says Buckley and the leadership group want him out. And they also need salary cap relief. Treloar's management seem to be leaking that he doesn't want to go back to Collingwood under any circumstances. It might not be Apple for Apple, perhaps a Small Orange for Mandarin. Whatever the bargaining position, it looks like a great opportunity is in the making.

[bornadog]

Well there have to be some warning signs regardless of salary cap if Collingwood are legitimately prepared to trade Treloar out of nowhere near his full value and contribute a significant amount of his salary as well.

They have massive salary cap issues with Beams, Phillips, Grundy, Treloar, Stephenson and now De Goey wants a huge contract. They have really stuffed it up.

PS: Also Cox has triggered another year and on $550k

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Sam Edmund reporting:

COLLINGWOOD will today be asked to fork out as much as $300,000 a season to see the back of Adam Treloar.

Treloar’s future will be determined by how much the Magpies are willing to pay to see the midfielder play for the Western Bulldogs next season.

While there is no formal offer on the table from the club, the Bulldogs are prepared to pay Treloar $600,000 a season for the next five years.

That leaves a gap of around $1.5 million on what Treloar is owed by Collingwood and what the Dogs are willing to pay.

Will the Pies pay $1.5 million - $300,000 a year – over the next five years just to get Treloar out of the club?

Treloar, 27, doesn’t want to leave a cent on the table given he has long been owed a significant sum of money.

So if the two clubs can’t come to an agreement he is happy to go back to Collingwood despite coach Nathan Buckley telling him that he and senior players want him to move on.

It is hoped by the Treloar camp that one more year at Collingwood would see more options available to him in 12 months’ time.

But at the same time, he is excited about the prospect of joining the Bulldogs and was impressed by coach Luke Beveridge during their meeting on Tuesday.

The Dogs insist they have the capacity to bring in Treloar and keep wantaway midfielder Josh Dunkley.

The Bulldogs remain steadfast over their refusal to release Dunkley to Essendon for anything other than two good first round picks.

It’s understood the club is united from board level down to hold Dunkley to a contract that has two years to run if the Bombers don’t come to the party.

Essendon, for their part, are adamant they will not be offering two first round picks and say they will be “bankrupting” the club by doing so.

Yet the Bombers are confident they can eat into the Bulldogs resolve and get Dunkley in the door before 7.30pm.

The Western Bulldogs have picks 14, 41 and 54 in this year’s national draft. Pick 14 would appear to form the spine of any trade for Treloar given the Bulldogs have academy prodigy Jamarra Ugle-Hagan waiting in the draft.

Christ BAD, I might have to prepare daily home cooked lunches for Sam at this point.

[bulldogtragic]

The difference is we wanted to get rid of Stringer

From article above:

"... despite coach Nathan Buckley telling him (Treloar) that he and senior players want him to move on."

[comrade]

What about to balance the books, we give them a player maybe Dale/Schache and contribute salary? That way we have Treloar on $600k and doesn't upset others.

Happy to offload either of Dale or Schache as part of the deal if it means they accept a second round pick.

[bornadog]

Happy to offload either of Dale or Schache as part of the deal if it means they accept a second round pick.

and maybe we contribute $150k so more palatable to Pies.