Trade Dunkley

[bornadog]

Okay wow that changes everything.

This is not good at all.

Mark Stevens
@Stevo7AFL
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2m
Have just spoken to @westernbulldogs, CEO Ameet Bains re Josh Dunkley.

His statement:
“It’s not happening. He’s not going anywhere”.
Dunkley 2 years to run on deal.

[Happy Days]

Mark Stevens
@Stevo7AFL
·
2m
Have just spoken to @westernbulldogs, CEO Ameet Bains re Josh Dunkley.

His statement:
“It’s not happening. He’s not going anywhere”.
Dunkley 2 years to run on deal.

Okay now I *actually* feel better

[bornadog]

Okay now I *actually* feel better

Is it a case of - These journos love to manufacture a story or Dunks saw big dollars in front of him, but club told him to get F you have a contract

[mjp]

Isn't this a scenario we have seen played out 3-billion times before:

- Player is happy (and admits so).
- Player is approached by another club and offered 'stuff'
- Player suddenly is not quite as happy

We see this happen time and again and it always leads to comments like "why do we even have contracts" etc...but the game has always been like this.

To me - right now - Dunks should be the club captain. But he isn't. And that's OK.
To me - right now - he should be our #1 inside mid. But he isn't. And that's also OK.

The fact that Essendon are reminding him of the above two points and promising him more money and less stress has him rethinking decisions he made 12+ months ago...well, that doesn't make him a bad person.

It also doesn't mean we should let him go - we are under no obligation to do so - but at the same time if Essendon really are hunting him, then we need to take advantage of that. I'm not even sure what they have so I don't know what to ask for, but if Dunks wants to go because Essendon have the 'hots' for him, well, it is good sense to listen and take advantage.

He isn't our best player, but he IS a very good one. He flashed a lot during the back-end of 2019 and injury cruelled him this year...who knows where he might have got too given a clean run.

[mjp]

Mark Stevens
@Stevo7AFL
·
2m
Have just spoken to @westernbulldogs, CEO Ameet Bains re Josh Dunkley.

His statement:
“It’s not happening. He’s not going anywhere”.
Dunkley 2 years to run on deal.

Bains can say whatever he wants. You and I both know that if this is "REAL" (Essendon and Dunks both want it) then this statement isn't the end.

[bornadog]

Bains can say whatever he wants. You and I both know that if this is "REAL" (Essendon and Dunks both want it) then this statement isn't the end.

We don't know the true story of what Dunks has said, especially with HUN and Channel 7 reporters

I am not getting emotional at all on this until trade week starts and finishes.

[mjp]

I am not getting emotional at all on this until trade week starts and finishes.

I'm not either...but like I "quoted" earlier, this is not the first time ever this has happened. Where there is smoke there is fire AND the CEO saying "nothing to see here" does not make it so.

[Rocket Science]

My dudes this is TOM freakin BROWNE.

When someone who isn't a weird, attention-starved bedwetter claims to know more I'll start worrying.

[jeemak]

What would he be on with us? $600k p.a.? Maybe $650K p.a.?

[hujsh]

This could all just be Essendon changing the media narrative that they're a basket case.

But if Dunks does want to go it has to be for a very very good deal. AMD+picks or the currency needed to get someone who fills a need (Papley is an ideal suggestion if he can be convinced to come)

Otherwise wait it out and see if he's still so keep to leave next year.

[EasternWest]

Bains can say whatever he wants. You and I both know that if this is "REAL" (Essendon and Dunks both want it) then this statement isn't the end.

If it's true that Dunkley has told them he wants to go. We all know it's a done deal.

[The Underdog]

If it's true that Dunkley has told them he wants to go. We all know it's a done deal.

You’re right, and if so, then we need to *!*!*!*! over Essendon for everything they’ve got and more

[Happy Days]

Why would we let him go. He’s got two years on good coin to get over it. I don’t get it at all.

[Rocket Science]

Yeah, little Tommy's being played by Essington for the clicks?



Surely not.

[comrade]

If it's true that Dunkley has told them he wants to go. We all know it's a done deal.

Papley?