2020 Player movement

[Happy Days]

With all due respect what would Rendell or Silvagni possibly know.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Who on here mentioned Mason weeks ago?

[bornadog]

Correction it might have been Matt Rendell

"I have heard the Bulldogs could be speaking with Mason Cox to help out English in the ruck, but also to go forward"- Matt Rendell

[KT31]

Steve Silvagni on trade radio says we are into Mason Cox

I'll spew up !!!

[EasternWest]

Who on here mentioned Mason weeks ago?

Jeemak

[chef]

Jeemak

That figures haha, Sorry Jeemak.

[Doc26]

A quote from Gill on free agency which he can't see any issue with.

But McLachlan said the system should see clubs at the lower rungs of the ladder be able to use their salary cap space to attract big-name players.

"Free agency has been in a long time now," he said.

"There's a couple of outliers with great players going to really good clubs who have made them better but it's incumbent on all the other clubs to create an environment and an offer and a package and theoretically use their salary cap because they should be able to use it better than the team in the Grand Final to attract them.

"It's incumbent on clubs to keep them and those to attract them. If Geelong is able to get him (Cameron), well done for creating an environment and for having a salary cap available to do it.

The bolded part irks me more than anything else about free agency. It's a naive pipedream and also assumes a level playing field for all. I think it's also a cheap shot at those Clubs like our own who have worked against all the odds to stay viable and establish a great culture but have been constrained by the profile that the big clubs have inherited from years of basking in the limelight at the expense of those like South, Fitzroy, North or indeed ourselves and others like the Suns currently. Only Hawthorn has bucked the trend, and only after extraordinary and sustained on-field success that spanned decades.

We only need to look at clubs like Essendon and Carlton who through my lense are culturally immoral, and yet they continue to attract any number of opposition players nominating them as their preference for a trade.

This has very little to do with culture or managing their finances better than anyone else. It is what is afforded to a 'Big Club' where performing badly once on the 'big stage' will never result in the wrath of AFLHQ taking a prime-time spot away from them.

[GVGjr]

Why do you have to hurt us like that, SOS?

Rendell mentioned this a couple of weeks back but it was more of a suggestion that was trying to accommodate the needs of 4 clubs

While we might be interested in Mason Cox I tend to think we won't be unless we are keen to move Naughton to the backline and make Comrade happy

[GVGjr]

Jeemak

You mean Bart "I didn't do it" Jeemak?

[comrade]

Rendell mentioned this a couple of weeks back but it was more of a suggestion that was trying to accommodate the needs of 4 clubs

While we might be interested in Mason Cox I tend to think we won't be unless we are keen to move Naughton to the backline and make Comrade happy

"We're putting Naughton back in defence"

"That's good."

"But only because Mason Cox is being traded in to play forward"

"That's bad"

[bulldogsthru&thru]

"and Josh Bruce is also in the forward line.....That’s bad"

[comrade]

"and Josh Bruce is also in the forward line.....That’s bad"

"But we're getting Jamarra"

"That's good"

[jeemak]

Jeemak

That figures haha, Sorry Jeemak.

You mean Bart "I didn't do it" Jeemak?

EW, you scallywag! I'm already lined up for a bashing over the trade Dunkley fiasco, I don't need this hanging over my head as well!

[EasternWest]

EW, you scallywag! I'm already lined up for a bashing over the trade Dunkley fiasco, I don't need this hanging over my head as well!

Harder, Daddy.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

"But we're getting Jamarra"

"That's good"

"But Jamarra comes with great midfield ideas"