Trade Rumours 2024

[mighty_west]

I listened to the Gettable Podcast and it's a long bow to draw that suggests Busslinger is gettable but obviously until a contract is presented it does open up some speculation.

Probably more to the fact that he's a WA boy high draft pick key defender who has yet to play a senior game as yet, and that West Coast are desperate for high draft picks or young quality players especially playing in key positions, or maybe they just know something that we don't?

We all are looking forward to seeing him and Croft along with JOD become our future key defenders for the next decade, plus with Khamis now starting to look more than handy as a third key back, could Busslinger be expendable?

[Bulldog4life]

OMG! You duffa, it's in his name!

Massive Arsehat Peter Wright who Plays on the Edge! I'd have gone with Two Metre Peter but I'm a simpleton.......

Brings back memories.

[ledge]

Brings back memories.

I still use that word but I am 60.

[bornadog]

I still use that word but I am 60.

Silly Duffa

[ledge]

Silly Duffa

Exactly what I still say tis my kids and they are 26 and 32 lol.
I think it’s English as my mum used to say it

[jeemak]

Brings back memories.

Doesn't get used often.

[Bulldog4life]

Doesn't get used often.

No Jee. My mum used to say it.

[hujsh]

My mum pulls out duffa sometimes. I mainly use it on the dogs. My literal dogs not the Bulldogs. Though I guess both can be duffas

[ledge]

Apparently it originated in Scotland .. “Dowfart” meaning stupid, but more subtle and can be taken as a term of endearment when you do something silly nowadays.

[Axe Man]

WHO NEEDS A KEY DEFENDER?

Clubs on the Eastern Seaboard will again desperately try to lure West Coast premiership player Tom Barrass out of the club as they scour the competition for established key backs.

With most star backs on long-term deals and clubs already sniffing about a weak mid-season draft, they will again ask about Barrass?s future.

Many have already inquired this year and industry sources believe the Dogs are one club who would love another established key back like Barrass.

He shapes as one of the very few players with trade currency if West Coast?s new list boss Matthew Clark wants to enhance the club?s draft hand.

The 28-year-old would be worthy of a first-round pick but he and his fiance Nadia Rosa have two young children in Perth and would be unlikely to consider a trade request.

Sydney made a concerted bid for him last season.

But he has three seasons on a deal of at least $750,000, is a premiership player and like Eliot Yeo is very happy at the Eagles.

Link

[ledge]

So the article says we are after him as well as other teams then goes on to say he won’t leave as his young family are pretty much entrenched in Perth .
The old get in first then have an excuse if it doesn’t happen.
Hedging your bets as they say.

[Happy Days]

There’s been this article or some variation of this article every year for the last 4 years.

[1eyedog]

Would need a million bucks to pry them out, no thanks.

[EasternWest]

Would need a million bucks to pry them out, no thanks.

Straight swap English and Lobb for Barrass.

[Stevo]

Barass is a good player but I wouldn't go that hard at getting him and there is no way an English for Barass trade works for me.