New Gold Coast side makes a play for Ablett

[The Coon Dog]

JAKE NIALL
December 8, 2009


New Gold Coast side makes a play for Ablett
JAKE NIALL
December 8, 2009

GEELONG champion Gary Ablett held a meeting with Gold Coast officials on the weekend, confirming that the AFL's 17th club has already started what is expected to be a massive play for the player widely regarded as the game's best.

Ablett and his management met with the 17th team's key officials - coach Guy McKenna, recruiting supremo Scott Clayton, chief executive Travis Auld and football manager Marcus Ashcroft - on Sunday at an apartment complex in Broadbeach, where it is understood that the incoming club made their first pitch at the Brownlow medallist.

While the meeting was obviously meant to be secret, it took a surprising twist when Ablett and his manager, Liam Pickering, were seen talking to Gold Coast officials by several Port Adelaide players.

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[chef]

Good luck to Geelong keeping him, but i just can't see it happening.

[aker39]

For our sake, I hope Gold Coast get him. It will mean they have less money to offer Cooney.

[LostDoggy]

For our sake, I hope Gold Coast get him. It will mean they have less money to offer Cooney.

Thats just what I was thinking!

[Go_Dogs]

Did anyone else think it was almost Freo-like how they got sprung at this supposed secret meeting by the whole Power squad and coaches who are having their camp in the Gold Coast, and staying at the very same hotel in which the meeting took place?

Surely that is something you would've known about and tried to avoid!

[LostDoggy]

Reading today that GC17 are planning to take Luke Ablett in the rookie draft, is this part of some sort of side play to 'lay the groundwork' for Gablett to feel more at home on the coast?

[The Coon Dog]

Reading today that GC17 are planning to take Luke Ablett in the rookie draft, is this part of some sort of side play to 'lay the groundwork' for Gablett to feel more at home on the coast?

It might have legs if they drafted Shane & Travis Tuck too.

[The Coon Dog]

Pick 26 for Gary Ablett?


Mark Stevens - H/S - 19 February

GEELONG would have to accept a draft pick as low as 26 if it wanted immediate compensation for a successful Gold Coast raid on Gary Ablett.

If Ablett walks later this year, the Cats' compensatory pick in the 2010 national draft will have to be pushed back to the end of the first round.

With Gold Coast's raft of concession picks stretching the first round out to 25 picks, that leaves 26 as the magic number for a Ablett "freebie".

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[Mantis]

^^^^

That hardly seems fair.

GC should be made to give up atleast one of their premium picks in order to gain a player of Ablett's ability, but I guess it is the AFL who are overseeing the compensatory picks process so no wonder it's a balls up.

You can just feel that there is going to be a lot of hate directed towards the AFL by supporters of the clubs who lose players and don't get compensated in a way that seems fair and reasonable.

[Bulldog4life]

Under the AFL's criteria it appears that we would get a very poor draft pick for Harbrow if he left.

[Go_Dogs]

^^^^

That hardly seems fair.

GC should be made to give up atleast one of their premium picks in order to gain a player of Ablett's ability, but I guess it is the AFL who are overseeing the compensatory picks process so no wonder it's a balls up.

They need to ensure they get this process right, I hope they continue to review and consult with the clubs.

[ledge]

Didnt the teams agree to all this way of doing it?

[hujsh]

"At least it provides something for a club that loses a player."

Oh year that's really great Andrew Dillon. Well done.