Re: Proactive Poaching
Originally Posted by
The Pie Man
Did anyone see anything about ‘Hawthorn to offer Tom Boyd like deal to Smith’ anywhere?
Source : my Dad, who can’t remember where he saw it (he IS on bigfooty)
Hawthorn are reportedly leading the way on Congilio & Patton. That's maybe $1.5M-$1.8M. To offer a Tom Boyd offer on Smith, that'd have to spend $2.5M-$2.8M this year. That's on top of the huge money on Wingard, O'Meara & Mitchell, and high dollars on Scully, Gunston etc., and good money on Bruest, McEvoy, Stratton, Sicily, Smith, Impey etc.
Then they'd have to offer up a player equal to Gryphone packaged with a top 10 pick.
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023