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22-04-2024, 08:55 PM
#1066
Re: Marcus Bontempelli
They had this in the can before the Saints game.
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22-04-2024, 09:11 PM
#1067
Re: Marcus Bontempelli
Originally Posted by
jeemak
Could you imagine the lambasting we'd get if we prioritised Bont's signature right now instead of the three key out of contract players?
Id be fine with it.
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23-04-2024, 08:39 AM
#1068
Re: Marcus Bontempelli
He'll be 30 when this contract ends. I hope we're not offering him an eight or nine year deal!
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23-04-2024, 08:40 AM
#1069
Re: Marcus Bontempelli
Originally Posted by
jazzadogs
He'll be 30 when this contract ends. I hope we're not offering him an eight or nine year deal!
12 year deal? Magic Johnson 25 year deal?
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
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23-04-2024, 08:47 AM
#1070
Re: Marcus Bontempelli
Originally Posted by
jazzadogs
He'll be 30 when this contract ends. I hope we're not offering him an eight or nine year deal!
From what I understand Bontempelli likes the shorter contracts to keep himself on edge.
From memory the biggest contract was a four year deal.
More of an In Bruges guy?
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23-04-2024, 09:25 AM
#1071
Re: Marcus Bontempelli
I would be happy with a 10 year deal. Even 20 would be OK.
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23-04-2024, 06:41 PM
#1072
Re: Marcus Bontempelli
Originally Posted by
angelopetraglia
I would be happy with a 10 year deal. Even 20 would be OK.
50 year deal at $100k per year.
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23-04-2024, 06:48 PM
#1073
Re: Marcus Bontempelli
Originally Posted by
MrMahatma
50 year deal at $100k per year.
One day a club will structure a long term deal like this that goes 5 years or more past the players actual career and the AFL will shut that option down quick smart.
Western Bulldogs Football Club "Where it's cool to drool"
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23-04-2024, 07:40 PM
#1074
Re: Marcus Bontempelli
Didn’t work out when Vince McMahon tried it with Bret Hart.
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24-04-2024, 09:39 AM
#1075
Re: Marcus Bontempelli
Originally Posted by
GVGjr
One day a club will structure a long term deal like this that goes 5 years or more past the players actual career and the AFL will shut that option down quick smart.
Franklin was always the plan , if he retired early they just had him as a coach of some sort was my thought.
Bring back the biff
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02-06-2024, 06:27 PM
#1076
Re: Marcus Bontempelli
FFC: Established 1883
Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.
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02-06-2024, 06:28 PM
#1077
Re: Marcus Bontempelli
Originally Posted by
bornadog
What a game
It's easy to forget just how good Bont is because he does the top level stuff without you even really noticing.
Then he busts out a quarter like the last one to remind you he's actually one of the greats.
"It's over. It's all over."
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02-06-2024, 07:09 PM
#1078
Re: Marcus Bontempelli
Originally Posted by
EasternWest
It's easy to forget just how good Bont is because he does the top level stuff without you even really noticing.
Then he busts out a quarter like the last one to remind you he's actually one of the greats.
I don’t ever forget!!
He does something freakish and amazing every single week in even his “poorer” games. That pirouette through the middle on Friday night was sublime.
He played all the last quarter. We ask a lot of our superstar but in a couple of our close losses he somehow ended up marooned on the bench for too long and given who He is, might well have meant we won the game.
Craig McRae’s joke that he would look good in a Collingwood jumper was not funny. Not funny at all.
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02-06-2024, 07:55 PM
#1079
Re: Marcus Bontempelli
Was it the best individual game across the comp all season?
38 disposals (16 contested)
2 goals
9 tackles
10 clearances
8 score involvements
31 pressure acts
Not to mention the specifics of his last quarter where he did not come off the ground, nullifying Naicos influence, and putting the team on his back in a super important game with no Ed or Libba to help in the middle.
He is an outrageous player. Long may he reign.
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26-07-2024, 06:43 PM
#1080
Re: Marcus Bontempelli
WHY BONTEMPELLI STANDS ABOVE CRIPPS AND MERRETT AS THE OBVIOUS CHOICE FOR ALL-AUSTRALIAN CAPTAIN
BY GERARD HEALY
https://open.spotify.com/episode/47cD6DRahevEUHG8I0UuSV
The lobbying has begun for the All-Australian positions and as always 30 into 22 simply doesn't go.
As an aside, given it's so difficult why the AFL commission hasn't changed the qualifications or the executive to make it 23 players is baffling - given one of the guidelines is to have a team reflective as if ready to play.
It was suggested to them two years ago, it's been knocked back. There would be no need to name a sub, just play five on the bench?
That said the lobbying for the captain is on in earnest with Patrick Cripps and Zach Merrett the two being pushed the most.
Merrett has had a great season and has lifted his game to a new level this year. He is being pushed along significantly by many a journo, but it's not a most improved award.
It's interesting that neither Harris Andrews nor Lachie Neale ? co-captains of the Lions - get a mention as skipper even though both have had season after season at the top of their form.
But ultimately, it would be a surprise if the selectors don't settle on the obvious choice.
He's a bloke who's had a sustained period at the top of the competition, who's been All-Australian on five occasions already and been vice-captain in two of them ? but never captain, the ultimate honour on the night.
He's been in the 'best player in the game' conversation year after year. Such a consistent gun being regularly close to the Brownlow.
It's time that the selectors made it official. The ?Bont? is the game's best player, and the ?Bont? should be without question, the All-Australian captain in 2024.
https://www.sen.com.au/news/2024/07/...us-choice-for/
More of an In Bruges guy?
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