Trade updates

[Bornadog]

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42 players have found a new home so far with less than an hour for trading to go.

[GVGjr]

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42 players have found a new home so far with less than an hour for trading to go.

To put into perspective how may players are on a primary list?

[Bornadog]

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To put into perspective how may players are on a primary list?

Yes so true, a whole team has been traded.

[Bornadog]

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Another stat.

19 contracted players were traded. Take out free agents & Stevie J/Jack Fitzpatrick & that's more than half the total trades.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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Another stat.

19 contracted players were traded. Take out free agents & Stevie J/Jack Fitzpatrick & that's more than half the total trades.

That's remarkable.

[Bornadog]

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That's remarkable.

Contract not worth much these days.

I just hope we can hold on to our best players over the coming years.

[GVGjr]

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Contract not worth much these days.

I just hope we can hold on to our best players over the coming years.

If a club tries to break a contract without watertight reasons the players association would be all over them.
These contracts are weighted too heavily towards protecting the players.

[azabob]

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If a club tries to break a contract without watertight reasons the players association would be all over them.
These contracts are weighted too heavily towards protecting the players.

Not necessarily the contracts, but definitely the players ability to move when out of contract, free agency and restricted free agency. Which inturn puts the players in a strong negotiationing position regardless of their contract status.

I shudder at the thought of the players union pushing for greater free agency rights.

[F'scary]

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Not necessarily the contracts, but definitely the players ability to move when out of contract, free agency and restricted free agency. Which inturn puts the players in a strong negotiationing position regardless of their contract status.

I shudder at the thought of the players union pushing for greater free agency rights.

I think the players' union just negotiated the pay rise for the train drivers.

[LostDoggy]

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If a club tries to break a contract without watertight reasons the players association would be all over them.
These contracts are weighted too heavily towards protecting the players.

It's really up to the clubs to make a stand when Player X nominates a club and ”wants to go home for family reasons”. If they won't play, sit them out. Stand tough. Until they start doing that, and accepting having a player who you know doesn't want to be there but you deal with it for the year regardless, players will hold the cards.

[BornInDroopSt'54]

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I think the players' union just negotiated the pay rise for the train drivers.

I heard on radio the train drivers are on $140,000 pa. One at my golf club drives a new Merc., I'll ask him.

[westdog54]

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It's really up to the clubs to make a stand when Player X nominates a club and ”wants to go home for family reasons”. If they won't play, sit them out. Stand tough. Until they start doing that, and accepting having a player who you know doesn't want to be there but you deal with it for the year regardless, players will hold the cards.

Which is exactly what GWS did with Cam McCarthy, and rightly so.

I can still remember the outrage in the NRL when Sonny Bill Williams walked out on a 5 year contract to play rugby in France. His interview on the Footy Show was one of the most inarticulate and garbled appearances I've ever seen from a sportsman.

[ledge]

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I heard on radio the train drivers are on $140,000 pa. One at my golf club drives a new Merc., I'll ask him.

My brother and nephew are train drivers, then again you could just ask Strebla.

[KT31]

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I heard on radio the train drivers are on $140,000 pa. One at my golf club drives a new Merc., I'll ask him.

Have one in my family and the figure is pretty close.

[F'scary]

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I heard on radio the train drivers are on $140,000 pa. One at my golf club drives a new Merc., I'll ask him.

That would include payments for working shifts, weekends and public holidays, wouldn't it?