Bock a crow no more

[DOG GOD]

ADELAIDE defender Nathan Bock has played his last game for the club after advising it he will be joining Gold Coast Suns in 2011.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/100537/default.aspx

One down, i'm sure a few more to come...the ball has started rolling.

[Go_Dogs]

Re: Bock a crow no more

Yep.

Was interesting listening to Phil Harper on the way home from work this evening talking about it all. Apparently they offered Bock as much as they could afford, so that they would've been paying 100% of their TPP limit.

GC's offer is reported to have been some $150-175K more per year.

As Harper explained, the Crows situation is:

Out: Goodwin, Burton, Edwards and McLeod(for arguments sake) total of say $1.8M.

About $500K is veterans list, so doesn't come off the TPP. Leaves $1.3M.

Then they've had about 15 re-signings. Not often a re-signing drops in value, normally higher, the amount depending obviously on a number of factors. Total say $500K, leaves about $800K.

Then need the cash to fund the new players who come onto the list, and they want to get 4 players who on average may be about $75K each, depending on how many play games etc, so another $300K, leaves about $500K or so (and this is all very rough figures mind you). Pretty interesting.

Also made the comment that GC will have about 30 kids total of about $3M and then they'll have 10 or so stars they'll be able to pay an average of $600K per season. Yikes!

Hopefully Ablett chews a fair chunk of that!

[mighty_west]

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Hopefully Ablett chews a fair chunk of that!

I hope if GC get one of ours, they also get one from St Kilda & Collingwood as well with the Cats losing Ablett.

[GVGjr]

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He's a great pick-up for the new GC side. Getting someone who can play a key defensive position will be invaluable for them

[DOG GOD]

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Armitige, Cloke and Medhurst are on the shopping list.

[mighty_west]

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Armitige, Cloke and Medhurst are on the shopping list.

Medhurst may not bother the Pies too much, Cloke on the other hand, Armitige is a QLD lad, that makes sense.

[The Adelaide Connection]

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I found the timing of the Bock decision interesting, I thought they weren't allowed to announce anything to after the season?

I have been in a bit of a media black hole today, was there a reason he/they decided to announce it now and not at the end of the year? I also heard that he has played his last game, injury driven or in light of the revelation?

[GVGjr]

Re: Bock a crow no more

I found the timing of the Bock decision interesting, I thought they weren't allowed to announce anything to after the season?

I have been in a bit of a media black hole today, was there a reason he/they decided to announce it now and not at the end of the year? I also heard that he has played his last game, injury driven or in light of the revelation?

The club asked him if the rumors were correct and he and his manager confirmed that the deal was as good as done. Some minor points still to be sorted out. With that in mind the club said that they didn't want to play him and whilst that would mean he would miss some match payments and possibly some incentives on where he would finish in the best and fairest he agreed with them.

[Desipura]

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Would Adelaide have taken this stance if they were in the top 4? I think the answer is no as Bock would be in their best team at Centre Half Back.

[The Pie Man]

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Medhurst may not bother the Pies too much, Cloke on the other hand, Armitige is a QLD lad, that makes sense.

I'm going to risk some WOOF backlash here

Any chance we'd go after Medhurst?

[DOG GOD]

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Would Adelaide have taken this stance if they were in the top 4? I think the answer is no as Bock would be in their best team at Centre Half Back.

I think Bock came out now due to the Crows position that they couldnt make the finals. I would very doubt it that he wouldve spoken freely if they had been entrenched in the 8.

[soupman]

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I'm going to risk some WOOF backlash here

Any chance we'd go after Medhurst?

Not sure he's the type of small forward we need. He seems to be of the small marking forward type, and not the genuinely quick crumbing forward we need.

[Desipura]

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I'm going to risk some WOOF backlash here

Any chance we'd go after Medhurst?

Possibly, I would much prefer we make a play for an Alwyn Davey or even a Ricky Dyson.

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Possibly, I would much prefer we make a play for an Alwyn Davey or even a Ricky Dyson.

Forget Dyson, what about Leroy Jetta

[Desipura]

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Forget Dyson, what about Leroy Jetta

Jetta would be nice. I am just looking at players we may realistically be able to obtain.
If Harbrow goes as expected, we will have a strong hand come trade time.