The squeaky wheel gets the oil

[LostDoggy]

As a club we need to complain, whinge and cry ala North and Melbourne.
Ward leads out the first GWS side and kicks their first goal meanwhile Scully sits and commentates. 1 first round pick compared to 2.
We lost Harbrow who at 22? worth way more to us than Campbell Brown to Hawthorn or the Suns but we got the same compo.

It upsets me to think about either.

[GVGjr]

Re: The squeaky wheel gets the oil

Ward was a 2nd round pick and I think that came into the calculations for the compensation. I think we deserved more than what we got but I'm not going to lose sleep over it.

I'm not sure that because he led out the side and then kicked the first goal is really a consideration into what compensation we should have received.

[chef]

Re: The squeaky wheel gets the oil

It's something we are going to have to get used to now free agency has started.

[LostDoggy]

Re: The squeaky wheel gets the oil

Ward was a 2nd round pick and I think that came into the calculations for the compensation. I think we deserved more than what we got but I'm not going to lose sleep over it.

I'm not sure that because he led out the side and then kicked the first goal is really a consideration into what compensation we should have received.

Gary Albett wasn't a first round pick. Ward achieved way more in his career thats only 1 year longer than Scullys. Ward was Second round at 19 which was just about first round now and in comprised drafts.
They pick and choose the rules that suit them at the time.

[Flamethrower]

Re: The squeaky wheel gets the oil

It's something we are going to have to get used to now free agency has started.

Spot on. We are lucky we got any compensation at all. In most major professional competitions there is no compensation for players lost to free agency.

I cant wait for the day that we can bring Will Hoskin-Elliott and Jonathon Patton home to Victoria as payback for poaching Callan Ward.

[LostDoggy]

Re: The squeaky wheel gets the oil

Spot on. We are lucky we got any compensation at all. In most major professional competitions there is no compensation for players lost to free agency.

We are so lucky cos we could have sold prior his contract running out and got some money into the club that it doesn't really need.

I cant wait for the day that we can bring Will Hoskin-Elliott and Jonathon Patton home to Victoria as payback for poaching Callan Ward.

Do you think they'll come to us as we have a great history of success, a great profile with tv /blockbuster games/crowds and more money than other VIC clubs?

[ledge]

Re: The squeaky wheel gets the oil

We are so lucky cos we could have sold prior his contract running out and got some money into the club that it doesn't really need.



Do you think they'll come to us as we have a great history of success, a great profile with tv /blockbuster games/crowds and more money than other VIC clubs?

Well hopefully Mr Elliott makes his money and decides to come home after his 2 years, homesickness, can be positive

[Ghost Dog]

Re: The squeaky wheel gets the oil

Well hopefully Mr Elliott makes his money and decides to come home after his 2 years, homesickness, can be positive

I can't imagine how it would be possible to land him.

[ledge]

Re: The squeaky wheel gets the oil

I can't imagine how it would be possible to land him.

Hopefully Wallace is coaching GWS by then, be easy

[Desipura]

Re: The squeaky wheel gets the oil

Well hopefully Mr Elliott makes his money and decides to come home after his 2 years, homesickness, can be positive

Nth Sunshine boy who is close to his parents! I hope we go hard for him.

[chef]

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Nth Sunshine boy who is close to his parents! I hope we go hard for him.

Was he a Dogs supporter as a kid?

[Desipura]

Re: The squeaky wheel gets the oil

Was he a Dogs supporter as a kid?

Not sure, Im 99% sure I went to school with his dad.

[Bornadog]

Re: The squeaky wheel gets the oil

Not sure, Im 99% sure I went to school with his dad.

Does that make you feel old

[Desipura]

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Does that make you feel old

You should know to answer your question........yes

[Sedat]

Re: The squeaky wheel gets the oil

I thought our Head of Football Operations and CEO said in the media late last year they they would demand band 1 compensation for Ward. That went well....

It is a disgrace that Scully is deemed to be twice the player that Ward is according to the AFL's foolproof system of compensating clubs for losing out of contract players. Don Lane's wheel would have more credibility if it was the mechanism used to evaluate compensation.