Stringer Trade Worth

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Stringer Trade Worth

Well he didnt go there to be closer to his family.

We had an opportunity to re-contract him and instead of doing, the club's representative insulted him with an offensive offer. Pretty much everyone at the club wanted him signed quickly and fairly and we didn't do it. We upset him, and before it he didn't consider leaving. Then GWS happened to be around all of a sudden with a multiple fold offer and the rest if history. If the club handled his recontracting competently, he'd be the Bulldogs captain next year.

I have sources of close friends of his, good oil from the club then and corroboration from posters on here. We created the cause for him to leave which is an indictment on the handling of his recontracting. I don't and won't blame him. As I say, I want him back.

[bulldogtragic]

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I mean, how would we feel offering Bonts $500,000 to stay? We'd be furious.

[GVGjr]

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Yeah, i dont want him back either. He could have stayed but chose to chase the dollar. Hope he never wins anything anywhere.

A very convenient and one sided view.
He was low-balled and was dicked around by a coach and GM of footy that weren't working well together

[ledge]

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Bloody hell, listening to Sen they mentioned us and Jack Watts !

[GVGjr]

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Bloody hell, listening to Sen they mentioned us and Jack Watts !

In what context? As in it would be a good fix or that we had made inquires?

[ledge]

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In what context? As in it would be a good fix or that we had made inquires?

Named us as being a team that had shown interest.

[Nuggety Back Pocket]

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I like the idea of getting Rocky but I think we are starting from a long way behind other clubs and I question the impact of offering a silly money contract to him because of the messages it sends others in the group. Have we been linked to him in any way yet?

What sort of dollar value would you offer?

Could we do something like offering him 5 years at 750K per season plus another 5 at 200K? On the surface it's a huge commitment and over the top but obviously the last 5 is sweetener for him to be drawing a pay cheque over the long term even after he has retired and 200K will be bugger all in 7 years time so it wouldn't impact the cap.

Ward was a huge loss to the Dogs and proved to be a great leader with GWS. We are sadly lacking depth in the midfield at the moment Callan Ward would be a great get.

[GVGjr]

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Named us as being a team that had shown interest.

Interesting, I wonder if someone has been reading some of the comments here

[GVGjr]

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Ward was a huge loss to the Dogs and proved to be a great leader with GWS. We are sadly lacking depth in the midfield at the moment Callan Ward would be a great get.

Ward won't be back.

[josie]

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As long as we do not sell the farm I'd have Ward back. He was bloody good when he played for us, bloody good for plastics and still young. A good, fair, tough player unlike a lot of his mug co-plastics. Imagine the plastic and RWB hating media heads exploding if we steal their (co)captain? Oh yeah, love to see that!!!

[ledge]

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Interesting, I wonder if someone has been reading some of the comments here

The main clubs were Carlton and the Pies they thought.

[Bulldog4life]

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Ward was a huge loss to the Dogs and proved to be a great leader with GWS. We are sadly lacking depth in the midfield at the moment Callan Ward would be a great get.

He was a loss but if he stayed we wouldn't have Jackson.

[Twodogs]

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That's not even close to what happened.

He's since re-signed with GWS. The poor bugger me story doesn't hold water. Ward's manager was playing games at the time too.

Ward won't be back.

Good.

But they all end up coming back anyway. Dempsey was out on the ground on after the GF last year. I almost felt kindly toward him.

[ledge]

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He's since re-signed with GWS. The poor bugger me story doesn't hold water. Ward's manager was playing games at the time too.



Good.

But they all end up coming back anyway. Dempsey was out on the ground on after the GF last year. I almost felt kindly toward him.

Dempsey a different story , he spent ten years with us , won a Brownlow , was aging and footy was only part time then , north went out and threw huge cash at him , it was the start of the cash era .
Ward left before his career had got going , in saying that it was still the clubs fault we lost him .

[GVGjr]

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Anyway, we don't want to turn the Stringer trade value thread into the the reasons behind the Cal Ward departure.

I still want a top 12 pick for Stringer with maybe something else to sweeten the offer