Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith

[Plums]

Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith

Pick 17 and a pick slide. Joke.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith

17 and pick upgrade?

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith

Can we have a new thread which details all the time we bend over at the trade table

What are the examples and what could the club have done differently?

We are getting bent over by our players and the shithouse system.

[Go_Dogs]

Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith

Pick 17 and a pick slide. Joke.

Pathetic.

Wonder how we spin this.

[Go_Dogs]

Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith

What are the examples and what could the club have done differently?

We are getting bent over by our players and the shithouse system.

Refuse to deal.

Walk them.

Get another club interested and pursuing the player so it’s a two horse race.

We’ve been a sitting duck a few times recently.

Agree the system is no good, but we talk a good game and then blink first every time.

[Topdog]

Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith

Pathetic.

Wonder how we spin this.

Same way we spin every other one.

"Really happy to bring in an extra pick, think there is quite good depth in this draft"

[Plums]

Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith

Refuse to deal.

Walk them.

Get another club interested and pursuing the player so it’s a two horse race.

We’ve been a sitting duck a few times recently.

Agree the system is no good, but we talk a good game and then blink first every time.

Problem is we need player consent to go to another club. He's being paid under table from cotton on so won't go anywhere else.

[Topdog]

Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith

What are the examples and what could the club have done differently?

We are getting bent over by our players and the shithouse system.

The club can refuse to deal and walk the player. Teams know we are soft so they just offer us nothing different for 10 days.

Geelong didn't even attempt to improve pick 17 which was very easy this year.

The system sucks so we need to rebel against it at times

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith

Refuse to deal.

Walk them.

Get another club interested and pursuing the player so it’s a two horse race.

We’ve been a sitting duck a few times recently.

Agree the system is no good, but we talk a good game and then blink first every time.

No other clubs get involved because the players manager sit them out and refuse to meet with other clubs. The whole thing stinks.

It's all well and good to walk them but it leaves us with nothing and the other club with the player and their pick. Then clubs will just expect us to walk players to the draft and know they'll get the player anyway.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith

F**k off Bailey. You are dead to this club. You are the biggest wanker to ever wear the jumper.

F**k you.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith

Let's do this all again when Essendon or whoever does the same with Jamarra when his deal expires
They'll start whispering sweet nothing's 18 months out and he'll call off contract talks, speak about just "focussing on his footy and let the contract stuff sort itself out".
Then he announces he's off and we get to go through all the tortuous media about how it's our fault and we just have to take what's on offer.
Good riddance to Smith, and stuff the AFLPA that drives this contrived and rigged system.

[Testekill]

Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith

I'm not going to miss him, he's a fundamentally bad kick of the ball that I don't think can be fixed and I don't think he'll thrive under more pressure with more midfield minutes.

[josie]

Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith

No other clubs get involved because the players manager sit them out and refuse to meet with other clubs. The whole thing stinks.

It's all well and good to walk them but it leaves us with nothing and the other club with the player and their pick. Then clubs will just expect us to walk players to the draft and know they'll get the player anyway.

Agree. Power’s is a smart cookie. He would have talked to other clubs & thought of every possible scenario to leverage. Let’s see what pick 17 lands us & discuss this in a year or two’s time. I trust our recruiting team. I think it will make us very aware of trusting top line players & their managers when they refuse to sign an extension though. Hopefully lesson has well & truly been learnt on that front.

[Plums]

Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith

I'm not going to miss him, he's a fundamentally bad kick of the ball that I don't think can be fixed and I don't think he'll thrive under more pressure with more midfield minutes.

Not to mention the cultural issues he would have brought to the club. Good Riddance.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Welcome to the Bulldogs: Bailey Smith

I'm not going to miss him, he's a fundamentally bad kick of the ball that I don't think can be fixed and I don't think he'll thrive under more pressure with more midfield minutes.

I hope so, but I suspect he will reach his full potential and then some.
This is a woeful situation and outcome for us both in personnel lost and in terms of the trade value we got
I don't blame Power for having to take a deal, but I am livid our club once again, after the Dunkley fiasco have let this get to this point.