The Brian Lake Dilemma - You're in charge of the negotiation

[Go_Dogs]

Re: The Brian Lake Dilemma - You're in charge of the negotiation

Here's another theory.

We need to move someone on before we have the room to offer Lake any more. Perhaps we don't want it known that we have to move someone like Everitt or we might find ourselves forced to take pick 27.

If this is the case, why don't we politely tell the players who are being paid way over their market rate that their contracts will be re-negotiated, or they can be traded out if they aren't happy with less $$?

Trading out first round picks every year cannot be helping us in the long run, and the players who are being over paid will continue to be so until their contracts run out. By then we may have lost a few more good kids...

[GVGjr]

Re: The Brian Lake Dilemma - You're in charge of the negotiation

Here's another theory.

We need to move someone on before we have the room to offer Lake any more. Perhaps we don't want it known that we have to move someone like Everitt or we might find ourselves forced to take pick 27.

That's why I listed the second option. Get a draft pick for Everitt and use some of the additional money to sweeten the offer for Lake.

[azabob]

Re: The Brian Lake Dilemma - You're in charge of the negotiation

We will lose one of Cooney or Griff next year, the AFL practically decreed it when they wrote the rules for the GC, but all the other good sides will lose someone too. If we can keep the rest of the group together we have enough talent coming through that we can stay thereabouts for a long time, especially considering the compromised drafts coming up.

SS, thinking short term and long term who can we least afford to lose in order out of

Cooney, Lake and Griffen?

For me it is a toss up between Cooney and Lake.

[hujsh]

Re: The Brian Lake Dilemma - You're in charge of the negotiation

We will lose one of Cooney or Griff next year, the AFL practically decreed it when they wrote the rules for the GC, but all the other good sides will lose someone too.

Huzza! It's great to be able to look back and say that wasn't the case.

[Sockeye Salmon]

Re: The Brian Lake Dilemma - You're in charge of the negotiation

Huzza! It's great to be able to look back and say that wasn't the case.

I should have written "one of Cooney, Griffen or Harbrow"

[Desipura]

Re: The Brian Lake Dilemma - You're in charge of the negotiation

I should have written "one of Cooney, Griffen or Harbrow"

C'mon no excuses, you got it worng.

[LostDoggy]

Re: The Brian Lake Dilemma - You're in charge of the negotiation

Are we doing this? Going back through the archives to pick out Sockeye's mistakes? Could be bags of fun!

[Sockeye Salmon]

Re: The Brian Lake Dilemma - You're in charge of the negotiation

Are we doing this? Going back through the archives to pick out Sockeye's mistakes? Could be bags of fun!

Could be a very long thread

[Go_Dogs]

Re: The Brian Lake Dilemma - You're in charge of the negotiation

Ha, good grab. It certainly looked likely at stages last year that we could struggle to fit them both in.

At the end of the day we're still losing a key younger player, so I guess SS wasn't too far off the mark.