Callan Ward jumps Bulldogs ship to join GWS

[LostDoggy]

Re: Callan Ward jumps Bulldogs ship to join GWS

There's a salary cap.

We pay 100% of it each year.

Our facilities are excellent.

It's not the 1970s anymore.

How about third party deals? I'm sick of being on the rough end of these deals it's time we bear our teeth

[The Coon Dog]

Re: Callan Ward jumps Bulldogs ship to join GWS

How about third party deals? I'm sick of being on the rough end of these deals it's time we bear our teeth

Surely Dimattina's Restaurant can hire an ambassador to spruik the virtues of Italian cuisine!

[LostDoggy]

Re: Callan Ward jumps Bulldogs ship to join GWS

I think the 'no one could turn down the money' argument is an insult to the men who actually have.

Guys like Kreuzer, Selwood, Thomas, Pendlebury, Goddard, and Port's Trengrove. And there would be more out there that we don't know about as Scully, Ward, and Palmer would hardly have topped the midfield wish list at Rooty Hill at the start of the year.

These are men who have been offered more than what Cal has accepted and who weren't born and bred in the region that their clubs represent.

These are men who did put loyalty and friendship ahead of pure financial gain.

Let's not forget that people like that are still out there.

Let's not forget that Callan Ward is not one of them.

We offered Ward 2.4 million dollars to stay with his friends, family and club for the next five years.

With wise investment and the reduced tax rate that professional sportsman pay, he'd be worth something in the region of 1.8 million dollars when he came out of that contract; and he'd only be 26.

Doesn't seem like too bad of a deal, does it?

You can see why quality young men have been turning down West Sydney's offer.

But, clearly, it wasn't enough for Ward. He isn't a quality young man at all. He's just a greedy, disloyal, piece of shit.

Would I begrudge a man earning $100,000 from leaving his job for an extra $500,000? No. Of course not.

Do I begrudge a kid earning over $450,000 from leaving his club for an extra $400,000? Absolutely.

The club did everything it could to keep him but it was never going to be enough.

We've spent a fortune developing a midfielder for somebody else. Even this year, we've been wasting valuable game time on filth when we've got a host of talented youngsters in need of senior experience.

I don't wish him well at all.

[Mofra]

Re: Callan Ward jumps Bulldogs ship to join GWS

Like he's the first player to be offered overs to go to a start up club, oh wait so did Higgins, Cooney and Griffen

Ward did choose the easy decision IMO.

The difference in contract amounts in each case was nowhere near as great, and Ward seems to have made a gentlemen's agreement with GWS to ensure we receive extra compensation so again the compensation at a club level is greater for us.

You actually think Ward's decision was easy, and didn't come after months of deliberation?

[LostDoggy]

Re: Callan Ward jumps Bulldogs ship to join GWS

There is a significant gap in the amount of money poured into football departments between the top and bottom clubs, although the salary cap remains the same, the amount of money that is able to be spent on the development of each player isn't and it's those things players consider when choosing clubs of their choice.

You don't honestly think that Ward left for a larger football department spend, do you Swoop?

A player might leave a ghetto to play in a palace, but that's no longer the case at the Whitten Oval. Incidentally, when we did play out of a ghetto, some of our favourite sons chose to remain at the club.

[Remi Moses]

Re: Callan Ward jumps Bulldogs ship to join GWS

The difference in contract amounts in each case was nowhere near as great, and Ward seems to have made a gentlemen's agreement with GWS to ensure we receive extra compensation so again the compensation at a club level is greater for us.

You actually think Ward's decision was easy, and didn't come after months of deliberation?

Seems to have made a gentleman's agreement.
How do you know? Pie in the sky stuff

[LostDoggy]

Re: Callan Ward jumps Bulldogs ship to join GWS

http://www.news.com.au/home-is-exact...-1226076768377

Would it be worth the club reading this back to Callan?

Just realized that he grew up a Bombers fan. That explains it all! Nuff said....

[LostDoggy]

Re: Callan Ward jumps Bulldogs ship to join GWS

Just realized that he grew up a Bombers fan. That explains it all! Nuff said....

Reading that article makes me a little angry about all of this now...

[chef]

Re: Callan Ward jumps Bulldogs ship to join GWS

The difference in contract amounts in each case was nowhere near as great, and Ward seems to have made a gentlemen's agreement with GWS to ensure we receive extra compensation so again the compensation at a club level is greater for us.

You actually think Ward's decision was easy, and didn't come after months of deliberation?

I don't think it was easy, but it was the easier of the two options IMO. Also to me Ward had made up his mind when GWS gave him the two weeks ultimatum a couple of months back.

I don't think Griffen, Higgins and other offers were that far off what Ward accepted, but they were no way near what Kruezer and Martin knocked back.

Hope you are right about the gentleman's agreement, but I won't hold my breath as I really am shattered ATM and am still expecting the worst when it comes to our compo.

[cinder]

Re: Callan Ward jumps Bulldogs ship to join GWS

When do we find out what the compo is?

[Mofra]

Re: Callan Ward jumps Bulldogs ship to join GWS

Seems to have made a gentleman's agreement.
How do you know? Pie in the sky stuff

I don't know - but I dare so noone here knows for sure, either. I can only go off what I've heard.

Hope you are right about the gentleman's agreement, but I won't hold my breath as I really am shattered ATM and am still expecting the worst when it comes to our compo.

Maybe I'm optimistic, but somehow I think by the end of trade week we will have done ok.

[divvydan]

Re: Callan Ward jumps Bulldogs ship to join GWS

When do we find out what the compo is?

Last year compensation was usually announced about 2 days after the official signing of a player, so it could well happen by the middle of the week but it all depends on the papers being filed with AFL etc so don't be impatient if it's not until the end of the week.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Callan Ward jumps Bulldogs ship to join GWS

There's a salary cap.

We pay 100% of it each year.

Our facilities are excellent.

It's not the 1970s anymore.

Salary cap? There's no salary cap.

I think there were figures in the paper about the ASA or whatever the AFL call the third-party arrangements.

West Coast has something like 90 third-party deals for their players.

North Melbourne has 4.

Which end of the scale do you think we're closer to?

[chef]

Re: Callan Ward jumps Bulldogs ship to join GWS

I don't know - but I dare so noone here knows for sure, either. I can only go off what I've heard.

Some guy on the GWS board claiming that we are trading Reid plus a third rounder for pick 1 in the mini draft with Reid to be announced as a GWS player with Ward on Wednesday

Can't see this happening, but wow if it did.

[Greystache]

Re: Callan Ward jumps Bulldogs ship to join GWS

What's the mini draft?