Retirements, Trades, Delistings and the Rookie list

[LostDoggy]

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Lake is gone.

[LostDoggy]

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Trade radio confirmed this too. Makes sense. Well done to Brian on his career at Bulldogs and hope he gets a premiership at Hawks. Deal confirmed as P21 and 41 for our 27 and Lake. Not exceptional but not terrible - although given I floated this deal a few pages back and was howled down, I look forward to hearing the poster's here response. :-)

[bulldogsthru&thru]

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Trade radio confirmed this too. Makes sense. Well done to Brian on his career at Bulldogs and hope he gets a premiership at Hawks. Deal confirmed as P21 and 41 for our 27 and Lake. Not exceptional but not terrible - although given I floated this deal a few pages back and was howled down, I look forward to hearing the poster's here response. :-)

i still think its a horrible trade for us. Why did we even have to throw in pick 27?? Makes no sense to me at all

[Desipura]

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i still think its a horrible trade for us. Why did we even have to throw in pick 27?? Makes no sense to me at all

Maybe the Hawks have taken over the remainder of his contract with us.

[Hotdog60]

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You would hope that the Hawks are picking up what's left of Brian's contract and we are not paying part.

[Missing Dog]

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Maybe the Hawks have taken over the remainder of his contract with us.

As long as we are not paying anything for him next year I can live with it. JUST!!!!

[Bulldog4life]

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i still think its a horrible trade for us. Why did we even have to throw in pick 27?? Makes no sense to me at all

We get a first round draft pick and a second round draft pick in exchange for Lake and a second round draft pick. Brian has got a couple of years left and wanted to leave by all accounts. A fair trade.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

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Maybe the Hawks have taken over the remainder of his contract with us.

this would make a little more sense

[LostDoggy]

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i still think its a horrible trade for us. Why did we even have to throw in pick 27?? Makes no sense to me at all

I don't think its horrible but not as good as it could have been. For instance, we could have tried to downgrade P27 to a lower 2nd pick for say a Stevens or a Gumbleton or a Hooker and then trade it on (not unlike what we did with Akermanis and Hudson trades?), but that would be expecting a bit much from our guys (hey its Fantasia and a greenstick list manager after all)....but we have to understand we probably would have lost Lake for nearly nix due to Free Agency next year. Its not great, not terrible, but it could have been a little better with a bit more creativity.

[Desipura]

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As long as we are not paying anything for him next year I can live with it. JUST!!!!

At 30yo and us more than likely to struggle again next year, do you honestly think Brian's heart will be in it. I think he would go through the motions.
Lets give a game to a player that knows he has more than 1 to 2 years at the club and let him develop with the rest of the playing list.

[Mofra]

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I don't think its horrible but not as good as it could have been.

Bingo - we've pulled the trigger on day 1 of a 3 week trading period, and many of us are not convinced it's the best deal we could have gotten.

[Missing Dog]

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At 30yo and us more than likely to struggle again next year, do you honestly think Brian's heart will be in it. I think he would go through the motions.
Lets give a game to a player that knows he has more than 1 to 2 years at the club and let him develop with the rest of the playing list.

Not disagreeing here Desi just hope we are not paying him would much rather front end some of our kids to have some cap room in a couple of years when our window opens.

[chef]

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Maybe the Hawks have taken over the remainder of his contract with us.

Wasn't his contract back ended so he was on something like $700K this year?

[LostDoggy]

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Bingo - we've pulled the trigger on day 1 of a 3 week trading period, and many of us are not convinced it's the best deal we could have gotten.

Yeah you may be right, but remember Hawks would have been exploring other options too eg. Brown for WCE, Hooker or Pears at Bombers, but a lower second round pick say in the 30's if we could have engineered it would have been better.

[ReLoad]

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Wasn't his contract back ended so he was on something like $700K this year?

I heard 650k. Either way its a huge financial win for us. basically Hawthorn is going to pay for his last 2 years playing for us. Thanks Hawthorn.