Trade requests could come within days as Dons accused of ‘leaking’; $3m Magpie squeeze: Talking Pts
Ratugolea mightn’t be the only Cat that is traded to another club, withalso not expected to be on Geelong’s list next year. And Zerk-Thatcher mightn’t be the only Bomber traded, withFremantle and Hawthorn are also bracing for some of their players to request trades., a Freo Next Generation Academy graduate who was taken with Pick 9, is highly likely to request a trade to a Victorian-based club after pushing back any contract talks until season’s end.
But Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks on Saturday night stressed Doedee was “a player that we want to have at our footy club”.“Tom really wants to stay at our footy club and we’ll just keep working through that with him on where that finishes up,” Nicks told reporters. Asked if he thought Essendon had “briefed” those outside the club about Parish’ situation, Lucas told SEN’s“Briefed is complementary, leaked is more accurate. It’s what they do.It is a contract standoff that will only draw more eyes the longer into the off-season it remains unsigned, with the trade period looming large for the restricted free agent.Questions over his value are also intensifying as a result, with Gerard Whateley putting it bluntly on SEN’s“I reckon five years is generous.
“If I’ve played at a football club and the team that you’ve got drafted to said stay and sign on there, If I’ve had no finals success in eight years, I’d be giving up a little bit of money to help other people in and around me to help grow and have success and try and grow to maybe try and play in a premiership in the next five or six years,” Hodge said.
“Take your five years at the club who are offering you some good coin, hopefully you’re going to be a good leader there to build it and you can use some money around to bring people in to help you play in September.” For the second time in seven years, North Melbourne won its way out of finishing last in the final round of the season., just days after West Coast’s shock win over the Western Bulldogs – which seemed to have gifted the Kangaroos a shot at Pick 1, and widely-regarded top prospect Harley Reid.
Ben McKay’s looming free agency exit could earn the Kangaroos top-level compensation, meaning a draft pick directly after their natural first-round selection. That’ll be Pick 3, following their Pick 2. You’re also more likely to get an eventual All-Australian – one in every two Pick 1s becomes an All-Australian, compared to one in every 2.2 Pick 2s, one in every 3.3 players picked between 3 and 5, and the decline continues from there.
Instead they’re in a slightly worse position. And we understand all of the stigma around tanking … but this matters. As much fun as that win would’ve been, after 20 consecutive losses, you gain nothing tangible from it. But what you lose could be severe. Meanwhile, with its finals hopes dashed ahead of Round 24, Geelong essentially waved the white flag, making seven changes to its team for its final home and away game as several stars were booked in for season-ending surgery.
And with several big Collingwood names set to return after the pre-finals bye, there could be a decent scalp or two at Magpies match committee due to selection quandaries at both ends of the field. Asked directly whether the Pies could play all three small forwards in the same side, McRae told reporters on Friday night: “Maybe. I’m not sure yet … we’ll have to wait and see.”
So five-time All-Australian Garry Lyon put Dan McStay on notice after he failed to cash in against the Bombers.
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