I do like the idea of getting a future first out of both GC and Freo as they will both believe that pick will be 10+ and not as highly prized but we all know if could be well under 10!
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Welcome to the Tigers - Daniel Rioli
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Rioli requested a trade to a club that has courted him, and he's under contract ..
and people think paying his wage is cool, for whatever reason...?
ok fine... just not my trip
Its not irrelevant at all. This is about the RFC and how we can improve OUR hand at the draft.
Must confess my original reaction to the thought paying salary of blokes who are leaving was one of shock horror disgust etc etc
And I wrote it here somewhere too
However I have since read many posts and learned the other side of it all - and it certainly can make sense
I’ve even been able to explain the logic it to others in the meantime
An old dog can learn new tricks!
'if' we can improve our hand is how i look at it, so i guess we beg to differ
how many wasted draft picks have there been?
sure. maybe i just don't want to give GCS anything apart from Rioli
Not to mention we dont want to reward our youngsters with mega bucks before they deserve it… i believe it stumps their development. So paying bolton and Rioli wages for a couple of years is absolutely only about enticing those clubs to release the picks we want this draft 6 9 10 13 ish.
Mate id even pay fridges to up the value to net a better compo pick too.
Mate id even pay fridges to up the value to net a better compo pick too.
We shouldn't soften on our return on any of them.
Scumbags
yep..
reluctantly this seems to be the only way around the nonsense of draft / trade / value / cap wages / etc ..
We could always just give Nank, Broad and Vlastuin $1m bonuses.
Are you just coming around to the idea that the draft and trading are here to stay?
i could just be personally affronted that Rioli wants to go to the Suns
Agree. I am too.
And also see that he has valid reasons and i firmly believe the club expressly offered them the opportunity to leave.
For #7 , #12 & #20
I would be happy to pay every cent
We were going to pay that anyway
You are thinking about this the wrong way
Just think of it like this
#6 gets traded for Rioli
#12 gets traded for $500k x 2 years
#20 gets traded for $300k x 2 years
Yep. Clubs been doing it for some years now, trading out expensive players for kiddie picks n easing their salary cap restrictions while around finals contention. So why not do it in reverse and utilise spare cap space for extra kiddie picks when rebuilding? Sounds fairly logical and certainly helps avoid over paying young kids or average players just to meet the enforced 95% minimum.
Perfect time to do it as well. Martin Bolton and Rioli took up a lot of our cap, so we have plenty of room to do this . Plus we need all the extra picks in a deep draft.
