No GWS for buddy

[saintsrus]

Tweeting they have withdrawn offer, look swans bound per sen

[chook23]

That extra cap again

[saintsrus]

We may as well give up if they can afford him, the smaller clubs have no hope

[fingers]

Something not right with all of this.

[Kernal75]

Being reported on SEN that's it's official, he's a Swan!!

[southernsaint]

Great news, saints will be out of the news as eddie and co scream about the swans extra cap space

[BigMart]

Maybe if they keep going the swans forward line will look like tis

Franklin..... Cloke............. Goodes

Tippett...... J. Riewoldt....... N.Riewoldt

Off the bench
Hurley and Kennedy???

[saint75]

I am so over bloomin' football!!!! The smaller Victorian clubs (for that matter, most of the Victorian Clubs) no longer stand a chance. After the Essendope scandal and now this, I have just about had enough of football and I am ready to turn my back on it. Imagine an extra 1 million in our cap? We may have kept Goddard, Geelong may have kept Gary and Buddy most likely would not be going anywhere.

This is so wrong on so many levels. How in the heck can they fit both Franklin and Tippett in their cap? Are the other players only being paid $150-$200K a year?

[matrix]

ok someone with some understanding of the whole free agency saga answer this for me

if hawks match the offer of 1.4 what happens??
they get a FA pick?
they get a trade?
what?

[White Winmar]

If true, that's a f&$king disgrace. HOw on earth can they afford him? Either their compensatory salary cap is too generous, or they're straight out cheats. Probably both!

[dragit]

ok someone with some understanding of the whole free agency saga answer this for me

if hawks match the offer of 1.4 what happens??
they get a FA pick?
they get a trade?
what?

they keep him

[matrix]

cheers dragit

its as simple as that??
blimey

will be interesting to see what happens there
can they afford another 300 grand?
thats basically a half decent players yearly wage

geez i hope he stays
id rather see the hawks get another two flags instead of shitney clean up with this COLA farce

[maverick]

Lose Mumford $500k a year
Goodes drops $300k in the last year of his contract
Bolton on $300k goes
White who wants $300k a year gets traded for a draft pick.
The AFL will pay some of the money for ambassadorial BS as well...

Probably see McVeigh and O'Keefe drop money for a last premiership too.
Their remaining mids are young and probably not on much coin, kennedy is probably paid the most.

They have a high/low model, interesting....

[matrix]

theyll just back end his contract until goodes and okeefe retire

as much as we hate it and as much as it is a shite system...the swans have played this quite well

matner gone
white will go
mumford wants out
bolton gone
goodes at the ass end
okeefe at the ass end

back end buddy until they are both gone

the timing has been really really sweet for them, as much as it pains me to say it

[remboy]

Wonder how Tommy Walsh if feeling about this?

[ctqs]

I reckon Hawks fans would understand if he went to GWS. But going to a premiership rival will hurt his legacy. Where's the money coming from? If Sydney players get a cost of living allowance because it's more expensive up there, shouldn't Melbourne-based teams get more room in the cap than teams from Adelaide? Why the need for the allowance, anyway? It's not as if they're on minimum wage.

[maverick]

I reckon Hawks fans would understand if he went to GWS. But going to a premiership rival will hurt his legacy. Where's the money coming from? If Sydney players get a cost of living allowance because it's more expensive up there, shouldn't Melbourne-based teams get more room in the cap than teams from Adelaide? Why the need for the allowance, anyway? It's not as if they're on minimum wage.

I agree completely.
Then we have the GC and Brisbane where property has crashed.
Stupid rule from the dark ages

[meher baba]

I think that the Swans have got to seriously the risk of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. The AFL hierarchy presumably wanted Buddy to go to GWS. The other AFL clubs are going to be apoplectic at first Tippett and now Buddy going to the Swans.

Perhaps this will inspire a majority of the clubs to want to take a serious look at the salary cap loading. The difference between Sydney and Melbourne rental prices are not as great as they once were. If any city demands a salary cap loading, it's Perth.

This is all quite a mess.

[plugger66]

I think that the Swans have got to seriously the risk of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. The AFL hierarchy presumably wanted Buddy to go to GWS. The other AFL clubs are going to be apoplectic at first Tippett and now Buddy going to the Swans.

Perhaps this will inspire a majority of the clubs to want to take a serious look at the salary cap loading. The difference between Sydney and Melbourne rental prices are not as great as they once were. If any city demands a salary cap loading, it's Perth.

This is all quite a mess.

Im with you on this. it will not make the AFL or the clubs happy but i also think it is risky for the Swans to lose these players that they will have to lose to get Buddy.

[MC Gusto]

their will be a riot!!!

fast eddie not HAPPY

[Zed]

I reckon Hawks fans would understand if he went to GWS. But going to a premiership rival will hurt his legacy. Where's the money coming from? If Sydney players get a cost of living allowance because it's more expensive up there, shouldn't Melbourne-based teams get more room in the cap than teams from Adelaide? Why the need for the allowance, anyway? It's not as if they're on minimum wage.

Mate I've lived in Adelaide for the last 10 years and let me tell you with the morons and drivel you have to put up with in this town you should get an extra 20% if you have to relocate here !!

[duckduckduckgoose]

Don't get caught up in the name.... The whole 'living allowance' thing is a thinly veiled PR exercise.

Cost of living has gone through the room out west in the last decade, the dockers and eagles get no such compensation.

It is what it is being used for.
That is- 10% extra to prop the non AFL heartland clubs so they can get and retain gun players.

gun players= success= more supporters= more money.

The AFL have sunk an awful lot of money into Sydney, and they are looking for a return on their investment.



The big question is- who will GWS chase now with all that cash?
Obviously Boyd is now the lockiest of locks that ever locked to go number 1.

[Zed]

And so goes any chance that any club had of prising Patton out. Securing Boyd with their first pick is a certainty

[Old Mate]

I guess Cameron, Patton and Boyd will have to do.

[The Saintsational Man]

.....I've heard that Tom Mitchell didn't originally want to go to Sydney under the father-son rule, but the offer they gave him was too good to refuse, $500,000 in his first season, then $50,000 per year for the next 2.

So if that's true, then that frees up $450,000 for next year & the one after.