A very astute obligation Barry. I have that same feeling as up until season 2021 the Melbourne media was all over him. There was always the injury excuse proffered for a poor performance but this year he was put on the back burner. Maybe another one who believed his own publicity. What surprised me is he had the opportunity to go back to WA but re-signed with Carlton. Maybe he already knew that Teague would be replaced. It was mentioned that his body language towards Teague was rather so, so this year and the effort seemed to be missing.
Rate and respect Gerard Healy's comments quoted in this piece about the Melbourne club vultures hovering over the Gold Coast. Unedifying, disrespectful, arrogant. “Embarrassing and disrespectful”: The trade scenario that's left a Brownlow Medallist unhappy.
I felt much the same about the Adelaide list manager's comments about 'Jordy Dawson' today. Pay up first before you convey ownership thanks mate.
He's absolutely right. There have been other articles recently about how Adelaide are keen on Lukosius and Rankine, with a suggestion they won't use next year's first round pick in a potential trade for Dawson because they need to keep it available to secure one or both of the Gold Coast boys.
How long until rumblings start about clubs keen on luring Anderson and Rowell back to Melbourne.
I reckon the AFL should introduce a Gold Coast tax whereby any club poaching a required Gold Coast player before they reach free agency status cops a 25% salary tax cap (ie an extra 25% on the contract they pay that player) for the whole of the contract or the time until free agency would have been reached, whichever is longer.
I actually reckon a similar kind of salary cap tax on any required player poached from any club before they've reached free agency is something worth thinking of, but some urgent action is needed to give Gold Coast a chance to build and keep a list that will enable them to establish something sustainable.
Finlayson for a future 3rd seems good business for Port! Although query why they need him? They've got: Dixon, Ladhams (maybe this makes it more likely he gets traded), Marshall, Georgiades all playing that tall forward role. Plenty of KPD depth too I think.
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So Rory Lobb wants to go back to the Giants. I can see how living in the Peoples Republic of WA would get to you after awhile.
West Coast getting SPS for pick 52 and the Demons picking up Dunstan for nothing also seem like good business.
Rory Lobb might be attractive to GWS at a reduced salary but I still wouldn't pay much trade currency for him if I were them. And I certainly wouldn't want to see the Swans touch him.
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Yes, Lobb always struck me as one of those "I'm not feeling it today fellas, so you go get the ball and I'll be standing over there, and
if you can kick it to me every so often coach will think I'm doing something" guys. A bit like Finlayson actually. I remember what was
meant to be his "breakthrough" game in 2016 where he took something like ten contested marks (which is more than a lot of players
take each season) and kicked a pile of goals and tore up Hawthorn. He has just never really put together a consistent body of work
as they say in the art world.
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