It all goes on lenth of the deal. If what they are saying is correct, 4 yrs at $700 plus K, Then that would be band 1 compo Pick Pick 2

I have a feeling the AFL will somehow screw up out of Pick 2 for Kreuz.

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James Hird and Essendon* FC - #FOREVERDRUGCHEATS

So based on the "calculation " what should we have gotten for Waite?...or did we always "know" we would get nothing?

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“Every single element of the Club has to be the best in the league, meticulously and methodically, and only by doing this will we be elite and challenge for number 17.”
Greg Lee

Absolutely no way we'd get 1&2.

Not with Brisbane crying out for help and Carlton sitting around with both thumbs up their arse watching the house burn down.

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!@#$ off Essendon**** Just !@#$ right off. SCUM.

the same brisbane beat us twice this year.

we obviously need it more than they do.

Absolutely nothing. 32, 2 years, not massive coin. Club was either naive, or just wanting to make a point.

Plenty of FA's have gone for nothing. Richmond received zilch for Matt White who was much younger and signed a 3 year contract.

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"They're [REDACTED]'

Yeah in reality world we'd be fairly compensated.

In AFL world I'm not comfortably satisfied.

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!@#$ off Essendon**** Just !@#$ right off. SCUM.

Whilst we may have deserved it, is it totally valid, seeing that many an Essendon* player quite possibly should not have even been allowed to play this season?

#clutchingatstraws

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THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

You left off the AFL fine print which states......"In applying the formula, an expert committee reviews the formula outcomes. The committee has the power to recommend alternative outcomes to GM – Football Operations where the formula produces a materially anomalous result."

So could it be anomalous that an ageing, injury prone player could really be worth more than any other Free Agent since the inception of free agency?, maybe it is anomalous that Kruezer could be worth pick 2 and Buddy pick 19?

Well, if they are going to somehow let Frawley get pick three and Kruezer not pick 2, our management should be told beforehand. The AFL has set up the compensation system, they should be upfront about what they will do.

Looking @ past FA transactions. The trigger for band 1 seems to be 550k for 4 years.
Frawley is on that @ Hawthorn and it got Melb band 1.
Dal Santo is on 425ish @ norf but he is older and got STK band 3 (I'm pretty sure).
Daisy @ 625k for 4 years got Pies band 1.

Matty has offers infront of him that will trigger band 1. SOS knows that. Hence why Matty remains unsigned.

What about wage inflation due to the new TV deal?

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"You are being watched. The government has a secret system. A machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it." - Finch

It'll definitely be interesting to see if the AFL change their 'formula' as wages do begin to go up on average as the cap increases.

They'll certainly be keeping their random formula generator under wraps

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Please help me.

Should I be concerned with the Blues getting the spoon?

Unfair comp, with teams not playing each other twice.

It's messing with my mind a little.


Filth-supporting brother texts today, saying he's baking a cake and was wondering if I had any spoons.

I replied, 'No. But if it's cupcakes your baking, I've got plenty of cups."

It was the best I could come up with.

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THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

Forget the unfair comp. But yes, you should be concerned with us getting the wooden spoon. Its disgraceful.


But I'm more concerned with so many people celebrating us getting the #1 pick - like that's gonna help us.


(We have 3 x #1 picks on our list - look how that's helped us?)

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"
- Aristotle

Having access to the best talent in the draft always helps.

The circumstances now are completely different to 2005-2007. Our No.1 picks would have thrived in the right environment and the club has done it's best to provide this with all the recent changes.

The pick will be worth it in the long run. No glory in finishing second last.

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"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself" - Henry Ford

This!
If he gets a contract offer, the AFL should tell us what pick we would get (in writing, triplicate, signed in blood) as part of our decision making process. I would let him go for pick two but no way for pick twenty.

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Let slip the Blues of war (with apologies to William Shakespeare) (and Sir Francis Bacon, just in case)

Pick 25 for Dal Santo

Unfortunately the AFL only "gives" one good draft pick to a rabble. Pick 1..we need Pick 2, 10, 20 or whatever we can get.

This is an 18 team game...one draft pick isn't going to turn around a sinking ship. Even in the NBA a top 1 draft pick doesn't turn around those teams and they are five or seven players or whatever it is in that game.

I have said it before and I will say it again - Carlton needs to start begging the AFL for assistance.


Extra draft picks, financial aid...whatever it is. Pride comes before a fall. Well the fall has already happened. Extra pick in the pre-season draft, extra pick in the rookie draft...ask for it. I see no indication from the Carlton management that they are aware of how dire Carlton's situation is. Where was the complaint about Carlton paying "equalisation' taxes. None. Just nothing.



Geelong got there on the back of the father-son loophole...getting Bartel and Ablett (pick 40) etc in the same draft. Hawthorn got there on the back of numerous gifts from the AFL- including paying them extra money from the AFL's coffers to play at the MCG...Carlton needs to be given gifts from the AFL as they give to Sydney, Brisbane, Hawthorn etc...get it now. This club might not be around in 10 years time. The gifts need to start now.