@#$%&! him. What a cauliflower. Hopefully he misses 20m out from directly in front to kick them
into the GF.

Compo should never have come into it. The subjective nature of the compo is the major issue. If every club is on an even playing field salary cap wise, then the cap space created by losing a player to free agency should then be enough compensation. you now have X thousands of dollars in your cap. You now have that money to throw at other players, whether that is to retain current players or recruit from outside the club. The AFL have created a garbage system where some clubs get high compensation for a crocked player (collingwood/daisy) and others get SFA for a player that plays career best footy (Carlton/Waite) Just another example of incompetent administration and a competition completely skewed by unfair manipulation.

Waite left because of our Club and Madhouse would not commit to a reasonable deal.

Waite has made comments that he would have stayed at Carlton had he had some commitment for 2 years and game time.

The fact that he is a better player at Norf is purely due playing in a much better team. And his discipline also improved due to less frustration of doing the hard work to burn off your opponent just to have your teammate kick it over your head or directly to your opponent or at your feet etc...

Waite still bleeds blue, probably more so than some of the posters on this site, so I hope he does well and comes back to the blues once he hangs up the boots.

How many wasted years at CFC.

Vin would be shattered.

Regards Cazzesman

feeling a bit depressed about the ex blues this week.
Whilst there was some mild justice in that Hampson didn't star, to see Grigg get a BOG (or close to it), Robbo get a BOG and Hendo get a team of the week for full back, added to the usual recent success of Betts and Waite is a little flattening.

At least Thomas was great this week...

200k per year? Come on, that's hard to believe...

And we couldn't afford that?

As I recall, it wasn't the money but the length of the contract which was an issue for us. I think we wouldn't budge on 2 years, while North offered 3 years.

At 200k I would have.....that changes a lot

what I have been told is Waite is practically on the same wage as a second year player. He went to norf for security that we wouldn't offer. And at the time we were well within our rights to only offer 1 year + trigger for 2nd. Let's not pretend Waite was playing at this standard in 2014. In fact he spent some of 2014 in the VFL.

Credit to Norf for getting his mind & body right but at the time Waite was lazy and injury prone and over 30. Facing a rebuild - he's not the type we should've given a guaranteed 2 years too.