Hall stays at Richmond

[EMJ]

AFL Website - Hall remains a tiger. We don't need to work out whether he is coming or not.

[Sanecow]

What an Akermanis.

[DST]

Originally posted by Sanecow
What an Akermanis.

Depends, if it is a two year deal then yes you have every right to say that if it is a one year deal then Hall has decided that the risk in the draft was to much and he will try again next year through a trade.

DST

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by Sanecow
What an Akermanis.

I disagree - I think it was not the same as the Akermanis situation.

[Ajn]

He was never going to be a top 22 player, a back up at best.
Will probably come home next year, the tigers were only offerring a 1 year deal, he probably asked for the trade to be agreed on before signing.

[Sanecow]

Originally posted by DST
Depends, if it is a two year deal then yes you have every right to say that

Not that I need your approval to voice my opinion, but:

Hall signs a two-year deal.

[SWANSBEST]

It seems to be a common event , first Aker now Hall





Hall signs a two-year deal
5:38:23 PM Wed 19 November, 2003
Paul Gough
afl.com.au
Ray Hall has put a three week stand-off from his club behind him, and accepted a two-year deal from Richmond.

The Tigers intended to off-load the young tall during the October trading period, but did not complete a suitable deal with another club. Facing losing Hall without receiving any compensation, if he nominated for the pre-season draft, Richmond put forward a one-year deal earlier this week and extended its offer on Tuesday.



Before Wednesday, Hall had not attended a training session at Punt Road for three weeks, and was eager to strike a deal with Sydney, which would have seen him return to his home state.

But neither Hall nor the Swans, whose coach Paul Roos is understood to have wooed the emerging key position player before the October trading period, could guarantee his passage to the club had he nominated for the 16 December draft.

A number of clubs have selections before Sydney, and it?s understood 23-year-old Hall was only prepared to change clubs for the purpose of returning to New South Wales.

Hall, 23, said he had no hard feelings towards Richmond, despite being unsure about his future during an assessment period of his university commerce degree.

?In the end it didn?t come down to Sydney?s pick in the draft. It came down to deciding that I wanted to play with Richmond.?

?I don?t really see what I should be forgiving or forgetting. There?s no real issue there now. We?ve worked through it all and I understand what their point of view was and now that we?ve worked everything out I?m happy to stay at Richmond and look forward to a positive year next year,? Hall said on Wednesday.

?I guess we had some issues to work through, but in the end I had a really good look at where Richmond was going as a club and now I have the confidence that we?re really going to go places and I want to be a part of that.?

Hall?s manager, Alex McDonald of Flying Start, said his client was affronted by the Tigers? initial decision to use him as trade bait and that a genuine stand-off had resulted between player and club.

?It was, definitely (a stand-off). I guess players do become disillusioned when their names are thrown out there. He had his heart set on Richmond,? McDonald said.

?He was aggressively traded around at trade week, at from his point of view I guess you feel like there?s no love in the relationship anymore and that it died,? McDonald told afl.com.au.

?There were some philosophical issues that Ray had in terms of what it meant to be shopped around. He wondered is it a bit of band-aid, are they crawling back, sort of thing.?

Complicating matters was the fact that Hall, along with two other Richmond players, is opening a juice business with Richmond?s director of football, Greg Miller, this week.

?It?s been an interesting time, but I think all parties are professional enough to separate different interests and to have been able to work through the opening of the juice bar and separate that from any football discussions,? Hall said.

?I knew what was going on, and I could see where they were coming from in wanting to recruit some good players, and now I?m just happy to be back there.?

Hall, who has played 47 matches for Richmond since d?buting in 1999, has completed one-on-one fitness and weights sessions with an athletics coach over the last three weeks.

Originally from Woy Woy on the New South Wales? central coast, Hall is capable of playing either in attack or defence or as a back-up ruckman. He endured an injury-marred 2003 season playing just nine games.

http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=127234

[robbieando]

No big loss really, either he came or he didn't and well he didn't so I'm not in any way fussed. If he used us to get a better deal for himself, well good on him - most people in his shoes most likely would of done the same given half a chance.

[Dpw]

Once the Juice bar Ownership was made public the gig was up he was just playing us to get a better deal ala aker.

[caj23]

good luck to him, if richmond were trying to screw him on a deal so they could poach copeland from the lions why shouldn't he consider all of his options

the fact is with our high pick he risked ending up in geelong (or perhaps another interstate club)

i would suggest that richmond offered him a 2 year deal so that if he decides to head home in 12 months time he will have to be traded and they will not be left empty handed if he decided to nominate for the psd as an umcontracted player

i don't think this is anything like the akermanis situation