Trade Week Update

[Bas]

I thought I would start a new thread which was more appropriate to what is actually happening during this week and not what people think should be happening.

It will make it easier for RWO members to check up on what's been happening on any particular day.

For example, Tarrant will go to WA and Sydney is off his list.

Hawks put forward 3 propositions for trade to Syd. One includes The Esky but Sydney has rejected all of these.

At least we don't have to worry about Acker anymore. It wouldn't have surprised me if he had been using the bulldogs to get to Sydney.

[ugg]

St Kilda have offered pick 27 for Spida.

[Rizzo]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/afl/akermanis-traded-to-bulldogs-in-quick-time/2006/10/09/1160246041865.html

Sydney coach Paul Roos said his club was keen to quickly come to an agreement with Hawthorn over a trade for Hawks ruckman Peter Everitt, who wants to go to the Swans.

Roos said if an agreement could not be reached and Everitt fell through to the pre-season draft, he believed the Swans would be able to pick him up that way.

But he said the club would prefer to trade with the Hawks.

...

The Hawks have so far put three exchange options to the Swans, one of them involving Sydney youngster Nick Malceski heading to Hawthorn, but all have been knocked back by the Swans.

Pelchen (Hawks) says they...

were confident of gaining young tall defender Bret Thornton from Carlton.

[hammo]

This article is more up to date

Roos plays hardball

Good to see we are standing up to their ridiculous demands.

Clarkson is showing he is the new Sheedy when it comes to trading after the Hay situation last year, trying to poach Thornton for next to nothing from the Blues and demanding Malceski for a player they would only offer a 1 year contract to.

How long before the rest of the AFL decides - don't trade with Clarkson.

[Reggi]

Hawthorn are dreaming 32 yo aren't worth that much - there are others around.

Gotta be willing to walk away

[swantastic]

If you want up todate trade activities listen to sen.com.au.

[Chow-Chicker]

The whispers in the wind will echo in the tunnel

[Bas]

Originally posted by ugg
St Kilda have offered pick 27 for Spida.

Source pls?

[SimonH]

Normally conducting negotiations via the media is pretty poor form, and only leads to relations further deteriorating. But I can forgive the Swans on this occasion on the basis that the Hawks started it, with some low-rent and inappropriate statements: to say 'Nick Malceski is a name that's been mentioned' implies that Sydney is prepared to trade him, where they knew all along that the opposite was true.

I can't imagine Sydney, if the roles were reversed, making public comments that 'Sam Mitchell and Lance Franklin are names that have been mentioned' where the context in which they were mentioned was the following:
Us: How about you give us Sam Mitchell or Lance Franklin?
Them: How about you @@@@ off?

St Kilda will have a substantial advantage over us by pre-season draft day: they will have a coach well-established in the position and they will know for sure if they can fit Spida under the salary cap with their other signings and offloads. St Kilda also have a substantial advantage over all other teams-- they can sign Spida as a veteran (I didn't realise he'd already been with them 10 years, but he has), halving his wage's contribution to their salary cap.

Spida has left the Hawks in no two minds that he won't consent to any non-Sydney trade, so we now have a classic Mexican stand-off. We just need to keep the lines of communications with them open, and as Friday 2pm inches closer, they'll realise that their options are pretty stark: get something for Spida, or get nothing for Spida. Nothing much is likely to be resolved on this one tomorrow, Wednesday or Thursday.

[anniswan]

Originally posted by SimonH


St Kilda will have a substantial advantage over us by pre-season draft day: they will have a coach well-established in the position and they will know for sure if they can fit Spida under the salary cap with their other signings and offloads.

This statement is surely a joke

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by anniswan
This statement is surely a joke

Why?

[ugg]

Originally posted by Bas
Source pls?

SEN i.e. not a very good one. Saints have come out and denied it.

[Grant]

SEN this afternoon reported that another club had made an offer to hawthorn for Spida,and it was more attractive than what Sydney were offering.But they were trying to find out who the club was.

[anniswan]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
Why?

Who is their well established coach?

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by anniswan
Who is their well established coach?

I presume Simon's point is that by draft day they will have appointed a coach who has a strategy in place plus will know their salary cap room. Given that as a minimum, they will get their pick ahead of us, so that puts them in a better position than us.