New ROK poll - will he stay?

[NMWBloods]

Who thinks a deal will be done and he will stay?

Who thinks he will go into the PSD and which team will pick him up?

[Robbo]

I hope he goes into the PSD, but I think he will end up staying.

He's said that he wants to go to a Melbourne club but going into the PSD could mean he ends up in Perth or Adelaide. So I think he will play it safe and stay put.

[DST]

From all accounts his relationship with the club has remained cordial and he has remained in contact with Roos (believe they met on Friday afternoon after the 2.00pm deadline).

I am leaning towards he will sign with us, but may have another crack of trying to get back to Melbourne next year, which is fine as ROK is professional enough to give his best next year if he stays on.

DST

[swansrule100]

i dont have a clue, and i dont think anyone at the swans has much of a clue what they are doing in 2009 at this stage, are we entering the comp?

[BSA5]

Roos wouldn't have allowed to deal to be struck unless he was confident O'Keefe would re-sign. Not certain, but confident. I think that's where the smart money lies.

[NMWBloods]

Roos wouldn't have allowed to deal to be stuck unless he was confident O'Keefe would re-sign.

What could he have done?

[swan_song]

Maybe, maybe not. I'm over the ROK saga. If he stays all well and good, if he goes, sfw? Over the past couple of years we have shed ourselves of several good or reasonable players anyway and replaced them with a mix of both OK and CPs, so I dont think whether ROK stays or goes will make a penneth of difference to where we finish in 2009,10 or 11. But if I were to put money on it, Id say he'd go, as I cant imagine how he would fit back in, having shown such disloyalty and honesty, if reports are to be believed.

[DST]

What could he have done?

I assume he means that a deal for just pick 16 would have been accepted as a last minute something unless the club is confident he will reconsider.

Personally from what has been said so far, Hawthorn put up and withdrew so much during the 4 days that we were never confident what was exactly on the table in the end.

DST

[Nico]

From all accounts his relationship with the club has remained cordial and he has remained in contact with Roos (believe they met on Friday afternoon after the 2.00pm deadline).

I am leaning towards he will sign with us, but may have another crack of trying to get back to Melbourne next year, which is fine as ROK is professional enough to give his best next year if he stays on.

DST

Nothing like a drop of cordial to cool things down a bit.

[573v30]

Money in a brown paper bag will be exchanged under the table...

[NMWBloods]

I assume he means that a deal for just pick 16 would have been accepted as a last minute something unless the club is confident he will reconsider.

Personally from what has been said so far, Hawthorn put up and withdrew so much during the 4 days that we were never confident what was exactly on the table in the end.

From what I read Hawthorn decided not to put up pick 16 as they wanted a pick in the top 30.

[The Big Cat]

Money in a brown paper bag will be exchanged under the table...

Swan or Blue money?

[DST]

From what I read Hawthorn decided not to put up pick 16 as they wanted a pick in the top 30.

It would seem that discussuins went from:

* Pick 16 + player

to

* Someone from the premiership team (except 7 listed players + plus Jordan Lewis who we asked for)

to

* Pick 16 is off the table, so it's 34 + player

To finally nothing as Hawthorn couldn't actually put anything of substance on the table.

I would hope that the clun would use the Hawthorn experience to warn O'Keefe of looking at PSD offers as clearly Hawthorn (despite getting O'Keefe to agree to a pay cut) were not serioulsy interested in doing business.

DST

[laughingnome]

Hawthorn's dealings during trade week make me sick, and now just this year's either. If I was a cynicist I'd say that Hawthorn sat on ROK - got the agreement from the player that he'd come, etc, etc - to stop other Melbourne clubs from coming in. But I'm not, so I'll just say that every club knows what they want from the trade week before it starts and every club knows what they'd give up before it starts, and that the Hawks are a bunch of two-faced reneggers.

[hammo]

There was also the "source" who claimed ROK was never interested in Hawthorn and that Carlton was his preferred destination.

Carlton made no attempt to trade because they know they're a more than reasonable chance in the PSD.

ROK wouldn't go through this process if he didn't want out of the Swans. My view is that anyone expecting him to re-sign is in dreamland.

If I'm proved wrong so be it, but Carlton or Essendon will get him and the Swans will get nothing. Thanks Ryan.