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I think you’d turn him around under Chris Scott. Goodwin is a moron by all reports who fostered this culture and environment whereas Scott would be the opposite.
May not be the worst deal in the world.
Speculation Clayton Oliver [UFA 2030]
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I think you’d turn him around under Chris Scott. Goodwin is a moron by all reports who fostered this culture and environment whereas Scott would be the opposite.
May not be the worst deal in the world.
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Yeah but everyone thought that about Jack Steven and Mitch Clarke. Not all issues can be solved with fresh ocean air and a supportive coach
They sure as hell cant be with a coach who promotes the behavior
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Yeah if those rumours are true then the risk with Clayton will be higher for Melbourne keeping him than trading him.
Nobody is taking Oliver's contract on. Melbourne would need to pay a decent portion and throw in some quality draft picks to make it happen. They had a chance to cut their losses last year. Their best play now is to hold him and try to help him sort himself out.
Or just decide to disappear and not show up to preseason
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Showing up to mandated training sessions is worth over $7M to him so I think he'd at least rock up
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Melbourne have plenty of salary cap room. Brayshaw retiring early and we'll get some concessions there and Tom Mcdonald and Brown are both on pretty pricey back ended contracts so that should free things up a lot. Clayton just needs to get back into shape. Clubs still rate him as that's why they send their number 1 tagger to him most weeks so I back him in to turn things around next season. I didn't expect him to be playing before the Bye with the off-season that he's had but there's no excuse to still be carrying all of that excess weight.
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Doesn't look great as of now, but if he can pull his head out of his arse and get back to his best, then all is fine.
Was only a couple of seasons ago that everyone was trying to say that Cripps was cooked.
Since then, he's won a Brownlow, led the team to their 1st finals appearance in a long time and looking to back it up again, with another strong Brownlow showing looking good and captaining the team to the currently 2nd best record.
Obviously Cripps didn't have the off-field issues that Clarry has been facing, but it's not impossible for him to turn it around. Depends on how much he wants it.
Was only a couple of seasons ago that everyone was trying to say that Cripps was cooked.
Since then, he's won a Brownlow, led the team to their 1st finals appearance in a long time and looking to back it up again, with another strong Brownlow showing looking good and captaining the team to the currently 2nd best record.
Obviously Cripps didn't have the off-field issues that Clarry has been facing, but it's not impossible for him to turn it around. Depends on how much he wants it.
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Cats would be one team who would back their culture to get him back to his best. Would be a handy replacement for Danger.
Yeah no ones taking on a $1.2-$1.3 million, 6 year contract.
It's hard to fathom Dees giving him that deal given they apparently knew he had issues at the time. Add the $1mill+ that they have to pay out on Brayshaws crazy deal and Dees have some serious dead TPP space.
It's hard to fathom Dees giving him that deal given they apparently knew he had issues at the time. Add the $1mill+ that they have to pay out on Brayshaws crazy deal and Dees have some serious dead TPP space.
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Keep an eye out for him, he would benefit the club who could facilitate his last chance saloon scenario.
Clubs like essendon and geelong usually think they could with their earlier interest in Thomas.
Clubs like essendon and geelong usually think they could with their earlier interest in Thomas.
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Yeah maybe for a while but you find a way to get rid of them eventually
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Jeez the afl needs to write contracts better
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And you do? Okay mate.
He's guaranteed 1 mil...not if the club wants to get rid off him like collingwood got rid off trelor after 5 year deal.
Particularly not if his current form continues.
They cant not give him his money, Melbourne have 2 options:
1. Keep him and hold him to his contract, while paying what the contract stipulated
2. Try to find another club to take that contract on
Either way Clayton is getting his money. As long as he keeps rocking up to training each week he gets a big paycheck
The only way out of it for Melbourne is if they get Clayton to agree to taking a paycut for no reason. Nobody would agree to that
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I know im just pointing out no one will take on his current deal so hes stuck at melb.
Think we will hold him.
With most of Brayshaw off the books, Grundy, Harmes, Hibberd gone and Gawn & May close to retirement we genuinely will struggle to hit the minimum payment cap soon. Throw in Ben Brown, Melksham and Tom McDonald also close to retirement.
Cap isn’t an issue so it doesn’t make sense to offload picks for even more cap space when we for the most part don’t have the young cattle to demand huge contracts.
If anything we will probably have the cap space to take other clubs offloads if we really wanted.
With most of Brayshaw off the books, Grundy, Harmes, Hibberd gone and Gawn & May close to retirement we genuinely will struggle to hit the minimum payment cap soon. Throw in Ben Brown, Melksham and Tom McDonald also close to retirement.
Cap isn’t an issue so it doesn’t make sense to offload picks for even more cap space when we for the most part don’t have the young cattle to demand huge contracts.
If anything we will probably have the cap space to take other clubs offloads if we really wanted.
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I fully expect him to get back to being his best. He had the worst possible off season/ pre season imaginable , afl is a tough game, he's coming from a long way back
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