Strategy Trade and List Management Thread Part 7 (opposition supporters - READ posting rules before posting)

[Unorth]

we need to send the delegation to meet Butters during the season before we get pipped like we did with Barrass.

 

[CDBulldog]

we need to send the delegation to meet Butters during the season before we get pipped like we did with Barrass.

Commence Operation Butters!

 

[TheScriptorWL]

If Butters requests a trade this off season. PAFC would be absolute Idiots to deny him, a strategy like that is only ever effective if the reason for the move is because of an in-house problem that can be rectified.

If it is the state of their current list, Personal Reasons and/or the go home factor. You’re basically throwing away your leverage to be prideful(It’s one of the deadly sins for a reason).

And then there is the sickly feeling that spreads through the supporters the following season. Knowing that this great player, no longer wants to play for your club. Every great goal tarnished slightly.

This is still all speculation of course, But The Footscray Football has had this exact problem multiple times now.


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[Dogs Rule]

So looks like we're playing Port at either Maddingley Park or Darley Park next year, yeah?

 

[Lindsay_Gilbee]

Apparently from Gettable, as well:

Cats and Dogs are interested but hard to see a world where Port entertain any talks this year

Mitch Cleary said these are the two teams in it. Sam Mclure shunned it and basically said it’s hawks then daylight.

So hawks are no chance.

 

[BulldogMuscle]

we need to send the delegation to meet Butters during the season before we get pipped like we did with Barrass.

Trying to 100% confirm it but I have been told as of this morning that we have met with him within the last two weeks whilst our recruiters were over in SA watching the under 18s play.

Yet to 100% confirm this but the source who told me is on the money 95% of the time.

 

[Dogs Rule]

Mitch Cleary said these are the two teams in it. Sam Mclure shunned it and basically said it’s hawks then daylight.

So hawks are no chance.

You would think McClure would just stop making predictions and definitive statements - he's just so s*** at it and wrong every time.

 

[DiamondDogs8]

Trying to 100% confirm it but I have been told as of this morning that we have met with him within the last two weeks whilst our recruiters were over in SA watching the under 18s play.

Yet to 100% confirm this but the source who told me is on the money 95% of the time.

 

[Lindsay_Gilbee]

Highly doubt any decent player manager or club list manager would give that clown Sam McClure any info

His reporting is so funny. He casually drops “I spoke to a high standing person from ______”. No you didn’t Sam. You didn’t talk to anyone. And anyone who does talk to you is just giving you the wrong info.

There’s some gold standard journos these days when it comes to breaking news. Cal Twomey, Riley Beveridge, Mitch Cleary. Probably the only three journos worth listening to in regards to movement stuff.

 

[Bulldogs85]

His reporting is so funny. He casually drops “I spoke to a high standing person from ______”. No you didn’t Sam. You didn’t talk to anyone. And anyone who does talk to you is just giving you the wrong info.

There’s some gold standard journos these days when it comes to breaking news. Cal Twomey, Riley Beveridge, Mitch Cleary. Probably the only three journos worth listening to in regards to movement stuff.

I remember a time when Tom Papley dad called out Sam on social media about the fake news he was spreading

 

[DiamondDogs8]

His reporting is so funny. He casually drops “I spoke to a high standing person from ______”. No you didn’t Sam. You didn’t talk to anyone. And anyone who does talk to you is just giving you the wrong info.

There’s some gold standard journos these days when it comes to breaking news. Cal Twomey, Riley Beveridge, Mitch Cleary. Probably the only three journos worth listening to in regards to movement stuff.

The biggest flog amongst a sea of flogs.

 

[Lindsay_Gilbee]

I remember a time when Tom Papley dad called out Sam on social media about the fake news he was spreading

He’s actually the worst. I thoroughly enjoy hate watching him.

Remember when he said the AFL time slots should be announced like two weeks in advance? Screw the people in the country, screw people with young kids, screw people who do shift work and don’t just do Monday to Friday, screw people who wanna travel interstate. Little Sammy who has probably never gone outside of Aramdale didn’t like the fixture!

Never seen a more entitled nepo baby.

 

[Iamspock]

Yes mate. Can offer him all the Class A recycled water and biosolids he desires. Might even be able to get his stove hooked up to biogas to sweeten the deal

Plus the bonus of world-renown bird watching. How could he resist?

 

[Iamspock]

They're just miserable about everything. Whatever happens, it's someone else's fault and they've been given an unfair hand, and they collectively can't help but feel sorry for themselves.

Couldn't imagine 'supporting' a club and sport where everything is so negative.

Whiniest supporters bar none.

 

[Bulldogs85]

He’s actually the worst. I thoroughly enjoy hate watching him.

Remember when he said the AFL time slots should be announced like two weeks in advance? Screw the people in the country, screw people with young kids, screw people who do shift work and don’t just do Monday to Friday, screw people who wanna travel interstate. Little Sammy who has probably never gone outside of Aramdale didn’t like the fixture!

Never seen a more entitled nepo baby.

Remember this great statement from Sammy boy last year

 

[dogsuperfan]

If Butters requests a trade this off season. PAFC would be absolute Idiots to deny him, a strategy like that is only ever effective if the reason for the move is because of an in-house problem that can be rectified.

If it is the state of their current list, Personal Reasons and/or the go home factor. You’re basically throwing away your leverage to be prideful(It’s one of the deadly sins for a reason).

And then there is the sickly feeling that spreads through the supporters the following season. Knowing that this great player, no longer wants to play for your club. Every great goal tarnished slightly.

This is still all speculation of course, But The Footscray Football has had this exact problem multiple times now.


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At least we made a grand final off doing it and got a best and fairest winner and decent trade value compared to what ever essondon did with their draft picks.

 

[RWnBluey]

Whiniest supporters bar none.

Swans supporters: hold my beer.

 

[Norm De Guerre]

Do we have a farm anywhere???

I have a farm. I'll gladly donate a few acres with creek frontage if it'll help.

My God the media are lazy re: Butters

Always the same 4-5 clubs. Collingwood, Hawthorn, Richmond (hilarious) and Essendon (sub for Carlton).

Just genuine clickbait, pin the tail on the donkey garbage.

I think they are talking clubs who they currently think have the required draft capital as pre-text for pulling a story out of their arses. Of course much can change in that regard between now and the trade period.

Having said that. It's pretty sad that 3 games into the season the media vultures are already circling the corpses of clubs that are not yet dead.

 

[Anja_Nees]

Surely if he'd "done a Carey" he would've been traded at the end of last year

The whole thing was odd. Details never really came out but it was to the effect he might have made a move on another player’s ex.

Might have been more to it but if it’s at that level it seems a massive overreaction.

 

[Anja_Nees]

Fritsch is definitely a talent and a good "cream" forward to add to an already good forward line, but a no for me and I just don't see a spot for him in next year's team.

VDM / Naughton / West (or Harmes, McNeil, Kennedy etc resting mid often fwd)
Weightman / Darcy / Marra (or Croft)

You could say Fritsch is an upgrade on VDM, but Vanders is there to run and pressure and play that unforgiving high half fwd role, same with McNeil which Fritsch just would not do and isn't a tackle / pressure fwd we need next to Darcy, Naughton and Marra.

We’re about the last team on the lookout for a sort-of-third-tall-forward.

 

[Smiley Boy]

we have met with Butters

 

[The City Boyz]

The whole thing was odd. Details never really came out but it was to the effect he might have made a move on another player’s ex.

Might have been more to it but if it’s at that level it seems a massive overreaction.

I do remember hearing he was a little notorious for being "overly friendly" with players girlfriends/sisters/wives, and the argument itself was more of an accumulative thing than anything that had actually happened with McInerny's ex

That said, it did seem like more like a Year 11 formal drama than something an elite sporting team should be worrying about

 

[MaxiBont]

we have met with Butters

 

[WAbulldog]

 

[The White Mouse]

Butters will be at the Dogs next year. It's a fait accompli.

It was written in stars at least 2 years ago.