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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 12:42 pm
by Piesnchess
MAY-Z wrote:
Boot wrote:So now it is open knowledge that Grundy is being traded to relieve salary cap pressure on Collingwood to Melbourne so that they will be a stronger team and likely to be a real challenger for the flag in 2023 just when Collingwood has hopes of getting to the Grand Final as well. At the same time as Collingwood is looking to recruit Dan McStay on a reported salary of $600K for 5 years, the Club is looking to off-load Grundy's $1,000K salary by paying Melbourne $300K to take him. That equates to maybe a $100K saving for exchange of Grundy for McStay. Collingwood can expect to get maybe Pick 13 from Melbourne in the deal.
I have a couple of alternative ideas that I'm really surprised and disappointed that Collingwood and Graham Wright haven't thought it through;
1. Don't recruit Dan McStay and instead keep Brody Grundy to help in our push to a premiership.
2. Instead of dealing with Melbourne and helping a real competitor for the flag next year be a better team, why not deal with Nth Melbourne who are desperate for some good news and a class ruckman to take over from their aging champion Todd Goldstein. Surely Nth Melbourne would give up their Pick 1 in the Draft for Grundy and not insist that Collingwood pay part of Grundy's salary for the next 5 years?
Come on Wright put the thinking cap on and do the right thing by Collingwood and push the trading of Grundy into the positive side of the ledger!!
Where to start with this

He isn’t being traded to relieve salary cap pressure, he is being traded as he isn’t performing to the level of the contract, so his funds can be better utilised throughout the entire squad

The way his contract is stricter he has a few $1.2m years coming up, so even if we pay $300k and McStay is around $550k that’s still a saving that allows Hill to come in for free salary wise

McStay is coming and will be confirmed today, he enables the team to strengthen at either end of the ground

I don’t think he will strengthen Melbourne that much, as if he is playing ruck and doing well, then Gawn isn’t, and vice-versa.

As Grundy is in contract you can’t trade him without consent so he needs to agree with where he is going, so you can’t just send him to North Melbourne


I TRUST you will feel the same way, IF we play the Deees in a GF, or any big Final, and Grundy is one of their BOG, and leads them to a stirring victory over US, with a club he did NOT even want to go too. ?? Imagine him running around the MCG holding a Premiership Cup, with his new team mates, while our blokes look on shattered and forlorn.

Think bout THAT likely prospect for once, a nightmare scenario that could well ocme true. :o :roll:

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 1:23 pm
by RudeBoy
Sometimes shit happens pnc. :wink:

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 2:30 pm
by Piesnchess
^ Yeh, but WHY is it always US who cops it, time after bloody time. ??

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 2:38 pm
by MAY-Z
Piesnchess wrote:^ Yeh, but WHY is it always US who cops it, time after bloody time. ??
Because we agreed to a stupid contract

If he was being paid what he was worth, around $700k I doubt anyone would be getting rid of him

But you talk about your “likely” scenario, I think it’s far more likely that we run the risk of being lumbered with a player who is stopping us from recruiting or retaining other players because of his massively overpaid contract

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 2:42 pm
by Geek
Piesnchess wrote: I TRUST you will feel the same way, IF we play the Deees in a GF, or any big Final, and Grundy is one of their BOG, and leads them to a stirring victory over US, with a club he did NOT even want to go too. ?? Imagine him running around the MCG holding a Premiership Cup, with his new team mates, while our blokes look on shattered and forlorn.

Think bout THAT likely prospect for once, a nightmare scenario that could well ocme true. :o :roll:
And I TRUST that when we front up to another grand final with a re-purposed VFL full back as our as our only tall forward and someone of the calibre of Tyson Goldsack holding down full back while our midfield gets walked all over by its opposition, you won't have to imagine anything.

You'll just have to remember the last time we went into a grand final with undersized engine room and spine. I'll admit though that Grundy did do well for us that day up against a couple of rucks little better than Cameron/Cox. Oh hang on....

Anyway... Like you said "Think bout THAT likely prospect for once, a nightmare scenario that could well ocme true" because it actually has. We reprised it again against the Cats this year (twice) and the Swans in the prelim roll roll eyeroll roll times infinity roll

And if we're dealing in "what if the scary thing happens", we beat Carlton by 4 points when they lost Weitering mid game. We beat them by a point when they finished off a month long choke kicking 0.6 in the last quarter to go down in the last minute. Can't say that that's too common a series of events. You fancy going into a final against Weitering/McKay/Curnow/Cripps/Walsh/Hewitt/Cerra with our meagre spine and mids? You reckon Grundy can make a difference there? It's nothing for top flight mids to shark a dominant opposition ruck.

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:27 pm
by Pies4shaw
Great rant. It’s going to be funny - in a very limited sense - watching Oliver, Petracca, Bradshaw, Viney etc get first use of the ball all game in every match next season. I suppose we can just hope that internal discord fuelled by May keeps them down again next year, otherwise they’ll be setting clearance records. God help us all if they find a forward who can take a mark.

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:36 pm
by MatthewBoydFanClub
Geek wrote:
Piesnchess wrote: I TRUST you will feel the same way, IF we play the Deees in a GF, or any big Final, and Grundy is one of their BOG, and leads them to a stirring victory over US, with a club he did NOT even want to go too. ?? Imagine him running around the MCG holding a Premiership Cup, with his new team mates, while our blokes look on shattered and forlorn.

Think bout THAT likely prospect for once, a nightmare scenario that could well ocme true. :o :roll:
And I TRUST that when we front up to another grand final with a re-purposed VFL full back as our as our only tall forward and someone of the calibre of Tyson Goldsack holding down full back while our midfield gets walked all over by its opposition, you won't have to imagine anything.

You'll just have to remember the last time we went into a grand final with undersized engine room and spine. I'll admit though that Grundy did do well for us that day up against a couple of rucks little better than Cameron/Cox. Oh hang on....

Anyway... Like you said "Think bout THAT likely prospect for once, a nightmare scenario that could well ocme true" because it actually has. We reprised it again against the Cats this year (twice) and the Swans in the prelim roll roll eyeroll roll times infinity roll

And if we're dealing in "what if the scary thing happens", we beat Carlton by 4 points when they lost Weitering mid game. We beat them by a point when they finished off a month long choke kicking 0.6 in the last quarter to go down in the last minute. Can't say that that's too common a series of events. You fancy going into a final against Weitering/McKay/Curnow/Cripps/Walsh/Hewitt/Cerra with our meagre spine and mids? You reckon Grundy can make a difference there? It's nothing for top flight mids to shark a dominant opposition ruck.
This is exactly why we're chasing Frampton and McStay yet people are complaining here that neither are any good. Then there's people complaining about Bobby Hill, yet the one thing we lack in our forward line is leg speed since Stephenson left. And with our ruck situation there's suggestions we should chase Sam Hayes. Hayes couldn't even get a game at the AFL's worst ruck division with Port Adelaide. The most obvious way of getting a ruckman is through the draft as ruckmen take longer to mature and there's always one or two near the bottom of the draft pool that deserve recruiting. The moral is I'll leave it to the club to decide our wants and needs. They seem to know what they're doing.

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:42 pm
by Pies4shaw
^ Where’s the evidence of that? The Coach knows how to do the coaching job but our recruiting and drafting has been, for the most part, shitful. It may be better this year but I’m inclined to wait and see.

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:49 pm
by Geek
It needed to be said, P4S and I thought it fitting to write it in the style of the poster I was responding to. (Hugs to PnC) For all the possible whatabouts with Reg leaving, there are plenty of yeahbutremembers with Reg staying.

He's a good player. We are probably better with him in our 22, unless we can use his list spot and TPP payments on fixing areas of greater need. I'll admit that at this stage of the player merry-go-round, it doesn't look like we would be able to get anyone that will raise us up by too much and that we are possibly best holding on to the big fella for another year but there's still a fair bit of trade week to play out.

As you mentioned, our opponents have some top shelf CS midfielders. My count, with Pendles in decline, is that we have 1 in DeGoey and I believe that you think that's being a bit generous. Sure could do with some beefing up there

Yes. God help us if they find a forward that can take a mark. Putting Grundy on their books all but guarantees that won't happen as they won't be able to afford one. Not unless Van Rooyen takes off in the next few years. Meanwhile, we could do with one of those tall forwards who can take a mark/kick straight/finish games etc. We'll be in a far better place to bid on such a player with some cap space freed up.

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:50 pm
by MatthewBoydFanClub
Pies4shaw wrote:^ Where’s the evidence of that? The Coach knows how to do the coaching job but our recruiting and drafting has been, for the most part, shitful. It may be better this year but I’m inclined to wait and see.
It was shitful under Nathan Buckley. There's nothing that Wrighty has done so far that would suggest he doesn't know what he's doing. The jury is still out on Kreuger and Charlie Dean who were both injured this year. Lipinski has been a revelation for someone we got on the cheap (potentially another Crisp).

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:59 pm
by MatthewBoydFanClub
Geek wrote:It needed to be said, P4S and I thought it fitting to write it in the style of the poster I was responding to. (Hugs to PnC) For all the possible whatabouts with Reg leaving, there are plenty of yeahbutremembers with Reg staying.

He's a good player. We are probably better with him in our 22, unless we can use his list spot and TPP payments on fixing areas of greater need. I'll admit that at this stage of the player merry-go-round, it doesn't look like we would be able to get anyone that will raise us up by too much and that we are possibly best holding on to the big fella for another year but there's still a fair bit of trade week to play out.

As you mentioned, our opponents have some top shelf CS midfielders. My count, with Pendles in decline, is that we have 1 in DeGoey and I believe that you think that's being a bit generous. Sure could do with some beefing up there

Yes. God help us if they find a forward that can take a mark. Putting Grundy on their books all but guarantees that won't happen as they won't be able to afford one. Not unless Van Rooyen takes off in the next few years. Meanwhile, we could do with one of those tall forwards who can take a mark/kick straight/finish games etc. We'll be in a far better place to bid on such a player with some cap space freed up.
I'll be honest and say I'd prefer we got Taranto. However he chose Richmond. What do you expect us to do? If they don't want to come to Collingwood there's not much you can do. The annoying thing is Steve May wanted to come to Collingwood and we only had money for either May or Beams and we chose Beams to return to the club. It's those decisions that kill your premiership chances, not the ones where you'd like to recruit a Tom Lynch, but he's too expensive and doesn't want to come, so you aim for a Daniel McStay instead.

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:06 pm
by Pies4shaw
MatthewBoydFanClub wrote:
Pies4shaw wrote:^ Where’s the evidence of that? The Coach knows how to do the coaching job but our recruiting and drafting has been, for the most part, shitful. It may be better this year but I’m inclined to wait and see.
It was shitful under Nathan Buckley. There's nothing that Wrighty has done so far that would suggest he doesn't know what he's doing. The jury is still out on Kreuger and Charlie Dean who were both injured this year. Lipinski has been a revelation for someone we got on the cheap (potentially another Crisp).
I guess that’s you agreeing with me. Wright hasn’t done anything that establishes a track record, yet, either way. It’s certainly true that there’s nothing he’s done so far that would suggest he doesn’t know what he’s doing - but that isn’t the pass mark, of course.

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:13 pm
by Geek
MatthewBoydFanClub wrote: This is exactly why we're chasing Frampton and McStay yet people are complaining here that neither are any good. Then there's people complaining about Bobby Hill, yet the one thing we lack in our forward line is leg speed since Stephenson left. And with our ruck situation there's suggestions we should chase Sam Hayes. Hayes couldn't even get a game at the AFL's worst ruck division with Port Adelaide. The most obvious way of getting a ruckman is through the draft as ruckmen take longer to mature and there's always one or two near the bottom of the draft pool that deserve recruiting. The moral is I'll leave it to the club to decide our wants and needs. They seem to know what they're doing.
Sam Hayes goes alright.

https://www.theinnersanctum.com.au/afte ... e-in-2022/

Gotta say that looking at that photo, it would be nice to have a 205cm ruckman that can get up that high. I know that it's only cosmetic without good craft but still it would be refreshing to see.

DID an ACL in his first year (2018) and didn't break through in his 2nd year. Covid wiped out the SANFL in 2020. Won the club reserves B&F in his 4th year (2021) as a ruckman. Turned 23 this year so still has upside and won't cost much to pick up or keep.

Played 7 games this year, averaging 5th in the AFL for hitouts to advantage with 9.3 per game (Grundy 6th with 9.2). Averaged 6th for total hitouts with 29.3 (Grundy 5th with 30.3). Doesn't get anything like the same number of possessions, clearances or tackles that Reg does though and frankly, doesn't look like he ever will. He's a big unit and few have the endurance that Reg consistently displays.

Wouldn't be a bad pickup if Reg was leaving

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:29 pm
by Geek
MatthewBoydFanClub wrote:
Geek wrote:It needed to be said, P4S and I thought it fitting to write it in the style of the poster I was responding to. (Hugs to PnC) For all the possible whatabouts with Reg leaving, there are plenty of yeahbutremembers with Reg staying.

He's a good player. We are probably better with him in our 22, unless we can use his list spot and TPP payments on fixing areas of greater need. I'll admit that at this stage of the player merry-go-round, it doesn't look like we would be able to get anyone that will raise us up by too much and that we are possibly best holding on to the big fella for another year but there's still a fair bit of trade week to play out.

As you mentioned, our opponents have some top shelf CS midfielders. My count, with Pendles in decline, is that we have 1 in DeGoey and I believe that you think that's being a bit generous. Sure could do with some beefing up there

Yes. God help us if they find a forward that can take a mark. Putting Grundy on their books all but guarantees that won't happen as they won't be able to afford one. Not unless Van Rooyen takes off in the next few years. Meanwhile, we could do with one of those tall forwards who can take a mark/kick straight/finish games etc. We'll be in a far better place to bid on such a player with some cap space freed up.
I'll be honest and say I'd prefer we got Taranto. However he chose Richmond. What do you expect us to do? If they don't want to come to Collingwood there's not much you can do. The annoying thing is Steve May wanted to come to Collingwood and we only had money for either May or Beams and we chose Beams to return to the club. It's those decisions that kill your premiership chances, not the ones where you'd like to recruit a Tom Lynch, but he's too expensive and doesn't want to come, so you aim for a Daniel McStay instead.
I believe I said that we may as well hold on to Reg for another year. With the players we need more than Reg no longer available, it makes sense for us to hold on to him until the next trade period. There will be more options then

5 million for 5 years will turn off a lot of suitors. 4 million for 4 years is still ugly but perhaps a bit easier to sell. 3 million for 3 years is getting into "trade him in for 4 years at 3.3million" territory and we might get a few more bites. Dumping 100k or so might help.

Ideally, we are taking every spare penny we have in our TPP and using to bash down the value of that contract. Whether he stays or goes, the way the game is going, ruckmen just aren't that important at the top level right now. We are spending too much on the ruck.

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 5:25 pm
by stui magpie
Like it or not, I don't think Grundy will stay.

He wanted to but I believe he was (rightfully) pissed off at being told to explore his options. If he's reconciled with himself that he's going to Melbourne, it's too late for the club to do an about face.

We've been strategically softened up for this for months.