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hopper said:
Condense trade week to two hours, televise it at 7.30pm on a Friday night.
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Andrew O'Keefe to host it. 20 gold briefcases held by 20 hot blondes in gold skimpy dresses, each with a player's name in it. Each footy manager comes up and takes a briefcase. Other footy managers make bids fot that footy manager's briefcase. if not accepted the footy manager has to look down the barrell of the camera and say "No Deal" and have his arms crossed in the shape of an 'X' like a twat.
 
If anything it needs to be extended.

I say an EPL style transfer window of say a month. That way clubs have longer to work out a deal, players have more time to work out whether they want a trade and where, and the media speculation and rumors wouldn't be as concentrated if it were to be over a month.
 
I'd love to see a live televised 6 hour mid season trading window.
 
skiptomystu said:
If anything it needs to be extended.

I say an EPL style transfer window of say a month. That way clubs have longer to work out a deal, players have more time to work out whether they want a trade and where, and the media speculation and rumors wouldn't be as concentrated if it were to be over a month.
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Thats what I think too.

It will stop all this media *smile* and fans hanging onto every slight update.

The Monday after the Grand final, the window opens, during Draft Camp talks can take place, blah blah *smile*, then it ends on a deadline day.

Less pressure, more time for deals, less media and fan focus. I like that trading can be done in the NBA during the draft. Makes a lot of sense too, if someone you didn't quite want was available and another club calls and say, you pick him up and we'll give you player X for him and our later draft pick....

So have Trade Period during all that too...
 
The problem is, clubs have very little to trade.

Anyone who has been a regular in the 22 is usually parcelled up, with the occasional exception that slips through like Ryan O'Keeffe. At the end of the day, he will probably sign up with Sydney anyway.

That leaves fringe players and most clubs are trying to trade them for early picks, which are also parcelled up. This is the wrong philosophy because they are all trying to screw each other over, when they should be co-operating to get a win-win.

None of the clubs treat the period the way it was intended, which is to provide an opportunity to swap excess players for something that they need. Everyone wants more picks but they should be looking at player-player trades, and not just offering up the last four players on their list, who they will delist next week anyway . Clubs should be looking to give up a regular best-22 player to get someone they really need, like a ruckman or a CHB or whatever. It will fix the problem and create space for a younger player to come up and replace the player moved on.

Of course, the salary cap doesn't help.
 
skiptomystu said:
If anything it needs to be extended.

I say an EPL style transfer window of say a month. That way clubs have longer to work out a deal, players have more time to work out whether they want a trade and where, and the media speculation and rumors wouldn't be as concentrated if it were to be over a month.
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I'd prefer our game didn't end up anything like the EPL. Thier trade scenario is entirely about how the Big 4 can scoop up the cream and how the rest are left squabbling for the scraps from the big boys' table.

Viva la salary cap, I say.

And I think the 2hr Fri Night Trade Extravaganza should be hosted by Jen Hawkins with live crosses to Megan Gale in a bikini interviewing traded and potentially traded players. The draft camp could be the next Fri night, hosted by Jules Lund where players are put through gruelling "Hole in the Wall" style challenges, made to play "Operation" to test fine motor skills and psyche testing is simply how long they can spend in a room with Stephen Milne without clubbing him to death. The Draft itself would then be the following Fri night - a phone-in poll Oz Idol style where the fans choose who they're club drafts on a 1-800 line, based only on seeing them complete Lou's Handball comp with an inserted commentary in the corner of The Craw giving a dud rating out of 100. Thus, we speed up and clean up the whole process and save ourselves a bucketload of cash on recruiting staff. And by the time all this happened it would almost be time for the pre-season comp to start.

:)
 
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