Last year Eade accused Terry of trying to pirate both players and officials.Gilbee was mentioned and so were potential assistants Chris Bond and Leon Cameron, both former Richmond champions.
Gilbee apparently tried pretty hard to get to Richmond but was told he wouldn't be cleared and apparently didn't want to take his chances in the pre season draft,pherhaps b/c Terry wasn't prepared to commit our pre season no1 draft pick because he didn't know whether we could afford it and who else might later become available. :-\
Its worthy of note then that while Terry continues to enjoy the high regard of his old charges, see also Robert Murphy's comments in a recent AGE interview in which he also delivered a fair old broadside to Johnny Howard 8), the same isn't true for Eade who evidently left Sydney having lost the confidence of that playing group.
So the point is... Good for you Terry and there is no reason I can see why you shouldn't now turn up the heat...
I obviously (from earlier recent posts),would love him to use that influence to get Robert Murphy to the club,but he is contracted for another year and I don't think the Dogs would trade even for Johnson, a trade I wouldn't be unhappy with.
However the same level of difficulty wouldn't now exist with either Jordan Mcmahon or Sam Power both of whom I understand are out of contract and who might conceivably get through to us in the pre season draft.
Both are speedy, highly skilled and excellent users of the ball.They are the kind of outside receivers who would fill a role that Tiv has disapointed in this season and imo would compliment our midfield beautifully.By my calculations which admitedly are only guess work, we are going to have some money to spend, IF WE ARE PREPARED TO SACRIFICE OUR OVERALL PERFORMANCE IN 06,AND TRADE A FEW OF OUR OLDER PLAYERS.
In the light of the fact that we are going to apparently take only four d/p then my approach would be to offer the following;
Assuming we finish 12th we would get D/P 8, 24, 40 &56.
I would suggest we might then offer
Chaffey,Tivendale & D/P 56 to Collingwood or Essendon for D/P21 or 23;
Gaspar & Knoble to Carlton for D/P4;
and Krakoeur & D/P40 to North for Harris ... giving us D/P 4, 8, 21or23,24 plus Foley, Harris and Thursfield,
plus say a $300,000/$250,000 on the table offer to either Mcmahon or Power to join us via the pre season draft.
That would certainly get Eade's attention.
Gilbee apparently tried pretty hard to get to Richmond but was told he wouldn't be cleared and apparently didn't want to take his chances in the pre season draft,pherhaps b/c Terry wasn't prepared to commit our pre season no1 draft pick because he didn't know whether we could afford it and who else might later become available. :-\
Its worthy of note then that while Terry continues to enjoy the high regard of his old charges, see also Robert Murphy's comments in a recent AGE interview in which he also delivered a fair old broadside to Johnny Howard 8), the same isn't true for Eade who evidently left Sydney having lost the confidence of that playing group.
So the point is... Good for you Terry and there is no reason I can see why you shouldn't now turn up the heat...
I obviously (from earlier recent posts),would love him to use that influence to get Robert Murphy to the club,but he is contracted for another year and I don't think the Dogs would trade even for Johnson, a trade I wouldn't be unhappy with.
However the same level of difficulty wouldn't now exist with either Jordan Mcmahon or Sam Power both of whom I understand are out of contract and who might conceivably get through to us in the pre season draft.
Both are speedy, highly skilled and excellent users of the ball.They are the kind of outside receivers who would fill a role that Tiv has disapointed in this season and imo would compliment our midfield beautifully.By my calculations which admitedly are only guess work, we are going to have some money to spend, IF WE ARE PREPARED TO SACRIFICE OUR OVERALL PERFORMANCE IN 06,AND TRADE A FEW OF OUR OLDER PLAYERS.
In the light of the fact that we are going to apparently take only four d/p then my approach would be to offer the following;
Assuming we finish 12th we would get D/P 8, 24, 40 &56.
I would suggest we might then offer
Chaffey,Tivendale & D/P 56 to Collingwood or Essendon for D/P21 or 23;
Gaspar & Knoble to Carlton for D/P4;
and Krakoeur & D/P40 to North for Harris ... giving us D/P 4, 8, 21or23,24 plus Foley, Harris and Thursfield,
plus say a $300,000/$250,000 on the table offer to either Mcmahon or Power to join us via the pre season draft.
That would certainly get Eade's attention.
