The art of the deal

[qldmagpie67]

Watching open Mike last night he had Andrew Ireland on who we all know w a Collingwood player in the late 70's to 80 and left to take a role in admin in the QAFL.
Mike went into the deals behind landing Lynch at the lions (the first ever mega deal 10yrs @ $180k a year which was unheard of then) to the Tippett deal and finally the Buddy deal.
In each occasion the clubs deficiencies were identified and then who they thought they could land by being creative with long term deals.
Looking at our situation losing 3 experienced players in the past couple days we will enter 2017 light on experience but with a bunch of promising up and comers coupled with a hand full of stars.
Should we be looking to make a couple of these mega deals ourselves ?
There's chatter around that Rance may be shopped around at years end should we be throwing a 8yr deal at a million a year to lure him over and be the corner stone of our defence ?
Should we be looking to a Hogan or Paton or Cameron along the same lines to compliment Moore and have 2 bona fide stars in the forward line or perhaps chase a Jack Reidwoldt who also may become available and give him a 5yr deal on better coin ?
Not saying we could land both or any of these players and yes we would have to give something up most likely a decent player who is in or entering his prime but we do have a abundance of midfielders who might be suitable to other clubs need or maybe we have to give up a player and good draft pick to land say a Rance
For mine it's something we should be exploring to land that marquee player who we can build a area (defence or attack) around and then fit the pieces in around them

[AnthonyC]

I'm not averse to offering a 'mega deal' to an absolute super-star. There just aren't many of them around. A player who is a genuine match winner.

Only Buddy and Danger spring to mind as proven in that category of recent times.

If such a player was available you'd have to seriously think about it.

[inxs88]

Excellent post QLD. We have lacked some daring and sheer audacity unlike the Swans who 2 days after winning the 2012 Grand Final were snaring Tippett despite his QLD returning tendencies. Plus were able to keep the Franklin deal hush hush for 12 months and get their man.

If we thought of the best players to fill current deficiencies as a hypothetical:

Back Pocket: Sam Docherty or Rory Laird (Heath Shaw too )

CHB: Alex Rance or Daniel Talia or Jeremy McGovern

Midfield Speedster: Isaac Smith or Dan Hannebery

FWD crumber: Cyril Rioli

yes these would be ambit bids to some degree but it lets player managers know we have a "war chest available" and if you miss on one you may snare another. Plus despite those players being under contract it may plant a seed that matures later on when available.

[Ev5Magpies]

There's talk of Nat Fyfe in 2018... That being Kane Cornes' opinion which doesn't mean anything... However, it could be a possibility with so much free salary cap space

[jackcass]

Difficult to orchestrate outside of FA unless you gain the capital to satisfy the players original club. These type of players likely to cost 2x 1st round picks and we're just a bit light on for them at the moment without trading out some quality to gain them. Prefer to take the longer term view and build through the draft and work toward gaining a couple of FA's to fill holes when we're pushing top 4.

[RudeBoy]

Assuming Keefe can still play football after missing 2 years (which may well be a big assumption), I actually think we only need one other ready made key position player, so after trading Cloke and Witts we should be in a position to get what we need. Hopefully Broomhead, Sidey and Elliott can give us small forward options, while we wait to develop young Daicos and Brown.

So, if we can maintain a healthy list next year, I think we are not far off having what we need to become a genuine top side very soon.

[Haff]

Are there any decent FA targets this year?

[qldmagpie67]

[RudeBoy]

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[MatthewBoydFanClub]

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[What'sinaname]

We should be offering a 20 year deal at $300,000 a year. That's $6 million for the players last 5 years of playing and the $300,000 per year counts less and less against an ever expanding salary cap. In 20 years time, $300,000 will be less than the rookie rate.