AFLW - Bombers poaching Velcro - Maddy P and Georgia G set to flee

[LP]

Maybe the primary school girl would think that the AFLW isn't just window dressing any more and clubs are fighting to attract the best talent.

Carlton did attract them, but they didn't stay!

I wouldn't say I'd go as far to piss on them but the old saying applies, "If it's got a sash have a slash!"

[DJC]

Isn't the point of bring a marquee player is that part of your payment is outside the cap?

I probably didn't use "marquee player" in the context that it applies to AFLW players with payments outside the cap.  In that context, I think that Prespakis would be a marquee player and Gee would be highly paid but not with additional, outside the cap payments.

[DJC]

Do you reckon Prespakis set Greg up, Kruddler mentioned Greg is not the sharpest tool in the shed?

In my opinion, losing Greg is almost worse than losing Prespakis and Gee.

But I understand completely if Greg goes, Carlton people cannot recover from singing the CheatsFC song in public, it's a level of disrespect worse than blasphemy or treason. I think acts like this are what the old fashioned stocks are designed to remedy. She almost have to hand deliver Carlton a flag to make up for it!

I'm not fussed about Greg going; too many 'deer in the headlights' moments where she got pinged for holding the ball.  Her best may have been very good but she is far too inconsistent.

Many AFLW players seem to have a more relaxed attitude to club loyalty and disdain for the opposition but, allegedly celebrating the poaching of teammates by a rival club may be going just a little too far.

[kruddler]

Isn't the point of bring a marquee player is that part of your payment is outside the cap?

I think there is a limit on how much they can be paid, so its basically the salary cap + marquee bonus = new salary cap. You can't go over either.
The thing about being a marquee player though is you are more likely to get sponsors and what not, and THAT is where the money is.....and also where the rorting happens, ala Judd and Visy, Geelong and property etc.

[tonyo]

Now looks like Nicola Stevens may go to Saints

[kruddler]

Bonnie Toogood is also going to the bombers.
1 mid - prespakis
1 key forward - toogood
1 mid/fwd - gee

Fill in the gaps around that.

[Gointocarlton]

Hawks fishing around Moody apparently.

[kruddler]

Hawks fishing around Moody apparently.

If we lose Moody, Prespakis, Gee, Stevens and Egan, we may as well sell of the rest of the list while we are at it.

Moody, Prespakis, Gee and Egan was our starting midfield at the start of the year before we got Hill back.
F*** me.

[Gointocarlton]

If we lose Moody, Prespakis, Gee, Stevens and Egan, we may as well sell of the rest of the list while we are at it.

Moody, Prespakis, Gee and Egan was our starting midfield at the start of the year before we got Hill back.
F*** me.

The AFLW is an absolute pillage fest, nothing anyone can do about it as that's how it's been set up. You reckon loyalty is gone in the mens game, in Never existed in AFLW. It will only settle once all the teams are in and well established, until then there will be bodies everywhere.

[Lods]

It will only settle once all the teams are in and well established, until then there will be bodies everywhere.

That's true...which is why we shouldn't let the movement get us down too much.

Give it five years and we may have a stable team we can start to get behind and get a bit emotional about.
Sadly many of those few players who have stuck with the team probably won't be around to see that.