Tom Boyd requests trade to Western Bulldogs – 2014 AFL Trade and Free Agency period updates

Not to mention the cash his manager is getting and who is about as honest as the contract is as close to Boyd's existing output. And of course almost zero percent to do with intangibles like "having a team built around him".

Which brings me back to the original point I made, the cash he gets in the next couple of years from the bulldogs won't be much more than he got from the Giants, but he is locking in more cash in the later years. If he played with th Giants this year and struggled to get a game behind Cameron and Patton, or played and played badly or got injured his ability to get that big money could be diminished or delayed. He is seeing an opportunity now to get some job security and taking it.

Plus he loves the cash that is being thrown at him.

Given neither of us have met him Dalgety both options could be true or it could just be that as his manager said he hates living in Sydney.

No dice Macca. If his ego was so "healthy" then it wouldn't matter where he played from that score. The fact that he would feel the need to have the conditions tailored for him just so, would indicate a fragility of ego.

Having your hopes repeatedly dashed may not have driven you mad Don but it has made your inane.

Paul D - Gumbleton was a big tall forward who was a very high draft pick and was going to be the next big thing, but for a variety of reasons he never succeeded and his contracts got lower and lower until he was forced into early retirement. There is absolutely no guarantee in football of job security unless you have a contract. Dalgety - I would suggest his decision to go to the bulldogs and have the team "built around him" shows a very healthy ego, I think he has the confidence to say I will go to a club with no other tall forwards and dominate. That attitude is very healthy for a key forward.

You are right about Buckley being a major problem for Collingwood.

I'd hate to be living your life! Denigrating hope? That explains everything about what informs your comments...very sad.

For you, job security is limited to a player’s opportunities at one club. I see job security as only being threatened when a player can’t get picked up at any club. After all, they are AFL footballers, not Carlton footballers, Bulldogs footballers or GWS footballers, etc etc. Someone should have given you the 10 count ages ago in this thread, you’re being smashed on multiple fronts. I notice you’ve dropped that inane Gumbleton line of argument like a hot coal as well.

The cricket is at North Sydney Oval.

Sorry Macca, unusually you may have missed my point. Is that due to laziness, lack of care for team success, or rigidity? Does he not back himself in to be no. 1 no matter what, or at least show a willingness to adapt his game so it fits in to a game plan/team structure that is going to maximise team success. He could go anywhere and, through one circumstance or another find himself competing with others for the no. 1 key forward post, including the Bulldogs. Surely that's what you'd want though. The more the merrier. In fact having a 3 pronged attack that works would almost guarantee you maximum team success.

He's probably been offered the coaches job.

Sometimes the cruelest thing you can do is to give someone hope Don, it can send people mad.

It means he will be "the" key forward at the club for the next decade, the franchise player if you will. It means not having to be worried about being squeezed out like 1 of the 3 at GWs is bound to be. It means the bulldogs will have a foundation stone from which to build. Is it really that difficult a concept?

Great trade period by Hawthorn getting Frawley, as well as a potential jet in O'Rourke, for next to nothing Now, the icing on the cake news that we are going to jettison space junk like Ryan Schoenmakers. If Giles ends up at the vile mass from Windy Hill, it will improve our prospects of a better deal with the Crows. Meaning we could package Schoey, Luke lowden and Kyle Cheney, and try to get their first pick, at 10 Doubtful, that they would be dumb enough to offer pick 10, but, nice to have fantasies :) http://bit.ly/1su68Q8 As for the rest, it seems absurd that Brissy are offering so much for Beams, when their first two picks should be enough. I guess the trade dealings of both Geelong and Collingwood highlights the class of the Cats, and lack of class of the Pies...I just cannot understand why Brissy are allowing themselves to be bullied when they hold all the leverage in the dealings, due to Beams wanting to join them. Then, I cannot understand the lack of respect the Pies has for Beams, sure, they want just compensation, but, the lads Da is ill, and they should factor this into negotiations to make it a speedy transaction. it would be awesome if the Dogs could keep Griffen, and get Boyd, but unlikely- so, a case of who blinks first, if anyone.... Hopefully Paddy Ryder gets to Port as well

I'm with you Franko. Go where you're sent...then move when you can if you haven't fallen in love with your first posting. GWS should have played him more often if they valued him. Some purple people would value him. You don't see people wanting to leave happy clubs.

I'm curious, what exactly does "build a team around me" mean and why would it be such an attractive proposition for him to make so early a career defining decision? Is it that he won't have to evolve much as a footballer because they'll conform to whatever is comfortable to him? Or is it that success isn't as important as him feeling comfortable with the game plan? Or that the club will indulge all his whims and bad habits so he ends up like Fev? Or something else?

Well they can be a bit surer of a game at Carlton.

Meanwhile over at the SCG, this breaking news just in "...................(crickets)...............(tumbleweeds)................(crickets).................."