Keep Dal At Saints Campaign
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Re: Keep Dal At Saints Campaign
Keep dal........PLEASE X10000000.
Instead of tearing up membership, keep dal and I'll buy extra memberships.
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Go Saints, Love for Dal
Instead of tearing up membership, keep dal and I'll buy extra memberships.
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Go Saints, Love for Dal
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Re: Keep Dal At Saints Campaign
Dal is the type of player who could easily play very well to his mid 30's. So if he stays he could actually be a significant part of our next period premiership team!
Thus, from a regeneration POV, he's not the most 'important' player to unload and 'get something for'.
With this in mind, he is definitely worth a mid first round pick. If we can't get that, then I say we should keep him. The reported $650K is overs IMHO, however, if it's balanced out by less money in the following years, then that'd be fine, as we'd have the cap space to pay it this year.
(Btw, I'm not worried re the 'he takes a tag thing'. The Dud is so quick he's very hard to tag. And he also has a very neat trick at stoppages. When an enemy tries to block his access to the contest, he doesn't bother wrestling, just slips around and enters the fray from a different point. Through a side door, so to speak.
Watch him next time we play.)
So I'm very happy keep Dal...
Just one big concern though... does Dal really want to stay???
I ask, coz... Compare 2013 to 2012. When Lenny went down, Dal really stood up, increased his inside ball winning (he's always be both an inside and outside mid IMHO), and played his best ever season for us. (Again IMHO.)
So, what was with Dal's BJ-esque cruise-mode last season???
Is Dal's fire still burning???
I want to know the answer to that (and so should everyone else)... before re-signing him!!!
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Thus, from a regeneration POV, he's not the most 'important' player to unload and 'get something for'.
With this in mind, he is definitely worth a mid first round pick. If we can't get that, then I say we should keep him. The reported $650K is overs IMHO, however, if it's balanced out by less money in the following years, then that'd be fine, as we'd have the cap space to pay it this year.
(Btw, I'm not worried re the 'he takes a tag thing'. The Dud is so quick he's very hard to tag. And he also has a very neat trick at stoppages. When an enemy tries to block his access to the contest, he doesn't bother wrestling, just slips around and enters the fray from a different point. Through a side door, so to speak.
![Cool 8-)](./images/smilies/icon_cool.gif)
So I'm very happy keep Dal...
Just one big concern though... does Dal really want to stay???
I ask, coz... Compare 2013 to 2012. When Lenny went down, Dal really stood up, increased his inside ball winning (he's always be both an inside and outside mid IMHO), and played his best ever season for us. (Again IMHO.)
So, what was with Dal's BJ-esque cruise-mode last season???
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Is Dal's fire still burning???
I want to know the answer to that (and so should everyone else)... before re-signing him!!!
![Idea :idea:](./images/smilies/icon_idea.gif)
![Idea :idea:](./images/smilies/icon_idea.gif)
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Re: Keep Dal At Saints Campaign
Snubbed.
*Allegedly.
Bring back Lucky Burgers, and nobody gets hurt.
You can't un-fry things.
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Bring back Lucky Burgers, and nobody gets hurt.
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Re: Keep Dal At Saints Campaign
no point truth is he wanted to go...no point trying to keep someone who didnt want to stay.................heard that 2 weeks ago he was having a lunch with a friend and said he was very happy to be going to roos
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Re: Keep Dal At Saints Campaign
http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/afl ... 6742374828
He said the decision to let Dal Santo go was difficult for everyone involved.
"I'm sure there will be a lot of members who are unhappy to lose a guy of Nick's calibre, who they have supported for a number of years.
"The approach we're taking we like to think is very strategic, very considered.
"We don't deny that members will be upset with some of these decisions, but we like to think we are making the best decisions for the club and that's what we are charged with doing."
He said Riewoldt and Montagna were hit hard by the Dal Santo move.
"I think it's difficult for those guys full stop ... they have a heavy heart as we all do but it's the reality of the business these days."
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Re: Keep Dal At Saints Campaign
A lot of bulldust gets floated around this time of year. Dal wanted out and he's gone. NO cost to his new club, lucky for North they picked a Saints player,otherwise they might have had to deal.saintbrat wrote:http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/afl ... 6742374828
He said the decision to let Dal Santo go was difficult for everyone involved.
"I'm sure there will be a lot of members who are unhappy to lose a guy of Nick's calibre, who they have supported for a number of years.
"The approach we're taking we like to think is very strategic, very considered.
"We don't deny that members will be upset with some of these decisions, but we like to think we are making the best decisions for the club and that's what we are charged with doing."
He said Riewoldt and Montagna were hit hard by the Dal Santo move.
"I think it's difficult for those guys full stop ... they have a heavy heart as we all do but it's the reality of the business these days."
The Saints are under review, will it make any difference to the underachievers ?
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Re: Keep Dal At Saints Campaign
Agree.whiskers3614 wrote:Could have been worse....
Could have gone to Fremantle!
Would've hurt if he went to the Bummers too.
Gunna miss the silky NDS show.
Hurt? YES!
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