Im pretty sure he wants to.Moccha wrote:Well then F*** off!GeorgeYoung27 wrote:Greg Denham said on SEN this morning that RL made a new offer to LB in their meeting before the draft deadline, which Ball rejected. That would explain why Ross when he came out and was interviewed he said the contract was now off the table.I still find it strange Ball was offered a 3 yr contract .....though we dont know the content (of course) . Irrelevant now anyway.
It seems the assessment of Ball ( by the Saints ) is that he will never get back to being the player we need for the future . So its bye bye BALL.
The sooner its over and done with the better.......
Dees are desperate to win Ball
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Now, I wonder where Greg Denham got this info from. He seems to be very good friends with a Mr ConnorsGeorgeYoung27 wrote:Greg Denham said on SEN this morning that RL made a new offer to LB in their meeting before the draft deadline, which Ball rejected. That would explain why Ross when he came out and was interviewed he said the contract was now off the table.I still find it strange Ball was offered a 3 yr contract .....though we dont know the content (of course) . Irrelevant now anyway.
It seems the assessment of Ball ( by the Saints ) is that he will never get back to being the player we need for the future . So its bye bye BALL.
The sooner its over and done with the better.......
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new teams in the mix-
anyone basicly
But Richmond and Port
http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,865 ... 11,00.html
has he actually done this...
BUt none are offering to take him first pick.
sad for Luke to come to this.
anyone basicly
But Richmond and Port
http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,865 ... 11,00.html
has he actually done this...
last official word was he was still considering..............Ball - famously taken at pick one ahead of Luke Hodge and Chris Judd in the 2001 national draft - has walked out on the Saints after failing to secure a move to Collingwood in the trade period.
BUt none are offering to take him first pick.
sad for Luke to come to this.
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I get the feeling that what they said in the first instance is most likely to be the truth (that they wouldn't use any of their first 4 picks on him.) I reckon that they might have realised that they let the "cat out of the bag" by saying so, though, which is why they then came out the next day and said they could even use their no.11 pick to get him, which I highly doubt is true. I think that's about as true as them denying "tanking" at all this year.smilk wrote:http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/ ... fault.aspxundecided wrote:Wasn't it just yesterday that they said they were not going to use any of their first four picks to get him.
It would have been music to other club's ears to have heard what they said the first day (especially Collingwood's) and they might have then been thinking they'd do all they could to convince Luke to enter the National Draft. Melbourne probably then realised that they'd "showed their hand" and what they said on the second day was probably "damage control", to try and get those other clubs to lose interest and not convince him to enter the National draft.
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Correct, and Chris Judd went at 3, Graham Polak went at 4, Xavier Clarke went at 5, Ashley Sampi went at 6, David Hale went at 7 and Jimmy Bartel went at 8.Mr Magic wrote:As far as I remember, Hodge went at Pick #1, Ball at #2.
I may be wrong on this one, but I don't think so.
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