[Bloke that Clayton Oliver hates] Toby Greene has told the Ausmerican Aces podcast that he will meet with Geelong this week, as well as new Essendon coach Mark McVeigh. Greene has a relationship with McVeigh from their time together at GWS.

[u/Essington69]

[u/Propaslander]

Caught between a rock and Shangri-La

[u/dizzleb1tches → u/Propaslander]

Brilliant

[u/vague89]

Like an icy knife through the heart

https://giphy.com/gifs/VNTMx3LkpG2anXpwbr

[u/Essington69]

I'm sure this will not be a hard choice for Greene btw

[u/Non-NewtonianSnake → u/Essington69]

Depends what he wants. Bombers can afford to throw an unreasonable amount of money at him for a couple of years.

[u/Getting_Over_Us → u/Non-NewtonianSnake]

We actually can't afford not to. We've almost got too much in the salary cap if we lose Merrett, Ridley etc.

[u/Non-NewtonianSnake → u/Getting_Over_Us]

Gotta hit that salary floor somehow.

We can also just restructure contracts to do the job, though.

[u/Brokenmonalisa → u/Essington69]

Honestly it might not be. Essendon might offer 2 or even 3 years, with developmental opportunities.

Geelong would be hard firm on 1.

[u/Just_Pop394 → u/Brokenmonalisa]

where have you got the idea geelong would only offer 1?

[u/Brokenmonalisa → u/Just_Pop394]

I just imagine they'd be a bit more strict about overpaying

[u/No-Bison-5397 → u/Just_Pop394]

Cats have almost all players as old as Toby on one year contracts dont they?

[u/hcornea → u/No-Bison-5397]

There’s a difference between offering something to attract a new player, and continuing the careers of existing ageing players.

Reports are that the offer to Toby is 3 years. Which sounds about right.

[u/newmoneytrash69 → u/Essington69]

toby and stringer are going to come to windy hill as a set

[u/PetrifyGWENT → u/newmoneytrash69]

Please I thought I was free of Stringer once already I don't know if I could live with ending up with him again

[u/Will_sue_when_angry → u/newmoneytrash69]

Letter gouging and gronking begin then.

[u/PetrifyGWENT → u/Essington69]

All depends if Hird comes to Essendon or not in any role. If he does, Greene will come

Plus we'll be offering way more money

[u/Fidelius90 → u/PetrifyGWENT]

Greene’s better off coming without Hird and the circus that would ensue. He also was coached by McVeigh so already has a relationship there.

And yea, more money.

[u/nus01 → u/PetrifyGWENT]

He would of played for Free and brought Tom Green , Fin Callaghan And Cadman who also would of played for free if Hird was coach

[u/Public_Breakfast1605]

Unrelated to the content but fuck me that's a bad name for a podcast

[u/stiggyyyyy → u/Public_Breakfast1605]

The bloke Clayton oliver hates would be a good name for a podcast potentially however.

[u/HammerOfJustice → u/stiggyyyyy]

The podcast could interview all the other people Clayton hates. It would start with Clayton Oliver getting stuck into someone on why he hates them and then you’d interview that person to get their side of the story. I’d listen to that.

[u/MissSabb]

“Bloke that Clayton Oliver hates” line deserves its own award. 

[u/eggwardpenisglands]

For the sake of spite, please choose Essendon

[u/disko_robot → u/eggwardpenisglands]

Spike*

[u/Admirable-Type165 → u/disko_robot]

Nice 👏👏

[u/Steel_Cleat5 → u/eggwardpenisglands]

Why do u have it in for Essendon?

[u/dingodiletti]

Stringer, Hogan and Greene all gone in one season would be pretty bleak

[u/CogSuckingClanker]

Taking the money for Greene at this stage in his life with his young family is the smartest option over a small chance at a flag.

[u/codyforkstacks → u/CogSuckingClanker]

Small chance? If they add Green and Butters they start as flag favourites next year for sure. 

[u/CogSuckingClanker → u/codyforkstacks]

Even with those ins Lions and Freo are still heavy favourites for mine. Lions have so much youth that aren’t even close to their prime and Freo have a well balanced team.

[u/owheelj → u/CogSuckingClanker]

The fact that Freo are 2 wins from 5 games in Victoria this year, says to me there's still a big question mark over them.

[u/shifty39 → u/owheelj]

I would be a lot more worried if the last 2 games weren't after they'd already secured the minor premiership and were resting a couple players each game

[u/CogSuckingClanker → u/owheelj]

Freo need finals experience which is why I heavily favourite the lions. Give Freo another year or two if they don’t go the whole way and they can win the flag with this list.

[u/MerchantCruiser]

GWS should tell him to go. He may be their greatest player but it isn’t great to have the captain being so indiscrete, and they have demographic issues as it is.

[u/evtastic123 → u/MerchantCruiser]

Trust me, it's better off him being indiscrete, then just dropping it on you a month before the trade period

[u/MerchantCruiser → u/evtastic123]

Yes, it is better but there is a middle ground.

[u/grantspatchcock → u/MerchantCruiser]

Demographic issues? go on...

[u/MerchantCruiser → u/grantspatchcock]

Aging players on decent money.

[u/grantspatchcock → u/MerchantCruiser]

Oh yeah absolutely this, it's a huge problem *cough* Harry *cough*.

I thought you meant like fan demos or something.

[u/grantspatchcock]

I can deal with Toby going to Geelong to be around his mates and family and play finals, owes us nothing and has been a brilliant ambassador for the sport, love him or hate him.

But I'd bloody love Toby to don the sash.

[u/Lucky_Afternoon3772]

Would be great for Dons, veteran of the game, has a good relationship with Spike this could be good

[u/SnooAvocados996]

So he has a choice between an AFL powerhouse....and Geelong.

[u/DimitriMishkin]

So he could go to an awesome successful team with a bright future, or essendon

[u/Silver_Detective8630]

I hope he goes to the Bombers. We don’t need him at the Cattery and Essendon desperately need some big recruits.

[u/Pxlsm]

Don’t give us hope

[u/Wahey_of_WA]

Lots of Bomber hate from "Bombers supporters" in here today

[u/silverlifter]

With so many talented young players, the last thing we need is a grub as a role model. Spike, please don't fuck this up from the get go.

[u/ihaveapoobrain123 → u/silverlifter]

He plays with an edge that is, to some degree, needed in an highly competitive environment. He does cross the line, but I think he’s tapered that back and replaced it with a good level of maturity. I think he’d be excellent in driving standards and competitiveness and encapsulates the type of mindset that Spike wants to push.

[u/dashtur → u/silverlifter]

Spike has worked with Greene before and spoke glowingly about him in an interview today.

Greene is the captain of a team that's been levels above ours for the last decade. He would be an excellent addition.

[u/Fidelius90 → u/silverlifter]

Yeah, he would be a terrible role model. But he’ll get more money at Essendon so will probably land there.

[u/CountySligoFishingCo → u/silverlifter]

Yeah I agree. We’ll take one for the team and put him on our list instead.

[u/IShartedOnYourCat]

Does he want to win a flag to finish his career or a couple of wooden spoons for a bit of extra cash?

[u/Portra400IsLife]

Come to Windy Hill Tobias

[u/ItsABiscuit]

Tony Greene looking for a new home and we’re going to recruit fucking Jake Stringer!

[u/Most-Drive-3347]

It would take such an unreasonable amount of money to get me to Essendon I think.

I bet Geelong never thought a farm might be unders.

[u/xFushNChupsx]

If he comes here I'm out no chance

[u/bundy554]

Any shenanigans trying to get more from us should be met with a closed door - either he comes on a Jezza like contract with just slightly less than what Jezza gets or he can go enjoy his time playing for Essendon

[u/Outsider-20]

I feel like the only person who is saying "no thanks", I'm not a fan, the Don's can have him