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Giacontigers

Years ago

Melbourne United set to announce 6 signings this week

Bugger, *Progress

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Giacontigers

Years ago

Great signings if true Melbourne so far has 2 deals done with Jack White and Chris Goulding today.

I see Barlow‘s deal being done next week and not surprised if Kuany gets sign with Melbourne. Kuany was training with them when he got cut from the Kings. United told me they were happy with his process.

Fingers crossed with Brandt and Mason Peatling.

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Anonymous

Years ago

If this is true then I can't see the roster looking anything other than

Ili / McCarron / Short (DP)
Goulding / McCarron / Kuany
Import / White / Kuany
Import / Barlow / Peatling (DP)
Brandt / JLA

ideally with the SF being play-making focused to cover Ili's offensive limitations and the PF being an athletic defender

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koberulz

Years ago

Coming from a bloke who didnt know how the salary cap worked....

I know exactly how it works.

Players are assigned a value, and that value is put against the cap. Luxury tax is paid if those values add up to a number over the threshold.

The actual salary is irrelevant, so dodging around it by making under-the-table payments makes absolutely no sense. Not that your theory that LK was doing dodgy deals to avoid paying himself money made any sense to begin with.

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Anonymous

Years ago

2 imports to go sf and pf or cg

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Anonymous

Years ago

Told ya - 3 years offical now.

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Anonymous

Years ago

CG, McCarron, Brandt, Ili, Lual Acuil, Barlow, Kuany, White

Not a bad local group if true

The question of McCarron' s position comes up again.

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Anonymous

Years ago

FMD what a bunch of losers. Nobody cares about your sad internet personas. Talk bball or GTFO.

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koberulz

Years ago

Oh no, you've seen through Larry's dastardly plan to...pay United players instead of giving the money to himself.

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Anonymous

Years ago

Yes boss, smh

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koberulz

Years ago

There isn't even a cap to cheat, WTF are you idiots talking about?

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Anonymous

Years ago

Again just someone with no idea talking rubbish. "United will cheat the cap. Heavily" Pure opinion without any shred of evidence. I might as well say I am CG43's personal assistant. Comes with exactly the same weight and believability as your statement.

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Anonymous

Years ago

$900,000 hahaha school is definitely out

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Anonymous

Years ago

I heard Angus refused to sign with perth as jack bendat slept with his missus.

Jack told me

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Anonymous

Years ago

Why would they get Goulding...
They have Gliddon, Stephens, te Rangi and Gibson.

They need a 1 and a backup 5

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Anonymous

Years ago

Don’t get the Kuany signing, been around and never kept his spot.

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Anonymous

Years ago

This is the physio. Anon is right

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Anonymous

Years ago

This is Gus. Anon is right

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Anonymous

Years ago

Haha D2.0 gets so butt hurt. Typical perf fan

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D2.0

Years ago

D2.0 acting like he's in the know.

You too could be, just use your brain, and read.
The only claims I have made are easily verifiable historical fact.
The only piece that is conjecture is my belief that Perth did not match the offers Brandt was getting elsewhere. So sure, I suppose its possible they offered him more money, more than they would normally pay for 20 minutes, and more than a Dario Hunt, and he still went to Europe.

Agreed. D2.0 more wrong than right

If you need to agree with yourself, you could save time and space and just put it in the same post.

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D2.0

Years ago

Perth fans just getting upset because they think everyone wants to go there . But reality they don’t.

they do on both accounts

So I'm guessing you're the same anonymous that keeps claiming Perth only gets players by paying more, even though your own logic contradicts that.
Perth is an attractive destination, and you can certainly understand why some players with a choice, choose Perth.
But obviously not everyone does. Different players have different goals, and TBH the league is full of good destinations at the moment. Even if you're chasing what Perth normally offers, we're not the only competitive team out there, and if anything the league is looking very open for next season.

They missed all their recruits so far

Well if that's true, lets hope we keep missing.

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Anonymous

Years ago

Agreed. D2.0 more wrong than right

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Anonymous

Years ago

D2.0 acting like he’s in the know.

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Anonymous

Years ago

Love the experts.
Wasn’t salary.
Recruited over.
Ask him.

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LoveBroker

Years ago

Please note that I did not set out to sell Knight or Brandt or any of those guys short.

I purposely left out names like Derek Cooke Jnr and Luke Schensher because of the inevitable response of 'Derek Cooke Jnr / Big Bird should not be in the same sentence as Brandt and Knight'.

Knight and Brandt were dominant at times, but neither were the focus of the team like an Early / Prime Redhage, Lisch, Ennis, Prather, Cotton and Kay (more so in the playoffs where oppositions focus on Cotton) were.

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D2.0

Years ago

Could that be simply they couldn't agree on a salary figure?

Correct

With Kay in great form, and the rotations Trev liked to go with, Even as a starter Brant only averaged around 20 minutes.

He was out of contract, worth more than the Cats were prepared to pay for a 20min player, and he was receiving lucrative offers from around the league and world.
The Cats at that time had an import slot up their sleave, and the reality was that Trev could get an import cheaper than Brandt.

Now I do know that prior to this, Brandt was happy in Perth.
Also there were reports that Trev was still talking to him about a return.
I don't know. Maybe he'd love to play for Trev again, maybe he wouldn't.
I think he would slot in well, but maybe MU just had a better offer. Maybe they want a 25~30 minute starter, and Trev still wants only a 20.

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Anonymous

Years ago

Wouldn't think Pledger is coming back with Brandt and Lual-Acuil on board, not after the role he found himself in last season.

I like the college signees from United. No guarantee either of them (assuming Kuany is the ex-Taipan/King and not the guy at Cal university) becomes a major contributor, but it's a solid gamble, especially with one less import making it maybe a little easier to find minutes.

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Luuuc

Years ago

Selling Brandt short too IMO. He was a legit weapon for us.
Very good get for Melbourne.

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Anonymous

Years ago

Knight was a solid 5 man in that era. Not sure it would work the last few seasons.

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Anonymous

Years ago

is alex pledger returning?

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LoveBroker

Years ago

Brandt left because Trev was going to recruit over him. That's the truth,

Could that be simply they couldn't agree on a salary figure?

It is understandable if Brandt was looking to be paid more. The Wildcats under the Gleeson era have not really needed a dominant Centre, much of the game revolves around Cotton. They were even rock bottom one year on blocked shots.

Their Championship Centres to date were Knight, McKay, Jawai, Brandt, Hunt/Plumlee. So it is clear they don't have Centres at the top of their list, this is not a blight on those I have listed by the way. So if Brandt wanted more, they probably felt they could survive with Hunt.

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Anonymous

Years ago

Brandt left because Trev was going to recruit over him. That’s the truth, you can ask him that yourself. Perth fans just getting upset because they think everyone wants to go there . But reality they don’t. They missed all their recruits so far

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Perthworld

Years ago

The original rumour when Brandt left was that there was a personality clash between him and Gleeson.

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John McNamara

Years ago

Goulding on 3?

Big commitment from both

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D2.0

Years ago

Peatling I believe is a good pickup. Once again great to see young Aussies joining the NBL, plus from the little I have read he's had some good performances in college.

Brandt, s discussed elsewhere, is a valuable commodity in the NBL.
And yeah, I'd say there's every possibility he was unhappy with the way things finished in Perth, and if the offers were otherwise similar that could be a factor. MU are good team, and look like being very competitive next season.

Vicko was pretty honest when discussing Prather, and his inability to last a full season. With two import slots, its a bit of a risk.

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Zodiac

Years ago

I assumed Prather was going to be released after a new poster started hyping him up on here big time last week.

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Anonymous

Years ago

Team Budgets
Highhest to lowest my guess. Please correct.
And who is overacheaving or under performing?

Bendigo
Geelong
Mt Gambier
Knox
Dandenong
Sandringham
Nunawading
NW Tassie
Hobart
Frankston
Albury
Brisbane
Canberra

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