"It’s a disgrace that we accept this" - Tim Watson is FURIOUS at Alix Tauru touring Gold Coast (15.09.26)
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What’s happening in the AFL preliminary finals this week?
Breakfast with Gary and Tim. The Good Oil for Cobram Estate, Australia's most awarded extra virgin olive oil, grown, harvested and first cold-pressed in northern Victoria.
Uh it's a great week. It is a great week of the footy year, the preliminary final week, and we've got two great preliminary finals. Uh Friday night at the SCG sellout already. So the Swans take on the Fremantle Dockers, and then on Saturday at about five, not about five fifteen at the Mighty Home of Football, Hawthorne take on Brisbane, who are attempting to do something that very, very few. few clubs have done and that is win three premierships on the bounce, having also lost. So for the fourth year in a row, they're going deep, deep, deep into another uh final series, which is quite extraordinary.
It is it is. Let's uh begin our discussion though with um the proposal that was put on up last night by Tom Morris. He's been talking about the fact that there's a deal effectively um that hasn't been ticked off by the AFL yet.
Let me just backtrack a little bit. So AFL um Are acutely aware of these potential backroom deals, and John Ralph's written this story in the Herald Sun. The AFL will officially warn clubs about the penalties for collusion and secretly linked trade deals as Port Adelaide and the Western Bulldogs start haggling over a complex agreement. Excuse me. For Zach Butters, he goes on to quote Swannee. Um he said that any deals need Swanney says any deal need to have fair value or they will be rejected by the AFL. And that they've sent letters to the clubs to that um alluding to that.
Okay, so their judgment on a fair deal will be subjective. Exactly. So okay, I'll put this to you because this is the deal that uh supposedly is in discussion at the moment between Port Adelaide and the Western Bulldogs. The Port Adelaide for Zach Butters, they take the compensation pick, which would be pick five, but they also do a deal They don't match the bid. No, they don't match the bid. So they get their pick five, they get the compensation pick. And so therefore they do another deal, which you'd have to say is associated with this deal, and that is they trade Marshall, who has an existing contract at Port Adelaide. Todd Marshall. Sorry, Todd Marshall for a a pick twelve and a future first round pick, which they don't know where that future per first round pick might land either, by the way.
How do the proposed Port Adelaide‑Western Bulldogs trade details compare to past deals?
So it may be that Uh the Bulldogs uh go particularly well. It's next year's pick, they win the grand final and so it would be a late first round pick. That's right. So effectively the So if they if they lined up, if they lined up with pick twelve and say, let's just they don't win the flag, they finish in the top four, let's say it's pick sixteen. Sixteen and twelve for Marshall. Do you think if anybody at the AFL sitting down, do you think that they would give that a tick? No deal. No deal why.
Todd Marshall's not worth two first round picks. He's hardly been on the park. He's hardly been on the park for the last two years. And when he has been, he's been average.
So would you say, would Gary Lyons say, not the AFL, would you say that that's collusion? Yep. Yeah. And that's the manipulation of the deal. Yeah. So in the end And therefore you say it couldn't go ahead.
No, that's right. So back you go. Back you go to the drawing board and come back with a better deal or a more um equitable deal. That and again, can I just say this off the top? My head spins in this. I I'm not good in this area, but on the surface of that's
all you need for. Port
Adelaide are getting pick five, pick twelve, and a future first round pick. And they send Zach Butters and Todd Marshall to the Western Board.
Yeah.
Oh, Western Bulldogs. So Petrarca, for instance, Petrarca who went l this time last year
Is Todd Marshall worth two first‑round picks in the current market?
He went for pick seven, pick eight. And their future pick, which turns out given they had a crappy year, to be pick six. So he goes f he's nearly thirty. So I don't know. It I I y anyway, Todd Marshall's not worth touching first round picks, did you
not every deal that's ever been done, do you and I or the rest of the football world agree that it was a fair deal or a right and proper deal.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What’s happening in the AFL preliminary finals this week?
0:00–2:26
2
How do the proposed Port Adelaide‑Western Bulldogs trade details compare to past deals?
2:26–3:54
3
Is Todd Marshall worth two first‑round picks in the current market?
3:54–5:35
4
What are the AFL’s rules on collusion and secret trade agreements?
5:35–7:11
5
Why is Alix Tauru’s Gold Coast tour considered a breach of contract?
7:11–9:29
6
What rule changes could stop clubs from touring contracted players?
9:29–10:47
7
How do these trade controversies affect fans’ hopes for their clubs?
10:47–13:06
8
What are the hosts’ final takeaways on AFL trade integrity and enforcement?
13:06–14:15