Get your 14-day free trial & start streaming instantly >. 3,922 1,342 9. “Any prospective person or any recruiter looking for a key forward – and there’s a lot of clubs looking for a player than can play like Joe Daniher – they’re all of sudden thinking: ‘Wow, this guy’s back. So I think he just put his name up in lights again (on Thursday night),” Watson said. The Lions went through a similar experience with an exodus of players several years ago but are now in a preliminary final and the destination club of choice for an Essendon player. Today's Age is reporting that Joe Daniher has been offered and is likely to accept a three year contract from the Bomber at $2M for three years.
The Bombers refused to trade Daniher last season because they did not believe they could replace him in the short-term and his departure would have had too big of an effect on their chances in 2020. When asked if Daniher would play in 2020, Worsfold said: "I can't answer that question. The base salary of Brisbane’s offer is expected to be around $650,000. Stang5. Joe Daniher has nominated Brisbane as his preferred club for 2021. It might be that he thinks: ‘Oh well, Essendon is as good a home as there is for the next couple of years.”, But, as Watson pointed out, the Bombers now might have stiffer competition to retain him, telling SEN: “I reckon Sydney may have been just as excited as every Essendon fan over what they saw.”. “Whether you’re one of those people that say ‘let’s just wait and see him get through three more games’ … I agree with all that and I think there’s absolute merit in what you’re saying. Peter Ryan is a sports reporter with The Age covering AFL, horse racing and other sports. So the first question Essendon have to ask themselves honestly is: do we have a problem here? Essendon have several important questions that must be answered, after two of their best players announced they want to leave the club in as many days.

A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our network and other sites. “But to be an opposition team you’ve probably got to offer him four years to drag him away, which is a massive risk for a team on his body. And all clubs interested in Daniher, including Essendon, should show patience as well. As a restricted free agent the Bombers could also match any offer a rival club made in an attempt to force a trade, or Daniher, who is said to be in good spirits despite slow progress on the injury front, could choose to extend his time with Essendon. The Bombers match Brisbane's contract terms and force the Lions into trading for Daniher. Then there was Daniher’s subtle statement of loyalty to the club after the win over Hawthorn.

Maybe three other clubs will enter in, I don’t know, but … what do you pitch and when do you start the pitch? Carlton would respond by saying we will walk him through the pre-season draft. Worsfold said having captain Dyson Heppell and Conor McKenna available for round two was not certain. “It’s going to go into meltdown and frenzy. No matter which decision he makes, someone – and some club – is going to be taking a risk. “When it’s that as a question, that makes it a more difficult scenario to play out to try and avert when you’re Essendon, because bow do you give him what he wants, if it’s anonymity, and still maintain him as a player on your list? Pick eight is better than those two picks combined. Ralph added that Daniher’s recent decision to split his time between the club and country town Daylesford was paying dividends, saying the key forward “just seems to have been at peace with himself”. Joe Daniher has been plagued by injuries in recent years. McKenna is in two-week quarantine having just returned from Ireland, while Heppell had an infection in his foot after he had screws removed in February. Essendon's immediate answer will no doubt be denial; to say this is not the case, that the players are fine.

"If we step him up to a certain level, and that level he is not coping with, we have to come back to the previous level and strengthen him more in that area and then we go again. That’s right, (but) last night changes things, whether they like it or not.

I imagine if we are 100k off with Saad etc, we can find the extra in Joe's salary going off our books etc Also if we need to get a replacement short term for Joe, we need time to find one.