#17,#11 Dayne Beams

[doriswilgus]

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[stui magpie]

Beams speaking live from 9:40pm on the Channel 9 show, 'The Trade Table'.

Ta for the heads up. Watched it, very good.

What i really liked is, this is an emotional decision. He wants to come home, both to us and his family in Melbourne. He left to be with his father who was sick, but now he's passed he wanted to come home.

No doubt in my mind he'll improve the team next year

[watt price tully]

Beams speaking live from 9:40pm on the Channel 9 show, 'The Trade Table'.

Ta for the heads up. Watched it, very good.

What i really liked is, this is an emotional decision. He wants to come home, both to us and his family in Melbourne. He left to be with his father who was sick, but now he's passed he wanted to come home.

No doubt in my mind he'll improve the team next year

+ 1. Highly emotional. The Lad came across as quite fragile. Hope he gets his shit together & finds some happiness in his life. There will be an adjustment period. It won't be striaghtforward but good luck to the lad & may he fly like a Magpie

[K]

^ Well, he was highly emotional in the Brissy B&F speech, too.

So...

[David]

[K]

Perhaps not numerology... but sentimentalism? (Surely they did a medical, at least.)

[Pies4shaw]

[Jezza]

https://www.facebook.com/AFLFootyShow/v ... yMDU3MzEy/

5 minute clip of his interview detailing the reasons for wanting to return to Victoria.

[piedys]

The Lad came across as quite fragile. Hope he gets his shit together & finds some happiness in his life. There will be an adjustment period. It won't be striaghtforward but good luck to the lad & may he fly like a Magpie

With a wife and two kids to keep him balanced, you'd think he'd be through the worst of it now. The loss of his father will still play on his mind though, and that's only to be expected.
Happy wife, happy life [now both are back in Melbourne]?

What was the original duration of his contract with Brisbane - 5 years?

[piedys]

[Jezza]

What was the original duration of his contract with Brisbane - 5 years?

Beams was contracted until the end of 2020.

He signed a six-year deal when he was traded in 2014.

[PyreneesPie]

Late in the season, the Beams brothers were interviewed on Fox Footy (I think it was part of the "On The Mark" series). Dayne explained that although playing at the Gabba helped to free up his mind from his grief for a couple of hours, if he kicked a goal at the end where his father used to sit, it would hit doubly hard.

I guess coming back to Melbourne and Collingwood will free him of some of the painful triggers.

[K]

^ I wonder whether the video is available online. It was discussed here at the time. (There is a thread.)

[qldmagpie67]

Ok folks I'm a unashamed Beams fan everyone knows that here because of my relationship with his father and seeing him grow up
There's a couple things I'll now share
It was Collingwood or no one for him in Melbourne simple as that
The process dragged out because the lions tried to get his manager to deal with other clubs they thought they could get a better deal at
Dayne stood his ground and said "I'll honour my contract at the lions if you can't get a deal done with Collingwood"
He's very good mates with Sidey who attended his fathers funeral earlier in the year as did Eddie
I posted after Dayne's dad passed on the gratitude Dayne had for the club and Eddie from the first moment they found out his father was sick
Dayne made a decision at the time based on his love for his father
It's been mentioned before he's been receiving professional help dealing with the loss of his father because footy was the passion that bound them so close
Whenever he thought footy everything good about it involved his dad
I don't know if people realise or not but his father attended all home games at the lions sat in the same seats watching his sons play together
That joy was one he took to his grave
Dayne has said publicly running out at the Gabba each home game is very hard because he looks to where his father used to sit and it reminds him each time his not around any longer
Having 2 small children and no family left in Queensland the move home is a based on life after footy and support for his wife and young family
Dayne won't make anywhere near the same money and he would have staying at the lions
Yes he was handsomely rewarded at the lions but it wasn't as front loaded as the media make it seem
He would have still received around $750k a season for the next 2 years there which is going to be a lot more than he gets at Collingwood
We didn't pay 2 X 1st round picks as such for him as many think
Pick 18 and next years pick which is likley to be 12 or lower less the value of the picks we got back make it around pick 18 and pick 26 when the points differential is taken into account
We got pick 6 and 26 for him and gave up 18 & 26 and added JDG Crisp and Greenwood to our list
The picks 41 & 44 might be the points we need not to go into debt on next years draft
Well it's a done deal now we've added 25-30 tocuhes a game and a goal a game to our already stunning midfield

[qldmagpie67]

He's been told his getting #8