Dons’ delicate Daniher dance

“No, we don’t owe anyone anything, mate, they’re professional footballers with contracts.” Those words were spoken by a list manager involved in the Joe Daniher non-trade. And if you didn’t know better, you might assume they were spoken by maligned Essendon negotiator Adrian Dodoro, but, in fact, it was Sydney’s Kinnear Beatson who uttered them. It’s an interesting insight into the attitude at one of the league’s most successful clubs, and it doesn’t take too much reading between the lines to think...

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