Conversely,consider the fate of Carlton without Charlie Curnow? Paradise lost or postponed,perhaps? Look at what happened to GWS when Cameron left.
It would have cost Geelong clearly more than a million dollars a season,for at least six years,to land Curnow,who’d played for Geelong College and the Geelong Falcons and almost certainly would have been drafted by the Cats in 2015 had they retained their first draft pick (which was traded for Patrick Dangerfield).
The Blues don’t think Curnow ever wanted to go,but they still acted promptly once the younger brother had demonstrated that he’d retained his jack-in-the-box spring,speed and touch last year. It also cannot have hurt them to have his older brother,aged 33,on the list.