Cry babies GFC 2 premierships in 4 years, success, stadium development, one town team, financial stability,

indivdual accolades, all the plaudits they have had it all won it all. In fact Ablett's leaving is akin to:

You saw him spit in my face!

Ohh! What wouldn't I give to be spat at in the face! I sometimes hang

awake at night dreaming of being spat at in the face.

Let Gold Coast have their time in the sun. They will be crying poor in 2-3 years time when Collingwood, Carlton and Essendon open their chequebooks to the likes of Josh Toy, while West Coast and Freo do the same for Swallow and Matera.

Gold Coast is not the only AFL team that wants to buy a premiership, and by 2013 they will not have the benefit of an extra $1m in their salary cap.

Very hard to begrudge Ablett when he has given so much to Geelong and was faced with such an enormous amount of money. Plus, unlike some greedy turncoats, at least he was honest about the money being a big factor in his decision making.

None of us would turn down that sort of money.

Sad day for football.

The real sad day for football happened 46 years ago when $'s and football first intermingled and Ron Barassi walked out on Melbourne to take on a captain coaching role at Carlton. Most young kids who supported the Demons (including me) simply couldn't understand what was happening. I now respect the decision but to this day consider it an unmitigated disaster for the club and it's supporters. RDB did the right thing or himself but the MFC never really recovered. For Geelong's sake I hope the Cats can do a little better than did the Demons.