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Jones has passion and love for our club and our team and his first paragraph sums it all up. Hope he can keep improving and win a flag with us. I recon he would be one of the happiest.

We need to cherish all our players who would die for this club, period. Noone else wants a piece of us!

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    Do any of you speculators have any evidence that:

    (a) Nathan Jones considered not signing a new contract with Melbourne

    (B) Melbourne considered not offering him a contract

    © Melbourne put Nathan Jones "up for trade"

    Didn't think so.

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    Do any of you speculators have any evidence that:

    (a) Nathan Jones considered not signing a new contract with Melbourne

    (B) Melbourne considered not offering him a contract

    © Melbourne put Nathan Jones "up for trade"

    Didn't think so.

    I don't understand where you're coming from, and where you are going with that.

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    I don't understand where you're coming from, and where you are going with that.

    It seemed to be "given" on here and anywhere else potential trades where discussed that Melbourne was considering what to do with Nathan Jones and that the player himself was contemplating his future with the club.

    Then the media reports that Jones has signed a new contract with Melbourne and put an end to the speculation about his future (which the media "made up" in the first place).

    The actual time line reads like this: Season finishes ... contract ends ... player signs new contract.

    Too many people accept what they are spoon fed when it was just filling column inches and air time when there wasn't much exciting to talk about.

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    Season finishes... OOC player discussed until re-signs/other. Seems natural to me... Who's being spoon fed? I still don't follow :rolleyes:

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    The actual time line reads like this: Season finishes ... contract ends ... player signs new contract.

    Too many people accept what they are spoon fed when it was just filling column inches and air time when there wasn't much exciting to talk about.

    I agree.

    It reminds of the blownup kefuffle in Cuba in the early 60s.

    The actual time line reads like this: Cuba had nukes. US saw the nukes. Cuba got rid of nukes not two weeks later.

    End of story.

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    I agree.

    It reminds of the blownup kefuffle in Cuba in the early 60s.

    The actual time line reads like this: Cuba had nukes. US saw the nukes. Cuba got rid of nukes not two weeks later.

    End of story.

    Bad analogy rpfc, glad you are not an historian B)

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    Bad analogy rpfc, glad you are not an historian B)

    I'm just saying, if you are unwilling to read beween the lines (or in some cases - the lines themselves) you won't get a true account.

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    Still waiting on the "evidence" that Nathan Jones or anyone at Melbourne who has any say in these decisions thought anything would happen other than Jones signing a new contract.

    During the Cuban Missile Crisis there were quotes attributed to people who could potentially push some kind of button that would effectively destroy some part of the US or USSR that led people to believe this was actually possible.

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    Still waiting on the "evidence" that Nathan Jones or anyone at Melbourne who has any say in these decisions thought anything would happen other than Jones signing a new contract.

    During the Cuban Missile Crisis there were quotes attributed to people who could potentially push some kind of button that would effectively destroy some part of the US or USSR that led people to believe this was actually possible.

    And what evidence do you want?

    Do you not watch the games? Can you not see that Nath (as big a heart as he has) had some issues this year, as he has had at times? Do you not think when he was dropped after playing every game he wasn't thinking WTF?

    His first mention of 'taking time to sign' in his blog is an indicator. Don't think this was in regard to his next dog purchase.

    I love his passion but I have my doubts on his ability. Hope I am very wrong.

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    Do any of you speculators have any evidence that:

    (a ) Nathan Jones considered not signing a new contract with Melbourne

    (B ) Melbourne considered not offering him a contract

    (c ) Melbourne put Nathan Jones "up for trade"

    Didn't think so.

    That question is an oxymoron.

    If they are speculators, by their very nature they have no evidence.

    Oops.

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    I'm just saying, if you are unwilling to read beween the lines (or in some cases - the lines themselves) you won't get a true account.

    huh? That reads like the opposite of what you said before

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    I agree.

    It reminds of the blownup kefuffle in Cuba in the early 60s.

    The actual time line reads like this: Cuba had nukes. US saw the nukes. Cuba got rid of nukes not two weeks later.

    End of story.

    Fairly testing 2 weeks though

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