Tom Scully in September ...

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Tom "Mammon" Sully. Has a nice ring to it

OK Sloonie - I give up....what an earth is your avatar??

[dees189227 12,390]

How please do your reckon Scully was when he got to the airport and saw Hutchy there. Im glad he was there and made him answer questions even though we didnt really get answers. But if he was going up to have a lokk around why would you take your sister.

Lets face it. He is showing his family where he will be living next year and introducing his parents to Sheeds.

He will not go up there and come home then go up there again for a press conference. Sorry I believe either tomorrow or Tuesday he will be in a GWS top and he will try to convince the world he only made his mind up in the past 3 days.

[Jesse Christ 2,884]

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Fail at embeding. Moral of the story is the kid needs a dollar!

And it's a picture of a sexy demon. Derr..

Edited September 11, 2011 by SloonieMcFloonieloone

[Eth 4]

Never met him, have no sources, don't break bread from anyone of the Scully family - can you please tell me what you know of him? And who has told you about what you've heard of him?

Can't remember exactly who said it (Lyon, Trengove probably) but they said he's a straight forward guy who doesn't play games.

I don't have any direct links with Tom.

[Captain Jack Jordan 32]

And on that note permit me to introduce Pat Drummond, one of my favourite Aussie singer/songwriters with this clever song On the Road to Damascus which just about fully sums up what I think of the farcical scenes today at Tullamarine Airport. I hope that Hutchy and the Scullys have the necessary sense of humour to appreciate Drummond's brilliant story telling. It also applies to most of the journalists, commentators and just about anyone who's played a part in this seemingly never ending saga which thankfully is drawing near an end:-

Check out this video on YouTube:

Enjoy!

Thanks for the song but Scully is not some cheap hooker whether he goes or stays. He's just a kid with talent and a big decision to make.

The media may yet be all wrong on this and if they are right, then at least part of his decision may be to escape the hacks that write our sports pages down here for less fame and less hassle with the Suns.

[beelzebub 23,351]

I dare the moderators to stretch his nose out a little in Pinocchio style every time he publicly says he clearly hasn't made up his mind yet.

gave me a serious chuckle...lol

[Guest Darren Lamb]

I hope the mods gradually fade his image to reflect his likelihood of going, like the family photos in Back to the Future.

Quick, someone get to work on a flux capacitor!

[Whispering_Jack 30,036]

Thanks for the song but Scully is not some cheap hooker whether he goes or stays. He's just a kid with talent and a big decision to make.

The media may yet be all wrong on this and if they are right, then at least part of his decision may be to escape the hacks that write our sports pages down here for less fame and less hassle with the Suns.

Captain, you miss my point. Drummond's story about money, temptation and being self-righteous is told from different angles. On a similar level, so many stories have been told from so many different angles about Scully that the saga has taken on a shoddy life of its own that was originally good for us voyeurs and nothing else. Now it even makes the Scullys look bad as a family - an object of laughter. I'm sick of it and I wish Essendon supporters good luck and for their sake hope that Hurley and his management understand from our experience what they would be turning themselves and the Essendon Football Club into if they allowed things to get out of hand the way this story has over the past six months.

[beelzebub 23,351]

Personally I hope the Bombers suffer in their jocks.. but thats me

[Demon Dynasty 17,109]

Now everyone take three deep breaths and calm down..

I just watched the video of all this HERE and I can't what all the fuss is about;

I don't know if he has signed and I am waiting I see him sitting down in front of a MFC or a GWS sponsors signs saying I have signed with [insert Club Here] before I start running him down...

It beggars belief that a top end business and/or professional club at the highest level takes a player PLUS his family on a guided fully paid tour of their interstate facilities, not having signed the deal (at least in principle).

If it was just him (and say his manager or a mentor).....maybe.

Get the pressers over and let the compensation negotiations begin!

Edited September 11, 2011 by Rusty Nails

[daisycutter 29,613]

How please do your reckon Scully was when he got to the airport and saw Hutchy there. Im glad he was there and made him answer questions even though we didnt really get answers. But if he was going up to have a lokk around why would you take your sister.

Lets face it. He is showing his family where he will be living next year and introducing his parents to Sheeds.

He will not go up there and come home then go up there again for a press conference. Sorry I believe either tomorrow or Tuesday he will be in a GWS top and he will try to convince the world he only made his mind up in the past 3 days.

did anyone notice how many suitcases he checked in?

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Fail at embeding. Moral of the story is the kid needs a dollar!

And it's a picture of a sexy demon. Derr..

Okay - you can't answer a question without a derogatory adjunct. Thanks.

[Luck Lucy 0]

Thanks for the song but Scully is not some cheap hooker whether he goes or stays. He's just a kid with talent and a big decision to make.

The media may yet be all wrong on this and if they are right, then at least part of his decision may be to escape the hacks that write our sports pages down here for less fame and less hassle with the Suns.

There's nothing wrong with working girls my friend. They have to earn their money like everyone else.

The song's about the fact that everyone has a price including people looking for a story like Hutchy at the airport.

I thought the way the panel on the Sunday Footy Show particularly Brereton questioned Scully's motives made it look as if they'd been set up to look stupid and he got himself a cheap story at their expense no matter which way you look at it.

[Captain Jack Jordan 32]

True Jack -Sad but true .

My Dad was a Demon fan from 1940 and they even lived in St Kilda Rd ,postcode 3000 .

My late grandma made Cornish pasties and took dad and his sisters to watch the Demons [censored] every team they played .

Dad stopped watching football entirely when Barrass went to Carlton .

We aren't all slaves to money.

Scully may not be either .

I still think he would be a dumby to leave us now .

[beelzebub 23,351]

did anyone notice how many suitcases he checked in?

i'll give you Silver for that !!

did you hear, he's just up there for a look around !!

[Jesse Christ 2,884]

Okay - you can't answer a question without a derogatory adjunct. Thanks.

Derr is derogatory now? Gee wilickers.. someone's precious!

[Captain Jack Jordan 32]

There's nothing wrong with working girls my friend. They have to earn their money like everyone else.

The song's about the fact that everyone has a price including people looking for a story like Hutchy at the airport.

I thought the way the panel on the Sunday Footy Show particularly Brereton questioned Scully's motives made it look as if they'd been set up to look stupid and he got himself a cheap story at their expense no matter which way you look at it.

No disrespect meant to the oldest profession.

The footballing worlds fourth estate give cheap hookers a bad name .

[Eth 4]

did anyone notice how many suitcases he checked in?

Think I only saw Tom holding one.

[Guest dieharderdee]

One thing has been shown for sure, tom scully thinks that if you stick to a lie and keep telling people they will beleive it. Pi$$ off tom. You are so desparate to make it not about the money thats its starting to cloud your vision. This is like a bad relationship that just doesnt end. Just say you dont love melbourne and be done with it.

[Face Your Demons 175]

Just so Tom remembers what he said in March

OF the two once-in-a-career AFL opportunities he has, Tom Scully says he's leaning towards being a Melbourne player for life.

The 19-year-old got on the front-foot to bat away speculation he would quit the Demons to join Greater Western Sydney for their 2012 debut.

Scully, the No.1 draft pick in 2009, has been heavily linked with the Giants on a multi-million dollar, multi-year deal which would dwarf what the Demons could offer.

That speculation became rampant after the midfielder's management put off all contract talks with the Demons until the end of the season.

But Scully emphatically denied any approach from the Giants to him, his management or his family.

And he said negotiating a new deal with the Demons and becoming a one-club player was at the forefront of his thinking.

“Absolutely not,” Scully said when asked whether the thought of getting rich from GWS' entry into the AFL had entered his head.

“There's been no approach (from GWS), absolutely not.

“I've got absolutely nothing to hide, and I thought I should come out and say something.

“I love the club, I love my teammates and I want to be part of the future going ahead at the Melbourne footy club.

“I'd love to end my career a one-club player, and I anticipate that will be the case.”

The Giants, who have also been linked with Geelong's Jimmy Bartel and Collingwood star Scott Pendlebury, can sign up to 16 uncontracted players from established clubs over the next two years.

While there may not have been an approach to Scully yet, it looks a formality at some stage.

The teenager is rated a potential AFL superstar whose career would be peaking just as the Giants should be.

But Scully, who admitted to heart-to-heart talks with ill Demons president Jim Stynes over the issue, stood by his decision not to enter into contract talks with anyone until the end of the season.

It is a stance similar to that of Geelong's Gary Ablett before his eventual defection to start-up club Gold Coast.

“I'm a 19-year-old guy in my second year of football. Contracts are the furthest thing away from my mind,” Scully said.

“All that stuff is external. I'll leave that to my management and the club (Melbourne) to sort out.

“My main focus is playing footy and I'm looking forward to getting out there.

“I just want to play out my full two years at the club and see how I go.”

Scully will return to action tomorrow in Melbourne's practice match against Brisbane at Princes Park.

He missed the Demons' NAB Cup quarter-final defeat last week because of knee soreness.

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Well we can't be sure about that but if Lloydy drops it on SEN next year that he's 98% sure he's gone, I'd say bank it.

I thought you put yourself on a self imposed ban until 'The Decision' is made. Haha.

I'm still in Scully's court until his signature inks GWS papers, but the whole thing is getting farcical. I'm surprised that a LeBron James-style press conference hasn't been called so the nation can all hear about 'The Decision'... whatever way it goes.

[twist 0]

If I knew Melbourne was going to get Jaegar O'Meara for Scully I couldnt care less if he left.

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

Personally I'd love nothing more then to hear a press conference called for 11am on Tuesday at the MCG.

Upon the media entering there is a long table with 8 people sitting on the table ETC ETC

Why don't you just dream that we've won the flag and get it over with?

[Captain Jack Jordan 32]

I had a relationship like that with a Hungarian girl once . She used me for my body and we had virtually nothing in common .We dragged it out for 3 years and in the end it just made us feel cheap and tawdry to see each other . God I miss those days.

[Guest Darren Lamb]

Anyone remember the original failed Fevola trade to Brisbane?

Daniel Bradshaw and Michael Rischitelli were both in melbourne being shown around the VISY Park facilities.

2 days later they decided they didn't want to be a part of the trade and another deal had to be arranged.

I am not sold until I hear an official announcement that Scully is gone.