The last thing a player needs is to make the hard choice mid-season and let it hang over their conscience any longer than is neccessary. They want the announcement out of the way quickly and succinctly. There is no point dragging an entire club through the mud as reputation remains at stake.

Ward and the Bulldogs parted ways before lunch.

The club knows this: Scully prefers to stay and told Velocity Sports to refrain from divulging any $$$ figures associated with both contract offers from Melbourne and GWS until the conclusion of the H&A season.

It's encouraging but has a twist. Loyalty and family factors might cease to exist once Tom discovers the GWS money tree.

I sense this is where the media expect Tom to put ink to paper, and why Robbo thinks it will happen later this week.

Was speaking with the Grandparents, yesterday at Adelaide Oval, of one of Tom's best mates (if not BEST mate) and they would be shocked if he stayed but said it could happen... Tom supposedly feels let down by certain people at the club, higher up than DB was and they also commented on his parents preparing to move to Sydney... His old man works up there as we know...

They have known Tom since he was a kid (I'm sure you can work out who their Granson is) and they say Tom is close mates with a lot of the younger guys at the club, but just feels let down like I said!

They also said that anyone that knows Tom would know he has wanted to play AFL since he was a kid and he would do it for no money! Very driven young man...

Let down? What a pea heart if that's the case, spoilt [censored] syndrome. dot dot dot if true.

May be close to Sam, but not many else if my reliable sources are correct.

So he'd play for no money and is very driven, yet he'd rather take his ball and move to an organisation he knows nothing about for more coin, because he feels let down?

Spare me, Gramps.

Was speaking with the Grandparents, yesterday at Adelaide Oval, of one of Tom's best mates (if not BEST mate) and they would be shocked if he stayed but said it could happen... Tom supposedly feels let down by certain people at the club, higher up than DB was and they also commented on his parents preparing to move to Sydney... His old man works up there as we know...

They have known Tom since he was a kid (I'm sure you can work out who their Granson is) and they say Tom is close mates with a lot of the younger guys at the club, but just feels let down like I said!

They also said that anyone that knows Tom would know he has wanted to play AFL since he was a kid and he would do it for no money! Very driven young man...

What I cant understand ( if this is true) what has the club done to let him down?? Trengove,Taspcott,Watts, etc have all resigned.Did they let them down!

How is he any different!

If anything he will be higher paid then them if he accepts the offer!

Scully has done the right thing by the club by informing them early and the club is respecting Tom's management's wishes to delay the announcement.

You seriously have no idea. Masquerading your opinion as fact is a disgrace.

I can tell you for certain (let me say it again CERTAIN)Scully had not told the club before Saturday of his intentions.

You seriously have no idea. Masquerading your opinion as fact is a disgrace.I can tell you for certain (let me say it again CERTAIN)Scully had not told the club before Saturday of his intentions.

What a joke an entire year and where no further progressed.

How could someone possibly not know what they were going to do.

What I cant understand ( if this is true) what has the club done to let him down?? Trengove,Taspcott,Watts, etc have all resigned.Did they let them down!

How is he any different!

If anything he will be higher paid then them if he accepts the offer!

agree 100%

weak move by him

What I cant understand ( if this is true) what has the club done to let him down?? Trengove,Taspcott,Watts, etc have all resigned.Did they let them down!

How is he any different!

If anything he will be higher paid then them if he accepts the offer!

Great call!

May be close to Sam, but not many else if my reliable sources are correct.

I have no sources, and am not going to claim otherwise (!!), but it's the impression you get. The whole coming-home-from-China-early story etc. etc. Tom is obviously very professional - perhaps too much so. He's also still very young, and you somehow get the feeling that he's not exactly "one of the boys".

Not that he has to be, but probably not helping in current circumstances. Maybe he feels he'd be better off as a "senior" player amongst a bunch of kids.

As for the "feeling let down" story above. I'm an another that feels that if that's the case, he's perhaps being a bit of a prima donna. If I walked out on a job every time I felt "let down" by people above me, I'd be living in a tent. If the likes of Sylvia and Trengove can see the future and are prepared to sign, how come it's only an issue for Tom??

What I cant understand ( if this is true) what has the club done to let him down?? Trengove,Taspcott,Watts, etc have all resigned.Did they let them down!

How is he any different!

If anything he will be higher paid then them if he accepts the offer!

I suppose we just wait till the movie is released! Haha...

Reckon it will be Wednesday:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/bulldog-callan-ward-confirms-gws-move/story-e6frf9jf-1226129573267

I have no sources, and am not going to claim otherwise (!!), but it's the impression you get. The whole coming-home-from-China-early story etc. etc. Tom is obviously very professional - perhaps too much so. He's also still very young, and you somehow get the feeling that he's not exactly "one of the boys".

Not that he has to be, but probably not helping in current circumstances. Maybe he feels he'd be better off as a "senior" player amongst a bunch of kids.

As for the "feeling let down" story above. I'm an another that feels that if that's the case, he's perhaps being a bit of a prima donna. If I walked out on a job every time I felt "let down" by people above me, I'd be living in a tent. If the likes of Sylvia and Trengove can see the future and are prepared to sign, how come it's only an issue for Tom??

It'd be a BS excuse is all, a reason to leave other than the money, something to add another dimension at the presser. ...if he leaves, that is.

My luck, he'll stay. I'm in the give me the first rounders camp.

Wake he has know for mths what he doing best of luck ts get the picks move and draft a new happy kid

Anybody offering odds on Scull staying........i backed PeePee to win 1-24 with nth 1-24 @ $12, so im running hot and will put money on him staying for one off our few good stories for the year.........lol......I can only hope?

Wake he has know for mths what he doing best of luck ts get the picks move and draft a new happy kid

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Wake he has know for mths what he doing best of luck ts get the picks move and draft a new happy kid

speaka de english ? no?

Viney hoping for Scully decision soon

Edited September 5, 201113 yr by PaulRB

Was speaking with the Grandparents, yesterday at Adelaide Oval, of one of Tom's best mates (if not BEST mate) and they would be shocked if he stayed but said it could happen... Tom supposedly feels let down by certain people at the club, higher up than DB was and they also commented on his parents preparing to move to Sydney... His old man works up there as we know...

They have known Tom since he was a kid (I'm sure you can work out who their Granson is) and they say Tom is close mates with a lot of the younger guys at the club, but just feels let down like I said!

They also said that anyone that knows Tom would know he has wanted to play AFL since he was a kid and he would do it for no money! Very driven young man...

Tom feels Let Down does he....By what???

I would have thought our physio's and support staff have looked after him well, he is being offered a very solid contract deal.

What is there to be let down about?? I don't buy that excuse at all.

I'm sure if Tom feels let down, it's about something the majority of our ignorant supporters are not privy too.

Condemning the kid, based on a vague rumour of a complaint, for the complaint having no basis despite no inside info, defies any logic.

I shouldn't be surprised at this point though.

I'm coming to the sad realisation that the majority of our supporters just aren't that intelligent.

I hope it's a case of the vocal minority and I've misread the play.

I'm sure if Tom feels let down, it's about something the majority of our ignorant supporters are not privy too.

Condemning the kid, based on a vague rumour of a complaint, for the complaint having no basis despite no inside info, defies any logic.

I shouldn't be surprised at this point though.

I'm coming to the sad realisation that the majority of our supporters just aren't that intelligent.

I hope it's a case of the vocal minority and I've misread the play.

Yeah they're not that intelligent; or maybe they're just fed up with the same [censored] year in year out and refuse to buy the company line any more about development and the flag always being 4-5 years away. You can act as arrogant as you want but if Scully comes out and leaves for GWS in the next week or so then the supporters who have refused to by into his crap since March will have been vindicated..

Of course you won't think so because even when you cop a slap in the face you'll still turn the other cheek for some more. Your argument will be that even though he is leaving he only made that choice after the last game and didn't once contemplate the offers on the table throughout the season.

Edited September 5, 201113 yr by Demonic Ascent

I'm sure if Tom feels let down, it's about something the majority of our ignorant supporters are not privy too.

Condemning the kid, based on a vague rumour of a complaint, for the complaint having no basis despite no inside info, defies any logic.

I shouldn't be surprised at this point though.

I'm coming to the sad realisation that the majority of our supporters just aren't that intelligent.

I hope it's a case of the vocal minority and I've misread the play.

You've misread the play. No one has bought the story.

You've misread the play. No one has bought the story.

Correct, a loose rumour from a Grandparent is not yet enough to convince me.

If Tom goes it will be to do with $$$$$ & nothing else.

I mean GWS hasn't even started yet, so how can anyone judge their culture.....

So it's just the vocal minority, then..?

Cos there's something wrong when being fed up means abandoning all logic...

Edited September 5, 201113 yr by Gareth Keenan

Tom feels Let Down does he....By what???

I would have thought our physio's and support staff have looked after him well, he is being offered a very solid contract deal.

What is there to be let down about?? I don't buy that excuse at all.

[/quoteExactly , let down by what? A second year player is expert on all matters off field is he ? Should just be concentrating on getting a kick at his stage of developement.Sick of all this tosh that he's unhappy with things other than playing!

I'm sure if Tom feels let down, it's about something the majority of our ignorant supporters are not privy too.Condemning the kid, based on a vague rumour of a complaint, for the complaint having no basis despite no inside info, defies any logic.I shouldn't be surprised at this point though.I'm coming to the sad realisation that the majority of our supporters just aren't that intelligent.I hope it's a case of the vocal minority and I've misread the play.

Get off the Scully bathwater a season of speculation drove him no closer to signing

He quite willingly allowed his team mates to defend speculation about his commitment

Move beyond what is said and look at what has been displayed.

*Sigh*

Yep, I've given up.

You don't get it.