to make a start on this, do we have a journalistic table?

ie Ox - definitely 98% going, etc

I hope all those people who said 'already signed', etc come out with their apologies.

We don't have a decision yet - guess what - he's sticking with his word. Do we want such honesty in football - its just not right.

So I'm in undefined category - he said he'll decide at the end of the season, which is now, and I beleived him.

I'm still in the gutfeel will stay, open to this possibility he may go, but I don't buy into the tinfoil hat conspiracies

I'm firmly in the don't know category

Couldn't have put it better (that's why I didn't ).

I reckon he will stay because we are nearly in the "window "

Unless their gym and showers are better than ours .

I want him to stay and honor the # 31 we gave him

Reverse the curse!

I'm in the hope like hell he's staying, shattered if he's gone category.

I'll let you know by the end of the week.

Or early next week for sure..

I am firmly in the "I don't know" category, however I personally feel that he will stay. Not for any reason other than a gut feel. Might I just add, every single poster on here is in the "I don't know" category as well. You need to change that to "I believe that he hasn't yet signed, but don't know whether he will go or not".

Don't know

Leaning into the he'll stay camp although I have absolutely NFI. They longer it drags out the more I'm in the he'll stay camp

I have always been in the don't know camp but trusting of the words of Tom rather than the conspiracy theories, rumor and innuendo camp.

Im in the I've stopped caring category. If he stays, Great. If he goes, we get 2 first rounders, salary cap room and we don't have to put up with all this crap again next year....

I have no idea, I believe that nobody but Tom and his managers and maybe the list managers at GWS and Melbourne have any idea, I believe that the journo's have all been making it up and feeding of each others articles all year, and I hope that Tom stays with us.

I also like poking the people who are absolutely convinced that he signed last October and has been stringing us along to make Melbourne pay for his knee surgery or whatever.

I like to think he will stay just to stick it up to all those (in the media) who have said he is definitely going.

Maybe just wishful thinking on my part.

I like to think he will stay just to stick it up to all those (in the media) who have said he is definitely going.

Maybe just wishful thinking on my part.

Would you turn down a few hundred thousand dollars to spite some people you don't even know?

Damn I hope he would

I'm best described as a 'Don't know'; reckon he's going because it is the obvious right decision. You don't p!ss away half a million dollars a year. But hey, sometimes football makes people do crazy things.

Put it this way - Scully if being offered a contract the size of the Debt Demolition campaign.

I've also reconciled myself to the departure, with the trigger having been the 'promise' of two first round picks to work with. His poorer form after coming back from injury also eases the pain a little, at least in the short term.

But seriously, the AFL have bloodied the culture of the game with this reckless and violent approach to setting up Gold Coast and GWS. The only reason I'm not actively hoping for a GWS huge failure is that it is the other clubs, players, and fans that will end up paying the price for Demetriou's inadequate plan.

But seriously, the AFL have bloodied the culture of the game with this reckless and violent approach to setting up Gold Coast and GWS. The only reason I'm not actively hoping for a GWS huge failure is that it is the other clubs, players, and fans that will end up paying the price for Demetriou's inadequate plan.

I am absolutely hoping GWS goes down in flames. It's a bloody stupid plan which seems to be built on the fact that this is the single worst place in Australia to put an AFL team. Seriously, you have a large migrant population who follow two massive international sports in Rugby and Football (the other sort), and somehow the AFL expect to be able to break their marked dominance by planting an expansion team in Blacktown and letting a bunch of overcashed kids loose on the city? Idiotic!

To add to the idiocy, the reason they didn't put the team in Tasmania is that there is no competition for the AFL there!. It's a guaranteed success, so they figure there is less to gain if they move there. Really, why move a team into a location where you have virtually the entire population ready to support them when you can plant them in a place that already has two major sports taking up the entire supporter pool in the hoes that you might make some converts?

I felt this didn't belong in the Scully thread, since it is about posters and not Scully, so I hope I don't get shot for posting this slightly tongue-in-cheek request:

With THE announcement looming could someone with a lot of time on their hands please make up a table listing the names of those who have been

• adamant that Scully is going,
  
• those of the above who say say so based on some inside info they have
  
• those adamant he is staying
  
• those who have posted 'don't know' statements.
  

This will help me evaluate whom to believe when we go through all this next year....

Wouldn't have a clue.

I have always been in the I will wait and see what he decides camp.

Going, going, gone. Because the AFL gets what the AFL wants.

I'm in the extreme, fanatical, balaclava wearing 'he was effectively gone last October' splinter faction.

I felt this didn't belong in the Scully thread, since it is about posters and not Scully, so I hope I don't get shot for posting this slightly tongue-in-cheek request:

With THE announcement looming could someone with a lot of time on their hands please make up a table listing the names of those who have been

• adamant that Scully is going,
  
• those of the above who say say so based on some inside info they have
  
• those adamant he is staying
  
• those who have posted 'don't know' statements.
  

This will help me evaluate whom to believe when we go through all this next year....

This will help you believe what?

Early in the year I outlined the logic of him going. His sentimental attachment to melbourne was virtually nil. Within five or ten minutes several were horrified and called for the withdrawal of my thread. It was removed by the moderators. My opinion has not changed. I believe he is going. The wait for the announcement is purely Sheedy's way of manipulating the announcements to now keep GWS in the media. Toms will come in Sheedy's time. So if I am wrong what does that prove? I have a different opinion than Sue? So what. I thought this forum was about opinions. You win some and you lose some. That's football. Millions of opinions, very little thats right or wrong. I'm 100% convinced he's gone.

Edited September 8, 201114 yr by Harrisonrules

This will help you believe what?

Early in the year I outlined the logic of him going. His sentimental attachment to melbourne was virtually nil. Within five or ten minutes several were horrified and called for the withdrawal of my thread. It was removed by the moderators. My opinion has not changed. I believe he is going. The wait for the announcement is purely Sheedy's way of manipulating the announcements to now keep GWS in the media. Toms will come in Sheedy's time. So if I am wrong what does that prove? I have a different opinion than Sue? So what. I thought this forum was about opinions. You win some and you lose some. That's football. Millions of opinions, very little thats right or wrong. I'm 100% convinced he's gone.

Oh dear, this is turning into another dark Scully thread rather than just ignoring my light-hearted suggestion that a table of who said what would be worth a read once the decision was announced.

Of course the board is for opinion. But if someone gives opinions on what might happen in the future and they generally turn out to be true, then it increases my confidence they are right when they next make a prediction. More extremely, if someone claims to have inside info that A will happen and B happens instead, I'm very unlikely to believe them in future. (To avoid flames, I'm not suggesting the poster above has claimed to have inside info.)

My original posting was meant to be a bit light-hearted. I find myself rudely accused of being lazy by another poster and now this. AAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!

This will help you believe what?

Early in the year I outlined the logic of him going. His sentimental attachment to melbourne was virtually nil. Within five or ten minutes several were horrified and called for the withdrawal of my thread. It was removed by the moderators. My opinion has not changed. I believe he is going. The wait for the announcement is purely Sheedy's way of manipulating the announcements to now keep GWS in the media. Toms will come in Sheedy's time. So if I am wrong what does that prove? I have a different opinion than Sue? So what. I thought this forum was about opinions. You win some and you lose some. That's football. Millions of opinions, very little thats right or wrong. I'm 100% convinced he's gone.

I think it was removed because you were callously and carelessly character assassinating an MFC player.

Don't pretend it was anything better than that, because it wasn't.

I absolutely, positively don't know! (But I have the sinking feeling he will...)

Monday - Gone

Tuesday - Undecided

Wednesday - Staying

Thursday - Gone

Friday - DECISION PLEASE!!!!

I'm in the extreme, fanatical, balaclava wearing 'he was effectively gone last October' splinter faction.

I suddenly have visions of a Monty Python Skit a al People's Liberation Front of Judea

In actuality this whole thing belongs to the reverberations of Cleese and Co.. lol