Beautiful stuff from Greg Baum in the Age - AFL A NUMBERS GAME

DAVID Bridie cannot accept the company line about Tom Scully: that you cannot blame the kid for taking the money, that any of us would do the same. The singer/songwriter thinks that is too convenient. "It's the same logic as BHP saying: 'Hey, there is shitloads of profit for us to make by dumping tailings in the Fly River [in Papua New Guinea]; why wouldn't we do it,'" says Bridie. "Any other company would do the same.

"So, Tom looked Jim Stynes in the eye and said, no, 450,000 bucks a year is not enough for a 20-year-old footballer.

"May Tom live in a McMansion in Bankstown and endure 187-point thrashings at the hands of Port Adelaide in front of a crowd of 6284, while being forced with saline solution and matchsticks to keep his eyes apart, as in the final scene of A Clockwork Orange, to watch on repeat as Jack Watts, with his three-day growth, kicks six goals in a grand final, and may it happen before I'm too old to go on the bender that will result."

Beautiful stuff from Greg Baum in the Age - AFL A NUMBERS GAME

Vey good WJ

He covers it well.

Sad but this is the world we live in and there is no going back.