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Just like how we apparently employed Clark's girlfriend?

Get over it. It'd be hypocrisy for us to be angry at him. Scully left for money, Clark joined us for money. $$$ are a big part of professional sports, people need to accept it and get over it.

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Hmmm. Should Lucky Phil's salary have been factored into our compensation formula? Might have got another pick :P


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The $cully care Factor is 0% but it does set a precedent for further down the track.

If GW$ start bulging at the seams with ridiculous contracts, can they direct payments outside of the salary cap to Family members?

The clubs would want to be fully aware of this deal....

See you in Round 13 Thomas, hope that knee still works by then.

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Just like how we apparently employed Clark's girlfriend?

Get over it. It'd be hypocrisy for us to be angry at him. Scully left for money, Clark joined us for money. $$$ are a big part of professional sports, people need to accept it and get over it.

Am over it, but Clark's Girlfriend doesn't get her salary counted under our salary cap it's a bit different!

It's almost as if Scully's dad's appointment was somehow tied into the actual contract, and as such needed to be counted as well....

Guys from the Herald Sun are tweeting about how shonky it sounds...

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Just like how we apparently employed Clark's girlfriend?

Get over it. It'd be hypocrisy for us to be angry at him. Scully left for money, Clark joined us for money. $$$ are a big part of professional sports, people need to accept it and get over it.

Clark joined us so he wouldn't end up at GWS...and we got his gf a place to continue her medicine degree at Melb uni...not a job

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This whole thing has got me thinking, What were his original interviews like? This kid is on a different plain to the average.

Why did we pick him up in the first place? Or maybe he was able to fool many people....Not having a go here people, i am just fascinated as to how this all fits, Because Tom $cully does not fit....and we should have been sharper.

Big lesson for this Club....Never waste a Top 5 Draft Pick again. This Family would have already known what was going on up in GW$ before the 2009 Draft...i would put Money on that.

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Get over it. It'd be hypocrisy for us to be angry at him. Scully left for money, Clark joined us for money. $$$ are a big part of professional sports, people need to accept it and get over it.

i think it's pretty funny actually!


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This whole thing has got me thinking, What were his original interviews like? This kid is on a different plain to the average.

Why did we pick him up in the first place? Or maybe he was able to fool many people....Not having a go here people, i am just fascinated as to how this all fits, Because Tom $cully does not fit....and we should have been sharper.

Big lesson for this Club....Never waste a Top 5 Draft Pick again. This Family would have already known what was going on up in GW$ before the 2009 Draft...i would put Money on that.

It does seem that way it's all been pretty distasteful; I think Don McLardy summed it up quite well.

GW$ can have the lot of them, they look like they'll fit in.

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It appears nepotism is alive and well. Thankfully, Tom had his selfless father as a paid mentor. 

 

By the way, and more importantly, Lucky Phil looks like Griffith from the Family Guy, does he not?

FAMILY GUY PHIL

FAMILY GUY GRIFFIN

That would be Griffin, y8ter. Peter Griffin. He makes me laugh every time i think of him, he's such a dumb, fat f#@&. :).

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I was uncomfortable about Scully from the day we drafted him.  Even before that, my intuition was concerned about him, for some reason I don't quite understand.  I just get this sense of wariness.

I had it before we made our selections & wondered IF we should go for Trengove, + Martin. 

I wish we did but it'll all work out OK, maybe better with 2 picks.

 

There's just something about tom, that doesn't ring true.  He may never reach his mentioned eliteness, or effectiveness.

 

I think I'm glad it's worked out this way for us.  I reckon we'll be better off.  Just like we better off without Judd.

Carlton started rebuilding way before us, & IMO they're plateauing a bit.  

Can they bridge the gap to the top teams.  Well actually the other teams are coming back to them a bit.

Hawks decimated by key injuries to talls.

IMO the Saints were at their best in 2009/2010.  Geelong 12.8 (80) def St Kilda 9.14 (68)

Geelong IMO were strongest 2007 - 2009.

  

I think they've both eased back since 2009 as the Pies maintained their fitness throughout the 2010 season.

The pies just fell in against the saints (2010) who couldn't score enough to put the pies away. I don't think the Pies are all that good, compared to the Lions sides and the Cats sides.

The pies have maintained their level of performance this Year but the Cats when hungry are special, and Powerful...  Cats again, swansong?

The point is the Saints were IMO undermanned in the class department, & needed to top up from the spare-parts store.

Our problem is the New franchises could gazump us in our window.

These 2 picks allow us to redress the balance we can see with the arrival of the forcefed Suns & Giants.  

We'll get a better look at the Suns next Nab cup. 

And the Giants next year.  Before we use our picks.

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Thread of the year from a moderator's point of view.

It's been going for a little over 3 hours and 10 posts have been deleted.

The Scully family is developing an interesting reputation in these parts.

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