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Sir Why You Little
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Look how hard GC are working!! Bunch of kids. What's the deal Demons?? Where is the effort & passion?

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Many of the GC players have been playig together for 40- 50 odd games. They have some serious talent and will be a real force in a coiple of seasons. The media were calling for Guy Mckenna's head onl

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Goodvibes

And they did it without two of their senior recruits Bock and Brennan and three of their brightest stars Bennell, Smith and Matera. And they've still got Jack Martin up their sleeve. Scary.

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Romans 12:12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

You're really freaking me out.

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Morning.

Sorry to bore you with something I should be able to research by myself, but I find it's often easier to get on here and ask some of you knowledgeable people.

My brother and I were discussing last night how much the benefits given to these expansion teams has hurt us ie did our demise unfortunately coincide with the period in which normally poor teams like ours would receive higher picks? I know we got Watts Scully etc before the expansion teams appearance (and yeah yeah, I know somebody will jump in and say we would have stuffed up the picks anyway)

Seems to me quite important I'm sick of people at work, in press (eg Emma Quayle) etc telling Me it's all our fault, we should be relocated, etc Maybe part of our problem is that we were shafted by the Afl - part of a perfect storm of events, other factors of which included the growing commercialization of the game, which means that the poorer teams become less attractive investments, and money equals on field success these days

Anyway, sorry if I should know all of this, but I'd appreciate some feedback

Cheers

No, our problems were of our own making. We should have been pushing top 4 this year and in contention over the next 2, we were supposed to be a step ahead but poor management at the club screwed us not the AFL.

Richmond are the club that's really been screwed, they were (believe it or not) a year or 2 behind us in the rebuild stakes and they have missed out on some crucial draft picks that would have given them the class to go all the way. As it sits now GC will pass them next year and GWS may not be far behind. The Tiges are experiencing a false dawn.

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North Melbourne coach Brad Scott says he's staggered by calls for struggling Melbourne to receive salary-cap concessions from the AFL.

- http://wap.news.bigpond.com/articles/Sport/2013/06/05/Brad_Scott_says_Demons_will_be_okay_877549.html#.UbPLDaYazCQ

Don't really mind what he said but I reckon he should leave that sort of stuff to Brayshaw or his CEO because they're the ones who determine club policies. Scott should be concentrating on getting his team to win the close ones.

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Scott was spot on, salary cap concessions are a joke and will not help us anyway since we never even use 100% of the standard cap.

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Scott was spot on, salary cap concessions are a joke and will not help us anyway since we never even use 100% of the standard cap.

It's not just about salary cap - it's also the capacity to hold onto our required players and throw some coin at landing a big fish.

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No disrespect to a good game by GWS but Geelong take a while to get started, their defence have some holes because of injuries and I think that they went in there arrogant - Scott's great spray set them right.

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The one thing I'll say about the Scott brothers is that they're happy winners and sore losers. Don't mind blokes being angry about defeat ( a bit more from MFC would be great) but they are always up for a sulk IMO.

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I like the fact that the guy came out and gave us some support and put the media hounds back in their kennels for a minute.

I think North have a few issues of their own so it was not something he really needed to say.

Gong forward ,we are in a better position than North,Saints and Dogs .

He didn't need to do it .

Maybe he was putting his CV in to Peter Jackson.

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I like the fact that the guy came out and gave us some support and put the media hounds back in their kennels for a minute.

I think North have a few issues of their own so it was not something he really needed to say.

Gong forward ,we are in a better position than North,Saints and Dogs .

He didn't need to do it .

Maybe he was putting his CV in to Peter Jackson.

Did he Biffen? Ok, I take back everything I just wrote. I admire the Scott boys greatly.

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