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Is it just me or is the GWS recruiting team with Stephen Silvagni a butch of amateur hour hacks!

Now you know how it feels to be a supporter of one of the other 17 Clubs looking at MFC's recruiting over the past 10 yrs.

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    Great logic by GWS, we have one reliable star goalkicker-let's make him a defender.

    The saddest thing about GWS is not how favoured they are by the AFL or their non-existent fan support, it's how much talent they're getting that's basically going down the drain because they have no idea how to play as a team. The whole "club" makes me pretty sick

    It's this ignorant attitude that has seen opposition clubs and supporters have little sympathy for MFC in the last half decade.

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    It's this ignorant attitude that has seen opposition clubs and supporters have little sympathy for MFC in the last half decade.

    I won't have sympathy for GWS just because the AFL created them on a whim. For god's sake, they're an expansion club created in hope to brainwash a largely multicultural community of people to suddenly like footy. The fairness and fixturing of the league has become a much bigger problem with Gold Coast and themselves in the league, plus the whole Scully thing. Sorry, I do not see a legitimate comparison with them and us

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    It's this ignorant attitude that has seen opposition clubs and supporters have little sympathy for MFC in the last half decade.

    why is it ignorant? unfortunately it is a statement of fact for the MFC

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    GWS are intending to dominate the competition for decade(s). they are chasing top10 draft picks in order to get a spread of ages through their list. they will get the spoon again in 2014, unless St.Kilda can beat them to it, will probably bottom out again in 2015, and will have 2–3 years after that of trading into the top10 with the excess they have hoarded from their 3–4 years on the floor. the end-game is a team of top10s with a 6–8 year spread that will be unbeatable for a decade.

    it is an outrageous power-play. in a sense, they are deliberately doing what we inadvertantly did over the past 7 years, but they obviously think they can get it right. they are exploiting the rules and uncritical AFL largesse to "tank" on an unprecedented scale.

    the risk, of course, is that they will be unable to break the loser-culture. i remember Scully's first season very well. he was so smooth and fast and clean, it was easy to see him developing into a truly great player. but season 2, he was going going gone, before a ball was ever bounced, and didn't bother trying. i believe that that year of no-effort ruined him. his developement consisted of acquiring bad habits and a worse attitude, and that developement is evident in every single game he has played for GWS. A team of Scullys is not hard to imagine.

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    why is it ignorant? unfortunately it is a statement of fact for the MFC

    Because it chooses to ignore previous conditions which created or exacerbated an imbalance between clubs.

    An imbalance that still exists in some instances.

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