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At a simple level, I'll always be annoyed seeing someone keep taking a million dollar salary when they're not worth a fifth of it.In any context.

I'm not that fussed about him going in the first place, it was an offer too good to refuse and we were well compensated.

A near-consensus No. 1 draft pick, including in his own eyes, and now a total dud.

I dont understand the bitterness that surrounds Scully's departure on this site.

In this case MFC have side stepped a bullet and as you say have been overly compensated (in hindsight).

Together with Watts, Scully would have to be one of the most underwhelming No 1 picks I have seen.

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I dont understand the bitterness that surrounds Scully's departure on this site.

In this case MFC have side stepped a bullet and as you say have been overly compensated (in hindsight).

Together with Watts, Scully would have to be one of the most underwhelming No 1 picks I have seen.

None of what you have said goes even close to touching the reasons why.

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I dont understand the bitterness that surrounds Scully's departure on this site.

In this case MFC have side stepped a bullet and as you say have been overly compensated (in hindsight).

Together with Watts, Scully would have to be one of the most underwhelming No 1 picks I have seen.

it might have been the lying to a cancer-riddled jim stynes. maybe.

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Scully did not even play the last half of the season due to injury. He was averaging nearly 20 touches a game before then. Yes, he is over paid, but in a young struggling side, he is not that bad. The brownlow count is a terrible way to judge a person's value to a team. He is history to the MFC. All the best to him. Move on

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I dont understand the bitterness that surrounds Scully's departure on this site.

Not bitterness, relief.

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Scully did not even play the last half of the season due to injury. He was averaging nearly 20 touches a game before then. Yes, he is over paid, but in a young struggling side, he is not that bad. The brownlow count is a terrible way to judge a person's value to a team. He is history to the MFC. All the best to him. Move on

Yes such a bad way to judge players. So the following is my best 24, what's yours?

Matthew Priddis

Nathan Fyfe

Gary Ablett

Lance Franklin

Patrick Dangerfield

Josh Kennedy

Travis Boak

Joel Selwood

Steve Johnson

Trent Cotchin

Scott Pendlebury

Dayne Beams

Jordan Lewis

Callan Ward

Brent Harvey

Tom Rockliff

Dyson Heppell

Scott Thompson

Robbie Gray

David Mundy

Dion Prestia

Nathan Jones

Michael Barlow

Dustin Martin

Edit: damn I need a ruckman.

PS: You need some work on your fractions, played 15 games, missed 8. Same as Gary Ablett and probably gets paid more!

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Why there is bitterness directed at Scully on this site.

Read all the slagging off on Scully on this thread and others,

We dodged a bullet in the compensation.

People need to move on and stick pins in other targets.

After 5 years Scully is underwhelming for what was given up to get him.

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Read all the slagging off on Scully on this thread and others,

We dodged a bullet in the compensation.

People need to move on and stick pins in other targets.

After 5 years Scully is underwhelming for what was given up to get him.

I really think nobody would really be slagging him off if he just said: "I consider myself a loyal person, and ordinarily I would love to repay the club that drafted me with a career of as high a level of service as I can offer. But in light of the tremendous financial opportunity GWS's offer represents, I feel it would be irresponsible of me not to take it."

If he had said this as soon as he had made up his mind, we all would have understood and moved on from the issue. I would have, anyway.

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I really think nobody would really be slagging him off if he just said: "I consider myself a loyal person, and ordinarily I would love to repay the club that drafted me with a career of as high a level of service as I can offer. But in light of the tremendous financial opportunity GWS's offer represents, I feel it would be irresponsible of me not to take it."

If he had said this as soon as he had made up his mind, we all would have understood and moved on from the issue. I would have, anyway.

LOL. You really are in dreamtime my friend.
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I wonder if he feels any guilt at being paid so much more than many of his more talented/effective teammates.

He seems the type to not give a [censored]/be unaware of what any teammates/colleagues might think of him.

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Read all the slagging off on Scully on this thread and others,

We dodged a bullet in the compensation.

People need to move on and stick pins in other targets.

After 5 years Scully is underwhelming for what was given up to get him.

The only issue I have is with the compensation because I don't think it's particularly correct or even relevant to the issue of his conduct and that of his management. The Scully camp was blameless in chasing the big money offered by the AFL for him to join GWS but it was its role in the subterfuge and the lies involved that left a bad taste in the mouth, especially since it was done with the collusion of the AFL which was setting up GWS and gave no help to a constituent club to counter what amounted to its own approach to a 19 year old player asset of the club.

The compensation was never like for like. We never received appropriate compensation for a number 1 draft pick with two seasons invested in him. We ultimately received room in our salary cap to get Mitch Clark and then the ability to secure Chris Dawes, Dom Barry and Jesse Hogan but really, it's three years down the track and what have we really gained for our troubles given what's happened with Clark and Hogan, the limited productivity from Dawes and a handful of games from Barry?

The bright side of the equation is that the AFL reckons we're going swimmingly, that our kids are fantastic and that the sky above us is all blue. When I heard that, I immediately went out and reserved my tickets for the 2015 grand final but in the meantime, I'll continue to feast on every mishap and every blimp in little Lord Voldemort's career and may there be many.

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