A truly selfless act

[tappysquads 618]

After reading an article in today's Herald Sun, I've come to the realisation that a lot of Melbourne supporters are looking at something the wrong way.

I believe ... that after being at the Melbourne Football Club for six minutes, the Judd-like future Brownlow Medallist named Tom Scully had fallen so in love with the place that he decided to make the ultimate sacrifice to set up the next dominant era of success for the club. By sadly allowing Melbourne to release him to GWS, Melbourne initially netted picks 4 and 13 in the 2011 draft.

Firstly, this allowed the Dees to snare the Messiah Hogan and Dom Barry but the follow on affects where huge. By accepting a $1mil x 6 year deal and proceeding to play horrible football at his new club, hampering their rapid rise up the ladder, he stopped GWS from being able to afford to retain talented kids, allowing Melbourne to strike and snare a deal netting us superstar Dom Tyson and future gun Christian Salem. Also by selflessly rejecting way overs of $900k a year from the Dees as he knew we could use it better, he allowed salary cap space to snare Bernie Vince and now Heritier Lumumba to help guide this new era.

I'd just like to thank Tom for sacrificing that Brownlow at Melbourne, and bringing into the club Hogan, Tyson, Salem, Vince, Lumumba.

Not many would throw away a career so recklessly, but he sure made a very loyal selfless decision.

[chookrat 4,218]

Oh dear... This will turn into another 100 pages...

[What 18,810]

thank you Tom!!

You are a very generous man

Too bad you cant play footy

[Redjacket 745]

I know you're probably just taking the [censored] but if your 99.9999999999% delusional then don't think for a second that Tom Scully did anything for the benefit of this once great club. He's a selfish [censored] that looked after #1. He would have left if the Dees had received Morton, 426, Molan and Cook in return for him.

[Melbman2 226]

After reading an article in today's Herald Sun, I've come to the realisation that a lot of Melbourne supporters are looking at something the wrong way.

I believe ... that after being at the Melbourne Football Club for six minutes, the Judd-like future Brownlow Medallist named Tom Scully had fallen so in love with the place that he decided to make the ultimate sacrifice to set up the next dominant era of success for the club. By sadly allowing Melbourne to release him to GWS, Melbourne initially netted picks 4 and 13 in the 2011 draft.

Firstly, this allowed the Dees to snare the Messiah Hogan and Dom Barry but the follow on affects where huge. By accepting a $1mil x 6 year deal and proceeding to play horrible football at his new club, hampering their rapid rise up the ladder, he stopped GWS from being able to afford to retain talented kids, allowing Melbourne to strike and snare a deal netting us superstar Dom Tyson and future gun Christian Salem. Also by selflessly rejecting way overs of $900k a year from the Dees as he knew we could use it better, he allowed salary cap space to snare Bernie Vince and now Heritier Lumumba to help guide this new era.

I'd just like to thank Tom for sacrificing that Brownlow at Melbourne, and bringing into the club Hogan, Tyson, Salem, Vince, Lumumba.

Not many would throw away a career so recklessly, but he sure made a very loyal selfless decision.

I think you make a good point and one that has been overlooked in that Scully's pay packet could be hindering them in a way that we have now taken advantage of.

Interesting.

[tappysquads 618]

Heck if you want to really draw a long bow you could claim dom Barry=Oscar McDonald now and scullys huge salary stopped gws being able to afford to keep frost aswell.

[Louie 39]

Sometimes it takes great hindsight to understand true genius at work. I salute you Tom.

[Jarka 767]

Back off Tom Scully, pleads GWS coach. He's a 'running machine'

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-12-05/back-off-tom-scully

[ashdemons22 235]

I'm still angry at the little rat for lying to me out the front of the G when I asked him the question if he was going.

[Sir Why You Little 36,772]

Until we beat GW$ by 10 Goals regularly up there and at the 'G the above post is just a wet dream

Last time i looked GW$ finished above the MFC

painful as it is.

"Oh father....The shame....."

[What 18,810]

Back off Tom Scully, pleads GWS coach. He's a 'running machine'

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-12-05/back-off-tom-scully

TOM SCULLY is a ‘running machine’ and the best two-way runner Leon Cameron has ever seen ‘by a country mile.’

hahaha pull the other one Leon

1 million a year for a spud. Deal with it

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,539]

I'm still angry at the little rat for lying to me out the front of the G when I asked him the question if he was going.

I knew he was gone after the round 8 2011 loss v's North at Etihad, a game he was out injured.

About half an hour before the game, I found a parking spot right next to Scully, as he was getting out of his car.

Right after the siren I walked back to the car park to get the hell out of there after another crap loss, and upon returning to my car, Scully's car had already left.

I know it was only a little thing, but it showed to me that his heart wasn't in it with the MFC and I was convinced he was gone at that point.

[TheoX 1,222]

Doesn't cop nearly as much as he should in the media for being a 6 million dollar dud.

[PaulRB 6,312]

As Packer said of Alan Bond after selling him Channel 9 for a Billion in the 80s, "you only get one Alan Bond". Likewise we'll only get one GWS Scully deal, and it's been working out very well for us...

[chook fowler 19,304]

If Cameron said he was a lying machine I'd believe it.

[Sir Why You Little 36,772]

As Packer said of Alan Bond after selling him Channel 9 for a Billion in the 80s, "you only get one Alan Bond". Likewise we'll only get one GWS Scully deal, and it's been working out very well for us...

"i will buy it back off you at half the price Alan, later...."

And he did!!

[nutbean 8,838]

, I found a parking spot right next to Scully, as he was getting out of his car.

I was convinced he was gone at that point.

The giveaway was that his car was a Ferrari and he was still on 2nd year draftee wages with us.

[DeeSpencer 25,009]

Complains about Melbourne's professionalism and culture.

Melbourne now have Paul Roos.

GWS have Heath Shaw and Toby Greene.

[old dee 23,564]

Doesn't cop nearly as much as he should in the media for being a 6 million dollar dud.

It has started

Another year like 2014 and the wolves will descend.

[gsmith12 491]

The obsession with Scully is alarming, get over him ffs.

[Dockett 32 1,239]

I thought he had crook knees Leon?

[Qwerty30 196]

The obsession with Scully is alarming, get over him ffs.

Completely agree.

It's not as though we have lost a star. We could not meet his exorbitant salary.

And is anyone prepared to give up Hogan and Toumpas.

We dodged a bullet with Scully. The club has moved on. So should its supporters

[DemonFrog 1,347]

Who is Tom $cully?

[poita 3,887]

Some of you people need to get over yourselves. If Tom had his time again, I'm sure he would do things a little differently, but you can hardly blame the guy for making a decision to set himself up for life. Particularly in an industry in which the average career lasts for about 4 years.

Why should he have any loyalty to the MFC, particularly when we all knew the place was a basketcase? He is a professional footballer who had the misfortune to be drafted by the club at its lowest point.

As if any of you would not take the money and run if someone tried to poach you from your current employer with a guaranteed 6 year deal at 4x your market wage.

[Jesse Christ 2,884]

Heck if you want to really draw a long bow you could claim dom Barry=Oscar McDonald now and scullys huge salary stopped gws being able to afford to keep frost aswell.

Not to mention the increased food budget to keep his dad happy! That alone will just about bankrupt the team!