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5 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

it's his choice but it doesn't sit well with me

You can let him know that when he calls you for approval of his career choices.

 

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    1 minute ago, stuie said:

    You can let him know that when he calls you for approval of his career choices.

     

    Stuie.....Calm down son.....Not every topic has to be a fight.......It's just DC's opinion which differs from mine but really who cares?     

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    Just now, Bossdog said:

    Stuie.....Calm down son.....Not every topic has to be a fight.......It's just DC's opinion which differs from mine but really who cares?     

    Just a bit of cheek mate...

     

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    10 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    it's his choice but it doesn't sit well with me

    Yeah right - I'm sure if you were unemployed & got offered $200,000 for a year's work you would knock it back on principle.

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    5 minutes ago, Bossdog said:

    Why?    They will have get their top up players from somewhere.    Another year of an AFL wage beats the hell out of wages in the minor league.

     

    understand all that, bd. it is just a subjective opinion. i'm not going to castigate him or anything, it's just my gut feeling, ok

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    Just now, Cranky Franky said:

    Yeah right - I'm sure if you were unemployed & got offered $200,000 for a year's work you would knock it back on principle.

    Do you think they'll be able to offer that?  With the amount of expenses they are already having to go through my gut feeling is that they may be only able to offer rookie type wages.  That's just my assumption though.

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    3 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    understand all that, bd. it is just a subjective opinion. i'm not going to castigate him or anything, it's just my gut feeling, ok

    No worries DC........We differ in our opinions.    Would be boring if we all agreed on everything. 

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    Good on him for having a go.  

    I know that if I was a recently retired AFL player, who'd just finished up a 10 year + career, I'd be fat as a horse (ala Brian Lake).  Well done Russ on staying in shape. 

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    42 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

    Do you think they'll be able to offer that?  With the amount of expenses they are already having to go through my gut feeling is that they may be only able to offer rookie type wages.  That's just my assumption though.

    It raises an interesting question regards total player payments. The 12 missing would make up a very significant chunk of the cap.

    Essendon may ultimately benefit financially due to concessions on top ups.

    Interesting.

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    48 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

    Do you think they'll be able to offer that?  With the amount of expenses they are already having to go through my gut feeling is that they may be only able to offer rookie type wages.  That's just my assumption though.

    Actually , it poses an interesting question - do Essendon next year still have to pay 92% of the salary cap ? If they do a lot of very ordinary players are going to be paid wayyyyyy too much money.

     

    Edit - McQueen - it appears we were interested at exactly the same time...... 

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    Just now, nutbean said:

    Actually , it poses an interesting question - do Essendon next year still have to pay 92% of the salary cap ? If they do a lot of very ordinary players are going to be paid wayyyyyy too much money. 

    Beat you by a nanosecond. :)

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    If Crossy is fair dinkum about going to the dark side, they must get rid of him now.

    He is privy to game plans and surely he must have signed a confidentiality statement.

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    1 hour ago, old dee said:

    Maybe that is because like me dc  you come a long gone era.

    Yep, I couldn't figure out why I used to remember the "Hard" games

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    4 minutes ago, Barney Rubble said:

    If Crossy is fair dinkum about going to the dark side, they must get rid of him now.

    He is privy to game plans and surely he must have signed a confidentiality statement.

    crossy is under contract to the mfc. would need permission from mfc to be released from contract

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    36 minutes ago, McQueen said:

    It raises an interesting question regards total player payments. The 12 missing would make up a very significant chunk of the cap.

    Essendon may ultimately benefit financially due to concessions on top ups.

    Interesting.

    Gill said there salary cap would be increased. He didn't elaborate whether the AFL would help with the payment of top up players.

    I believe Essendon should pay for any Top ups.

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    Pretty sure that he's been playing up in Darwin, so it would make sense that the Bombers would target top-up players who have some fitness levels ahead of those who haven't done a proper preseason.

    Doubt that he'll make a huge difference, so good luck to him.

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    2 hours ago, Bossdog said:

    If he can get another year of ALF footy out them and take some money off them......Well why not?

    Do they play ALF footy on Melmac?

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    Can we donate Terlich and Matt Jones to them?

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    8 minutes ago, TheoX said:

    Can we donate Terlich and Matt Jones to them?

    Yes but we want two replacements

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    4 hours ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    Demonland has gone downhill badly over the past 12 months.

    what part was inaccurate?

     

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    6 minutes ago, Curry & Beer said:

    what part was inaccurate?

     

    I wondered the same C and B

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    30 minutes ago, Curry & Beer said:

    what part was inaccurate?

     

    presumably the bit about only being 12 months?

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    Does anyone remember as well as me the day Jamar took on Bellchambers who used him like one of those springboards they use to do slam dunks at the basketball ?? I was on the first level of the MCC members and could have looked Bellchambers in the eye.

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    4 hours ago, CBDees said:

    I wouldn't be troubled about the Russian. I am more worried that the AFL website is suggesting Daniel Cross as one of Essendon's "top-up" players. This cosy top-up arrangement is going to impact on every Club to their detriment in addition to the damage caused by the banned players at other Clubs.

    I don't understand how that could now happen as Cross is contracted in a developmental role at the club.

    Understandably he wanted to play on last year and I'm sure he is still top-notch from a physical stand point, but he would be sacrificing an on-going job if he decides to play on for one more year the Essendon.

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