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5 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

This is it, not the above post:

https://www.homestolove.com.au/home-tours/bailey-smith-bazlenka-surf-coast-home/

I'm guessing as a spokesperson for Cotton on, he won't be raising sheep on his new farm.

Sorry ET, I'll show myself out.

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    2 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

    Ee i ee i oh.

    Hey, say the vowels in CELINE DION in order and aloud. 

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    2 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    That kind of trade is common place in the USA.

    Clubs will try to trade players with bad contracts and attach a prospect with it just to get the salary off the books and then use that money more  constructively. Surprised it doesn’t happen more in the AFL.

    It's not the trade that irks, it is that somehow it was Geelong who could afford it with all their other signings like Cameron etc at the time.

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    7 hours ago, Redleg said:

    If I was the Suns, I would be keeping tabs in the Titles Office, to see if Rowell becomes the owner of land out Corio way.

    Like finding a needle in a haystack if the owner of the property is a corporation that happens to hold the title under a deed of trust of which he is one of a class of beneficiaries.

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    13 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

    Like finding a needle in a haystack if the owner of the property is a corporation that happens to hold the title under a deed of trust of which he is one of a class of beneficiaries.

    Sarcasm metre not working this afternoon?

    It wasn’t legal advice.

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    3 hours ago, leave it to deever said:

    Tom McDonald has one.

    And what has he got on that farm?

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    4 hours ago, rpfc said:

    That they give out land at pennies to the hectare to certain individuals…

    Or the the fact that he also gets paid outside of his salary through his five sponsorship deals he's currently locked in twith Monster Energy Drink, Cotton On, McDonald's, deodorant company in Stuff That Matters and Barry's Drink..

    No different to Gawn, Lever and Melksham who own property down Mornington Peninsula. 

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    6 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Or the the fact that he also gets paid outside of his salary through his five sponsorship deals he's currently locked in twith Monster Energy Drink, Cotton On, McDonald's, deodorant company in Stuff That Matters and Barry's Drink..

    No different to Gawn, Lever and Melksham who own property down Mornington Peninsula. 

    It is time the league had transparency with player and coaching contracts. It probably never happen as too many clubs and players have a clear interest in keeping up the secrecy to keep dodgey practices.

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    6 minutes ago, MrFreeze said:

    It is time the league had transparency with player and coaching contracts. It probably never happen as too many clubs and players have a clear interest in keeping up the secrecy to keep dodgey practices.

    Agree with coaching contracts.

    I immediately think of the Brett Ratten situation at St Kilda where he signed a new deal and then was sacked within months.

    The AFL should have should have intervened before it was announced. Shocking treatment.

     

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    5 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Saved up his pocket money and brought a bit of land..

    What's the issue again?

    If Peter Dutton can get into property speculation in 1991 on a teenage butcher's apprentice salary, surely Bailey Smith can manage it on a professional AFL salary in 2025. Or has inflation been even worse than I thought?

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    15 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

    If Peter Dutton can get into property speculation in 1991 on a teenage butcher's apprentice salary, surely Bailey Smith can manage it on a professional AFL salary in 2025. Or has inflation been even worse than I thought?

    Was much easier to buy property prior to 87 and 99. Property was 3 times your income, now it's 8 times your income.

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    21 hours ago, leave it to deever said:

    Tom McDonald has one.

    But wasn't he living on a farm when recruited?

    If so, it's not like the Geelong players who suddenly find themselves farmers when recruited from other clubs?

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    Jeremy Cameron became a neighbour of my (Dee-tragic, so now-revolted) sister. Exposed to this personal story, I diss Geelong on this subject with the best of them. However, it's drawing a long bow calling these properties farms, and the wealthy, Geelong-ish squattocracy 'farm' connotes. They are properties that come in the cost range that I reckon most established and/or high profile players' properties are in, and, like them, provide 'only' residence, albeit with the more land that a regional precinct like greater Geelong can offer, at lesser cost-per-area than Melbourne, and even the Peninsula, can. And, yes, the 'acreage' lifestyle and the coast can be attractions, but these aren't under-the-table-engineered by GFC.

    And I still hate Geelong. Quite a bit, actually.

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    8 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

    And, yes, the 'acreage' lifestyle and the coast can be attractions, but these aren't under-the-table-engineered by GFC.

     

    How do you know that?

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    In any event, it's not hard to disguise an "under the table" transaction by use of payments at discounted rates of property titles to third party trusts or related parties. If you can beat the price of your opponents by say $250k then it's a hell of an advantage from a price perspective, let alone reducing your TPP salary cap figures.

    Not suggesting that any particular club would be inclined to do such a thing ... but ... meow.

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    1 hour ago, Redleg said:

    How do you know that?

    Yes, I guess it is Geelong! G for Geelong, G for God.

    I probably should recognise MFC's similar omnipotence - through its City of Casey alter ego - in auspicing the neighbouring Bass Coast Shire in its creation of the lifestyle and coast where I live...

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    There’s no way these players are getting these farms through dodgy third party deals. They would show up like dogs balls. I love the banter but let’s be realistic. 

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    25 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

    There’s no way these players are getting these farms through dodgy third party deals. They would show up like dogs balls. I love the banter but let’s be realistic. 

    ...belonging to Australian working border collies or kelpies, of course.

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    6 hours ago, Blistering said:

    But wasn't he living on a farm when recruited?

    If so, it's not like the Geelong players who suddenly find themselves farmers when recruited from other clubs?

    I was referring to the nursery rhyme.

     

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    3 hours ago, Roost it far said:

    There’s no way these players are getting these farms through dodgy third party deals. They would show up like dogs balls. I love the banter but let’s be realistic. 

    No, they wouldn’t. 

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    1 hour ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    No, they wouldn’t. 

    Perhaps if they were being looked for. There's the rub: the AFL looking...

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    On 02/02/2025 at 09:01, Ollie fan said:

    ...  how it is that, I see in this morning's Age, Bailey Smith has a six hectare property near Bells Beach?

     

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