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Yes indeed they were all there including number 31 who was heavily disguised and sat under a table all evening counting $100 bills and arranging them in neat piles.

Yeah, and if he pisses off leaves then at least he would be leaving on a winning note which he should savour because I reckon he won't be playing in too many winning teams for GWS this side of 2015.

I hope we win our three remaining games and miss out on the finals. The club has bigger fish to fry than to fall into the top eight without deserving to be there. We need to locate a new coach and plan our pre season. We need to decide who to keep, who to trade and we need to rejig our list and determine who leads at the club. Too much to do to be distracted by a finals campaign. We know what we're like against the better clubs. We're shite.

Should do well with an influx of players who took the field for us today.

Would have picked up more possessions than some of our so-called stars today.

To say that the club has the capacity to match offers from another club is different to publicly discussing an individual player's contract. It is important for all AFL clubs with the exception of the GWS (to which different rules apply) to make it clear that it is irresponsible for them to be drawn into inflationary spirals to retain one player. Geelong did exactly that last year when it refused to match the GCS offers for a Brownlow Medallist and champion premiership player in Ablett. It managed to retain most of the rest of its list and continues to thrive this year. Nobody from Sleepy Hollow bagged their CEO or their administration for taking a stand on this. The Bulldogs are taking the same stand on Ward. It's only when you have people sniping at individuals inside the club that every issue becomes sinister and evidence of their alleged wrongdoing. I like Scully as a player but if the AFL creates an inflationary monster that can tear away at a club's fabric and he or his management are prepared to take advantage of this then I back my club because at the end of the day, it's a team sport and we can only progress with team players who produce value for money. I believe this is what Schwab was saying and it's the essence of what the club's about. That doesn't preclude us from negotiating a deal with Scully but what it does say is that such a deal is not all about dollars and cents but that there are other factors the player needs to weigh up in arriving at an agreement with a club.

I saw the interview too. Silvagni is a terrible media performer and presents poorly in this interview. Had he been an MFC official then there are some posters here and a goodly few in the media who would have said he's nervous and evasive, he's hiding something, lying, the interview is a clear indication that Scully's gone and the MFC official stuffed up, the players hate him and that he is about to be sacked.

So Schwab being honest, open and transparent and saying that a responsible club should consider limits to which it should go when paying its footballers is a major crime?

No Tom Scully. I have a feeling those aliens are well past Alpha Centauri and on their way to Sirius.

From the Jay Clark article: Appalling. A club that loses a priority draft pick should get compensated by getting picks that put it in a strong position vis a vis the other clubs. That's what compensation's about you tool! The fact Melbourne would have to wait a year before even getting access to that talent doesn't seem to be factored into this fairy tale. Why not give like for like and ensure the Dees are properly compensated with at least pick 1 in 2011 if Scully goes? Also on O'Meara, the story from out west is that the lad has suddenly developed a bout of OP although my contacts tell me that it might not be dissimilar to the bout of brain damage suffered by Jack Darling last year when he was king hit after a fight. .

An unbelievable performance from a young kid picking up 23 touches. He was in everything and also kicked a goal. Class!

Is there any danger in the world that one day will pass without a new fawning, sycophantic thread pleading for Tom Scully to remain at the club? Enough already!

Channel 10 News now reporting that Fevola contacted Frankston coach Simon Goosey before he left for the USA about playing for the Dolphins this year. The Casey move may be over.

Now if the Irish crickiters can do that for Jimmy, our footballers should be able to achieve the same thing. Fantastic stuff and I'm only sorry that the Netherlands just missed out on beating them in the first game because their tournament would have been over by now i that were the case.

When the bookies get to him and he has a few sessions of five card stud he'll be penniless.

Stop worrying folks. The only players going to GWS all happen to be clients of Ricky Nixon and therefore perfectly fit the demographics of the GWS region.

The Herald Sun - "Nixon manages Riewoldt, Saints defender Sam Gilbert, who had a relationship with the girl, and on-baller Nick Dal Santo."

It was also great to hear recognition given to Jimmy when the Brad Green captaincy announcement was made. This is a champion club.

Why concern ourselves with who's going to be the next captain when we've just appointed a bloke who should hold the post for at least three years? Congratulations to Brad and incidentally, what a sensible decision he made to stay with the club two years ago! It's paid dividends to him on a personal level and for the club as well. Let's hope that others also take note.

Carlton had its first intraclub praccy match yesterday and one of the posters on Talking Carlton wrote:- Apparently a leaner, fitter Brock McLean impressed and there's no truth in the rumour that Blues fans are baying for Ratten's blood because one of the teams in the interclub was beaten.

More Hunch - HAPPY NEW YEAR?

Seems there are double standards operating within the AFL and Andrew Demetriou has some difficult questions to answer about how the St. Kilda players who had sex with the 16/17 year old girl who can't be named were cleared. The AFL's policy on child protection applied to this girl but as per the Human Headline's column in HINCH SAYS Rina Russo from MACSA, Mothers against Child Sexual Abuse emails: ‘Irrespective of whether the legal age of consent in VIC is 16, the AFL Policy on Child Protection addresses children for their policy as being Under 18! How then can these footballers be cleared by the AFL when they have breached AFL policy? Not to mention its policy on Bullying.’

The word I have from my sources in the west suggest that because Hansen was contracted for a further twelve months, the Eagles couldn't delist him until the next season. By delisting him before the National Draft, they risked going over the salary cap for 2010. By delisting him after the ND, the pay out will go into 2011. I don't know if that's correct but just information passed on to me.

Does anyone know why he was dropped for the SANFL Grand Final?