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I'll get there.

Yes, I have used the reference previously. I was just trying to be literarily elegant by using the same gerund. But well spotted.

Qui bono.

I'm not proud of it. It's a little embarrassing. Like that time I was upstaged by C3PO while attempting to repair the Millenium Falcon. "Have you checked the power couples, sir" "Of course I have" "Chewy, check the power couples" "And Chewy, should you be wearing protective gear down there? I mean your pantless and it's got to be dangerous. I mean, I don't know where your 'stuff' is, but unless it's in the middle of our back, you're in for a world of hurt with those sparks flying around everywhere." Thank you for indulging me, you've been great.

I have been watching far too much Family Guy. Starting to talk and post in the manner of some of the characters in the show... Odd behaviour...

That's just kind of creepy. A person doing that would be unwelcome if I was sitting there eating my lunch is all I'm saying. It would be strange...

It's a different thread. And $300k might have done it a month ago but now I think we will be overpaying Tom by quite a bit in his next contract. I guess the work done by Kleiman is quite fathomable to me too...

Your opinion/guess/pessimism is noted. Oh, and by the way, this view now disqualifies you from becoming No.1 ticket holder at the club. Sorry.

And you are going off of a over-analysed (and some would say poorly analysed) statement from his reps. It's your FI, not anyone elses. We all have our own FI and you think those that have confidence in him staying have NFI just the same way that I think that people overtly and unnecessarily pessimistic (and think it's already over) have NFI. Get the idea?

I can understand the premise but this is 'yelling at clouds' to me. Yelling at windmills for those who are too old to get the reference.

I'm not going to give it. I think it's worse. But 6 years is a couple of contracts I guess and half his footy life... It would hurt more though. Especially if you haven't won a flag yet.

Ostensibly about front-loading to create space in the cap in the next year or the year after that.

Unfortunately, they do that a lot. I'm not saying that they shouldn't know what fans think, I'm saying it's arguable that fans think.

Yeah, DC. Hysterical is when you see conspiracies around...every...corner... I've got nothing. Just playing.

I dunno. You know how much I like my horse... He likes sugar cubes! And carrots.

I'm a realist about the situation, but I am confident that this isn't our fathers MFC - we will keep the generational talents that fall our way and they will help us win flags.

Hah? You're joking right? You're not putting the importance of 1 (crazy) round the NAB cup as the difference between us playing finals, are you?

I'll get off my high horse... Ok, then. By all means call the well-formed and earned views of Ron a disgrace, intimate that he has done nothing for the club since 1961, call into question his coaching tenure at the Dees (that Northey arguably capitalised on), and call for him to be replaced as an honorary figurehead of little significance (that would cause more embarrassment to the club than whatever comment Ron said). And I'm back on my high horse... It's nice up here. I can see everything. Is the ground wet? I wouldn't know, I'm way up here. Nice horse too. Very tall. Strong hind-quarters. This is a very high horse.

"We haven't heard nothing"?? From that double negative I can see you finally admit that his manager's statement is tantamount to 'Tom's words'? I'm sick of hearing the reverse based on nothing but their own battered psyche. Statement was made. It effectively said that he hasn't signed, but that isn't good enough is it. They have reason to lie! They want the money! They're laughing at us right now! You have got to be kidding me?! A kid is weighing up his future, and we are going to give him an ultimatum where if we don't get an immediate affirmative to a contract renewal - we will force him to resign?? Wow.

It's a sh!t piece. I don't see conspiracies, I see awful journalism. But you can write 'facts' in to your story to back up your story if you want to. It just means your destined to stay as a writer on AFL.com for a while... Or the Hun.

Oh, ok. Then by all means call the man a disgrace...

No it isn't. It wasn't great what he said but he's Barassi - he is of Melbourne but has been a pioneer for football. He is back in the family but you can't give up your passions. He showed his passion when he convinced his grandkids to stop barracking for other clubs and start going for Melbourne. And he showed his passion when he stated that Tom could do a great deal for the national game. And I am also being far too nice...

The bloke who posted that has already retracted as it was BS. I wouldn't be surprised if Tom is pushing for talks to clear the air but I have no idea. Good luck to all involved. This is not your fathers MFC - we will keep him, and we will win flags.

Conspiracies around every corner...

If his source is so 'impeccable' he would have never told Eddie. In essence, creating this pressure. I think it is deliberate, and I think Eddie is being played.