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nutbean

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  1. I actually do give a rats tossbag. He may have been a little disingenuous with how he got to our club in th first place but when he did pull on our jumper I thought he put his heart and soul into what he did. I also thought his handling ( and the clubs handling) of his problems and departure were first class. To top it all off - he just came across as a thoroughly likable bloke. On hearing Chris Dawes speak about him on Saturday morning ( there was prolonged discussion about depression and footballers on 774) it only re-affirmed my admiration for Mitch. So I give a rats tossbag and am interested in hearing how he is doing. Knowing a couple of people diagnosed with depression, if he can get himself well enough to play AFL ( if that is what he wants) and it happens to be for a WA team ( being much closer to his support network) then I for one will be very pleased ( as long as he doesn't play too well against us)
  2. I'm actually not a rusted on anything - except rusted on to a damn good argument. Love me an argument. ( coming on here beats the hell out of calling the boss a dick)
  3. hey....I resemble that remark.
  4. The Government response to the MH17 has been handled well - but there wasn't too many other options in terms of responses to be made. A fairly simple test for a PM which you have correctly pointed out - he has done well. Do you feel he has done very well on the international scene on his Governments stance on more contentious issues such as asylum seekers and climate change ? (rhetorical)
  5. and I'm still confident that Scully will stay.
  6. Even then I would prefer a mid. Tall forwards are guesswork as to when you will see the best from them. Cameron came on pretty quick but Lynch, Dixon, Day have been slower cream to rise to the top. Ruckman as you rightly pointed out are the same. With few exceptions, you don't see the best of them until they around 24 plus.
  7. There is so much about the club that I am never confident which way it will go - this one was never in doubt. Great news none the less.
  8. It wasn't that I hadn't read the article - it is I am gobsmacked by the lack of research ( or lack of thought) he gave with his choice of example.
  9. We are the lazy ones ? Its a crap piece of journalism with no research done at all - Motlop was a poor example. Tell me exactly how we would get Motlop (as an example) to the MFC. Number one he is contracted and number two if he was out of contract this year he wouldn't be a free agent. So the only way we could guarantee Motlop coming to us is if Geelong traded with us - sweet revenge - not. Had he done his research - there is only three real ways to get revenge trading. Finish bottom of the ladder and persuade a player becoming uncontracted to not re-sign and go into the PSD. Grab an unrestricted free agent ( Corey Enright is the only unrestricted at Geelong). You can also offer player coming out of contract but not a free agent a gazillion dollars to come to your club but you have to hope for one of three things - that the opposition club will say - we ain't paying that and then deal with us fairly - or the player goes into the PSD and you hope every other club below you won't pay the hefty price you are offering - or they decide to keep the player and thus you have inflated his price. He deserved a whack for lazy journalism. The thrust of the article was get nasty in your trading - at least get a plausible revenge scenario.
  10. Nope - it isn't pretty - The Frawley process is reality. Judd looked after WC because he could demand that. He was the best player in the AFL and could command whatever he desired but there is a major difference here. Judd was being traded to another club - so he could say to his new home - give my old club 2 first rounders and your 2 best players or I wont come. Frawley is a freeagent and can only ask one thing of his suitors - "give me more money so the MFC get band one compensation - it's not for my benefit - it's for my old clubs benefit". Right....
  11. ( not to mention the brutality of cutting coaches ) The loyalty equation (club vs player) has certainly been balanced with free agency - it's just that I prefer my imbalance to be on the clubs side not the players side.
  12. Except Judd sold out to the highest bidder and he went through this whole shopping expedition at various clubs. I don't blame him but it wasn't a pretty process to watch.
  13. You got this off a liberal party election ad, didn't you. According to a study - in 2011 - 34.9% of Australians owned a house with a mortgage. 1 in 3 Australians with debt hanging over their heads. Debt is not a problem if it is manageable. I don't think that the problem with the last government was how much they spent - the problem for me was how and on what they actually spent money.
  14. Frawley will do the right thing by Frawley.
  15. It seemed to me that Garry just plucked a name out of the hat.
  16. From a players perspective it is exactly the point. The point you seem to be missing. Many here continually want to view the perspective only from the supporters view and continually refuse to put themselves in the players shoes. We see the treatment of Junior by our club and others that have been traded out or delisted without too much conscience. I read these boards and see some of the vitriol towards players and in the same breath, we the supporters demand loyalty from players. I don't like this new world of football where loyalty has little value any more than Old Dee does but I won't bury my head in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist. ( note - you don't do that OD) (and you have elaborated on such issues - it is just some don't agree with you)
  17. Just can't see it happening.
  18. I never boo any player that leaves the Dees after he has played 100 games. You never know how good his son will turn out to be.
  19. And is 20 years old - way too early too judge. I will agree that I don't judge anyone a "steal" or a "gun" based on glimpses of talent. Grundy may well be a steal - at the moment he isn't. ( I have been burned way too many times on flashes of talents from future guns that have shone brightly for a very brief time and fizzled out just as quickly)
  20. Time and time again this has been proven to be correct ( especially with Ruckmen) and time and time again it is ignored by many.
  21. I have no idea where he is going but my gut instinct tells me he is gone. I did hear Nathan Buckley on AFL 360 - he was asked about Frawley. His reply was so stilted, fumbled and basically poor that I am now convinced on one of two possibilities 1/ Frawley is signed, sealed and delivered to Collingwood; or 2/ Buckley is in desperate need of a course on how to handle fairly simple questions from the media.
  22. Man up ? Name another footballer who said he is going before the end of the season (I think Bock (or Davis ?) said he was going to Gold Coast just before the last game of the season and was promptly dropped). This idea of him telling the club now is such a nonsense - it is necessary for no-one except skittish supporters.
  23. What ? You mean it hasn't already ?
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