Jaded No More

No, it was an account of a far more probable explanation than your idiotic, irrational and frankly boring need to turn anything Scully related into a negative. Move on and just wait patiently until this contract issue is resolved. You're boring everyone half to death with this repeated [censored]. You don't know more than any of us on this matter, in fact, you probably know less, so just shut the hell up about it until you have something new and proven to add, and stop negatively portraying a MELBOURNE FOOTBALLER (and yes, he is still a Melbourne footballer).

So my rational explanation above wasn't enough to halt this ridiculous discussion?

We don't have much running around in the VFL though. Davey and maybe Bartram (if all goes well in the VFL tomorrow) I'd expect will be back, but there is no way that Bate or Dunn, even with fresh legs, will contribute to a smaller losing margin next week.

It was. Complete journalistic fail, and not for the first time where Scully is concerned

Except the song wasn't sung in the rooms, it was sung in the cool room up on the ground. Scully was in the rooms getting treatment, and probably had no idea the boys were going to sing the song up there. WTF was he meant to do? Run out of the rooms mid treatment after guessing the players weren't going to come into the rooms for the song? FFS, why are we making such a big deal about it! Oh no, Scully farted, quick he's going to GWS, get your booing voice ready!

Can't believe Watts is copping flak. Those were the worst conditions for a big man possible. Port's big man seriously struggled, and I'd say that we won because our big man in the end were better. Jamar was great in the ruck, Martin superb around the ground and Frawley destroyed his opponent. Watts ran hard, worked hard, was as clean with the ball as anyone out there, but it just wasn't a night for tall leading forwards. As long as the effort is there, I'm happy.

WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT SCULLY IN A POST MATCH THREAD? Ordinary win, ordinary game, but great to get the points. We didn't work overtime, in fact, I think we took it quite easy in the last, so hopefully we can bounce back next week and at least put together a more remarkable effort against a team that thrashes us every time. Martin was outstanding in those conditions and Trengove is simply superb. Frawley just another day in the office smashing an opponent. Very happy with Strauss' defensive work, which is really coming along, and Maric made the most of every opportunity he got, so good on him. Certainly not a memorable match this one.

Oh FFS, they sang it straight away, and I doubt anyone ran into the rooms to tell him to stop his treatment, run up and sing the song. Seriously! Stop reading so much into everything. If Watts or Trengove were in the same situation nobody would even mention it. I just hope Scully isn't too badly hurt.

Yep, already on the plane to Western Sydney. Or maybe just getting treatment in the rooms on his injured shoulder, while the boys sang the song in the cool room

Much better quarter from Scully. Getting into it a lot more and actually running Cornes off his feet. Good work!

Very very harsh! 98% of his disposals are under extreme pressure, and in most cases he does well. He has the body of Cale Morton but he stands his ground well and takes hit after hit. Absolutely no problems there.

Scully better get used to a hard tag, especially if he goes to GWS where he'll be surrounded by absolute spuds and kids. I don't mind that he's struggling to win the ball, but his defensive work is quite poor. He has to start getting better at applying pressure on his tagger if he can't win the ball himself. Trengove and Sylvia have been superb thus far. Absolutely miles ahead of the rest in terms of ball use. Jurrah is just being Jurrah.

We are eembarrassingly poor when looking at the opposition. Really disappointing quarter that one. It's not possible that Port are still running hard but we're already exhausted. St Kilda winning tonight makes this game even more important. We have to win and win well.

That is honestly PATHETIC! I refuse to pay more, so I will sit behind the goals. Disgusting!

Hahaha I kept looking at that word thinking that's definitely not right. I'm gonna blame the drugs again. Am definitely not a Collingwood support!!! I think reading the Tom Scully thread for the 197th time has just about pushed me over the edge.

Hahaha sadly nothing footy related, but Tom and I do share a common knee injury. I had a bit of my tendon cut out today and sent to a lab in WA to get cells harvested for this new trial in tendon treatment. Apparently I am one of only a handful of 'commoners' to have this done, but a few footballers have done it and are now back playing footy. However, I have been given plenty of pain killers (on top of the 12 vials of blood they took), so I'm a bit out of it right now. But being bed bound (for like the 10th time in 2 years), means I have nothing better to do than read Twits and post on Demonland.

I can't believe I was 75% correct, that's a better than normal strike rate, and all done under the influence of heavy drug sedation. Amazing. I should go buy a lotto ticket while I'm still high on pain killers, and if I win I'll donate some of the cash to the Keep Tom Scully From Making The Biggest Mistake of His Life Fund.

Scrap Morton being an out, he is apparently in Darwin and got stuck in a lift. Yes I know I need to stop following Twitter updates but it's definitely the most interesting thing to do while sitting around in a hospital. Reading Tom Scully threads is like adding insult to injury.

From my brief investigative work on Twitter this morning, it looks like Bate, Gawn and Tappy all made the trip. Haven't seen Bennell, and you'd assume he'd be going up to Katherine if he was on the trip, and Blease twitted about the weather back in Melbourne. From this I will conclude that Gawn is gonna be the emergency, and Tappy and Bate will replaced Bennell and Blease. Although that could be a bit of a strange strategy, dropping two quick runners in those conditions and bringing in two bigger bodied slower players. Of course I could be a shite detective and get it all completely wrong.

Correct. If for example our apparel sponsor decided to use Tom in their ad campaigns and catalogues, they would pay him separately just as Puma do with Judd, Buddy and Hodge. The players come in and have their own relationship with that company, completely separate to the club/AFL. The same would apply if say Tom was dabbling in property development with a private real estate company.

Of course they would, it's just smart business, but it wasn't Tom seeking out those things, and clearly his management went to GWS seeking an offer because they realise the MFC offer is so good that in all likelihood Tom would sign it. If the offer was poor, or if they knew Tom was not happy with the club and wanting to leave, they would be in no rush. They'd milk out this process, getting both parties to raise the price and leave the decision until the last possible minute where in all likelihood Tom's price will be at its peak.

I think it's absolutely the opposite. Tom wanted to wait, and fair enough, but Melbourne wanted to get things moving so they approached his management with a contract. That Tom chose to break his own rules and actually listen to our offer to me is a very good sign. His manager then went out to seek an offer from GWS to get some sort of comparison happening. To me that is yet another indication that Tom was happy with the MFC offer, and that is the only reason his management felt the need to go to GWS and ask for a formal offer (otherwise Tom would have signed with Melbourne and his management would have been left red faced). If Tom wasn't interested in MFC at all, his management could have waited until season's end for an offer from GWS for Tom to sign. I believe Tom and the club 100%. Why? because I choose to believe good over evil, and I know for a fact that Tom is NOT lying, has NEVER lied and will continue to be honest with the club. I think it's valid for him to want to see how we play out the rest of the year and know who is going to coach the club (and I hear he likes Bailey, so there is no need to make links between Tom staying and Bailey going). As has been said already, if he wants to stay and is happy at the club then he will. The financial gap is not so enormous that it cannot be bridged.

Why? I think that it's a relevant thing for Tom to consider, as is all the other stuff mentioned in that interview. It was a good interview and it laid out exactly what has been happening, no BS, just a lot of clarity and now we wait for Tom to decide what he wants to do. Hopefully he chooses to stay with us, and hopefully we make finals and that makes his decision to stay an even easier one to make.

Because so many players just switch clubs with the same ease as they do undies. This isn't a cashier job at Coles we're talking about, you can't just jump ship every few years when you're unhappy/unsuccessful/want more cash.

Exactly. They report sh!t that never happens, let alone stuff that does happen. I'm sure Lynch said he went too far with his comments, because it put a serious dent in GWS' move, but FFS why would he then turn around off air and declare that he's going, when at the time no offers were made, nothing was signed and nothing was even decided (and it still hasn't). Besides, just because Lynch/Schwartz/Sheehan believe that Scully should go, doesn't mean he will. I think he'll make a life changing decision based on his opinion and the opinion of his family, and not take life advice from his accountant, media commentators or indeed his manager who works on commission. Laughable. Can we at least give this kid some credit? He isn't some homeless bozo we picked up off the streets.