Jaded No More

Oh FFS. OK it's official, some guy heard from his mate that Lynch nodded his head. It's all over.

I don't know why I bother, however, Thompson did NOT return home because he was home sick. He returned home because he had family matters he had to attend to. He didn't simply get home sick, chuck a hissy fit and left. He told the club he wanted to go, and he helped us out by saying that he'll go to whichever SA club gave us a better deal. That is as much as any departing player can really do. Of course given he had to return home we had no leg to stand on so had to take a relatively poor deal, although in reality we replaced him with who is now our Vice Captain. Granted Moloney is not as good a player, but he has given us great service and will continue to do so for many years.

Oh lord, that has to be the worst one of all thus far!

The question was put in a way that suggests "nobody would ever leave Melbourne to go play for a South Australian club by choice". That still remains to be correct in the case of Thommo. He had no real choice, and it wasn't his desire to leave the club and go back home. Therefore the example is flawed.

No he didn't, he said "we can pay Tom as much as GWS can because of the nature of our list and how young it is", and that we still believe that over the life of his career, Scully will earn similar amounts of money at both clubs. Clearly he wasn't saying we'll pay Tom $1mil a year because we have a whole list of players worthy of big money (unlike GWS who have nothing!), but he was definitely playing down the financial difference between the two offers. I cannot believe that Schwartz just sat there refuting everything he said, what an absolute joke. If Scully stays I will personally ring up SEN and let him have it. What a great supporter of our club he is. Fool.

Biggest misconception in footy. Thommo went back for family reasons. He needed to be close to his family and made it very easy for the club to strike a good deal for him in return. I cringe when Melbourne supporters boo him. Stupid. Besides, with the way both SA clubs are going at the moment, I don't think the proposition of going back there is very appealing. Port Adelaide are struggling to pay the electricity bills, how the hell are they going to pay for marquee players?

Perfect response. Strong, unwavering, talking down to the media and their ridiculous beliefs that Tom is a liar, and most importantly understanding that we can match the offer from GWS over the life of Scully's career. I want to punch the Ox in the face. He is being a real [censored]!

I'm madly in love with this kid. What a star!

This is the worst thread in the history of Demonland. If we have to go through this sh*t with Trengove next year I'm going to shoot myself.

Hahahaha gold. And GWS are the drunk desperate guy trying to get a root anyway they can. Brilliant!

Are you insinuating that Scully has lied to you, the club and the general public?

Really depends what additional revenue we can generate for Tom by being a player of a Victorian team, with very well connected people in high places.

So jealous! I had planned to go, but thankfully I didn't book anything because as it turns out I started a new job this week. At least the game is live on Ch.10.

And not once did I dispute your point or have a go at Tom, I actually said that I have no problems with him waiting the season out before he signs. The point remains though that if he does, he will remain one of a few, and indeed probably the only high draft pick to leave their club for money. In fact, Harbrow is the only young 'potentially elite' (but not in the same league as Scully/Martin/Kreuzer), to have defected so far.

I have no issue if Tom waits until the end of the year to sign, however if he chooses to leave for the cash, he'll be one of the very few young players who will do so, and that will follow him for the rest of his career. So far, many of the bigger names who have been chased for money, have turned it down. Martin and Kreuzer are just a few early draft picks to have done so. Probably a small price to pay for the millions that he'll be earning mind you.

Qualify for what? The Australian Netball Team? I've lost track of the multiple conversations going on here. Should go back to doing some work now.

Cute and can cook. Killer catch.

You think I get Youtube access at work? Come on now. I barely get Demonland access They decided to block internet shopping sites too, until they realised we work at a fashion company and they were facing an employee strike. Good times.

In other good news, our only remaining working photocopier is broken. How is it that we can fly people to the moon, but nobody has invented a photocopier that doesn't get paper jammed. Seriously. Fridays are a [censored].

I just had a terrible coffee and it cost me $4.30. Also, this thread is by far the most interesting thing I've read today.

Competitive has been replaced by consistency. Hopefully next year the new buzz word about Melbourne will be premiership

Maybe they put the teams together before they knew if he was gonna get off his rough conduct charge? He should play. Surely.

That's what you get for being one of the only players in the team with consistent output. He hasn't had a bad game since the GC game where he was a sub. That's a long stretch of contribution for someone so young, and seemingly it's a feat nobody more senior can achieve (Beamer comes close, but he too goes missing when we're down). It's a credit to Watts, Martin and to a lesser extent Trengove (who would probably be up the top if he didn't miss 3 games), that they've managed to maintain a high level of performance each and every week, regardless of how everyone around them has performed. Especially for Watts who plays a tough position, and Martin who has been on a steep learning curve since Jamar went down injured.

I don't think I heaped even a little bit of gushing praise on Blease, but I find it astounding that in a 10 goal loss, where our senior players were mostly rubbish, we choose to talk about Blease, who played for 1.5 quarters. I'm not advocating that we always blindly support new players, but FFS I am sick and tired of reading crap about young players. Watts is shite, Strauss is soft, Scully can't kick etc etc... It's the same rubbish we heard about Frawley (terrible defender), Garland (soft and weak), and the list goes on. Just let these kids develop, don't expect them to be perfect from the first moment they step on the ground, accept that they'll take short steps, not chase hard enough, fluff some kicks. It happens, it happens to 10 year players too. Let's stop focusing on stupid issues and worry about what is actually important. It's far more upsetting that Green, our captain, has been MIA practically all year. What direction and leadership is a kid like Blease getting when his captain is not giving a yelp?