Bossdog

It amazes me how the media "knows" how much our players are paid.....I heard Denham this morning saying how much we overpaid for Dawes "reportedly $600,000 per year......Unless I'm mistaken players contracts are private but I hear what they supposedly get all over the papers......I understand that we have to pay our players the salary cap or near enough to it. How much one player gets in the cap is no one's business except the club, the player, and the AFL All the rest is guess work by the media....

Geez....I'd hate to see this site if we posted a loss.....

Cheer up Old Dee....All is not lost.....

OOOhhhhh..WOE... Ohhhhhh despair.....Another season of of footy is ahead of us.....I can't stand it anymore..... Cheer up lads.....It's less than a year till the next draft....

Good for you Crawf.....I too hate the sniping of our players and the club.....They are OUR players and OUR club....

So....If I get this right......Coaches must play recognised backmen on recognised forwards all the time?????? They are not allowed to experiment....ever??????? If the said experimentation causes a team that has only won a couple of games so far in the said season to lose...then this is termed tanking????? FD staff must not say anything funny about said loss????? Must not have FD meetings in the said "Vault" The media shall have exclusive rights as to which players should play where therefore taking the job of coaches.(saving clubs millions)?????? This investigation is a joke and an blight on the AFL as a whole.....Driven purely by the media......

I sometimes wonder if all theses sports sience blokes know what they are doing......Permission to have a few shots at goal??????....I would have thought that it was complusary....

Thursday....

I just don't get why people have this obsession with draft pick numbers....It doesn't matter at what pick a player comes to the team weather it's pick #2 or pick #56.....If you make it to the list there you are a chance to have a career Some people think "If we get so and so with pick #56 he is a bargain" but pick #2 has to be a champion because it's pick#2..... As soon as a player arrives at the club he is expected to perform at a required level.....I can't see the FD saying "Well he was a pick #60 so we don't have any expectations on him , and we can go easy on him.....Will Toumpas be a better player than Kent????....Who knows...It's up to the player and they all start equal......Just saying...

I don't think we will have to worry......The world is going to end on the 21st Dec.2012........ Just in case it doesn't......We are a good chance for the eight......

Just wondering why #3,#16,#18#24 ect are not being utillised this year....????? Anyone know???

Geez......Thats an early call.........After a season of defensive hard work and a fitness wake up call (for all players) I believe the whole midfied group will improve and start to show whats its worth......But to say he doesn't have the tools in his 3or4th season is just crap.....Cotchin didn't have the greatest first two seasons ...but will be a champion....

And as for being mentally weak......I would like to see how you would get through the year he had and come up smelling like roses....

I reckon a few have short memories.....In 2011 was the clubs leading goal kicker in a fairly crap team....Has kicked 81 goals in 35 matches......Was a very exciting player that people would turn up to watch.....Had cultural problems that none of us would even hope to understand.......And had a ankle problem for most of this year.......Players now on our list would have been given a bit of leeway.....But as soon as you leave the club.....out come the knifes.......

What a foolish and ignorant comment......

I hope he does well there.....I always had a soft spot for Bater...

I think the 'why' is pretty obvious.....I don't think'Thank You' is part of their language......

You really think that the club is so insecure that "his Mum" could spook it into a longer contractAt the time the contract seemed a good move.......Ah hindsight....a wonderful thing....

Port would not have traded anything for him....He is being given a chance to train and there are no certaintees that they will pick him up......

Why would you want your 30 year olds training the house down in November???? Aaron did not have the best of years but he had so many friends,it is unfair to single him out.. How many times did the ball get turned over in the midfield??/ ....Very hard for a small forward to shine in our team in 2012 The club signed him on a four year contract......He is honoring that contract...as he should...and as the club should... I hope he gets over these injuries and works up to match fitness in MARCH 2013...and can be a useful member of our side.... I hate the way people stick the knifes in when a player heads into retirement ...

I thought Belly wore it because he was Broadbridges best mate.....Could be wrong here....

No....Just posting for info of other posters.......Don't like it????......Stiff S..t.....Don't read or comment........

It appears that Dawes has strained a calf muscle at training.....

Yes....I think it is a big improvement........Trying not to get too excited just yet......

Lets not go overboard on Little Jimmy Yet.......Is yet to play a game......Don't want Jack Watts expectations.... I hope like hell you are all right with your decriptions of him but lets wait until he has played a few games before calling him the saviour....