Mike "C-Bomb" Fitzpatrick

[StevenwellerHFC]

Colless Sounds like a ******* campaigner.

 

[SterlingArcher]

This may surprise you, shock you to your very core, but I'm not the head of the AFL Commission...

...yet.

Hang on.

So if you're head of the AFL commission, you're not allowed to swear? In a private convo?

Is this what you're going with?

 

[r_boy]

Why does this make him a flog?

 

[ManWithNoName]

Hang on.

So if you're head of the AFL commission, you're not allowed to swear? In a private convo?

Is this what you're going with?

One would think if you in such a position you'd be able to maintain a slightly more professional demeanour than swearing at someone for 10 minutes.

That said, old mate JohnnyFontane was just having a toys-out-of-pram moment.

 

[leeloo]

Woah, juicy. What will Caro's return article be, I wonder?

 

[The_Reaper]

Richard Colless is just using the extra media attention in Sydney from Adam Goodes getting booed (a legitimate issue) to push a media agenda that Sydney is getting ripped off by the Victorians.

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

Sydney figjams bucks for headcoach

 

[Hydrurga]

Considering the Swans abused the COLA (technically lawful, but abused it nonetheless) and Fitzpatrick was on the commission that had to deal with the whole debacle, he was well within his rights to carry on like a pork sausage at the man that orchestrated it all. Not a flog.

 

[JohnnyFontane90]

One would think if you in such a position you'd be able to maintain a slightly more professional demeanour than swearing at someone for 10 minutes.

That said, old mate JohnnyFontane was just having a toys-out-of-pram moment.

the more i see of you the more i think we'd get along famously in real life

 

[The_Reaper]

We did NOT abuse the COLA

Correct. You used it exactly as it was intended.

Just unlucky that once GWS came along that the AFL had another love child

 

[Hydrurga]

We did NOT abuse the COLA

So COLA was stripped from Sydney for no reason whatsoever?

 

[Paul Kersey]

We did NOT abuse the COLA

It was an abuse that it even existed.

 

[The King!]

So COLA was stripped from Sydney for no reason whatsoever?

No didnt you read the article

 

[WALDENPOND]

you're so high and mighty you've never said a curse word!?

Dude, get off the sidewalk and cook up some grits.

 

[Thats Wright]

Reads as if Colless views the AFL as a 3rd world Government he can screw both ways. Is refreshing Mike has the ability to enforce.

 

[something]

Considering the Swans abused the COLA (technically lawful, but abused it nonetheless) and Fitzpatrick was on the commission that had to deal with the whole debacle, he was well within his rights to carry on like a pork sausage at the man that orchestrated it all. Not a flog.

Yeah nah as a professional employee of incredibly high stature within this organization its poor form to be acting in such a manner.

Who gives a s**t about Sydney and GWS getting buddy anyway - It was never a hefty blow to them. They're doing fine without him and him being signed to that club would have seen a few players of top end talent move elsewhere.

You'd think Sydney's game plan post-signing buddy of bombing it to him high and long when he's regularly getting double teamed is punishment enough...god knows it has been for us fans.

 

[the PILL]

Ballpark.... what would Fitzpatrick on?

 

[leeloo]

Sydney didn't break any rules but they kind of did a Bronnie Bishop though. Just went that one step too far

I am just not sure of what Sydney's agenda is here, doesn't seem wise to bite the hand that feeds you but hey good on them, the AFL needs a good shake up. As has been said, they just make up the rules as they go along and it seems that if blindly follow them, you get better rules than others.

 

[gavaniacono]

They should clean out the afl and Essendon hierarchies with the same brush. Get rid of these forked tongued folk and replace them with some integrity.

 

[Thats Wright]

Top melt, 10/10 would melt again.

It's a bit like New Zealand starting to rip off international cricket and fling s**t.

Place and all that.

 

[Ron The Bear]

Highly successful type A person swears at another when things don't go their way shock horror.

Right out of the Ian Collins playbook.

 

[gavaniacono]

I think it played a part. Wasn't all of it.

I do agree that frustration about perceived advantages Sydney has gotten has being building for a while and Goodes was a convenient outlet

You must be kidding.

 

[kneecapper]

It was an abuse that it even existed.

I have a hypothetical for you:

Say you're a decent Victorian player with a young family looking to get into the housing market.

Sydney come to you and offer you $400k/yr to move away from home for 3 seasons plus the standard $40k COLA.

Geelong also approach you and offer you $410k/yr for 3 seasons.

The median house price in Geelong is $450k. The price of the same sized house in a similar proximity in Sydney is $1.1 million. Assuming an interest rate of 5%, on which offer will you be financially better off at the end of your contract?

Don't worry, Im not expecting an answer anytime soon.

 

[Spook]

Talk about righteous hand wringers. Guys they are 2 men having a private conversation and they swore at each other... OMFG


Get over your selves children.

 

[Spook]

I have a hypothetical for you:

Say you're a decent Victorian player with a young family looking to get into the housing market.

Sydney come to you and offer you $400k/yr to move away from home for 3 seasons plus the standard $40k COLA.

Geelong also approach you and offer you $410k/yr for 3 seasons.

The median house price in Geelong is $450k. The price of the same sized house in a similar proximity in Sydney is $1.1 million. Assuming an interest rate of 5%, on which offer will you be financially better off at the end of your contract?

Don't worry, Im not expecting an answer anytime soon.

When or just after COLA Came in Perth prices where par with Sydney, yet no COLA for the 2 Perth teams.