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There has been some aggro from publishers of articles in recent months about sites that copypasta their content onto other sites, particularly the paywalled ones, which could lead to fines and whanot for those that do it. Apparently there are copywrite laws for these things. As a result we can no longer have full articles reposted here, so if you come across something then please refrain from nabbing the whole thing and just post the link. Quoting a paragraph or two and linking the source is fine however, just don't get greedy.

Here's the updated site-wide rule: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/please-read-re-copyright-posting-newspaper-articles.1389553/

Here's an example of what you can do:

"If West Coast was the gold standard for how to operate, then Fremantle's arrival into the AFL in 1995 could be viewed as a series of cautionary tales.

Despite eight wins in that debut season, a series of poor recruiting choices meant they didn't play their first final until 2003."

If they believe that us not making finals until 2003 was solely due to "a series of poor recruiting choices" then I have a bridge to sell them.


Thanks for your understanding.
 

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I hope we can serve up a great pile of S**t sandwiches to the Wise men from the East.And have similar pie to to be face planted on a certain over blown tosser there.
Some people laugh on here when I say this but the more we are written off in the media the better this team is.

How people can’t see that beats me.

It’s literally psychology 101 in any sport.

It was obvious to anyone with half a brain that we were going to come out fire and brimstone against the dogs after being disrespected in the media and written off all week. JL simply could not have dreamed of a better build up for this side last week. I’d say he was sat there with his feet up drinking champagne and smoking cigars late last week given how the week had panned out in the media, with every man and his dog saying the Bulldogs were unbeatable and freo were just frauds making up the numbers.


I’ll never understand people who want us to be pumped up and get a whole pile of credit and nice things said about us by Eastern states pundits in particular.
Why on earth would we want something that could take the hard edge and ruthlessness off this team???

The only day I want to sit back and enjoy reading and hearing media pundits praise our team and talk about how amazing we are - is the day after the grand final when we have our first premiership safely in the bag.

Not one minute before it.
When that day arrived it will be a sweet day for all of us associated with freo and we can cash all the tickets we have been holding onto over the years.

However Until that day arrives - we should be all desperately hoping that every media talking head keeps writing us off and ridicules our team.
 
Some people laugh on here when I say this but the more we are written off in the media the better this team is.

How people can’t see that beats me.

It’s literally psychology 101 in any sport.

It was obvious to anyone with half a brain that we were going to come out fire and brimstone against the dogs after being disrespected in the media and written off all week. JL simply could not have dreamed of a better build up for this side last week. I’d say he was sat there with his feet up drinking champagne and smoking cigars late last week given how the week had panned out in the media, with every man and his dog saying the Bulldogs were unbeatable and freo were just frauds making up the numbers.


I’ll never understand people who want us to be pumped up and get a whole pile of credit and nice things said about us by Eastern states pundits in particular.
Why on earth would we want something that could take the hard edge and ruthlessness off this team???

The only day I want to sit back and enjoy reading and hearing media pundits praise our team and talk about how amazing we are - is the day after the grand final when we have our first premiership safely in the bag.

Not one minute before it.
When that day arrived it will be a sweet day for all of us associated with freo and we can cash all the tickets we have been holding onto over the years.

However Until that day arrives - we should be all desperately hoping that every media talking head keeps writing us off and ridicules our team.
but but...we will not for long be able to slip under that radar...
Check out the Saturday Paper's love song, theyre on to us!

 
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Haven't heard from this Sutherland guy much. Prob a good sign
Certainly quieter than most club presidents. Doesn't even post on Linkedin.

Seems to have pretty much retired after Programmed were sold to a Japanese company and he's turned the sponsorship history into a role on the Board, and the club presidency.
 
Love this article.

I know Wallsy gets his credit on this forum, but I hope the average footy punter appreciates just how good this guy has been identifying talent, and how good the current club environment is for developing it.

If we can snag a premiership or two, this will become the blueprint for how you build a contending list without any favours or handouts from the league.
 

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