Lol, 5 consecutive BS posts.
Someone tell him no one really cares as most know what happened & we have moved on.
I'll take one for the team and save this thread from a(nother) derail.
Sanders: you are right. You were right from the outset and I applaud your outstanding English comprehension skills, your ability to follow a logical train of thought and most of all, your humility and your willingness to forego ad hominem and insult in the face of my persistent asinine posts and my general stupidity.
You were right to say that Patrick Keane had officially stated on behalf of the AFL that Sloane was a UFA. I would try to find out what was the rule change that led to his recent retraction, and statement that Sloane is RFA, but I'm so tired and humiliated I won't bother.
You were right to say that I had denied, repeatedly, that Patrick Keane was the league's official spokesperson, and I ackowledge that the only reason that you cannot actually quote any posts of mine to support this is because there are so many such posts that quoting them all would overwhelm your mother's data allowance.
You were right to say that in referring to the CBA as published on the AFLPA website, I was using "bad data". It must have been, and if I can summon the energy I will take this up with the AFLPA.
You were right to say that I did not understand that the FA rules might change after the publication of the CBA. The only evidence that I acknowledged this lies in posts that I have since edited to conceal the truth, and I admit that I connived with the mods to conceal the evidence of those edits.
Most of all, you were right that I repeatedly ran away when challenged. Again, I have edited my posts to make it appear that I was responding to you and rebutting your arguments.
Where I did not reply to a post of yours - well, I thought at the time that I was doing it because I had a life, and that even a cat lover can become bored with playing with a dangling ball of wool in front of a kitten; but you have made it clear that to fail to respond to every one of your posts, no matter how many there are, how repetitive they are, and no matter the cost to my sanity, is in fact to admit defeat and show myself up as a coward.
Finally, I want to apologise to my fellow Bigfooty posters for my misguided attempt to analyse the available information and contribute to a discussion on a topic of great interest. I realise now that one should only do this after the event, when there is no possibility that one might be wrong, to avoid the heartache and confusion that ensues from putting forward a logical, evidence-based hypothesis as a basis for discussion.
I'll run away now. Again. I am defeated and humiliated.
And I promise to never post on this subject again.