Geelong rorting the system

[Boxhead_31]

So you’re annoyed at the suggestion Geelong are rorting, because you think others do it - and don’t have an issue with the illegalities of it all generally?

Got it.

Want to hand back those three flags?

 

[Munich]

If the AFL are as inept at prosecuting as they are ay covering up then Geelong us safe.

It's a shame the Vic Labor are so paralysed with incompetence, a Geelong witch hunt would make an excellent distraction.

#GeelongRoyalCommission has a nice ring to it. Go after the Dank connection, the bikie and Costa angles and the extra payments.

Geelong would have to stand out if the comp while facing such serious charges of course.

Bikies now?

Gee whiz Geelong have been busy.

It's a wonder they've had time to concentrate on playing footy each week!

 

[Munich]

Sounds like Geelong are cooked then. Somebody knows the details.

If a player from a club breaks the law it's a police matter. How does it make a club "cooked"?

 

[Cyclops]

Bikies now?

Gee whiz Geelong have been busy.

It's a wonder they've had time to concentrate on playing footy each week!

You don't remember Bomber Thompson? He's a colourful character with colourful friends. You remember Dank and Robinson and the Chemist surely. All part of Bombers Cats.

Well Bomber had bikie...associates too. He ended up with a garage full of drugs which a bikie associate put there.

As you do when you're a cleanskin.

 

[PetterdHoisted]

the fact they got an ex-GFC guy to audit GFC in this matter means it will never really go away.

the suspicion will always be there that they rorted the cap

such a stupid thing to do, just get a true outsider with no conflicts of interest, so that you can actually be exonerated in any real sense.

 

[STPer18]

You’re sweating aren’t ya.

Don’t worry they’ve apppinted an ex Geelong auditor, an intern could investigate that in 5 mins. Geelong are all good, it’s the Geelong way.

Totally. Just be sure to keep us all in the loop when you hear more from your 'clients'.

 

[Munich]

the fact they got an ex-GFC guy to audit GFC in this matter means it will never really go away.

the suspicion will always be there that they rorted the cap

such a stupid thing to do, just get a true outsider with no conflicts of interest, so that you can actually be exonerated in any real sense.

Richmond have been in disaray for years over Geelong and Hocking changing the rules to benefit them.

I don't think anything would appease the level of nuffiness from your supporter base.

 

[Purple Suit]

the fact they got an ex-GFC guy to audit GFC in this matter means it will never really go away.

the suspicion will always be there that they rorted the cap

such a stupid thing to do, just get a true outsider with no conflicts of interest, so that you can actually be exonerated in any real sense.

Unless you are guilty, then get the inside guy to give you a tick and hope no one pays any attention to the conflict.

 

[blaisee]

Geelong was such an undesirable, backward dump in the 20th century. Nobody in their right mind wanted to play there, unless they were from there or the western

How exactly has that changed ?

Danger et all are from the dump you speak of

 

[ams4crows]

What properties do players acquire for chips? Bazlenka's house cost 4mil via a private sale. If you're talking about pubs that happens everwhere, it seems to be a common purchase between players for some reason.


Are other club major sponsors finding jobs for partners/relatives?

You're also dismissing our draft work over the past few decades which has been exceptional. We have also been blessed with some father sons who have worked out swimmingly. It's not our fault other clubs can't read a draft or develop their draftees like we have.

Did you miss the part where it says every club is doing it and Geelong just do it better?

 

[Munich]

Did you miss the part where it says every club is doing it and Geelong just do it better?

Well then what's your argument?

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Every club is trying to recruit other clubs players. Every club has employees whose full time job is literally that.

The difference is just that players say yes to Geelong more often than others. Since even say no, like Hopper.

Correct. But no nailed on best 22 Cats ever seem to say yes to other clubs. But somehow all these high value players in, and none out, all fits neatly within the salary cap.

Makes sense.

 

[Munich]

Correct. But no nailed on best 22 Cats ever seem to say yes to other clubs. But somehow all these high value players in, and none out, all fits neatly within the salary cap.

Makes sense.

They're paid unders as well.

It's almost like the surf coast lifestyle and not being mobbed in a major city is an attractive prospect.

 

[STPer18]

Correct. But no nailed on best 22 Cats ever seem to say yes to other clubs. But somehow all these high value players in, and none out, all fits neatly within the salary cap.

Makes sense.

"My team mismanaged its list so poorly to the point we won the wooden spoon ahead of historically bad teams in North and WCE and became the laughing stock of the comp, why didn't Geelong do the same".

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Correct. But no nailed on best 22 Cats ever seem to say yes to other clubs. But somehow all these high value players in, and none out, all fits neatly within the salary cap.

Makes sense.

Tim Kelly did. They didn't want Jordan Clark to go. Mumford they wanted to keep but couldn't match COLA. We lose players too.

 

[Wojcinski]

Correct. But no nailed on best 22 Cats ever seem to say yes to other clubs. But somehow all these high value players in, and none out, all fits neatly within the salary cap.

Makes sense.

 

[Wojcinski]

Tim Kelly did. They didn't want Jordan Clark to go. Mumford they wanted to keep but couldn't match COLA. We lose players too.

Yeah but aside from all the players that left, no one leaves!

 

[Munich]

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I'd forgotten about Caddy. He seemed more Richmondy than Geelong didn't he.

 

[PhatBoy]

Correct. But no nailed on best 22 Cats ever seem to say yes to other clubs. But somehow all these high value players in, and none out, all fits neatly within the salary cap.

Makes sense.

No. None at all. I can’t think of any good, high profile players at all this century who have ever ended up at another club having been at the cats.

 

[STPer18]

 

[Munich]

No. None at all. I can’t think of any good, high profile players at all this century who have ever ended up at another club having been at the cats.

How could we not keep GAJ with all of our rorting and bikie affiliations and Costa.

Kind of blows the whole argument out the door.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

How could we not keep GAJ with all of our rorting and bikie affiliations and Costa.

Kind of blows the whole argument out the door.

4d chess. He was only ever on loan and was actively subverting the list build

 

[Munich]

Tuggers still being humiliated here.

They just keep coming back for more.

 

[PetterdHoisted]

Richmond have been in disaray for years over Geelong and Hocking changing the rules to benefit them.

I don't think anything would appease the level of nuffiness from your supporter base.

That's a whole other thing, but it stinks in the same way

Geelong will never be free of either accusation, as they failed to manage conflict-of-interest

(and I swear, any other GFC posters who can't understand 'perception of bias' vs 'actual bias', and their relative importance to COI...arghh)

The CEO-elect of the team that just lost a GF makes wholesale and bizarre changes to the rules of the game...I mean seriously.

And now, if this ex-GFC auditor decision stands, well you may as well go buy another pack of stickers with '*' on them.

GFC are their own worst enemy, pure and simple.

 

[Munich]

That's a whole other thing, but it stinks in the same way

Geelong will never be free of either accusation, as they failed to manage conflict-of-interest

(and I swear, any other GFC posters who can't understand 'perception of bias' vs 'actual bias', and their relative importance to COI...arghh)

The CEO-elect of the team that just lost a GF makes wholesale and bizarre changes to the rules of the game...I mean seriously.

And now, if this ex-GFC auditor decision stands, well you may as well go buy another pack of stickers with '*' on them.

GFC are their own worst enemy, pure and simple.

Rules were changed after Hawks rushed through a billion behinds in the 08 granny.

Was that Hocking?

Geelong isn't conducting the audit on themselves either. Take it up with the AFL.