Geelong rorting the system

[PhatBoy]

The Geelong "Costa Living Allowance" where players are steered into "well priced" real estate and can't fail property development schemes.

The sea air down there does wonders for players mental well being and their retirement funds

At some point a supporter of another club will address the fact that real estate markets exist beyond the Geelong postcodes

 

[kickazz]

I've heard when they go to the strippers, the stripper gives the player money.

Fancy restaurants let them pay with monopoly money.

The waves at the beach make themselves better on days they don't have to go to training.

Cars are fitted with transmitters giving them more green lights.

In church, they take from the collection plate, you'll notice the guy carrying it always looks away when he gets to a Geelong player.

Some TABs will pay them the win dividend when their horse places.

I even think the fish and chip shops slip them a few extra potato cakes in their orders.


All seems like petty stuff, but it all adds up

 

[PhatBoy]

I've heard when they go to the strippers, the stripper gives the player money.

Fancy restaurants let them pay with monopoly money.

The waves at the beach make themselves better on days they don't have to go to training.

Cars are fitted with transmitters giving them more green lights.

In church, they take from the collection plate, you'll notice the guy carrying it always looks away when he gets to a Geelong player.

Some TABs will pay them the win dividend when their horse places.

I even think the fish and chip shops slip them a few extra potato cakes in their orders.


All seems like petty stuff, but it all adds up

Banks ask the players for loans and then repay the interest on the loan back to the player without the player ever having to give out any capital. That’s a big one doing the rounds.

I heard Rhys Stanley and Oisin Mullin also have been given a cancer cure that works like Panadol that only other Geelong players have access to, they just have to text Stanley or Mullin on their burner phones and they can get the tablets

 

[Moggy]

Getting Danger and Jez was a great bonus, but I think the real advantage is being able to identify and develop players like Blicavs, Atkins, Close, Stewart, Mannagh and Humphries while also being able to look after troubled souls like Stengle.

 

[Freddy Swift]

Getting Danger and Jez was a great bonus, but I think the real advantage is being able to identify and develop players like Blicavs, Atkins, Close, Stewart, Mannagh and Humphries while also being able to look after troubled souls like Stengle.

“Looking after troubled souls like Stengle”
What you mean like sweeping his ‘serious error of judgement’ under a rug never to be mentioned again?


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[Ricky Vaughn]

“Looking after troubled souls like Stengle”
What you mean like sweeping his ‘serious error of judgement’ under a rug never to be mentioned again?

You know about the Stengle thing right? Calling that “sweeping under the rug” is just stupid.

You should see some of the shit genuinely swept under the rug though. It’s pretty great how we can control the narrative.

 

[Freddy Swift]

You know about the Stengle thing right? Calling that “sweeping under the rug” is just stupid.

You should see some of the shit genuinely swept under the rug though. It’s pretty great how we can control the narrative.

Do tell


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[CharacterFirst]

Oh yeah i forgot the AFL investigated and cleared it all so obviously there was nothing to see

Hahaha.

Your mate Croad was pouring the peptides into your mob.

Then there was the "injunction".

And Duryea, Peterson, Buddy, etc.

And don't forget you're "The Family Racist Club."

The Mayblooms own house is a long way from being in order.

Focus on that little mate.

 

[Bunnings]

I watched Paul Chapman rip his hammy in that GF, go off, then come back on and win the Norm Smith.

His hammy did not rip, this is complete rubbish.
However many Saints players apparently played through pain including that bloke who cheated on his wife while being on fox footy before fleeing to America.
Goddard played with a broken collarbone and you think a hamstring niggle is something suspect, god I love this place, 24/7 laughs.

 

[Bont the Lord]

At some point a supporter of another club will address the fact that real estate markets exist beyond the Geelong postcodes

But funnily enough players have houses next door to one another. Wow

 

[Boxhead_31]

The Geelong "Costa Living Allowance" where players are steered into "well priced" real estate and can't fail property development schemes.

The sea air down there does wonders for players mental well being and their retirement funds

Can you give an example of the can't "fail property developments?"

 

[Elixuh]

How much of the money from the 10yr $5b ‘stadium redevelopment’ made its way onto the farms?

 

[Elixuh]

I reckon we will try to get another grant from the government soon to try and help pay for Harley Reid's glorious property

 

[LordLucifer]

What is Geelong guilty of exactly ??

Surely creating a club culture that makes them an attractive destination coupled with the lifestyle options they can offer prospective players is not a hanging offence

All they have done is used their "unique selling points" to target specific players who want those things, I'm sure there would be plenty of players who wouldn't that they don't talk to.

On the flipside, many non-Cats fans (I'm one of them too) are dubious about their ability to fit all of their huge salaries in the cap. Thing is, unless they have some super-dooper secret activities behind the scenes that are undetectable, they play within the same rules as the other clubs but just seem to be better at it. Again, no hangng offence there.

If the other clubs are not happy about how successful Geelong are onfield and their ability to continually attract high-end players, maybe they should be reviewing their own inhouse measures & structures to try and emulate them instead of sooking up. Stop loking at them and start looking internally, its the only way you will ever improve.

Yes, it really sh1ts me to see Geelong go about their stuff every year but they are a well-run club, it's only the ongoing woe-is-us petty whinges from jealous non-Cats fans that make this is a bigger issue than it really is.

 

[PhatBoy]

But funnily enough players have houses next door to one another. Wow

Who are these people exactly

 

[1970crow]

I would never defend Adelaide for what happened with Tippett, but not declaring a Balfours promotion worth $40k was just as minor, didn't even breach the salary cap.

What I don't understand is how one is a two year draft ban the other is small potatoes.

Because we organised to have club sponsorship $ diverted to Tippett whilst knowing it was against the rules and had emails laying around saying ‘don’t tell the AFL’ and ‘delete this email’. We also lifted Tippett’s contract with the AFL that includes a disclosure that all terms are contained within this contract. We knew that to be false when lodging the contract with the AFL. These are not accounting or timing errors.

 

[1970crow]

Lol this is a beautifully deluded description of the Tippett shenanigans

Got both talking points spot on, ‘didn’t breach cap’ and ‘a trifling amount’. Not bad after a decade plus.

 

[1970crow]

Maybe go back to the beginning. I don’t think he took the moral high ground at all. The first suggestion was Geelong are more relaxed to off field drinking indiscretions than Adelaide. That to me is taking moral high ground.

Hence it was simply pointed out that Worrell still got a game after his drink driving incident. I will now also point out the fact Tyson himself played half a season after being unregistered, drunk and crashing a car at the Cows, so that poster who suggested Cows take more of a hardline stance on these issues is probably exhibiting a short-term memory.

The fact is they are all footy clubs, all trying to win and have on-field obligations, PR obligations, player welfare obligations, etc. in various orders and the general punishments and attitude towards these indiscretions that happen at every club tend to be the same.

He didn’t crash his car, he failed to indicate from memory.

 

[1970crow]

What is Geelong guilty of exactly ??

Surely creating a club culture that makes them an attractive destination coupled with the lifestyle options they can offer prospective players is not a hanging offence

All they have done is used their "unique selling points" to target specific players who want those things, I'm sure there would be plenty of players who wouldn't that they don't talk to.

On the flipside, many non-Cats fans (I'm one of them too) are dubious about their ability to fit all of their huge salaries in the cap. Thing is, unless they have some super-dooper secret activities behind the scenes that are undetectable, they play within the same rules as the other clubs but just seem to be better at it. Again, no hangng offence there.

If the other clubs are not happy about how successful Geelong are onfield and their ability to continually attract high-end players, maybe they should be reviewing their own inhouse measures & structures to try and emulate them instead of sooking up. Stop loking at them and start looking internally, its the only way you will ever improve.

Yes, it really sh1ts me to see Geelong go about their stuff every year but they are a well-run club, it's only the ongoing woe-is-us petty whinges from jealous non-Cats fans that make this is a bigger issue than it really is.

I wouldn’t have thought Cats had the most expensive list in the league. Surely if they were so clearly rorting the cap then their name would be permanently at the top of each year’s ladder predictor. Especially given how they’re universally accepted to be extremely well run and have league leading footy dept. How could they be predicted to finish anywhere but top, and yet they’re routinely not.

 

[Elixuh]

To be fair Elixuh, you can't talk. Brisbane have been getting a leg up since the late 90's.
Hell' just imagine what could have transpired had Geelong been afforded the luxury of playing most of the season at Kardinia Park.

I don’t know who to believe anymore, the cats fans who claim they play better away from KP or the ones who say they’d be 23-0 at KP.

 

[Boxhead_31]

I wouldn’t have thought Cats had the most expensive list in the league. Surely if they were so clearly rotting the cap then their name would be permanently at the top of each year’s ladder predictor. Especially given how they’re universally accepted to be extremely well run and have league leading footy dept. How could they be predicted to finish anywhere but top, and yet they’re routinely not.

Only three players in the top 100 paid players and two of those were in the 90's

 

[Elixuh]

Yeh, because four years ago is relevant to today's record at home without Selwood or Guthrie part of the midfield brigade

Not my words

 

[PhatBoy]

Not my words

Well, they are: ‘there are cats fans that claim they would be 23-0 at KP’ or words to that effect.

I don’t think I’ve seen any cats fans say that

 

[Elixuh]

Well, they are: ‘there are cats fans that claim they would be 23-0 at KP’ or words to that effect.

I don’t think I’ve seen any cats fans say that

Am I not able to embellish?



I had a Geelong fellow the other day telling me they play better away from KP so playing there isn’t an advantage.

 

[PhatBoy]

Am I not able to embellish?

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I had a Geelong fellow the other day telling me they play better away from KP so playing there isn’t an advantage.

Well this season that much was true