Geelong rorting the system

[Mr Meow]

The big takeaway from this thread is that Geelong are the only club that have lifestyle factors that MAKE players want to accept less money, meaning Geelong are the only club that can also manage their cap.

TLDR:

• no other other clubs have lifestyle factors
• Geelong are the only club who can manage their cap

Plenty of people prefer to live in Melbourne or indeed out the Victorian fish bowl.

Geelong struggled to recruit good players until they became a successful organisation, not the other way around.

 

[Nebular]

The cats are not what they seem

I love a Twin Peaks reference!

 

[threesixpio]

I love a Twin Peaks reference!

 

[Ross]

Geelong sign-on bonus.

I heard that Bailey also saw this Jezza video and wanted in on the expensive victory hampers that we gift rort for our players.

 

[FootyLad0]

Come on guys, let's settle this down, there's more obsessing over contracts than their managers are doing.

"Rort this, rort that" is the talk of loser club supporter bases. Leave the Tigers, Power and their colleagues for that sort of stuff.

I’m not delusional enough to think Geelong players don’t receive incentives to play for the Cats.

Apparently everyone playing for the Lions is on Centrelink according to old mate

Live scenes of Lions players on their offseason trips

 

[Strange Cat]

No club has gotten under the skin of opposition supporters more than current day Geelong, I'm sure of it. I remember Hawthorn supporters adopting the phrase 'head****ed' after a few free kick conspiracies, but that pales in comparison to how Geelong have WARPED the masses.

Personally I’m loving all the tears and insane conspiracy theories …just wait till we win a flag within the next few years to watch the same supporters melt even further

 

[Strange Cat]

95% of us would cop it on the chin like we did playing no finals at our home ground, losing Ablett for a pack of chips and Tim Kelly after a top 5 Brownlow season (yes we got good picks but were contending the next season remember).

If Sam was unhappy and saw more opportunities elsewhere, then good luck to him. It'd suck but that's life. Geelong supporters are the least feral in the comp concerning players that leave for other clubs.

This

Colbert was legitimately the last Geelong player that had a massive pushback from fans and even then that was very mild compared to other clubs treatment of players leaving …look at Henry, Scully and Ginivan for recent examples …hell look at the tigers fans treatment of Hardwick when he left

If SDK left it’ll be like any other player leaving the club, we will wish him the best and hope he has a good career and won’t boo or abuse him

 

[Strange Cat]

You said 5 on a million- there is 1, so you talking absolute shit.

Irony

I doubt any Geelong player is on $1 million keep crying and deflecting multiple lions players would easily be on $1 million with the recent resigning

 

[jonnobackpocket]

I’m not delusional enough to think Geelong players don’t receive incentives to play for the Cats.

Apparently everyone playing for the Lions is on Centrelink according to old mate

Live scenes of Lions players on their offseason trips

Which one are you the grown man who dresses as a cat or the old man who cries on TV about Ablett? imagine making shit up and then believing it ‘because I said it’s besides all the evidence to the contrary. Because it’s not a million a year it’s Centrelink, what is the cut off for Centrelink, no doubt you would be all over it.

 

[jonnobackpocket]

Irony

I doubt any Geelong player is on $1 million keep crying and deflecting multiple lions players would easily be on $1 million with the recent resigning

Ummmmmm Jeremy Cameron- 1.1 million a year, go and have a look, do a bit of research before you are another ‘Footy lad’ and then try and find any reports of any lions player on a million a year let alone 5 like your silly little nuffie mate said.

 

[STPer18]

Wow, suitcases on the big $$$. Seven figures, hope there's no shady business going on.

 

[jonnobackpocket]

Irony

I doubt any Geelong player is on $1 million keep crying and deflecting multiple lions players would easily be on $1 million with the recent resigning

Crying ha ha what have a I got to cry about?? One of the most remarkable flags of all time, the highlight of course beating Geelong in the prelim. Multiple million dollar players I mean if you say it and self appointed ‘Footylad’ says it has to be true.

 

[Mr Meow]

Crying ha ha what have a I got to cry about?? One of the most remarkable flags of all time, the highlight of course beating Geelong in the prelim. Multiple million dollar players I mean if you say it and self appointed ‘Footylad’ says it has to be true.

That was actually the highlight? We don't even think about you guys. Is this another one sided rivalry we're not aware of?

I would've thought beating the team that was premiership favourites most of the season, in the GF, would've been the highlight. Different strokes for different folks.

You'll note that we weren't whinging about anything Brisbane related after seeing Geelong spank them in prelims 2020 and 2022.

 

[FootyLad0]

Which one are you the grown man who dresses as a cat or the old man who cries on TV about Ablett? imagine making shit up and then believing it ‘because I said it’s besides all the evidence to the contrary. Because it’s not a million a year it’s Centrelink, what is the cut off for Centrelink, no doubt you would be all over it.

Still going sweetheart?

Think I hit a nerve two pages back

 

[Pistol Night]

Which one are you the grown man who dresses as a cat or the old man who cries on TV about Ablett? imagine making shit up and then believing it ‘because I said it’s besides all the evidence to the contrary. Because it’s not a million a year it’s Centrelink, what is the cut off for Centrelink, no doubt you would be all over it.

Hey dont go asking the amateurs about our employer please

 

[FootyLad0]

That was actually the highlight? We don't even think about you guys. Is this another one sided rivalry we're not aware of?

I would've thought beating the team that was premiership favourites most of the season, in the GF, would've been the highlight. Different strokes for different folks.

You'll note that we weren't whinging about anything Brisbane related after seeing Geelong spank them in prelims 2020 and 2022.

Spot on, couldn’t really care that a team that should have won multiple Premierships right now beat us when most didn’t even have us playing Finals let alone winning one.

List that stacked should have 3 by now.

 

[Strange Cat]

Crying ha ha what have a I got to cry about?? One of the most remarkable flags of all time, the highlight of course beating Geelong in the prelim. Multiple million dollar players I mean if you say it and self appointed ‘Footylad’ says it has to be true.

We are everyone’s grand final apparently …winning the flag wasn’t the highlight for you only beating us

Sad really

 

[Strange Cat]

That was actually the highlight? We don't even think about you guys. Is this another one sided rivalry we're not aware of?

I would've thought beating the team that was premiership favourites most of the season, in the GF, would've been the highlight. Different strokes for different folks.

You'll note that we weren't whinging about anything Brisbane related after seeing Geelong spank them in prelims 2020 and 2022.

I mean it was a shock that the team got that far with a list clearly rebuilding and our star player out for most of the year leaving a midfield full of kids to hold the team up ….yet beating us in the finals is more of a highlight than winning the flag

Don’t know what to say about that really

 

[STPer18]

Kinda forgot we beat the Bad News Bears in prelims both 2020 and 2022. First one was after having the entire season played in their own backyard, the latter was a 71 point thumping. Now I'm starting to get it.

 

[Pistol Night]

Kinda forgot we beat the Bad News Bears in prelims both 2020 and 2022. First one was after having the entire season played in their own backyard, the latter was a 71 point thumping. Now I'm starting to get it.

They couldn't even but us in a granny. Thats like losing an arm wrestle to Gerard Whateley

 

[jonnobackpocket]

Still going sweetheart?

Think I hit a nerve two pages back

You hit a nerve- please, 5 players on a million, what a flog. Imagine you in a job interview, not that you would have ever had one but: “Why should we give you the job?”, “I am the best person for the job”, “ok- can you tell me why?”, “well I said it- ummm yeah that’s it, I said it”.

 

[jonnobackpocket]

I mean it was a shock that the team got that far with a list clearly rebuilding and our star player out for most of the year leaving a midfield full of kids to hold the team up ….yet beating us in the finals is more of a highlight than winning the flag

Don’t know what to say about that really

Who doesn’t enjoy beating the team with the floggiest supporters, how can you not love that, especially when they tell you all week not to bother turning up.

 

[jonnobackpocket]

They couldn't even but us in a granny. Thats like losing an arm wrestle to Gerard Whateley

In A Grand Final, pretty sure we have done it before, couple of times I rekon.

 

[STPer18]

There it is, a penta post. This is what it looks like to be WARPED by Geelong.

 

[Pistol Night]

In A Grand Final, pretty sure we have done it before, couple of times I rekon.

Yeah. No need to start throwing haymakers at every campaigner.