Geelong rorting the system

[Bald]

If Port were handing out MGs to their AFLW players then I assume the AFLW player would simply hand it back and say "no thanks"

I don't think it would have gotten to that point, the second they were offered a Port contract they probably would have said "no thanks".

 

[bigfarter]

Oh well if Lance Armstrong cheated in the Tour de France, case closed.

Richmond cheated in the afl.

The attitude seems to be "The AFL is rigged except when my team wins - then it is earned." It is... very stupid.

 

[PetterdHoisted]

I think falling just short repeatedly in the last decade+ has led to the rumoured sanctions.

Hardwick’s Richmond asked ‘why not us’ in 2017

Scott’s Geelong would have asked ‘why not us’ in 2019 also.

Same question, very different tone, not hope but desperation.

But let’s revisit once everything has been made transparent, but I think that will have been the kernel of it all.

 

[bigfarter]

Yeah, cool. Be sure to let us know when these sanctions come, LOL.

 

[Sttew]

You know cycling fans used to believe that a guy that had cancer could win 7 Tours of France Cats fans in the equalisation era remind me of those cycling fans.

Talk about sour grapes. Absolutely pathetic, but to be expected from certain Richmond supporters

And Falcon, its Tour de France, not Tour of France, LOL

 

[STPer18]

Credit to the journo at Scotty's presser today, asking about oppo fans dripping with envy about everything involving the Premiership Printer aka Geelong - very relevant to today's discussions. Not sure if he's been reading our fred, but either way people seem to be laughing at you guys a lot...

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[RPCB]

Credit to the journo at Scotty's presser today, asking about oppo fans dripping with envy about everything involving the Premiership Printer aka Geelong - very relevant to today's discussions. Not sure if he's been reading our fred, but either way people seem to be laughing at you guys a lot...

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There is no way that isn’t scripted. Chris Scott isn’t that good an actor to pull it off with a straight face.

 

[PhatBoy]

There is no way that isn’t scripted. Chris Scott isn’t that good an actor to pull it off with a straight face.

He says pretty much the same every time he’s asked a question that demands that sort of answer:

‘I don’t care about punters.’
‘I don’t care about the media.’
‘I don’t care about opposition supporters.’

Yeah I’m not sure he’s gonna need a team or script writers to basically give a reversed version of ‘I care about my club and that’s it.’

 

[RPCB]

He says pretty much the same every time he’s asked a question that demands that sort of answer:

‘I don’t care about punters.’
‘I don’t care about the media.’
‘I don’t care about opposition supporters.’

Yeah I’m not sure he’s gonna need a team or script writers to basically give a reversed version of ‘I care about my club and that’s it.’

The journos question is what’s scripted. What response was he expecting?

 

[PetterdHoisted]

Credit to the journo at Scotty's presser today, asking about oppo fans dripping with envy about everything involving the Premiership Printer aka Geelong - very relevant to today's discussions. Not sure if he's been reading our fred, but either way people seem to be laughing at you guys a lot...

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but again, I don't get it

2 cups in 15 years is slightly better than the 2 in 18 years expected for the comp average.

what is this perception of 'premiership printing'?

I get it for Bomber Thompson's era, but not the Scott era.

 

[STPer18]

but again, I don't get it

2 cups in 15 years is slightly better than the 2 in 18 years expected for the comp average.

what is this perception of 'premiership printing'?

I get it for Bomber Thompson's era, but not the Scott era.

Ralphy, the journo today, this fred - the Premiership Printer has been widely acknowledged as the most envious thing in football. Fully-inked and ready to keep printing to the chagrin of many! (insert unintelligible printing noises)

 

[PetterdHoisted]

Ralphy, the journo today, this fred - the Premiership Printer has been widely acknowledged as the most envious thing in football. Fully-inked and ready to keep printing to the chagrin of many! (insert unintelligible printing noises)

I think dot matrix was the dominant tech the last time that printer was working regularly

 

[PhatBoy]

The journos question is what’s scripted. What response was he expecting?

Apologies my mistake

 

[RPCB]

Apologies my mistake

Don’t be, it’s all good.

 

[PhatBoy]

but again, I don't get it

2 cups in 15 years is slightly better than the 2 in 18 years expected for the comp average.

what is this perception of 'premiership printing'?

I get it for Bomber Thompson's era, but not the Scott era.

But that’s not the average expected, is it. If you win two in 18 years, you’re winning above the average, even not allowing for the fact that the average expected is 1 in 18 but we allow for the fact that the two newest teams haven’t been around for 18 years yet.

So forgetting them, if there were still 16 teams, the average would be 1 in 16. We’ve won 1 in the last 13 completed seasons. 2 under 14 completed seasons under Scott.

There’s no such parameters in which ‘2 in 18’ is an expected average. If the cycle was to just ‘start again’ then we have done our duty basically through until the mid 2040s and don’t really need to worry about any pressure being on us until then.

 

[STPer18]

Shhhh, new rort unlocked!

Locked in: The stars set to cash in on AFL's $35m marketing fund

Top players could earn up to $2m a season when adding their marketing money to their on-field earnings

www.afl.com.au

THE GROUP of 54 players selected to get access to the AFL's new $35 million marketing fund has been locked in, with the game's biggest names set to cash in with the lucrative allowance.

Collingwood superstar Nick Daicos, West Coast young gun Harley Reid, Geelong recruit Bailey Smith

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and Sydney gun Isaac Heeney

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are all a part of the group from the AFL competition.

 

[Mr Meow]

I think falling just short repeatedly in the last decade+ has led to the rumoured sanctions.

Hardwick’s Richmond asked ‘why not us’ in 2017

Scott’s Geelong would have asked ‘why not us’ in 2019 also.

Same question, very different tone, not hope but desperation.

But let’s revisit once everything has been made transparent, but I think that will have been the kernel of it all.

I knew you'd still be going.

Headf***ed.

 

[Wojcinski]

Shhhh, new rort unlocked!

Locked in: The stars set to cash in on AFL's $35m marketing fund

Top players could earn up to $2m a season when adding their marketing money to their on-field earnings

www.afl.com.au

THE GROUP of 54 players selected to get access to the AFL's new $35 million marketing fund has been locked in, with the game's biggest names set to cash in with the lucrative allowance.

Collingwood superstar Nick Daicos, West Coast young gun Harley Reid, Geelong recruit Bailey Smith and Sydney gun Isaac Heeney are all a part of the group from the AFL competition.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

New rort inbound. Big Mackdog to AFL House.

 

[Footy Smarts]

Feels like a waste giving up one of our best people when we already control everyone at AFL house anyway.

 

[STPer18]

Feels like a waste giving up one of our best people when we already control everyone at AFL house anyway.

Our former premiership skipper Tom Harley would be my choice under the guise of him being a 'Sydney person', plus we get to keep Mackie for ripping other clubs off come trade time.

 

[Freshwater]

The Geelong fans in here think the GFC is admired by the football public. Nothing could be further from the truth. Fans know when a club has won with grace and sportsmanship compared with cheating and gaining the system that lacks both grace and sportsmanship compared. The GFC has no admirable qualities, it has some admirable players who haven’t been lead there ($$) from other clubs. Players like Duncan and Guthrie and Myers and guys that have made it the hard way like Mannah. As for the mercenaries, they are what’s wrong with football and society really.

 

[STPer18]

The Geelong fans in here think the GFC is admired by the football public. Nothing could be further from the truth. Fans know when a club has won with grace and sportsmanship compared with cheating and gaining the system that lacks both grace and sportsmanship compared. The GFC has no admirable qualities, it has some admirable players who haven’t been lead there ($$) from other clubs. Players like Duncan and Guthrie and Myers and guys that have made it the hard way like Mannah. As for the mercenaries, they are what’s wrong with football and society really.

Geelong are the battlers fighting against the system. Bunch of hacked together rookies and category B players from other sports taking it up to rest of the comp. The underdogs/cats with the equal most premierships this century.

 

[Mr Meow]

The Geelong fans in here think the GFC is admired by the football public. Nothing could be further from the truth. Fans know when a club has won with grace and sportsmanship compared with cheating and gaining the system that lacks both grace and sportsmanship compared. The GFC has no admirable qualities, it has some admirable players who haven’t been lead there ($$) from other clubs. Players like Duncan and Guthrie and Myers and guys that have made it the hard way like Mannah. As for the mercenaries, they are what’s wrong with football and society really.

Mercenaries like 2016 premiership decider Tom Boyd and 2025 recruit of the year* Matthew Kennedy? Adam Treloar has always bled red white and blue as well.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

The Geelong fans in here think the GFC is admired by the football public. Nothing could be further from the truth. Fans know when a club has won with grace and sportsmanship compared with cheating and gaining the system that lacks both grace and sportsmanship compared. The GFC has no admirable qualities, it has some admirable players who haven’t been lead there ($$) from other clubs. Players like Duncan and Guthrie and Myers and guys that have made it the hard way like Mannah. As for the mercenaries, they are what’s wrong with football and society really.

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