kevin sooky
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I todl Macca to just shut up and bask in flag glory but would he listen to the coach.NO. Just SHut the f*** up dipstick. Or else you will articles about us like this, which wont appeal to our teenybopper supporter base if they can read.
Essendon president demeans the club
BY GREG BAUM
Maybe Carlton got off lightly for its attempted salary cap ruse. Maybe it was lucky to have been fined so little, to have had some of the fine suspended, and to keep crucial draft picks. Maybe what came around didn't quite go around.
But did we really need to be told about it by Graeme McMahon?
On salary cap issues, Essendon stands somewhere between the Dead Sea and the Mariana Trench. It is a long way from the high moral ground. It scarcely becomes the Bombers for their chairman to regale us with his thoughts on the comparative blackness of Carlton's kettle and his pot.
It demeaned his club.
Essendon gave us this year football in its highest expression. Now it has given us the game in its most petty expression. Fierce rivalry is one thing, childish name-calling another. It can't be long before we hear that it takes a ``serial salary cap offender'' to know one.
It is no excuse at all that Carlton president John Elliott made the first taunt, when the Bombers were caught in their salary fiddle a couple of years ago. Elliott is a notorious blowhard whose utterances are not taken terribly seriously even by his own club any more (sadly, because not all of them are chaff).
McMahon should have been above a retort. He should have minded his own business. He should have allowed himself a smile, a knowing nod, and otherwise said nothing. That would have said it all.
But, no, the most bombastic Bomber of all simply had to have a snipe back. And it wasn't as if it was a knee-jerk reaction. He called a press conference to make sure everyone could hear him poke his figurative tongue out at Elliott.
Melbourne was only marginally better behaved. Chief executive John Anderson wisely kept his counsel, but president Joe Gutnick demanded more transparency from the AFL. Indisputably, he and McMahon had a point about the league's consistency, but emphatically, it was not theirs to make.
Everyone is pointing a finger at everyone else, again. Evidently, AFL clubs are not even good enough thieves to maintain a little honor among themselves.
Essendon president demeans the club
BY GREG BAUM
Maybe Carlton got off lightly for its attempted salary cap ruse. Maybe it was lucky to have been fined so little, to have had some of the fine suspended, and to keep crucial draft picks. Maybe what came around didn't quite go around.
But did we really need to be told about it by Graeme McMahon?
On salary cap issues, Essendon stands somewhere between the Dead Sea and the Mariana Trench. It is a long way from the high moral ground. It scarcely becomes the Bombers for their chairman to regale us with his thoughts on the comparative blackness of Carlton's kettle and his pot.
It demeaned his club.
Essendon gave us this year football in its highest expression. Now it has given us the game in its most petty expression. Fierce rivalry is one thing, childish name-calling another. It can't be long before we hear that it takes a ``serial salary cap offender'' to know one.
It is no excuse at all that Carlton president John Elliott made the first taunt, when the Bombers were caught in their salary fiddle a couple of years ago. Elliott is a notorious blowhard whose utterances are not taken terribly seriously even by his own club any more (sadly, because not all of them are chaff).
McMahon should have been above a retort. He should have minded his own business. He should have allowed himself a smile, a knowing nod, and otherwise said nothing. That would have said it all.
But, no, the most bombastic Bomber of all simply had to have a snipe back. And it wasn't as if it was a knee-jerk reaction. He called a press conference to make sure everyone could hear him poke his figurative tongue out at Elliott.
Melbourne was only marginally better behaved. Chief executive John Anderson wisely kept his counsel, but president Joe Gutnick demanded more transparency from the AFL. Indisputably, he and McMahon had a point about the league's consistency, but emphatically, it was not theirs to make.
Everyone is pointing a finger at everyone else, again. Evidently, AFL clubs are not even good enough thieves to maintain a little honor among themselves.
