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[Seanybruz]

Is Frawley a restricted free agent? At $800k sounds like he's just trying to price himself out of Melbourne's range.

 

[Del80659]

will the 19th grandma please shut up honestly that marketing idea is the most embarrassing thing ever

 

[Andre]

I feel for a friend of mine who supports them he seems more depressed/disilliusioned with how they're run than I was during our darkest era which speaks volumes of where they're at as a club.

Of course he'd be depressed. Even during our darkest era and the cynicism / depression here was rampant we knew were constrained by a shit stadium deal, a license owner that was working against us, media that only wanted to sink the boot in and we had a decent latent fan base if we ever turned our shit around.

People say 'Look at Port as a model of how to turn in around'. How?

New stadium? Already at the MCG.
Tap 'bandwagon' supporters? Numbers low the last 40 years, they aren't there to tap.
Get celebrity (but qualified) media identity in charge? Kochie and Eddie are probably the two biggest media identities with any sort of skill set.
Remove artificial constraints (ala SNAFL and license)? Ummm, don't have those as an excuse.

Melbourne are not Port and we are not Melbourne for what transpired. The AFL could see our potential if they could just help us extract all the SNAFL and SA media knives from our back and let us stand on our own two feet. And kept us going in that interim. Melbourne aren't going to be anything, but a drain given how much more clubs cost to run these days.

 

[xflamedancer]

The Fruit Tingles are clueless right now: both on AND off the field. Long may it continue!!!

Confusion to our enemies!!!

 

[philreich]

Let them. They'll just Sellar it up anyway.

To be fair, they got Paddy, while we only ended up with Brad Ebert..........

 

[Ford Fairlane]

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Beware the red-winged black canary!

 

[Enviable Tradition]

Just read on the Crows board a suggestion to sack Sando and appoint Bicks.

If they finally grow some balls and sack Trigg and Sando only to replace them with Notso and Elbows I will laugh so hard.

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[I Dont Care]

Just read on the Crows board a suggestion to sack Sando and appoint Bicks.

If they finally grow some balls and sack Trigg and Sando only to replace them with Notso and Elbows I will laugh so hard.

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Out of the frying pan...

 

[I Dont Care]

Beware the red-winged black canary!

With one big eye and one Notso big eye

 

[Bicks]

Don't know if you guys are aware that some of the Port boys including Ken Hinkley make up the "Little Things" Syndicate that race the greyhound Cairnlea Layla, currently one of the best hounds going around at Angle Park, brilliant winner last night making it four wins on the trot and Jackson Trengrove, Angus Monfries and Ollie Wines were there getting their photos taken in the winners circle. Winners are grinners!!

 

[Forzaport]

Is Frawley a restricted free agent? At $800k sounds like he's just trying to price himself out of Melbourne's range.

Frawley is an unrestricted agent thanks to a massively front ended contract by Melbourne.

He can walk out of Melbourne to a club of his choice.

There supposedly are clubs willing to pay that sort of coin so it'll be interesting to see where he ends up.

 

[Chachi]

Frawley is a good player but is he worth around 9% of a clubs salary cap?
I personally think free-agency sucks. If a player really wants to move clubs they still could with the old system and the majority of the time they will get to where they want to go and I can't think of a player who hasn't got to at least the right state they wanted too.

I think we've used free agency well. We haven't paid overs instead using longer contracts to woo the player of choice. With Monfries the Bombers were only prepared to give him 2 years whereas we went in with 4. White was a similar story. At least this way we don't upset our current players by paying new recruits more.

 

[Power Girl]

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that is just wrong … and tragic

 

[BIG MATTY WHITE]

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It looks satanic......no joke....

If I was a kid and saw that I would need therapy to sleep

 

[jordz82]

Don't know if you guys are aware that some of the Port boys including Ken Hinkley make up the "Little Things" Syndicate that race the greyhound Cairnlea Layla, currently one of the best hounds going around at Angle Park, brilliant winner last night making it four wins on the trot and Jackson Trengrove, Angus Monfries and Ollie Wines were there getting their photos taken in the winners circle. Winners are grinners!!

Gus looks comfortable crouching there, maybe the hammy is good....

 

[70sDinosaur]

It looks satanic......no joke....

If I was a kid and saw that I would need therapy to sleep

Looks like something you would have seen painted on the side of a panel van in the 70s.

 

[raman]

Looks like something you would have seen painted on the side of a panel van in the 70s.

Except it would've looked better, because weed.

 

[charcolechaddy]

Beware the red-winged black canary!

What the hell is that, looks like a frightened pigion !

 

[TheFVK]

Frawley is a good player but is he worth around 9% of a clubs salary cap?
I personally think free-agency sucks. If a player really wants to move clubs they still could with the old system and the majority of the time they will get to where they want to go and I can't think of a player who hasn't got to at least the right state they wanted too.

I think we've used free agency well. We haven't paid overs instead using longer contracts to woo the player of choice. With Monfries the Bombers were only prepared to give him 2 years whereas we went in with 4. White was a similar story. At least this way we don't upset our current players by paying new recruits more.

I agree. Petulant Richmond supporters like to make out that we are paying Matt White far more but fact is we're paying him the same amount per year they offered, just for 3 years, plus with the added lure of playing in a team where his talent wasn't taken for granted and at a club with a strong player and club culture.

I still don't get why certain sections of this board complain about these longer contracts either. I hear complaints that these guys were offered a year longer than we'd like, when in reality we identify the talent we'd like and then aren't afraid to second guess ourselves with deals which take a bob each way in order to gain this talent. It basically comes down to, do we take Monfries and White on reasonable pay for 3 years and have them come to Port Adelaide, or offer them 2 and watch them play at Essendon and Richmond for the rest of their careers.

 

[Jonts]

Don't know if you guys are aware that some of the Port boys including Ken Hinkley make up the "Little Things" Syndicate that race the greyhound Cairnlea Layla, currently one of the best hounds going around at Angle Park, brilliant winner last night making it four wins on the trot and Jackson Trengrove, Angus Monfries and Ollie Wines were there getting their photos taken in the winners circle. Winners are grinners!!

Whens its next run?

 

[SteppingTiger]

Dammit

Guys, bakers delight fulham, and some shitty travel agency are in on crowified.

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grew up in Fulham. Place is going down hill fast.

 

[questionable]

i can't stop laughing at this gif of marc murphy

 

[Bicks]

Whens its next run?

It's a very smart hound so it will only be racing on the two main nights I'd reckon, either Monday or Thursday nights. They tell me the boys are very keen so there would be every chance you would catch up with them at Angle Park when she races.

 

[Doctor Feel]

i can't stop laughing at this gif of marc murphy

lol what was he even trying to do, besides squib.

 

[Noobz0r]

i can't stop laughing at this gif of marc murphy

It's hypnotic.