Potential training breach?

[1970crow]

We do actually. Chapman was quoted as saying the AFL wanted more, they wanted sackings - probably John Reid, Trigg and maybe Chapman as they were the main protagonists. The club argued strongly against this and almost certainly agreed to higher draft and financial sanctions instead of sackings.

Very correct. What you’re missing is that we agreed to the sackings and 1 year of draft picks. Trigg didn’t and threatened to bring the board with him. So the board protected themselves by protecting Trigg and accepting the second year of draft sanctions. That’s our mate Chappy, always thinking of the club.

 

[Mego Red]

yeah it's weird and not something i'd do but otherwise harmless -

atleast he isn't creeping on twitch streamers

I think they're probably equally dubious.

 

[pjcrows]

It’s pretty simple and it actually came out of our footy dept review, but it’s a clubwide culture. Not a single person of influence within the entire organisation wouldn’t push for a lesser result for the team if it provided them benefit or certainty of tenure. Nobody would sacrifice anything for the team. The club exists to provide the board with influence and profile and to keep largely average administrative staff employed and overpaid.

The Port people are right, we’re a corporation. Not because of how we came about, but because of how we act each and every time there’s a defining moment. We put individuals ahead of team success. That’s why we underfund our footy dept and that’s why we don’t demand excellence from employees. We apologise for and support our failures. Until every decision is geared against team success, we’ll remain a corporation. We should go with empty chairs if we can’t get the right person for it. Mix up the chairs if it gets us the right people.

David Mackay is celebrated within those 4 walls because he built a 200+ game career being the least worst outside runner. We never tried anything else because we had a rolled gold 5/10 player that had tenure. That’s our entire club right there.

At a function last year there was a panel of speakers, standard Q&A thing that you'd all be familiar with. The panel consisted of a current AFL coach, two former AFL coaches, a current AFL president and a footy media personality. The coach on the panel was Clarkson.

It was a great discussion, lots of topics, and the discussion got to the area of "Who do you think is the most important figure at a football club?"

The two former coaches said the coach, the president said the coach, the media personality said the Head of Football. Clarkson was last and he simply said "the player with the football in their hands".

And this is where we fall down, time after time. The decisions our club makes seem to be about everything other than doing whatever we can to make our footballer's better and our culture better. We are reactive, incestuous, elitist repeat-failures, yet act and operate with the arrogance of Hawthorn. We don't do what it takes. Unfortunately, it is ingrained in the fabric of the club, and if you go against the grain you are quickly gone.

 

[cleanhands]

Taking ownership doesn't mean self flagellation and inviting severe sanctions for a minor breach. The crowds in Myers and the cafes that opened against state law in NSW are magnitudes higher risk than 8 guys kicking a footy within a few metres of each other with minimal infection risk Throw Hart under the bus if they have to, he's the problem. The AFL are more concerned about competitive advantage than anything else.

The police have basically said 'It's okay boys, don't do it again' but our hierarchy wants the club to be punished in any way the VFL see fit.

They won’t hang Hart, Nicks pretty much cleared him

 

[spenze]

Is this funny? I can see it getting misinterpreted badly

Kind of funny I guess, the whole time I was thinking "ffs don't drop her" and if he had put Handy Andy in the water, then he better hide the knives in the house for about 6 months because when she finds out, he's ****ing dead meat

 

[Tex200]

Competitive advantage from 5 mins of kicking between a few players. This whole story is a joke. Most of these players will not even play Afl for 2 years. Would be 4 years if Pyke was still in charge. The afl is using this story to sidetrack the public that getting a season done this year is going to be very difficult if not impossible.

The worst of this is it’s actually beyond competitive advantage.

People need to understand this was a breach of State quarantine laws. It’s a bad one.

Yes it was an honest mistake, but it’s still a really poor look in the current environment.

 

[SuperBashBros]

 

[hey shorty]

The worst of this is it’s actually beyond competitive advantage.

People need to understand this was a breach of State quarantine laws. It’s a bad one.

Yes it was an honest mistake, but it’s still a really poor look in the current environment.

It's a bad look, but there's worse on a daily basis.

I got a photo from a mate of one of the staff hubs at the RAH on Friday...... looked like TTP

 

[hey shorty]

Sunday arvo sanction.... gonna be a small one you'd think.

 

[BACCS]

Sunday arvo sanction.... gonna be a small one you'd think.

On Mother’s Day too...

 

[spenze]

Sunday arvo sanction.... gonna be a small one you'd think.

So small they got Tom Browne to announce it so it would look bigger in comparison

 

[dogs105]

Sunday arvo sanction.... gonna be a small one you'd think.

Could ask Nigel Smart how big he thinks it is on Twitter?

 

[Tex200]

It's a bad look, but there's worse on a daily basis.

I got a photo from a mate of one of the staff hubs at the RAH on Friday...... looked like TTP

True - but don’t forget the loading for being an AFL side.

Let’s face it - if an NRL team was supposed to be in quarantine and they were just out training together - the reaction would be the same.

Setting community standards blah blah.

Still, I’ll be ropeable if it’s more than a fine - that will = Crows loading I guess

 

[1990crow]

 

[Cap]

It has ocuured to me that the AFC treat its fans like the should treat the AFL and treat the AFL as they should treat their fans.

 

[1970crow]

****, Sunday is time plus three quarters. This‘ll be ugly plus 75%.

 

[Murray2503]

Ben Hart and Chapman standing down would be a great sanction.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

We're usually playing now

 

[Eagleboy2011]

Ben Hart and Chapman standing down would be a great sanction.

A heavy price to pay but such is life.

 

[BACCS]

What does that mean?

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

What does that mean?

Yes, the Melbourne penalty where they fined them, then bailed them out with a bigger amount than the fine.

 

[1990crow]

What does that mean?

Oh I'm sorry AFL you can't work out a suitable punishment to hamstrung the club. What a joke.

 

[1990crow]

Yes, the Melbourne penalty where they fined them, then bailed them out with a bigger amount than the fine.

Its ok to do that for a Melbourne club, not a interstate one.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Oh I'm sorry AFL you can't work out a suitable punishment to hamstrung the club. What a joke.

This is the most stressed Gil has been since trying to get Essendon the #1 draft pick as compo for those nasty people banning the players for taking illegal drugs.

 

[From The Pocket]

What does that mean?

Why not sack the board they control? Also what's the point of a membership with no game access if the AFL is just going to take the money away?