Actually given the Crows have built steadily the last couple of years into the team that's in the GF, they obviously have more functional planning than that. Unless you're in the inner sanctum of a club you cant really know the interactions between players and their value to the club, and it's culture. You can look at the result though.
Yep it isn't about winning AFL premierships it is about making sure you win the club culture premiership
I read a lot of your posts on our board over the weekend and chose not comment. Clearly you were passionate and believed that your position was right. Nothing wrong with that. You seemed to overlook the fact that your position was diametrically opposed to most Adelaide fans whose board you were posting on. Continually coming back and responding to every perceived slight ultimately started becoming irritating to see on the thread. I later just chose to ignore your posts. A couple of others didn't.Every team has muppet supporters. That was the lesson I took from my dalliance on your board. As it so happens I think the poster in question is being ridiculous, dropping Lever because he's out the door would be monumentally dumb and petulant. But this is hypocrisy from you here.
I appreciate your very measured response. I was prepared to move on and let it go until I saw the blatant hypocrisy from OutofTownCrow which needed to be callled out.
People have emotional responses to a variety of different situations or events that happen in their lives. Telling them that their response is ridiculous or illogical is unlikely to get a positive response. As is trying to impose your set of values, emotions or morals.
Yes. I get the idea we dropped Trengove in part because he wass leaving and this gave McGovern licence to roam. Just 8 marks instead of 15 and we would have won. Who cares if he is leaving next year? Adelaide don't want to make the same mistake we did and although it is true Richmond have a mosquito fleet good intercept defenders are always your best choice.
Definitely poeple respond differently but if a collective is stuck in a thought loop of crap and any alternative view is raised the collective will almost always dismiss that view. It's my view looking outside the crow supporter bubble is that as a collective they need to take their head out of their arse regarding Danger and at the very least the blinkers off regarding th golden boy Slaone perhaps not being as squeaky clean as you'd like to portray.
Adelaide has close to 70,000 members and 10's of 1000's more supporters. You're focussed on, and quoting a few people's opinions on a football forum.
The pact has been quoted so many times by senior players etc you need to accept its true. People say and make comments constantly on boards here every minute that have not factual basis and are purely based on their own personal biases. I don't know why you expect Adelaide fans to be above this trait or any different for that matter.
You continue to make this about you. You have taken the comment personally, as is your choice. However, now you are unhappy that people on an opposition board don't agree with you. Did you really expect opposition fans to agree with your position. Whilst their position may not necessarily have been rational, I find the fact that you expect them to be rational and agree with your position bordering on insanity.
The fact that Leigh Mathews has an opinion is no surprise. Having an opinion is what he is paid for. Cherry picking Leigh as being aligned with your version of events is fine. However we could pluck literally dozens of other "experts" opinions to support an opposing argument that do not share it. And realistically the only people that count are the MRP, whose view was that Sloane had no case to answer.Lo and behold, turns out one of the most successful player and coach of all time Leight Matthews held thr same view. His reasoning echoed mine exactly. But no Adelaide supporter would accept that or that Sloane had anything to do with breaking Blicaavs leg either. No its all just denial because to accept any opposing view would cause cognitive dissonance which would just be too uncomfortable to deal with so it's easier to keep the head squarely up the arse and denounce any opposing view instead.
I don't think you could butcher your player retention mechanisms any more if you tried. It doesn't seem to affect your club's on field performance though which is a credit to the recruiting and development departments.A strong precendent for being a spiteful club with no regards for it's players. Yeah, that's really going to help us with player retention.
You don't work in PR by any chance do you do? Maybe even international diplomacy? You seem like the kinda guy they'd send in with the quick mind and the slick persona to maximise damage control. Heck, you'd probably convince Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un to be mates if you had afternoon with them both. I jest of course...
