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Originally posted by Roylion:
Of course they should be in the comp. What a ridiculous statement. Just remember that St Kilda, North Melbourne, Hawthorn, Footscray and Brisbane all took a while to be successful when they entered the competition. Fremantle are about to enter their seventh year in the comp. and will probably taste success (finals) much more quickly than any of those teams ever did.
Originally posted by Same Old's:
All those sides you mentioned, execpt for Brisbane, didn't have any priorty draft pics or a salary cap system at the time to get them through the early years.
That's why Fremantle will probably be more succesfull then most other sides "expansion" sides were in the first 20 years of there tenure in the competition.
[This message has been edited by Same Old's (edited 05 December 2000).]
Originally posted by sabre_ac:
Comon you can twist that any way you like.
Those sides bar brisban didn't come into the Afl.The competition wasn't as competitive or as hard.Nor did they have the problems of enticing talent to there club.They weren't faced with isolation.
Nor did they come into the competion in the shadow of another powerful club from the same state.Fremantle was forced to draft local after many high profile playerf refused to come west.Some draft picks opted to sit out the draft than go to the dockers.
That is one of the main reason why fremantle could never be compared with the eagles in the first 10 years.West Coast joined the competion, with the ability to pick up any player from the WAFL that at the time was briming with talent.Not only raw talent but established players that could imediately take the next step.By the time fremantle came along, the pond was empty.This along with poor management stuffed freo up for the first 5 years.
There are plenty of other reason, they were a newly formed club.They didn't merely take the next step, the had to start everything from scratch
The list goes on
Originally posted by Same Old's:
sabre_ac,
I know what you are saying, however I was not comparing the dockers to the eagles.
My post that you quoted was directed at something at Roylion said. He posted that(paraphrasing) "Fremantle would be playing finals football much earlier than clubs that came in the former VFL in 1925.
I basically agreed with him and stated that this would happen primarily because there are equalisation policy's in effect these days, such as salary cap, draft pics, etc, that were not there in 1925 when new sides came into the comp.
So those policy's that we have today would help Fremantle make the finals earlier than clubs such as Hawthorn and North Melbourne when they came into the league.
So you probably misunderstood in what I'd posted earlier.
[This message has been edited by Same Old's (edited 05 December 2000).]
Originally posted by sabre_ac:
O and yeah in relation to our little bet.Your what self employed/un employed/ashamed of your job and i am a student so how does 20 dollars sound.
Eheheheh im going to cleans up
Rooboy will owe me 40 dollars at the end of the season and you will owe me 20.
Ahh now i feel better!!!