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Murray2503

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Passed through Geelong last night so tuned into their radio station. Conveniently they were talking about the Crows game this Friday and how poor Danger will be booed by all the Adelaide fans after all he gave for us.

They went on to say how the culture in Adelaide is to wear trackies everywhere and we only care about footy, not realizing that Geelong is bogan captial of Australia and ice capital of the world.
That's funny they are so cultured in geelong...ass end of the world...haha
 

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It would be karma if Wankerfield is running into an open goal with seconds remaining, trips over and pulls a hamstring.

The siren sounds and the Crows win by 1 point.

Then we could all stand and applaud the narcissistic flog as he grimaces his way off the ground.

Geelong is full of self-entitled flogs starting with their coach and captain. The umpires will ream us again, but with the crowd on our side we can get the job done.
 

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I will boo and to be honest reading this article here makes me want to even more so.

Yes that way he talks in this is very professional and respectful. But IMO as soon as his mind was made up he should have let the people who matter know. I can understand not coming out publicly but if you have so much respect, then at least let the club prepare. Him thinking that by telling people inside the club he was leaving would have been a distraction is more support for those who think that Danger thinks its all about Danger.



http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...g/news-story/13883af9a70ca8e41f6d95bdddd0316f

Patrick Dangerfield reveals how breaking up with Adelaide was difficult

I WANTED to tell Adelaide midway through last year that I was leaving.

Enough was enough.

After going back and forth a hundred times about what I was going to do, once the final decision was made I suddenly had an overwhelming urge to cleanse the soul, tell the world so we all could move on.

The constant speculation was wearing everyone down and I thought the best way to make it all go away was to tell the truth and in my head I figured all parties would be better off.

Thankfully, my manager Paul Connors disagreed.

“Hang on, cool your jets and let’s have a think about this,” were his sage words of advice.

I thought we were all mature enough to handle a player coming out and stating his intention to move on, but the reality is the AFL industry isn’t ready for it.

In a way I now realise I was selfishly looking to shed the burden that I’d been carrying around for a long time.

But the bigger picture of how it would impact on the club, the management, the coaching staff, my teammates and the supporters had to be taken into account and that’s what Paul calmly explained.

It simply wouldn’t have been in the best interests of the football club for me to come clean as we had a finals campaign on the horizon and everyone’s energies needed to be focused on that.

Should it be this way?

For years the NRL has had players signing with opposition clubs, sometimes up to 12 months ahead, and then having no issues in playing out the season at their current clubs.

I’m with AFL boss Gillon McLachlan on this one — I don’t like it as I think it’s a bad look for the game.

But in saying that, the AFL needs to brace itself because I have no doubt in the near future a player will announce mid-season his intentions to move elsewhere.

It will take a really headstrong, courageous person to do it, and he’d need to have a strong football club behind him, but I can see it happening.

My teammate Lachie Henderson was a trailblazer in a sense last year and gave us a snapshot into the future with his departure from Carlton.

He unfairly copped it for being upfront about his future a couple of weeks out from the end of the season.

It was a messy situation which confirmed as a competition we’re not ready for it yet.

Would I change anything about how my own situation went down? Of course, there are things I’d change.

You never want to mislead people, but the reality is you’re forced to not always reveal what you’re intending to do.

The hardest thing is dealing with your teammates because you want to be really honest with them, but I was so lucky that they gave me my space.

A lot of them had been through what I was experiencing and had an appreciation of the issues I was dealing with.

They knew that my love for the Adelaide Football Club could never be questioned, but there was more to it than that. Everyone has a family so they understood the situation.

As much as you say that it doesn’t become a burden, it does — big time.

In interviews you’d trot out the line that you weren’t thinking about it and were focused on your footy, but the reality is it’s always in the back of your mind because it’s such an enormous decision.

Every player who was out-of-contract and left a club last season will say the same thing because now there is this huge amount of mental space which is free and you can fill it with fun stuff ... like surfing for example.

The big question for some is does the burden impact on your performance?

I think for some players it would and I totally understand that, but I got used to it and didn’t feel that it impacted on my actions on the field.

What I did find amusing was the amount of people who were declaring that I was gone, some trying to claim it 18 months out.

In the situation that I found myself in there are so many decisions that get made, get unmade and then remade.

What people don’t get is that the amount of times your mind can change throughout a year.

The temptation to say, ‘That’s it, I’m done’, is constantly there but in actual fact your mind swings back and forth constantly — more times than people would imagine.

The moment I told Adelaide that I wanted to move to Geelong wasn’t planned.

I enjoyed a great relationship with football boss David Noble and it was just over one of our regular coffee catch-ups near the end of the season that it came out.

“C’mon, what’s going on?” he asked.

I told him where the situation was at and we discussed everything there and then.

At the end of it he said: “All right, but it doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying to convince you to stay.”

We were open and honest with each other and it speaks volumes about the people at Adelaide and Geelong given how smoothly everything was worked out.

Telling my teammates was tough, some harder than others, some were done face-to-face, others over the phone.

They were bloody hard conversations to have and the toughest was with Nathan Van Berlo.

I have never been so nervous because I idolised him. You wouldn’t meet a nicer person who was universally admired at that football club.

We caught up for a coffee and I hated that conversation. Funnily enough a few years earlier it had been VB and I sitting down with Kurt Tippett trying to convince him to stay.

At the time I was in my early 20s and you think this is an easy decision, just stay here with your mates and keep playing footy.

It’s not until you get older that you understand there is so much more to life.

The other tough conversation was with Rory Sloane.

I went down to his house by the beach, it was a beautiful day so we went for a dip in the water and it was actually quite idyllic, sitting there on the beach in the sun.

We’d come through together at the same time, played alongside each other and had a great rapport on and off the field.

I explained everything to him and he’d actually gone through a similar thing before signing his new contract so he understood where I was coming from.

Next Friday night is going to be weird when I line-up beside them in opposition colours for the first time.

It’s been bizarre watching the Crows because you pick up little football things that you’ve spoken about in team meetings like exiting the stoppage a particular way or the movement of the ball.

I thought I would be more negative towards them and find it hard to enjoy their success, but I’ve actually liked watching them play this season.

You like to see them succeed for the people involved but obviously I don’t want to see them in a Grand Final ... I think the Cats need to do that first.

While there will be a lot of hype leading up to Friday night, knowing the Adelaide group they will be more focused on winning the game than worrying about me.

As former Adelaide coach Neil Craig liked to say: “You are now the enemy and you will be treated as such.”

I expect to be treated as such.
 

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Boo the piss out of him.

Given we don't get the enjoyment of watching someone run through him, Booing is the next best option.
 

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Lets face it, Danger screwed us when he left when he basically demanded he only wanted to go to the Cats.

We couldnt negotiate or bargain with other Clubs which severely screwed us over, we should have got a hell of a lot more for him but didnt. I blame him a lot for that for reducing our negotiating power of being able to make up for his loss.
 

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I'll be in the Audi club, so in between stuffing my face and peering over the buffet at the football outside I'll be booing my gizzards out. Will probably boo more if they run out of Oysters and Prawns.

On a more serious note - he is just a symptom of what football in the Generation Y era has become. There is no such thing as player loyalty to club, as clubs are not loyal to their players. It bothers me that he left when the club was at it lowest point (after the passing of Walsh). Phil obviously knew something was up when he didn't entertain him becoming Captain. He deserves some boos, hopefully we only hear it less than 12 times!
Players switching clubs is hardly a Gen Y innovation, it's been going on for decades. Clubs moving players on because they reckon they're too old or they need to make salary cap space or need to get themselves into a better draft position because their shonky under the table deals have cost them draft picks. Players choosing to switch clubs for money or a shot at success or to go home or whatever. I don't recall too many Crows supporters complaining when Darren Jarman wanted to come home to Adelaide 20-odd years ago.

The Walsh situation was out of anybody's control - it's pretty unreasonable to expect Danger to change his mind based on that. If anything it might reinforce how uncertain life actually is and make him more eager to return home - I found out first hand a couple of years ago that your parents aren't necessarily going to be around for as long as you might expect or hope that they will be. With the benefit of hindsight I'd have spent more time with my dad when I had the chance, so I'm not going to have a go at Danger for wanting to live nearer his family now. If he'd run off to Sydney chasing the COLA like certain other players then I would be the first one to rip into him. But he genuinely just wanted to return home and took a smaller pay packet than he could have otherwise got if he'd stayed here or put himself on the auction block for the rest of the comp to have a crack at. If he'd done that then I guarantee you that somebody would have outbid us in a free agency auction and we'd have ended up with the free agency compo pick from the AFL instead of 9, 28 and Gore from Geelong.
 

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**** Dangerfield. At least our players should know by now which side of his boot he is going to shank his kick off of.
 

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From the old tippet thread. My views haven't changed.

Mate.

You know me well enough now, I hope, that I'm a fairly reasonable, but opinionated guy.

Sport still needs to retain a tribal element for me, or it loses something. Becomes too manufactured and insincere almost?

So round 8 - I'll boo as well. Not as hard. I'll be more willing to acknowledge good play. In fact, I'll probably do more laughing at bombs to the deep right pocket/flank rather than hitting a target than I will to boo. But it will be a mocking of Patty nonetheless. He choose to desert us. Sure, he played his guts out, but he selfishly choose to expedite his own enjoyment of a lifestyle he'll comfortably sink 30+ years into once his career is over, OVER the importance of success of a group of guys who were as committed to him as he was to them and a group of supporters who desperately wanted to be successful with him in the team.

You make choices. They have consequences. He's a big enough man to face them. He can handle the boos.
Tippett isn't/wasn't. So he'll be BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOED very hard ;) And hopefully he can't handle them.
So boo. He get's it. He knows how it works. He made his choice is prepared to live with the consequences. You can't let him escpae those consequences though!

Don't ever compare Bernie to Danger please. I still burns in my gut that he isn't playing for us. Burns. He never wanted to go.
 

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I don't really care if he gets booed or not but I expect our players to go out of their way to make his day as uncomfortable as possible. If I see them getting chummy with him, I'm gonna get pissed.
 

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The biggest way to hurt Dangerfield tomorrow would be to instruct his ex-teammates to completely ignore him post match. Refuse handshakes and turn their backs to him.

For someone who wanted to leave on good terms, that would cut him deeply
 
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I don't really care if he gets booed or not but I expect our players to go out of their way to make his day as uncomfortable as possible. If I see them getting chummy with him, I'm gonna get pissed.
We need to make it as uncomfortable as possible. For years Danger was scratched, kicked, scragged and slammed when he got the ball and our players stood and watched. I hope we hand out some of it this time around.

One thing I have noticed, the way in which he plays he leaves himself open/ vulnerable to be nailed by opposition players, I hope we can at least dish some out from our end then shake hands after the game with our players chirping we got the 4 points.
 

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I will boo and to be honest reading this article here makes me want to even more so.

Yes that way he talks in this is very professional and respectful. But IMO as soon as his mind was made up he should have let the people who matter know. I can understand not coming out publicly but if you have so much respect, then at least let the club prepare. Him thinking that by telling people inside the club he was leaving would have been a distraction is more support for those who think that Danger thinks its all about Danger.



http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...g/news-story/13883af9a70ca8e41f6d95bdddd0316f

Patrick Dangerfield reveals how breaking up with Adelaide was difficult

I WANTED to tell Adelaide midway through last year that I was leaving.

Enough was enough.

After going back and forth a hundred times about what I was going to do, once the final decision was made I suddenly had an overwhelming urge to cleanse the soul, tell the world so we all could move on.

The constant speculation was wearing everyone down and I thought the best way to make it all go away was to tell the truth and in my head I figured all parties would be better off.

Thankfully, my manager Paul Connors disagreed.

“Hang on, cool your jets and let’s have a think about this,” were his sage words of advice.

I thought we were all mature enough to handle a player coming out and stating his intention to move on, but the reality is the AFL industry isn’t ready for it.

In a way I now realise I was selfishly looking to shed the burden that I’d been carrying around for a long time.

But the bigger picture of how it would impact on the club, the management, the coaching staff, my teammates and the supporters had to be taken into account and that’s what Paul calmly explained.

It simply wouldn’t have been in the best interests of the football club for me to come clean as we had a finals campaign on the horizon and everyone’s energies needed to be focused on that.

Should it be this way?

For years the NRL has had players signing with opposition clubs, sometimes up to 12 months ahead, and then having no issues in playing out the season at their current clubs.

I’m with AFL boss Gillon McLachlan on this one — I don’t like it as I think it’s a bad look for the game.

But in saying that, the AFL needs to brace itself because I have no doubt in the near future a player will announce mid-season his intentions to move elsewhere.

It will take a really headstrong, courageous person to do it, and he’d need to have a strong football club behind him, but I can see it happening.

My teammate Lachie Henderson was a trailblazer in a sense last year and gave us a snapshot into the future with his departure from Carlton.

He unfairly copped it for being upfront about his future a couple of weeks out from the end of the season.

It was a messy situation which confirmed as a competition we’re not ready for it yet.

Would I change anything about how my own situation went down? Of course, there are things I’d change.

You never want to mislead people, but the reality is you’re forced to not always reveal what you’re intending to do.

The hardest thing is dealing with your teammates because you want to be really honest with them, but I was so lucky that they gave me my space.

A lot of them had been through what I was experiencing and had an appreciation of the issues I was dealing with.

They knew that my love for the Adelaide Football Club could never be questioned, but there was more to it than that. Everyone has a family so they understood the situation.

As much as you say that it doesn’t become a burden, it does — big time.

In interviews you’d trot out the line that you weren’t thinking about it and were focused on your footy, but the reality is it’s always in the back of your mind because it’s such an enormous decision.

Every player who was out-of-contract and left a club last season will say the same thing because now there is this huge amount of mental space which is free and you can fill it with fun stuff ... like surfing for example.

The big question for some is does the burden impact on your performance?

I think for some players it would and I totally understand that, but I got used to it and didn’t feel that it impacted on my actions on the field.

What I did find amusing was the amount of people who were declaring that I was gone, some trying to claim it 18 months out.

In the situation that I found myself in there are so many decisions that get made, get unmade and then remade.

What people don’t get is that the amount of times your mind can change throughout a year.

The temptation to say, ‘That’s it, I’m done’, is constantly there but in actual fact your mind swings back and forth constantly — more times than people would imagine.

The moment I told Adelaide that I wanted to move to Geelong wasn’t planned.

I enjoyed a great relationship with football boss David Noble and it was just over one of our regular coffee catch-ups near the end of the season that it came out.

“C’mon, what’s going on?” he asked.

I told him where the situation was at and we discussed everything there and then.

At the end of it he said: “All right, but it doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying to convince you to stay.”

We were open and honest with each other and it speaks volumes about the people at Adelaide and Geelong given how smoothly everything was worked out.

Telling my teammates was tough, some harder than others, some were done face-to-face, others over the phone.

They were bloody hard conversations to have and the toughest was with Nathan Van Berlo.

I have never been so nervous because I idolised him. You wouldn’t meet a nicer person who was universally admired at that football club.

We caught up for a coffee and I hated that conversation. Funnily enough a few years earlier it had been VB and I sitting down with Kurt Tippett trying to convince him to stay.

At the time I was in my early 20s and you think this is an easy decision, just stay here with your mates and keep playing footy.

It’s not until you get older that you understand there is so much more to life.

The other tough conversation was with Rory Sloane.

I went down to his house by the beach, it was a beautiful day so we went for a dip in the water and it was actually quite idyllic, sitting there on the beach in the sun.

We’d come through together at the same time, played alongside each other and had a great rapport on and off the field.

I explained everything to him and he’d actually gone through a similar thing before signing his new contract so he understood where I was coming from.

Next Friday night is going to be weird when I line-up beside them in opposition colours for the first time.

It’s been bizarre watching the Crows because you pick up little football things that you’ve spoken about in team meetings like exiting the stoppage a particular way or the movement of the ball.

I thought I would be more negative towards them and find it hard to enjoy their success, but I’ve actually liked watching them play this season.

You like to see them succeed for the people involved but obviously I don’t want to see them in a Grand Final ... I think the Cats need to do that first.

While there will be a lot of hype leading up to Friday night, knowing the Adelaide group they will be more focused on winning the game than worrying about me.

As former Adelaide coach Neil Craig liked to say: “You are now the enemy and you will be treated as such.”

I expect to be treated as such.
Jeez he makes it sound so romantic... going out for coffee with VB, going down to the beach and sitting in the sun with Rory. :heartbeat: Hope Mardi didn't read this, her gaydar would be going mental.

He is right about one thing tho, the boys will be focused on winning the game. No need for a Carey v Archer welcome. Leave it to the supporters to voice their displeasure and just smash these arrogant pricks off our Oval.
 

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I find booing ridiculous in the first place. I've tried it and didn't like it.
Good luck to all those who do . I wont be.

Players who perform to their utmost and then leave after a good servitude period don't deserve to be booed. Would we like Carlton fans to boo Eddie or Sauce? Now if Patrick left after 2 years and the day before the Trophy night then yes boo him , or if he was the cause of untold grief at our club , then yes
 

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I don't really care if he gets booed or not but I expect our players to go out of their way to make his day as uncomfortable as possible. If I see them getting chummy with him, I'm gonna get pissed.
Unless we win of course.

If we win, we can be as cockahoot as they like. If we lose, they don't even shake his hand.
 

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Booing my gizzards out, the way he trolled us towards the end of year, now made even worse after he said he knew he was leaving. A few comments he has made about getting to a club with history, hope he has a shocker.
Is that actually true?

I just thought the dimwits from Alberton made that crap up and made it into a meme.
 
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