Tom Lynch -- is he a criminally overrated footballer destined to disappoint at Richmond?

[MAXIMUM GRUNDAGE]

Preuss was given a bath in the VFL by Ivan Soldo.
Dud

He was holding back because he wanted to stay fit for us.

 

[Heisenberg_]

He was holding back because he wanted to stay fit for us.

I’d want out of Tasmania winters as well if I was from North Queensland to be fair.

 

[Smeg Head]

No, this is just an infantile projection you engage when you aren't scrawling on your walls with your own excrement, smegma lips.

That reads as a yes to me.

 

[Tiger2709]

Paycuts?

THEY ARE GIVING PREMIERSHIP PLAYERS THE ARSE BY WAY OF A FIRE SALE!

Richmond FC: Eating our own since 1885

Which Premiership player is that snakey bakey?

 

[Grin]

Bit of both actually.
Riewoldt for one took a pay cut. Rance and Cotchin both accepted unders to stay at the club.

We know no Melbourne player would accept unders to stay. So I can understand that the team first culture at Richmond has you utterly perplexed. I guess that's part of why poor Melbourne won't taste ultimate success anytime in the foreseeable future.

 

[MAXIMUM GRUNDAGE]

We know no Melbourne player would accept unders to stay. So I can understand that the team first culture at Richmond has you utterly perplexed. I guess that's part of why poor Melbourne won't taste ultimate success anytime in the foreseeable future.

You had a team first culture.
Lynch is going to disrupt that.

In the end we both fell two wins short of the ultimate prize.
Difference is you were expected to romp it in and we weren't expected to make it past Geelong.

 

[A Cut Above]

You had a team first culture.
Lynch is going to disrupt that.

Yup. Buddy Franklin to Sydney all over again. Tiger won a flag because they had amazing team harmony & across the board contributions, they're fools to risk that for an above-average KPF who already has knee issues.

 

[MAXIMUM GRUNDAGE]

Yup. Buddy Franklin to Sydney all over again. Tiger won a flag because they had amazing team harmony & across the board contributions, they're fools to risk that for an above-average KPF who already has knee issues.

Lynch is closer to Tippett than to Franklin. Otherwise I agree with this.

 

[A Cut Above]

Lynch is closer to Tippett than to Franklin. Otherwise I agree with this.

....or closer to Mitch Clark.

 

[Grin]

You had a team first culture.
Lynch is going to disrupt that.

He took a pay cut to come to Richmond.
Doesn't sound disruptive to me.
Time will tell I suppose.

 

[Grin]

Yup. Buddy Franklin to Sydney all over again. Tiger won a flag because they had amazing team harmony & across the board contributions, they're fools to risk that for an above-average KPF who already has knee issues.

Why do you think Hawthorn offered him more than Richmond did?

 

[A Cut Above]

Why do you think Hawthorn offered him more than Richmond did?

That's because we knew Richmond were offering Lynch 6 years. We have a wise policy of never handing out contracts longer than 5.

 

[richoatthedisco]

A criminally overrated footballer is one who gets 50 possessions and you still get flogged.

 

[A Cut Above]

A criminally overrated footballer is one who gets 50 possessions and you still get flogged.

How 'bout one who kicks 5 goals but you still lose by 39?

 

[Heisenberg_]

That's because we knew Richmond were offering Lynch 6 years. We have a wise policy of never handing out contracts longer than 5.

No it’s because you’re desperate to cling on for dear life from the inevitable cliff you’re about to fall off.

 

[richoatthedisco]

How 'bout one who kicks 5 goals but you still lose by 39?

Na, when you're flogged in the midfield that's what's called a champion.

 

[A Cut Above]

No it’s because you’re desperate to cling on for dear life from the inevitable cliff you’re about to fall off.

Erm.... if we were so desperately trying to cling to this imaginary cliff of yours wouldn't we have offered Lynch 6 years and a lot more money?

No, we missed out on Lynch for the same reason we missed out on Shiel - we were unwilling to pay the infated rates more desperate clubs were offering for two very good players who've been criminally overrated by many in the football world. Congrats Tigers on being suckered into the Lynch hype.

Na, when you're flogged in the midfield that's what's called a champion.

Champion? Mouthy smararse ******* is my preferred description for Jack Riewoldt.

 

[richoatthedisco]

Erm.... if we were so desperately trying to cling to this imaginary cliff of yours wouldn't we have offered Lynch 6 years and a lot more money?

No, we missed out on Lynch for the same reason we missed out on Shiel - we were unwilling to pay the infated rates more desperate clubs were offering for two very good players who've been criminally overrated by many in the football world. Congrats Tigers on being suckered into the Lynch hype.

You offered Lynch 500k per year more than we did. And just like Prestia before him, he saw the massive cliff your club is hanging onto by its fingernails.

 

[A Cut Above]

You offered Lynch 500k per year more than we did.

ROFL in your dreams we did. Do you have a sauce for that? No, of course you don't so quite telling porkies.

 

[richoatthedisco]

ROFL in your dreams we did. Do you have a sauce for that? No, of course you don't so quite telling porkies.

My source is that you are spending the $1.4m you put aside for Lynch on Wingard and a crippled Scully. Plus 400k for Scrimshaw.

 

[MAXIMUM GRUNDAGE]

My source is that you are spending the $1.4m you put aside for Lynch on Wingard and a crippled Scully. Plus 400k for Scrimshaw.

Does that figure include a recruiting wage for $cully's dad?

 

[Heisenberg_]

You offered Lynch 500k per year more than we did. And just like Prestia before him, he saw the massive cliff your club is hanging onto by its fingernails.

Imagine how much he would be laying into Geelong for going with the same extreme desperation strategy Hawthorn is currently employing?

 

[Heisenberg_]

Does that figure include a recruiting wage for $cully's dad?

That will be needed for surgery to re-attach his ankle.

 

[A Cut Above]

My source is that you are spending the $1.4m you put aside for Lynch on Wingard and a crippled Scully. Plus 400k for Scrimshaw.

"My source" lol

 

[richoatthedisco]

"My source" lol

It doesn't really matter, does it? He told you to GAGF, he gives us arguably the best key forward duo in the comp, and you get to spend $1.8m on an uncommitted Wingard, a crippled Scully, and a mummy's boy.