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  • Sanecow
    Suspended by the MRP
    • Mar 2003
    • 6917

    #16
    Originally posted by stellation
    Why do you think that?
    They want me to go for a runs this week but it won't happen and there will be KFC too.

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    • S.U.D
      On the Rookie List
      • Sep 2005
      • 237

      #17
      Originally posted by stellation
      Why do you think that?
      This year apart, has come across as the member with least amount of hunger to succeed. Now that he has tasted success, I wonder if he will go back to the dark side and choose to live on this one success.

      I hope I'm wrong
      Looking out for good omens which can bring the Swans the 2007 premiership

      My kids had chicken pox and they were all red and white, that's one

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      • Snowy
        On the Rookie List
        • Jun 2003
        • 1244

        #18
        I guess that's why the hierarchy want him to sign a heavily performance-based contract. IMHO his contract should be 90% incentive based. That will stop the KFC indulgence.
        LIFE GOES ON

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        • stellation
          scott names the planets
          • Sep 2003
          • 9720

          #19
          I guess it is just folk's perceptions, somethings don't change.

          re: incentive based contract

          I think it is pretty harsh to be shown one at the end of a season where he has clearly worked hard and where the coach has acknowledged that. It must feel like they have said "Do it, do it, do it... prove it to us"... "Okay, you have proved it to us, BUT". I am sure that you are just having a laugh to suggest his contract should be 90% performance based.

          My understanding (which may be completely wrong) was that the new contract was based not so much as cutting out the money he is on now but putting portions of his (warranted) increases on a performance basis. So really like sitting down with your employer for a yearly review and they are saying "Okay, no commitment to an increase BUT we will increase your possible discetionary bonus".
          I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
          We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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          • Rizzo
            On the Rookie List
            • Jan 2003
            • 655

            #20
            "However, Davis didn't hear any of his speech as he was being drug tested to get it out of the way so he could celebrate.

            And celebrate he did."

            11 secret herbs and spices?

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            • NMWBloods
              Taking Refuge!!
              • Jan 2003
              • 15819

              #21
              Originally posted by S.U.D
              This year apart, has come across as the member with least amount of hunger to succeed. Now that he has tasted success, I wonder if he will go back to the dark side and choose to live on this one success.
              Or he may suddenly discover that it's really good to succeed and decide he likes the taste of it (more than KFC!).
              Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.

              "[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."

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              • Snowy
                On the Rookie List
                • Jun 2003
                • 1244

                #22
                Originally posted by stellation
                I guess it is just folk's perceptions, somethings don't change.

                re: incentive based contract

                I think it is pretty harsh to be shown one at the end of a season where he has clearly worked hard and where the coach has acknowledged that. It must feel like they have said "Do it, do it, do it... prove it to us"... "Okay, you have proved it to us, BUT". I am sure that you are just having a laugh to suggest his contract should be 90% performance based.

                My understanding (which may be completely wrong) was that the new contract was based not so much as cutting out the money he is on now but putting portions of his (warranted) increases on a performance basis. So really like sitting down with your employer for a yearly review and they are saying "Okay, no commitment to an increase BUT we will increase your possible discetionary bonus".
                But Stellation I think that Roos needs to guard against any relapses and he's exactly the sort of player you don't guarantee money to, you make him earn it. Kirk is a different kettle and fish, they'd offer him increases knowing he's professional enough to do the work. Interesting that that South Aussie cricketer Cosgrove has been suspended due to arriving from the off-season in an unsatisfactory condition. Nick may be an early candidate for this by the sound of it.
                LIFE GOES ON

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                • Go Swannies
                  Veterans List
                  • Sep 2003
                  • 5697

                  #23
                  Nick wasn't the only one of our elite athletes to wolf down the KFC on the night. And I never saw anyone (except Brett) without a beer in his hand throughout. Baz was sadly behind in consumption as I think they had him doing interviews until midnight.

                  I don't think you can judge the team's application and dedication on the week after winning the GF.

                  Nor should you judge the supporters on their alcoholic intake this week - and I've still got a bottle of Swans premiership champagne in a friend's fridge in Melbourne. Drunk yours yet Tuesday and Eirinn??

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                  • Mike_B
                    Peyow Peyow
                    • Jan 2003
                    • 6267

                    #24
                    Originally posted by Go Swannies
                    And I never saw anyone (except Brett) without a beer in his hand throughout.
                    Even Crouchy? Or did he have a glass of wine in his hand the whole night?

                    I'm on the Chandwagon!!!

                    If you cannot compete for the premiership, it's better to be young and exciting than middle-aged and dowdy.

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                    • stellation
                      scott names the planets
                      • Sep 2003
                      • 9720

                      #25
                      Originally posted by Snowy
                      But Stellation I think that Roos needs to guard against any relapses and he's exactly the sort of player you don't guarantee money to, you make him earn it. Kirk is a different kettle and fish, they'd offer him increases knowing he's professional enough to do the work. Interesting that that South Aussie cricketer Cosgrove has been suspended due to arriving from the off-season in an unsatisfactory condition. Nick may be an early candidate for this by the sound of it.
                      You wouldn't go far in a union A player being put onto a performance based contract whilst others are not kind of goes against the "one in, all in" mentality they are saying that the team is based on.
                      I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
                      We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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                      • Rizzo
                        On the Rookie List
                        • Jan 2003
                        • 655

                        #26
                        Davo talking about back to back. I wouldn't worry too much.

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                        • lachlanc
                          On the Rookie List
                          • Jul 2005
                          • 92

                          #27
                          saw crouch say he had some grange on hand.

                          perfect occasion, if there ever was one, for him to indulge
                          lachlanc

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                          • punter257
                            Deadliest Left Boot
                            • Aug 2004
                            • 1660

                            #28
                            i had KFC for dinner tonight thanks to reading this thread today
                            and it was bloody bewdiful

                            thanks nick
                            Last edited by punter257; 30 September 2005, 04:15 AM.
                            Roosy = LEGEND

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                            • BayseysLeftBoot
                              On the Rookie List
                              • Jan 2004
                              • 523

                              #29
                              Originally posted by lachlanc
                              saw crouch say he had some grange on hand.

                              perfect occasion, if there ever was one, for him to indulge
                              Apparently when he injured himself in the international rules series last year the team bought him a bottle and all the players signed it. He said he was saving for a special occasion, can't imagine a more special one than this.

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