Roos Tells Eddie The Facts About Life In Sydney

[neored]

Originally posted by Reggi
Bryan Wood
Geoff Raines
Rene Kink
Anthony Daniher
Ben Doolan

Anybody in the last decade?


And in any case the majority were involved in trades. I might well be wrong but I dont remember any of them being high priced recruits.

Ben Doolan... he was shocking !!! who are you trying to kid?

You could of at least mentioned Denham, then your argument might have some merit.

[Bear]

Originally posted by neored
Clubs haven't agreed to anything, theres been cautious support up to this point. The report is very lengthy so dont expect any major responses from Clubs any time soon.

In any case one of my major arguments have been vindicated. Now every club will have access to extra allowance depending on the make up of their list. The rule has been extended for all clubs not just one or two.

Has it REALLY though? When is the next time Ess will have enough players from interstate to take advantage of the rule??

It was a token change to keep a rule that simply goes SOME way to evening the playing field. Our players are still worse off in real terms to players in Melb, Adel, etc, and our club has to pay more (and hence be less profitable) just to go SOME way to keeping players' pay and conditions competitive in real terms.

[robbieando]

Originally posted by neored
And in any case the majority were involved in trades.

And the difference is??????

4/5 of the big names we got since 1995 came via trades as well

[neored]

Originally posted by robbieando
neored the entire commission is heavily in favour of the extention so removing one bad apple won't change things.

I was being facetious, some people were having a go at my club for breaking the salary cap rules, whilst the man responsible is on the board.

On playing the Prelim Final at the G, I haven't got a problem and our club hasn't been outspoken on this issue because they know we have a huge following in Melbourne. Plus I don't have to pay $200 just make it up to Sydney. Still I bet you were real happy coming up here in 96

Thats very selfish of you. After all most Swans supporters are in Sydney and deserve to see their club play a final there... See I dont dispute that your clubs should have a pre-lim IF it deserves one. My point has been that if we are going to have one injustice ie.salary cap then Sydney supporters should be made to understand as to how it feels to be discrimminated against.

And as for going to Sydney, hey that was fine. I encourage my club to travel around Australia promoting its brand. So no problem there. And remember we were only a bees dick away from making it into the GF.

Who cares if you could of got off, you still cheated not the other way around.

No argument here , we were over the cap and got punished for it(SEVERELY). But despite that we still ended up winning a premiership a few years later...

[neored]

Originally posted by Bear
Has it REALLY though? When is the next time Ess will have enough players from interstate to take advantage of the rule??

I'm not sure, but there are quite a few Vic clubs that a hovering around the 55 - 65 % mark. So a few players either way will allow them to make use of the law.

It was a token change to keep a rule that simply goes SOME way to evening the playing field. Our players are still worse off in real terms to players in Melb, Adel, etc, and our club has to pay more (and hence be less profitable) just to go SOME way to keeping players' pay and conditions competitive in real terms.

The overall change may be very small, but fact is the law is now applicable to all clubs and that is a very substantial shift in terms of AFL Policy.

And as for your players being worse off, Why? You're still being compensated in terms of COS. The only difference is that the extra funds will hinge on how many players from interstate you have on your list. I think this is quite a reasonable change.

[robbieando]

Originally posted by neored
Thats very selfish of you. After all most Swans supporters are in Sydney and deserve to see their club play a final there... See I dont dispute that your clubs should have a pre-lim IF it deserves one. My point has been that if we are going to have one injustice ie.salary cap then Sydney supporters should be made to understand as to how it feels to be discrimminated against.

It might be selfish but I like to watch my team play LIVE something I don't get to do that offen anymore thanks to the Swans playing 5 games in Melbourne. Personally I don't have a problem with the MCC contract because I know it was an important part of getting the Southern Stand built.

On the extra room in our salary cap, thats hardly an injustice

[Reggi]

Originally posted by neored
Anybody in the last decade?


And in any case the majority were involved in trades. I might well be wrong but I dont remember any of them being high priced recruits.

Ben Doolan... he was shocking !!! who are you trying to kid?

You could of at least mentioned Denham, then your argument might have some merit.

May have been a dud - but S&Don lured him away with big $$$$ - was one of your top (if not the top) paid players as a 19 YO in a premiership year (papers reported it as over $100K very big in 1992-93).

Don't give us this crap that S&Don haven't lured players away - he was 19 and had played 25 odd games for Sydney - at the time it was generally thought he would turn out OK.

Sheedy has also said that he did his best to get Anthony Rocca from Sydney but Anna Rocca wouldn't have anything to do with it.

[neored]

Originally posted by Reggi
May have been a dud - but S&Don lured him away with big $$$$ - was one of your top (if not the top) paid players as a 19 YO in a premiership year (papers reported it as over $100K very big in 1992-93).

Don't give us this crap that S&Don haven't lured players away - he was 19 and had played 25 odd games for Sydney - at the time it was generally thought he would turn out OK.

Sheedy has also said that he did his best to get Anthony Rocca from Sydney but Anna Rocca wouldn't have anything to do with it.

Anthony Rocca had decided to come back home and a number of clubs were after him.

If you are going to include players we were unsuccessful in luring then I can draw up a list of around 30 in regards to your side.

Additionally lets not get into the 80's and relive some of the great memories under the great Dr. Or do you need reminding?