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  • stevoswan
    Veterans List
    • Sep 2014
    • 8550

    Originally posted by 707
    Classic Titus.

    You get the feeling that as the smallest fish in the biggest pond, in this modern era Norf will never become relevant again, had one big signing in a decade and he may well be found to have been a naughty boy!

    The way player movement has evolved, the big clubs will dominate, it's not cyclic, I think in recent seasons we've passed a point where the equalisation mechanisms are now failing the league.

    That a GWS academy player wants to leave to 'play for a big Melbourne club', that the best pick GWS received for Jeremy Cameron was used on Bruhn who after two years wants to go home to Geelong for less than the pick GWS used to draft him, that after one season the number one pick wants to go home, that Suns are giving away a pick 10 player and pick 7 for a future second a year after doing similar with former number 9 pick Will Brodie, that Richmond can give a bag of picks to extract two very good mids from GWS thereby fast tracking a refresh and avoiding potential draft failures, that clubs like Carlton, Richmond and Geelong don't seem to have a salary cap as they fit in any number of big contract players, that go home has become a valid excuse to leave a club and that you then say who at home you want to be traded to .....

    It's become a mess, the big Melbourne clubs are here to dominate, the small Vic clubs like Norf and Saints are doomed, I fear for GWS and Suns longer term if they continue to be bottom half clubs, they're getting little traction
    Originally posted by KTigers
    Agree, 707. The whole thing is a joke. That the premiers can end up with Cameron AND Bruhn (after GWS have done all the early work
    and got him off training wheels) just says it all. In a couple years Richmond (or Geelong) will no doubt end up with the players GWS
    will get with the picks they'll receive for Taranto and Hopper. GWS and GC have to pay a couple hundred extra K a year for players that
    seemingly (and strangely) the big Vic clubs pay under market rates for. This stuff really takes the gloss out of footy sometimes I tell you.
    Meanwhile half the footy world is getting all worked up cos poor old Clarko has been "blindsided" and mightn't receive the entitled white
    man concept of "natural justice".
    These two posts should be sent to the AFL and the AFLPA. Make them aware of what some fans are thinking and hopefully make them have a hard look at themselves and their supposedly 'equalised league' and what a sick Victorian 'rich club' joke it has become.

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    • Ludwig
      Veterans List
      • Apr 2007
      • 9359

      I would like to hear from the medical profession why it is that out of all the professional sports in the world, only Australian football players suffer from homesickness.

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      • stellation
        scott names the planets
        • Sep 2003
        • 9718

        Originally posted by Ludwig
        I would like to hear from the medical profession why it is that out of all the professional sports in the world, only Australian football players suffer from homesickness.
        I'm not sure it's particularly unique to footy players, but I suspect part of it is to do with the draft and relative salaries compared to other sports that use a draft. Not just the "making heaps more, don't want to go home" idea, but more the financial flexibility to pay for a close friend/family member to relocate near you for some sense of home.

        It may also partly be familiarity with a draft or expected move away from home compared to other sports- the AFL being the only sporting league in Australia with a draft, US major league sports seem to all employ a draft or some kind of living away from home as a college athlete.

        Definitely something the AFL needs to look at and work out some kind of way to address it.
        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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        • i'm-uninformed2
          Reefer Madness
          • Oct 2003
          • 4653

          Originally posted by Ludwig
          I would like to hear from the medical profession why it is that out of all the professional sports in the world, only Australian football players suffer from homesickness.
          The one I laughed at is Ollie Henry, who’s (checks google maps) one hour away from home.
          'Delicious' is a fun word to say

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          • Markwebbos
            Veterans List
            • Jul 2016
            • 7186

            Originally posted by Ludwig
            I would like to hear from the medical profession why it is that out of all the professional sports in the world, only Australian football players suffer from homesickness.
            They might also want to investigate the damaging impact of this disease on players sense of direction.

            Given the impact a large amount of $$$ can have on where they think home is.

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            • i'm-uninformed2
              Reefer Madness
              • Oct 2003
              • 4653

              And apparently, just two days after being appointed, Essendon’s new CEO has resigned.

              What a trash club
              'Delicious' is a fun word to say

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              • KTigers
                Senior Player
                • Apr 2012
                • 2499

                Originally posted by i'm-uninformed2
                And apparently, just two days after being appointed, Essendon’s new CEO has resigned.

                What a trash club
                As my Bombers supporting mate just texted me, "they don't have Google at the club and so they couldn't find out beforehand that their
                new CEO was nuts".

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                • Industrial Fan
                  Goodesgoodesgoodesgoodes!
                  • Aug 2006
                  • 3317

                  Add this to Sheedys recent outburst they’re in a world of pain.

                  Makes me more optimistic about a player like Francis coming to the swans and having an impact.
                  He ate more cheese, than time allowed

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                  • stevoswan
                    Veterans List
                    • Sep 2014
                    • 8550

                    Originally posted by Industrial Fan
                    Add this to Sheedys recent outburst they’re in a world of pain.

                    Makes me more optimistic about a player like Francis coming to the swans and having an impact.
                    Yep....surely he is leaving with a massive sense of relief.

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                    • i'm-uninformed2
                      Reefer Madness
                      • Oct 2003
                      • 4653

                      Originally posted by KTigers
                      As my Bombers supporting mate just texted me, "they don't have Google at the club and so they couldn't find out beforehand that their
                      new CEO was nuts".
                      Got a great mate who’s an Essendon supporter and part of their LGBQT support group, the Purple Bombers. Tells me the club was flooded with complaints today and apparently their womens team were horrified too by his comments equating abortion to the Holocaust.
                      'Delicious' is a fun word to say

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                      • mcs
                        Travelling Swannie!!
                        • Jul 2007
                        • 8162

                        Originally posted by i'm-uninformed2
                        And apparently, just two days after being appointed, Essendon’s new CEO has resigned.

                        What a trash club
                        And a fan base with a significant proportion of trash stamped on it too (of course I'm sure there are plenty of good Bombers fans mixed in too). The amount of people out there on social media this afternoon insinuating 'it is all a media witch hunt with a vendetta against the club' is quite amusing.

                        May they rot in hell as a club for a long time yet.

                        No matter what happened on Grand Final day, I'm glad we support a club that is run well, and in most cases (there are always exceptions) does the right thing by its players and its fans.
                        "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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                        • Nico
                          Veterans List
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 11337

                          Originally posted by i'm-uninformed2
                          Got a great mate who’s an Essendon supporter and part of their LGBQT support group, the Purple Bombers. Tells me the club was flooded with complaints today and apparently their womens team were horrified too by his comments equating abortion to the Holocaust.
                          He was on SEN this morning saying how good he was as a CEO and loved motivating people, and how he loved leading 5000 people at NAB. He resigned as CEO of NAB after the Royal Commission due to dubious practices in the financial planning arm. I know some one who was close to the action there at the time, and he said top management was a rabble. "Anything it takes" ring a bell. NAB has since sold it's financial planning arm.
                          http://www.nostalgiamusic.co.uk/secu...res/srh806.jpg

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                          • Mel_C
                            Veterans List
                            • Jan 2003
                            • 4470

                            Originally posted by KTigers
                            As my Bombers supporting mate just texted me, "they don't have Google at the club and so they couldn't find out beforehand that their
                            new CEO was nuts".
                            Essendon is the gift that keeps on giving. You couldn't make this up.

                            Surely as part of the recruitment process the club did a background check? Upon seeing he was a chair of that church, you would think that alarm bells would go off.

                            And if they didn't do a background check, then it shows what an incompetent club they really are.

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                            • Mel_C
                              Veterans List
                              • Jan 2003
                              • 4470

                              Originally posted by KTigers
                              Agree, 707. The whole thing is a joke. That the premiers can end up with Cameron AND Bruhn (after GWS have done all the early work
                              and got him off training wheels) just says it all.
                              What was the quote that Gill said about us when we were handed the trade ban? "We can't have everyone"?
                              Geelong can win the premiership and they can have everyone ????.

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                              • Kafka's Ghost
                                Regular in the Side
                                • Sep 2017
                                • 901

                                Originally posted by Nico
                                He was on SEN this morning saying how good he was as a CEO and loved motivating people, and how he loved leading 5000 people at NAB. He resigned as CEO of NAB after the Royal Commission due to dubious practices in the financial planning arm. I know some one who was close to the action there at the time, and he said top management was a rabble. "Anything it takes" ring a bell. NAB has since sold it's financial planning arm.
                                Correct. As well as the religious stuff, I’d have thought his corporate history alone was enough to disqualify him from the CEO position at Essendon.


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