johntravoltron
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If a guy is an annoying self centred tool and he's constantly doing handstands the handstand probably comes to represent everything you dislike about the guy.
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If a guy is an annoying self centred tool and he's constantly doing handstands the handstand probably comes to represent everything you dislike about the guy.
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Then it is you with the problem.
The marketing and membership dereived from that handstand is massive with children for your club. Like it or not, IT takes all types to work well within a team. NOT a group of clones, that you all like.
And a club that specifically goes out of its way to recruit a player known to do handstands all the time (no a player whose trademark is to do handstands) - and then has a major inability to accept handstands is is is
Jason Voorhees
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The day Acker did the handstand he had just put in an electrifying individual performance. He kicked a bunch of mercurial goals and was the main reason the Bulldogs won. In fact without Acker that day they probably would have lost. They should have cut him some slack that day.
johntravoltron
Team Captain
Totally . All types is fine. But there has to be limits. Just because you're extremely talented and an individual doesn't mean the normal rules (respect for team mates, employers) don't apply to you, and I think this is the whole Aker incident in a nutshell. Aker has shown time and time again that he does not respect these limits, or others. If you are constantly having to pull a guy into line who is always putting his own agenda ahead of the team then I imagine part of this process would be to ask him to quit doing the stupid handstand for a while and get his shit together.
TBH I thought the handstand was a bit embarassing but i didn't have a major problem with it. But , I can understand how it would become annoying if you were constantly having problems with the guy.
The handstand stayed when he first joined the club remember?
But yeah im sure if it wasn't for that handstand we'd still only have 26k members
I'm still stunned that they had a crack at him about his hair and beard. They knew what he looked like when they recruited him.
That probably pisses them off even more. He's got an abrasive personality but when he's winning games, it's hard to say anything about him.
MrChristo
Premiership Player
lmao!!
Yeah, would have been no dramas at all playing him @ Willy for the rest of his time!!
He choose time and time again to publicly disgrace himself, and therefore him employer/brand/team-mates/whatever else you wnat to call it...
Would it be better for all you Aker supporters if we cimply came out and said that he isn't in our best 22 players?
He doesn't want to play with "dribblers" in the 2's...problem solved.
He's hard done by because he was sacked mid season. Tell me how many players you recall that have been treated this way?
Isn't "very few" the entire point?
Amazing how so few people in the history of AFL have had their contract terminated mid-season, yet this one man has done it twice...
...yet it's somehow the Bulldogs' fault?
Shut your mouth or **** off is a pretty simple ultimatum I would have thought...
Shut your mouth or **** off is a pretty simple ultimatum I would have thought...
"Break your media contract, expose yourself to liability and lose thousands of dollars..".
Not that simple.
he did it at the end of games, not constantly.
He started doing it as a sign of thanks to his in-laws who are deaf and obviously can't hear the commentary or any interviews.
Terrible bloke, should stop those individual handstands!
TBH I thought the huge amount of people in the Bulldogs circle singing their theme song after last weeks game was embarrassing, unecessary and lacked class. Something I felt they had shown all week until that moment.
Gives credence to his bullying accusations, it was blatant.
Once a few influential people have it in for someone, it's a pile on.
johntravoltron
Team Captain
Im aware he didn't do it while the match was in progress, but thanks for that.
The inlaws thing was the reason he gave afterwards for bringing the handstand back after previously agreeing to end it. I think he said it was for his wifes grandfather who was ill.
johntravoltron
Team Captain
Or a tight football club. Sounds like you've got your mind made up though
which is fair enough.
Wow.
I would say, that if the FFC were such a strong organisation, then why did he play on in 2010???
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Every team makes mistakes when signing players on means nothing about strength of organisation as clubs cannot see into the future. Just as an example the hawks gave Croad a new contract for this year despite every man and his dog knowing he was finished after the 2008 injury, wasted a spot on their list and 100K.
Nice try mate.
One thing that you mention is true though, clubs cannot see into the future. A very sage observation....
So you are then saying that in 2009, there were absolutely no signs, no concerns...
Made your bed, etc...
Ant_
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So how do you know this to be fact? The Dogs have not gone down the Aker path and aired dirty laundry. You're basing all your opinion on what you've heard from him.
As for Aker, he has lied several times though this.
His book, he said it was a couple of notes and did not attack players.
His Publisher/Ghost Writer , state that the book is almost finished and attacks Hudson, Gia, Murphy.
Lied about Sam overhearing the conversation and gave himself away on TFS.
So you believe a liar who only has Price and Newman in his corner over a whole Football team?
Thank God! Someone with a brain.Team > individual.
I laugh at people who get stuck into the Bulldogs for this. Do they honestly think this was an easy decision after sticking their necks out and recruiting him in the first place?
Clubs just don't sack players mid-season for the hell of it, especially players as credentialled as Akermanis.
Well done Bulldogs, more power to you.
If the straw that broke the camels back was indeed the leaking of information to Sam Newman about the Leading Teams scenario, which Jason Akermanis claims to be so, then what of the "6 or 7" Bulldogs players that Garry Lyon claimed to be close with that had talked to him about what was happening?
When Lyon took Campbell Rose's side in the Footy Show debate, Akermanis argued that he couldn't do that, because he wasn't there at those meetings, and didn't see what happened. Lyon then said he was close with a number of Bulldogs players who he trusted. Does that indicate that players other than Akermanis are talking to people outside the club about what is taking place in-house?
When Lyon took Campbell Rose's side in the Footy Show debate, Akermanis argued that he couldn't do that, because he wasn't there at those meetings, and didn't see what happened. Lyon then said he was close with a number of Bulldogs players who he trusted. Does that indicate that players other than Akermanis are talking to people outside the club about what is taking place in-house?
slangman
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Better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool than to open it and let them know the truth
Bulldogs have shut up...
Aker hasn't
Nuff said!!!!!!!!
Bulldogs have shut up...
Aker hasn't
Nuff said!!!!!!!!
