Coach AFL investigation into Chris Scott

[kickazz]

Personally don’t like it. May be completely above board but it brings unnecessary scrutiny and innuendo to both Scott and the club. The optics are terrible.

Fail to see also how he has time to take on a job of any significance? An AFL coaching job should be a full time position.

Anyway, know most won’t agree.

I don't like it because I thought being an AFL coach would be a full time job.

 

[Gunf]

I don't like it because I thought being an AFL coach would be a full time job.

And if his contract is for the off season only to do some speeches and lectures?

Or should he spend months doing nothing?

 

[goyoucatters]

You need to provide consideration for w legally binding contract otherwise it gets messy

Not when all the High Court judges in the land are in your pocket, you don't.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Not when all the High Court judges in the land are in your pocket, you don't.

I assume we've taken the Republican party approach to the judiciary then?

 

[kickazz]

And if his contract is for the off season only to do some speeches and lectures?

Or should he spend months doing nothing?

If it's a couple of speeches and so on, on a contract, that's fine.

The idea that head coaches do nothing in the offseason is a bit naive.

 

[goyoucatters]

I assume we've taken the Republican party approach to the judiciary then?

Of course. And that's why a Trump victory next week would only be further evidence of the malevolent influence the Geelong Football Club exerts over every principality and power of this world.

#youknowitmakessense

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Of course. And that's why a Trump victory next week would only be further evidence of the malevolent influence the Geelong Football Club exerts over every principality and power of this world.

#youknowitmakessense

Oh man, not yet, leave me in peace at the idea that the collapse of western power is postponed another 4 years.

 

[cats_09]

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

I mean, my God, we lost Greg Williams to Sydney all because we couldn't stump up an extra $5000.

This has, and always WILL, stupefy me. Mind = still blown.

 

[Strange Cat]

This has, and always WILL, stupefy me. Mind = still blown.

The club was nearly insolvent back then

 

[Tony Barber]

The club was nearly insolvent back then

It probably was insolvent. When you have to go to a sponsor and get your sponsor to pay the players wages I think you're stuffed. But hey, we kept Ablett

 

[iameviljez]

Personally don’t like it. May be completely above board but it brings unnecessary scrutiny and innuendo to both Scott and the club. The optics are terrible.

Fail to see also how he has time to take on a job of any significance? An AFL coaching job should be a full time position.

Anyway, know most won’t agree.

I agree with all of this, but my God has the AFL screwed up the approval of it.

 

[frggr]

LOL imagine a business approaching Bevo about a mentoring/leadership coaching role. Jenny from Finance would be taking a dump in Bob from Marketing's locker in no time flat.

 

[Strange Cat]

LOL imagine a business approaching Bevo about a mentoring/leadership coaching role. Jenny from Finance would be taking a dump in Bob from Marketing's locker in no time flat.

I heard Pert is free these days

 

[iameviljez]

I mean, my God, we lost Greg Williams to Sydney all because we couldn't stump up an extra $5000.

This has, and always WILL, stupefy me. Mind = still blown.

The club was nearly insolvent back then

Yep, exactly. People talk about the difference between $45k and $50k as though the issue was our penny-pinching greed, but the reality is that if you don't have the money, you just don't have the money.

The whole of the VFL was in big, big trouble between the mid-80s and the mid-90s, when things started to really stabilise. In 1985, all VFL clubs bar Essendon, Carlton and Hawthorn were actually insolvent. The TV licence money was so low that the ABC could afford it in 1987. If it weren't for Brisbane and West Coast paying for their licences to enter the comp in '87, the whole thing would have probably gone under.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

The club was nearly insolvent back then

It probably was insolvent. When you have to go to a sponsor and get your sponsor to pay the players wages I think you're stuffed. But hey, we kept Ablett

Yeah. I have the haziest memories of being a Cats fan back in them days but I've read of the Greg Williams/Bernard Toohey/Tommy Hafey Sydney Three-Step and I'm always thinking "oh man, what IF..."

But yeah, if the club couldn't even afford a shit-bucket to eat sawdust from back then I guess it's fair enough that we couldn't part with the extra four grand.

 

[iameviljez]

Yeah. I have the haziest memories of being a Cats fan back in them days but I've read of the Greg Williams/Bernard Toohey/Tommy Hafey Sydney Three-Step and I'm always thinking "oh man, what IF..."

Perhaps in an alternative world, Geelong keeps Toohey, Williams and Hafey, and goes bankrupt in 1986.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Perhaps in an alternative world, Geelong keeps Toohey, Williams and Hafey, and goes bankrupt in 1986.

Yeah. There's that!

 

[Strange Cat]

Perhaps in an alternative world, Geelong keeps Toohey, Williams and Hafey, and goes bankrupt in 1986.

At the very least they would had left KP IMO

 

[Cataholic]

I agree with all of this, but my God has the AFL screwed up the approval of it.

Apparently Scott said this had been ticked off by the AFL, but with the understanding that I've not stayed up to date on all this......has that claim that the been independently verified by anyone else?

Just not seen any other confirmation is all, but once again I stress I've not stayed across all this of late.

 

[iameviljez]

At the very least they would had left KP IMO

I reckon that would have been the death of the GFC.

Moving away from Fitzroy to the southside really, really hurt Fitzroy FC. Brisbane struggled for any kind of fandom till they actually started playing in Brisbane.

Geelong, 75 minutes outside of Geelong, would die.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

I heard Pert is free these days

Step 1: Pert to the dogs
Step 2: Bont to tour Stanley's farm
Step 3: Mackie??
Step 4: Profit