So bewbs is the answer?
Sounds like it's time to time to dust off the Swannettes and bring in the big guns then?
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So bewbs is the answer?
Sounds like it's time to time to dust off the Swannettes and bring in the big guns then?
If we genuinely wanted a way to stick it to the AFL - boycott finals. I know it would be hard because we'd all want to watch us play a final but it's the only thing we can do that would hurt the AFL financially without hurting our club.
Quick question:
By the AFL effectively forcing us to cancel COLa instantly are they expecting us to take over this allowance from the TPP to uphold existing contracts? We must be or we could have agreed to cancel COLa with a stroke of a pen.
I'd hate to think we've essentially been shoehorned into a situation where we are forced to spend 100% of our cap to cover the difference on existing players guaranteeing no ability to trade, while at the same time bringing in Equalisation measures specifically allowing competitors to build war chests to target those same players.
Perhaps this was Gordon's share of the spoils when all this was worked out by the working committee?
Essentially, we are being taxed via equalisation, forced to spend more on our current list to take over the allowances, restrained from making trades, denied the Veterans List to managed our experienced talent, and next year the Academy will be smashed to smithereens to deny us the option of drafting juniors as well.
This is a smash and grab by the Heartlessland Clubs. The whole thing looks like a multipronged plan to force us to shed talent. And it's quite clear to me that this Equalisation program is specifically targeting only one club in footy. Us.
How are the other Presidents not noticing this?
By the AFL effectively forcing us to cancel COLa instantly are they expecting us to take over this allowance from the TPP to uphold existing contracts? We must be or we could have agreed to cancel COLa with a stroke of a pen.
I'd hate to think we've essentially been shoehorned into a situation where we are forced to spend 100% of our cap to cover the difference on existing players guaranteeing no ability to trade, while at the same time bringing in Equalisation measures specifically allowing competitors to build war chests to target those same players.
Perhaps this was Gordon's share of the spoils when all this was worked out by the working committee?
Essentially, we are being taxed via equalisation, forced to spend more on our current list to take over the allowances, restrained from making trades, denied the Veterans List to managed our experienced talent, and next year the Academy will be smashed to smithereens to deny us the option of drafting juniors as well.
This is a smash and grab by the Heartlessland Clubs. The whole thing looks like a multipronged plan to force us to shed talent. And it's quite clear to me that this Equalisation program is specifically targeting only one club in footy. Us.
How are the other Presidents not noticing this?
True, but he's leading the charge, they fall in behind him.
You summed it up beautifully.
The core issue is that many Melbourne clubs, via incompetence, are struggling. Rather than address their own failures despite the massive advantages of being a Melbourne club, they effectively target a successful interstate club - concocting lies about the COLA being the reason for our success.
The AFL are on very tenuous legal ground - and morally bankrupt - but it is in the courts that this needs to be exposed and ruthlessly attacked. You cannot negotiate with corruption behind closed doors.
How about we boycott the gws games instead ...
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The AFL wouldn't care, they would just draft in a Melb club to fill the void.
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So basically the only way we could trade without going over the cap but bring players in is to flog say tippett off for nothing in return
Ireland said we would need to shed "3-4" reasonable players to be under the cap if we stick it to the AFL.
Imagine this: players go out onto the field, round one. Siren goes, ball is bounced, our players simply don't move. GWS players run and score, with a WTF look on everyone's faces as our players turn and look toward the cameras. Would be weird!
That's what the jumper should look likeSo bewbs is the answer?
Sounds like it's time to time to dust off the Swannettes and bring in the big guns then?
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Will AFLPA have much pull in turning this around ?
Its to late anyways we have been effectively locked out from this year trade period.
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There still the weekend and doesn't finish till next Thursday
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still pretty hard to get a trade done, targeting a player trying to agree on a deal etc.
This is honestly a joke pretty much the AFL is trying to say we cheated.
This organisation is very unprofessional and should be laughed at.
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The AFL practically wants us to pummel out of the top 8.
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its completely pointless taking them on legally.
But you can damage their brand without bringing the game into disrepute. and that is what we should be doing. We should do exactly what mouthpiece megaphone eddy has been doing. We should also get supporters - adam spencer is an obvious one - who have a public profile to publicly damage them over and over and over and over.
I'd talk down the tv rights - I'd be hammering the fact that tv stations are all broke that it will be very hard to market stuff in any market without the swans and the swans are
Thats actually where it hurts - because they are all on ridiculous boys club bonus schemes down here - most of which are linked to financial metrics in the comp.
As things stand right now.
by this the AFL is saying COLA was a wrong. All the jabber for 15 years as to why their should be a Cola and now this - except if your GWS. Straight from Fat Eddie's mouth. FO AFL.
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They are effectively forcing us into a rebuild in the middle of our premiership window. C**TS!
I hope the magpies crumble and finish on bottom of the ladder - Eddie you c*nt!
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If this whole "ban" doesn't go away, swans are practically f*cked for the next few years - absolute bullcrap by the AFL.
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