Game Day Brisbane Lions vs Geelong Cats - The Darcy Fort Preliminaryship 2024

Who wins it?

  • Geelong

    Votes: 9 30.0%
  • Brisbane

    Votes: 10 33.3%
  • Jack Watts

    Votes: 11 36.7%

  • Total voters
    30

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On how Peter Jess got into Player Management:


"Once again, by default. My cousin, Jim Jess, was playing football at Richmond and he said to me, “Look, they have offered me a contract for the next year. What do you think about that?” I didn't have any experience other than reading the newspapers at that time,so I said to him, “Well they've been touting a guy called John Patura for 120,000. What I suggest we do is we ring some other clubs and see whether they think that you have some
value.”

So I rang Ian Collins at Carlton, who I didn't know at the time that I rang him and said, “I've got my
cousin, Jim Jess, who plays at Richmond. If there was a possibility of him coming to play at your club, would you sign him up?”He said, ”Oh, yes, the Ghost flogged us the other week,so yeah, we'll certainly talk to him.” I said, “Well, tell me what sort of money that you're looking at,” so Collo mentioned a figure which I was very pleased with. I then went back to Richmond and said, Well, look, this is the offer that we've got from Carlton.” I was up front. I'm not sure whether I should have been, but it really didn't matter at that time because it was all new ground.

And I said, “Jim would be prepared to play for a base salary plus bonuses, plus also you'd have to pay him for the use of his name, likeness and image.” The response back from the collective gaggle of Richmond people was less than flattering, and I had Octa Wilson try and jump over the desk and strangle me. Graeme Richmond was the heavyweight there, and he asked Jimmy, “Is this what you want?” and Jimmy said, “Yeah.” They said, “Well, okay, thanks very much for coming along and we'll see you blokes later.” Isaid, “Good. We're off to Carlton. See you.”

So we got up and we walked out, and G.R.said, “Okay, come back in here.” So we did, we walked back in, and he said, “Listen, Jimmy, we’ve had a think about it. Yes, we'll sign you up for three years on one condition.”

Jimmy said, “What's that?”

G.R.said, “Never bring this little [expletive] back into this footy club ever again.”

So that was my initiation into the management of sports people "
He was a handy country footballer until he had a serious car crash and lost his eye.
 

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ABC reporting that Mark Corrigan will be in the box for Geelong in place of Steven King (hoping he gets better soon)

bold strategy, could he bring some of the business secrets of the pharaohs to motivate Geelong to victory?


Brown at half time, white post game. Brown's savoury, white's the treat... Of course I'm the one who's laughing, because I actually love brown toast!
 

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