Cash beats premierships

[Bayer_]

No, the playing group in the 08 GF made no difference whatsoever... Stokes and especially Varcoe are in our best 22 (Varcoe is in our top 5 now)...

That's 3 years gone now, means nothing.

Stokes did SFA in the GF, and Varcoe's footskills made Jobe Watson look like an elite kick. Wojak would have caused some damage with his pace.

That choice may have cost you a flag. (thanks, BTW)

 

[Bosk]

Plenty of evidence here... Shane, the Mummy, Mumford could have stuck fat with the Cats for 1/3rd of his offered wage with Sydney (yeah ****ing right) and tipped out Blake and Hawkings (purposefully mispelt) to tandem with Otto and lead Geelong to the 3rd in 4...

Sooky lala Brown couldn've stayed with the premiership window Hawks and possibly had more glory in the next year or two...

Woman basher Bock, were he serious about a premiership in his last years could've orchestrated a trade to a real contender...

But in the end cash beats premierships.... and I can understand that being a corporate mercenary myself... but football clubs are not companies, and no one barracks you on to work every morning, and kids don't wear a suit and emulate a lawyer or an accountant....

All of us have been sold out in the latest mad expansion episode of Vlad's empire... vale AFL as we knew it

What it proves is that the vast majority of AFL players who have REFUSED the money thrown at them by GC and re-signed with their clubs value premierships over cash.

The tiny minority of mercenary scum who are willing to sell their loyalty to the highest bidder on the other hand are a different breed entirely, but they *are* the minority and let's not forget that!
I've no doubt at all that most of them will look back on their careers with regret because that extra few dollars they've earned will never be able to buy back their reputation which is now stained forever.

I've never been a big fan of Ablett (this is hardly a secret) but if he does re-sign with Geelong he will earn my respect for putting club loyalty before $$. Given everything Geelong's done for him I reckon it'd be the wise move, but hey it's his call to make.

 

[Tyler Durden007]

What it proves is that the vast majority of AFL players who have REFUSED the money thrown at them by GC and re-signed with their clubs value premierships over cash.

The tiny minority of mercenary scum who are willing to sell their loyalty to the highest bidder on the other hand are a different breed entirely, but they *are* the minority and let's not forget that!
I've no doubt at all that most of them will look back on their careers with regret because that extra few dollars they've earned will never be able to buy back their reputation which is now stained forever.

I've never been a big fan of Ablett (this is hardly a secret) but if he does re-sign with Geelong he will earn my respect for putting club loyalty before $$. Given everything Geelong's done for him I reckon it'd be the wise move, but hey it's his call to make.

Probably not sadly... mercenaries rarely suffer regret because they have no conscience, and they have all that lovely cash to keep them warm... ****ing betraying *****

 

[Bayer_]

Probably not sadly... mercenaries rarely suffer regret because they have no conscience, and they have all that lovely cash to keep them warm... ****ing betraying *****

This knob proves mercenaries always end up regretful.

And this one proves that doing the honourable thing can wind up right.

 

[STC]

Stokes did SFA in the GF, and Varcoe's footskills made Jobe Watson look like an elite kick. Wojak would have caused some damage with his pace.

That choice may have cost you a flag. (thanks, BTW)

Wojo wasn't fit either, Varcoe had come off two of his best games for the year and Stokes played shit in a stupid role, but he had played every game and would never have been dropped anyway. In the end the choice was always between Kelly & Wojo and Kelly was the obvious choice.

It didn't work out well but I think it's a bit rich to suggest he would've won us the flag given his injury and form troubles that year.

 

[Schulzenfest]

This knob proves mercenaries always end up regretful.

Yep.

 

[Bayer_]

Wojo wasn't fit either, Varcoe had come off two of his best games for the year and Stokes played shit in a stupid role, but he had played every game and would never have been dropped anyway. In the end the choice was always between Kelly & Wojo and Kelly was the obvious choice.

It didn't work out well but I think it's a bit rich to suggest he would've won us the flag given his injury and form troubles that year.

Hunt was also in your bottom 5 for the day. Wojo would have been better.

 

[STC]

Hunt was also in your bottom 5 for the day. Wojo would have been better.

You're right, Hunt was shitful, but he was never really in doubt either because of his unique role to the team and his pretty decent season.

 

[Rudeurrection]

Hunt was also in your bottom 5 for the day. Wojo would have been better.

I remember when Hunt seriously squibbed it in a preliminary final against Brisbane in 04. He went back with the flight of the ball and shit himself, he closed his eyes, ducked his head with absolutely no one around and missed his attempted punch at the ball. Ever since then i have thought of him as a big game no show.