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AFLW 2024 - Round 8 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Strictly speaking, if clubs want to play hard ball, they still can force a player to the draft if the player refuses to sign. But yeah, there's usually no reason for a club to do so. FA was meant to shift the balance of power more in favour of the players and I guess it's doing that.
I reckon we'll see Clarke doing exactly the same thing in 12 months.
Strictly speaking, if clubs want to play hard ball, they still can force a player to the draft if the player refuses to sign. But yeah, there's usually no reason for a club to do so. FA was meant to shift the balance of power more in favour of the players and I guess it's doing that.
I reckon we'll see Clarke doing exactly the same thing in 12 months.
If Scott Watters has half a brain, Roberton will be playing in Gilberts spot by the end of 2013. Good luck to him
Seriously, I can't believe all the good will to Roberton from people here, after he walked out on the club cos his girlfriend is pregnant and wants to be near her folks. What a friggen woos he is. She's pregnant FFS, not terminally ill. He walked out on the club, and onto St Kilda's list for a nett result of nothing to us. I hope St Kilda finish 9th for the next two years and he is delisted for being just not quite up to it at the end of his first and only contract with them. Stuff him...
Having said that, however, I wouldn't be surprised if the pregnancy thing is only a rumour. He was 18 when he came over here - did his chicky babe move over with him as a 17/18 year old, or is this supposed pregnant girlfriend actually a WA girl?? I reckon someone threw up the pregnancy thing and everyone has run with it.
If his 'family reasons' are actually something way more serious than a knocked up girlfriend, then I take it all back (the 'he's a woos, stuff him' line from paragraph one).
So you think he should value a footy club over his child?Seriously, I can't believe all the good will to Roberton from people here, after he walked out on the club cos his girlfriend is pregnant and wants to be near her folks. What a friggen woos he is. She's pregnant FFS, not terminally ill. He walked out on the club, and onto St Kilda's list for a nett result of nothing to us. I hope St Kilda finish 9th for the next two years and he is delisted for being just not quite up to it at the end of his first and only contract with them. Stuff him...
Having said that, however, I wouldn't be surprised if the pregnancy thing is only a rumour. He was 18 when he came over here - did his chicky babe move over with him as a 17/18 year old, or is this supposed pregnant girlfriend actually a WA girl?? I reckon someone threw up the pregnancy thing and everyone has run with it.
If his 'family reasons' are actually something way more serious than a knocked up girlfriend, then I take it all back (the 'he's a woos, stuff him' line from paragraph one).
Seriously, I can't believe all the good will to Roberton from people here, after he walked out on the club cos his girlfriend is pregnant and wants to be near her folks. What a friggen woos he is. She's pregnant FFS, not terminally ill. He walked out on the club, and onto St Kilda's list for a nett result of nothing to us. I hope St Kilda finish 9th for the next two years and he is delisted for being just not quite up to it at the end of his first and only contract with them. Stuff him...
Having said that, however, I wouldn't be surprised if the pregnancy thing is only a rumour. He was 18 when he came over here - did his chicky babe move over with him as a 17/18 year old, or is this supposed pregnant girlfriend actually a WA girl?? I reckon someone threw up the pregnancy thing and everyone has run with it.
If his 'family reasons' are actually something way more serious than a knocked up girlfriend, then I take it all back (the 'he's a woos, stuff him' line from paragraph one).
Seriously, I can't believe all the good will to Roberton from people here, after he walked out on the club cos his girlfriend is pregnant and wants to be near her folks. What a friggen woos he is. She's pregnant FFS, not terminally ill. He walked out on the club, and onto St Kilda's list for a nett result of nothing to us. I hope St Kilda finish 9th for the next two years and he is delisted for being just not quite up to it at the end of his first and only contract with them. Stuff him...
Having said that, however, I wouldn't be surprised if the pregnancy thing is only a rumour. He was 18 when he came over here - did his chicky babe move over with him as a 17/18 year old, or is this supposed pregnant girlfriend actually a WA girl?? I reckon someone threw up the pregnancy thing and everyone has run with it.
If his 'family reasons' are actually something way more serious than a knocked up girlfriend, then I take it all back (the 'he's a woos, stuff him' line from paragraph one).
What's woosy about quitting your job to go and live in a city where you grew up?
Probably the "quitting" aspect of it.
Good luck to him, it sucks from the clubs perspective, but there are more important things than footy.
The only thing that bugs me is I really rated him, I think he will be one of the better third talls in the comp in a couple of years, maybe as good as Mackie.
Although I know a lot of the "Brownlow medal by your second year or gtfo" brigade didn't think much of him..
Ah well at least it will be nice to see Pitt make 90% of the Freo supporters on here eat their words.
Really? Quitting a job to take a better one is woosy?
Whatever the duration of his contract is. There'll always be a double standard with this situation though, the great players that leave after their contract is up are 'disloyal money grubbing flogs', whereas the honest battlers or lesser rated are generally given the free pass.He didn't choose to come to Fremantle to begin with, how many years of service are required before he is allowed to play at home?
Who really cares, though? St Kilda were probably in his ear, let's not be naive, and why should he try and do the righty? We would've gotten a pretty average offer from him as a trade. I reckon we've been fairly lucky in terms of homesickness.Seriously, I can't believe all the good will to Roberton from people here, after he walked out on the club cos his girlfriend is pregnant and wants to be near her folks. What a friggen woos he is. She's pregnant FFS, not terminally ill. He walked out on the club, and onto St Kilda's list for a nett result of nothing to us. I hope St Kilda finish 9th for the next two years and he is delisted for being just not quite up to it at the end of his first and only contract with them. Stuff him...
Having said that, however, I wouldn't be surprised if the pregnancy thing is only a rumour. He was 18 when he came over here - did his chicky babe move over with him as a 17/18 year old, or is this supposed pregnant girlfriend actually a WA girl?? I reckon someone threw up the pregnancy thing and everyone has run with it.
ross lyon/zac dawson/hell even our ******* runner say hi
doesnt feel good does it?
I think Roberton will turn into a serviceable player but I think you've overrating him quite a bit. Doesn't have anywhere near the pace/line-breaking ability and footskills of Mackie, his much vaunted aerobic capacity was also as evident as Pitt's much vaunted footskills (ie: non-evident) so despite what many here think he will never make it as a mid.
What works against him most though is his size, another tweener Marcus Drum type which is a real shame as with another couple cm's I think he'd make a very good KPP.
I think best case scenario is probably a NIck Maxwell type which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
So you think he should value a footy club over his child?