Geelong rorting the system

[Dirty Bird]

Look, there's no question there's outside the cap payments. But they're legal if they're not instigated by the club (Stupid Trigg putting it into Tippett's contract and getting Balfours on board)

But if all clubs were offering me the exact same contract, and had the exact same facilities, and had the exact same relationships with me as each other.

Geelong would be in my top 5 every time.

Now, I'd probably cut Port out of those 5, because **** Port.

But Adelaide, Geelong, Gold Coast, Port Adelaide and Tasmania would offer me a lifestyle which I would enjoy a whole lot more than the other 15 clubs could.
**** the oversized metropolises of Sydney/Brisbane/Melbourne and the poorly designed city of Perth.

 

[LoBu]

Also, didn't the club identify it themselves in an audit and self-report to the AFL that it had happened?

Once it was identified they had to report it, as the AFL would see it in the report. They made the mistake of getting a new Treasurer in.

 

[geelong_crazy26]

I keep hearing stuff about the farms being a big motivator. To be honest I think it's more the lifestyle geelong offers. Who wouldn't want to live the easy going country lifestyle only being 1 hr from town.

Whats laughable is 30 years ago you couldnt even fill a brown paper bag high enough to get a player down there let alone through a legit pathway.

Whats changed is the geographics have flipped.

Melbourne used to be thr destination lifestyle with moderate traffic, affordability with a home and backyard, 30 minute drive to work..

Whild geelong was a run down dump of a country town with little to no vibrancy or living benefits...

Now, it is sitting in traffic for 1.5 hrs in peak times to move 30km. A small brick home with hardly a backyard is 1m++ for price.


Geelong is now a place you can buy a decent home with a backyard, little to moderate trafic, has grown exponentially so now offers vibrancy in town with shopping dining etc... While having the edge of still offering that coastal/farm lifestyle it gas always had its edge with.

Its demographic.. Much like queensland is now appealing to the younger generation allowing brisbane to recruit well and become a destination which it wasnt in prior years.

These things change with the years.

This could easily flip in the years to come with Perth becoming a destination place… I won’t be sulking about it, players have a right to choose a lifestyle and demographic that is best suited for their families and future. It is just the way things eb and flow over time

 

[iameviljez]

He kicked 76 goals for GWS in 2019.

That's true, you're probably right.

That said, he had a definite tail-off in his last year at GWS.

 

[Gavin Excell]

There are genuinely people out there who think that the club is providing under the table house and land packages

I mean really

 

[HairyO]

There are genuinely people out there who think that the club is providing under the table house and land packages

I mean really

Noone is saying its the club. Its the coterie. Every club has them. Some do far more than others.

Its the worst kept secret in the AFL. And the AFL doesnt want to hear about it because it would be a struggle to investigate 800 players a year and they like the easy money.

 

[iameviljez]

Noone is saying its the club. Its the coterie. Every club has them. Some do far more than others.

Its the worst kept secret in the AFL. And the AFL doesnt want to hear about it because it would be a struggle to investigate 800 players a year and they like the easy money.

Is it genuinely a thing, or is it just a whole bunch of bored BigFooty and Reddit nuffnuffs?

Surely if it is actually an open secret, then another club would go to the media and actually blow the whistle, given Geelong's sustained success.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Noone is saying its the club. Its the coterie. Every club has them. Some do far more than others.

Its the worst kept secret in the AFL. And the AFL doesnt want to hear about it because it would be a struggle to investigate 800 players a year and they like the easy money.

Sure

It's laughable and an easy excuse to explain Geelong's continued run of being up there

 

[Lockyer24]

It’s the beach towns more than anything nearby which would attract players. Except for Ollie Henry who is cat man and the drive to Melbourne was a bit far for him.

 

[Cleansweep17]

So just heard Geelong get an extra home game now at methhead stadium.

This is why I say it’s an immoral club. No shame and not even trying to hide it.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Ive always regarded it as a joke.

Turns out there’s people out there who actually believe it.

I guess one thing they do have is a bit of geographic uniqueness, they are the only club in the Bellarine / Western District area… I’m sure that assisted them getting Cameron and Dangerfield, a go home factor.

But that’s really no different to every club which targets players who are interstate to “bring them home”. Carlton got Judd, who was only ever going to a Melbourne club.

But it’s not like they have every player from the area. We’ve got Parish and Merrett from the same region. They 100% have enquired about Merrett in the past, and he didn’t go.

 

[Wojcinski]

So just heard Geelong get an extra home game now at methhead stadium.

This is why I say it’s an immoral club. No shame and not even trying to hide it.

Instead of 9 of 23 games at home they get 10 of 23 games at home. So immoral!

 

[Wojcinski]

Ive always regarded it as a joke.

Turns out there’s people out there who actually believe it.

Facebook is chock full of experts on the topic, worth a read if you fancy mass deleting your brain cells

 

[Burtyl78]

So just heard Geelong get an extra home game now at methhead stadium.

This is why I say it’s an immoral club. No shame and not even trying to hide it.

Says the team with no backyards in their suburb and a safe injection room

 

[PhatBoy]

So just heard Geelong get an extra home game now at methhead stadium.

This is why I say it’s an immoral club. No shame and not even trying to hide it.

Yeah we could just do what Richmond do and play more than 10 games in our home city like the c-nuts they are.

 

[Rockford]

Once it was identified they had to report it, as the AFL would see it in the report. They made the mistake of getting a new Treasurer in.

Sooo... the club identified it in an audit and self-reported the mistake, like I said. This idea that they "made the mistake" of finding it is something you've added to the conversation.

 

[sexyhunk]

funny no one ever talks about jordan degoey, brodie grundy

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, etc turning us down, but yeah geelong get the a graders.

 

[Dazb86]

funny no one ever talks about jordan degoey, brodie grundy, jake stringer, todd goldstein, james frawley, etc turning us down, but yeah geelong get the a graders.

They just didn't cotton on to how good it could be

 

[Cleavy]

All they are guilty of is sensible, measured and successful recruitment.

shouldn't they have won more than 1 premiership in the past 13 years if their recruitment is so good?

 

[LoBu]

Sooo... the club identified it in an audit and self-reported the mistake, like I said. This idea that they "made the mistake" of finding it is something you've added to the conversation.

So because Geelong no longer had the employee, no harm done, shake hands, move on old chap.

Once discovered it was the legal obligation of the auditor and Directors to tell the AFL, not some kind of old school honour code.

 

[LoBu]

Hey I'm not saying it was the smoking gun, but OP asked for evidence and this is just that. Minimising it as old potatoes, or an honest mistake old chap, is a little naive.

Again, I wouldn't support what Trigg did, but Adelaide owned up before they were caught too.

 

[Bont the Lord]

There are genuinely people out there who think that the club is providing under the table house and land packages

I mean really

In the past that would have Costa the club too much money

 

[My Tilly]

funny no one ever talks about jordan degoey, brodie grundy, jake stringer, todd goldstein, james frawley, etc turning us down, but yeah geelong get the a graders.

Travis Boak was another we missed out on. That was when Selwood had to carry our midfield on his back for a few years and Boak was right in his prime.
Turned us down and probably regrets it when you look back at what could have been.

Having Boak during those years 2016-2020 may have been the difference in winning multiple premierships.

 

[geelong_crazy26]

It’s the beach towns more than anything nearby which would attract players. Except for Ollie Henry who is cat man and the drive to Melbourne was a bit far for him.

Get over it. He is gone...its literally been two years

 

[The_Todd07]

Get over it. He is gone...its literally been two years

Not a single person on this site would give up the chance to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year playing for the team they grew up supporting, alongside their sibling and have no commute.

Yet apparently it must be homesickness.