Toast Gunston drops the flag.

[gunner_vine]

Mummy, I want my premiership cup

There, there. I'll feed you later.


Uncanny likeness.

 

[97-98]

I've got too much time on my hands.

 

[gunner_vine]

Win. Tried my hardest to find vision of it.

 

[bobshoby]

ah wow i didn't know the full story
what a twat, buddy probably bought him a ticket back to adelaide after the game

nice to see marty mattner do well, great player should've been a crow for his entire career but sadly Craigy intervened

 

[cmndstab]

You can cop them if the nett ins match up. Davis-Crouch is looking tasty, Bock-Tambling not quite so and Gunston-Kerridge still tba

To be fair, it's really Gunston for Kerridge, Jenkins and Grigg (plus some pocket change). Still too early to make that call though.

 

[JP Sauce]

I will put up here what I tweet.

@MrsGunston will probably send you an angry tweet now!

 

[JP Sauce]

I've got too much time on my hands.

It's so... beautiful! *wipes tear*

Still would love to see actual footage if anyone can help me out.

 

[Dangerfield#32]

Hated the way he went about his decision to leave last year, if those reports were in-fact correct. I didn't take much notice of him this year although he did play quite well during the season. He is a very good shot at goal but doesn't do a whole lot else.

I'm not missing him.

 

[eastcoastcrow]

If Sando had in the prelim team, Davis Bock Talia and Gunston we actually would have won the game and the flag in 2012, throw in Maric too.

Such is life!

Damn we recruited well. No other team can make that statement.

 

[JP Sauce]

If Sando had in the prelim team, Davis Bock Talia and Gunston we actually would have won the game and the flag in 2012, throw in Maric too.

Such is life!

Damn we recruited well. No other team can make that statement.

Maric wouldn't have made the team and Talia would probably never have played this year... but I see your point.

 

[J_Moore]

Gunston2Post

 

[Huntercrow]

Agreed.

The defections of Cunston and Davis have really hurt us and potentially cost us a grand final this year

Not too much would have been gained by their staying. Davis departure allowed us to groom Tahlia who had a brilliant year and as for Gunston, our weakness was not our forward line and I doubt with his fragility in tough contests would have added much to our success this year.

 

[swanfan]

@MrsGunston will probably send you an angry tweet now!

She probably blocked me because Jack stopped feeding.

 

[Harris Pilton]

This isn't going to make me popular, but I must say I find the vitriol expressed toward Gunston in this thread a little disturbing. Sure he went about things badly, but he's not the first player to vote with his feet and piss off to a preferred club. (Or more accurately, to allow himself to be poached.) Who knows who was getting in his ear, and what sort of advice he was receiving? I can understand missing family and friends -he was only 20 at the time. We all have things in our past which we would handle differently if we had our time over again.​

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No one was happier than me when his sitter hit the post, but we've all had a good gloat and I reckon it's time to put this thread to bed.​

 

[swanfan]

And who made you mod ?

 

[jenny61_99]

I think it will run its natural course hp, and soon it will be jack who?

 

[swanfan]

Who Jenny ?

 

[jenny61_99]

That's the one!

 

[Pilchard_Adams]

Barracked for the Swans because of Gunston. Much happiness!!

 

[fairfooty]

This isn't going to make me popular, but I must say I find the vitriol expressed toward Gunston in this thread a little disturbing. Sure he went about things badly, but he's not the first player to vote with his feet and piss off to a preferred club. (Or more accurately, to allow himself to be poached.) Who knows who was getting in his ear, and what sort of advice he was receiving? I can understand missing family and friends -he was only 20 at the time. We all have things in our past which we would handle differently if we had our time over again.​

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No one was happier than me when his sitter hit the post, but we've all had a good gloat and I reckon it's time to put this thread to bed.​

Yep agreed HP. The level of viciousness is pretty disturbing. It's true that how you leave is as important, if not more important than how you arrive. And if whats on this board is true then Gunston and the Hawks did it badly. But as I said in a another vicious thread about Phil Davis - these are 20 year old kids being advised by managers who probably get a cut of the deal and I'll bet were highly influenced by them. And in this case the Hawks grubby fingers are all over it too. Very flattering for a 20 year old to be chased by a big Melbourne club and get the opportunity to go home as well. But club loyalty is important in a tribal game and Gunston obviously needs to learn that.

But time to put the swords away and move on. Threads like this are bad for our clubs psyche. What's done is done and nothing is going to change that.

 

[swanfan]

It would be fair to say like anything, if you don't like it, don't read it.

 

[sbenno]

I think the vitriol is warranted. The manner in which Gunston left was cowardly and deceitful. He robbed the club of a very promising player whom they had invested a significant amount of time and money into on the assumption he would stay at the Crows.

Davis is a different story. I wasn't impressed at the time, but he needed to make the most of his AFL career, as his shoulder injuries were/are likely to cut it short. Also, he didn't say he was on a flight to Sydney on the day of the BnF.

 

[jenny61_99]

And IF we can contain it to this week, it is fair and warranted. Bang on after this though, and we start to tempt karma rebound! There's only so many free hits allowed in situations like this... once you've reached that level and keep pushing it can then start to work against you.

 

[Sekaj]

It's definitely worth watching, Swans had kicked three unanswered goals and are up by 7 points. Buddy passes to an unchecked Cunston about 15 metres out on a 10 degree angle so all he has to do is go back and kick a gimme goal to cut the margin back to a point. The commentators talk up how much of a sharpshooter he is etc, but the pressure gets to him, he chokes and the kick goes right.

Bit like A. Jarman in '93?

 

[Crow-eater]

I think the vitriol is warranted. The manner in which Gunston left was cowardly and deceitful. He robbed the club of a very promising player whom they had invested a significant amount of time and money into on the assumption he would stay at the Crows.

Davis is a different story. I wasn't impressed at the time, but he needed to make the most of his AFL career, as his shoulder injuries were/are likely to cut it short. Also, he didn't say he was on a flight to Sydney on the day of the BnF.

Davis also had the balls to look his team mates in the eye and tell them he was leaving.