Non-Lions Footy Season (2017)

[Dalions]

Pretty tough to respect Ablett in his time at GC. Seems it all got too hard for him and he wants to take the money and run.

Well he certainly wants to run.
I personally cant imagine them only playing him for 6 games though.
They have just lost Hanley for an unknown length of time.

 

[Nunez]

Well he certainly wants to run.
I personally cant imagine them only playing him for 6 games though.
They have just lost Hanley for an unknown length of time.

From what I hear it'll be a 'shoulder' that writes him off. Once again who knows but that's what he heavily implied. Essentially the GC (as we all know) has a drug and alcohol culture and Ablett doesn't want to be a part of that or help in fixing it anymore. Tbh from what I've heard in the past and what he was saying, the GCS are ****ed culture wise.

 

[Jivlain]

From what I hear it'll be a 'shoulder' that writes him off. Once again who knows but that's what he heavily implied. Essentially the GC (as we all know) has a drug and alcohol culture and Ablett doesn't want to be a part of that or help in fixing it anymore. Tbh from what I've heard in the past and what he was saying, the GCS are ****** culture wise.

Yeah GCS has for a long time been factionalised into the druggies and the Jesus freaks. Ablett leads the Jesus freaks and they've been dropping like flies lately. Of course, the ascendancy of the druggies isn't exactly an improvement, culture-wise.

 

[POBT]

I reckon the druggie element may have left the building.

I think Ablett just wants out and any excuse will do.

 

[Nunez]

I reckon the druggie element may have left the building.

I think Ablett just wants out and any excuse will do.

I doubt it is as bad as it once was. I agree about Gaj, he has checked out of the Suns and will be gone by any means necessary.

 

[Viceregal]

I reckon the druggie element may have left the building.

I think Ablett just wants out and any excuse will do.

Perhaps young Garry should lead his next bible study on Psalm 15:4 ... I am sure he would love the discussion from there!

 

[TheZork]

Drug use, specifically MDMA is a huge problem across a lot of AFL clubs, the players obviously do it to get the high without getting the impacts on performance like alochol might. I'm not going to name the players because the media love a bigfooty story (and I don't want to get sued), but there are quite a lot that do it, and from some big victorian clubs too. Wouldn't surprise me if there was a problem at GC, especially since the city itself doesn't have the best reputation for drugs.

 

[MacMum]

The bible side of things might be a problem too....it would annoy me if it was constantly referred to in my workplace.

 

[Billy Puller]

Drug use, specifically MDMA is a huge problem across a lot of AFL clubs, the players obviously do it to get the high without getting the impacts on performance like alochol might. I'm not going to name the players because the media love a bigfooty story (and I don't want to get sued), but there are quite a lot that do it, and from some big victorian clubs too. Wouldn't surprise me if there was a problem at GC, especially since the city itself doesn't have the best reputation for drugs.

It's across every club. There isn't a club that it's free of, well except Sydney but that's cause they on the rich boy shit

 

[M Malice]

might be all bulltish this suns bad culture stuff. why would their 4 picks in the top 10 from last years draft all sign 2 year extensions so quickly if something was rotten down there?

http://www.goldcoastfc.com.au/news/2017-03-17/2020-vision-four-draftees-extend-contract

 

[SizeMatters]

Heard something very interesting from someone connected to the Suns regarding Ablett. Essentially is done at the suns and likely won't play more than 6 rounds. Given this person is someone who hasn't given me info before I'm not sure how credible it is, but he was also speaking about Cochrane and said some inside stuff about him that I'd heard from a credible source so he may well be in the know.

Thought it was interesting enough to share.

I heard his partner was allegedly deep in the drug culture. Not sure how true it is but doesn't surprise me given what I've heard about her personality. Trophy wife that has never and will never work a day in her life. Apparently anyway.

 

[lionshine]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-03-...on-hold?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

REIGNING Norm Smith medallist Jason Johannisen has put contract talks with the Western Bulldogs on hold until the end of the season.

Gone. Off to the Dockers I suspect.

 

[SizeMatters]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-03-...on-hold?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter



Gone. Off to the Dockers I suspect.

Probably too early to tell but that fat Boyd contract will make it extremely difficult to keep everyone happy.

 

[lionshine]

Probably too early to tell but that fat Boyd contract will make it extremely difficult to keep everyone happy.

Especially when they'll have to give the Bont 1mill a year to keep him sometime in the next 4 years. Just about every club in the league will be willing to offer Bontempelli a large sum of money so the Dogs will be forced to pay up. 2mill a season to 2 players takes up a significant chunk of the cap. Perhaps the Bont will be willing to accept a deal around 800k per year in order to stay with the Dogs but it will be hard when their will be other clubs probably willing to offer deals in the 1.2m per season range.

 

[KissKiss]

I assume Boyds salary was fairly front ended (they were struggling to pay the minimum a year or 2 ago) and they were still paying Griffens wage I think. So that should help but like every successful club the squeeze will start to come

 

[dlanod]

I assume Boyds salary was fairly front ended (they were struggling to pay the minimum a year or 2 ago) and they were still paying Griffens wage I think. So that should help but like every successful club the squeeze will start to come

Boyd couldn't be front-ended because his first year was mandated at the rookie wage.

He only started getting $1m+ last year.

 

[MSB ROYS]

Boyd couldn't be front-ended because his first year was mandated at the rookie wage.

He only started getting $1m+ last year.

Not bad for one good game a year.

 

[KissKiss]

Boyd couldn't be front-ended because his first year was mandated at the rookie wage.

He only started getting $1m+ last year.

Yeah his first year was a rookie wage but the year after that it spiked and decreases every year after that

 

[Dalions]

Yeah his first year was a rookie wage but the year after that it spiked and decreases every year after that

Must have been a hell of a spike.
As after the first year he must be averaging 1.1 to 1.2 million over the remaining 6 years.
Either way its a lot out of the cap. Even with new CBA.

 

[dlanod]

Yeah his first year was a rookie wage but the year after that it spiked and decreases every year after that

There were six AFL players handed $1 million or more last season, two more than in 2015. The game’s highest-paid players - often said to be Sydney key forward Lance Franklin and Western Bulldogs premiership forward Tom Boyd - banked more than $1.2 million last season.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...n/news-story/aefb44394569fa6182f77392c814b621

It'll be interesting to guess how much more than $1.2m, because the Bulldogs have to pay Boyd about $6.8m over six years including last year. It was reported as a seven year for $7m, but that first fixed year blows out the latter six. Unless last year was up over $1.5m, which seem pretty unlikely, with a similar figure to follow this year Boyd is probably still going to be clearing over a $1m a year for the rest of his deal regardless of any front-ending. That's just how big the deal was.

 

[KissKiss]

Damn it really was a massive contract for him. I'm guessing it must have been up at the $1.5m mark last year, but as you say that does start to put a lot of pressure on the Bont, JJ, Libba, Macrae, etc contracts

 

[Dalions]

Damn it really was a massive contract for him. I'm guessing it must have been up at the $1.5m mark last year, but as you say that does start to put a lot of pressure on the Bont, JJ, Libba, Macrae, etc contracts

The Afl should never have let it happen. Especially after 1 yr of his initial 2yr contract.
If the Bulldogs were stupid enough to offer that sort of money after his second yr, then so be it. But not after 1yr.
Especially when some club are fighting hard to have initial contract lifted to 3yrs.

 

[Hollow Knight]

The Afl should never have let it happen. Especially after 1 yr of his initial 2yr contract.
If the Bulldogs were stupid enough to offer that sort of money after his second yr, then so be it. But not after 1yr.
Especially when some club are fighting hard to have initial contract lifted to 3yrs.

Bit hard to slam it now after he basically sealed the grand final for them. Would have probably been a nice precedent for the rest of the comp if it became a disastrous deal but there is enough of an argument that the Dogs were vindicated.

Other clubs will probably be pressured into similar deals now. And some of those will get burned.

 

[Dalions]

Bit hard to slam it now after he basically sealed the grand final for them. Would have probably been a nice precedent for the rest of the comp if it became a disastrous deal but there is enough of an argument that the Dogs were vindicated.

It was a team effort that won them the Grand final. Not 1 man.
It was the team that got them into the Grand Final definitely not 1 man.

 

[jackess]

Bit hard to slam it now after he basically sealed the grand final for them. Would have probably been a nice precedent for the rest of the comp if it became a disastrous deal but there is enough of an argument that the Dogs were vindicated.

Other clubs will probably be pressured into similar deals now. And some of those will get burned.

Hopefully some players and their managers get burnt asking for similar deals.