Now official - Fevola sacked

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How on earth can it possibly be better to sack Fevola and pay him 1.whatever million dollars than to put him on a short leash and play him whenever that might be possible in the next 2 years?

Sorry, I just don't get it at all. Why oh why oh why wasn't he on a behavior based contract anyway? Not like this couldn't be seen coming? I just don't believe this keeps happening.
 
whizkizz said:
At least we've still got this guy -

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And this guy :cool:
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Helix said:
How on earth can it possibly be better to sack Fevola and pay him 1.whatever million dollars than to put him on a short leash and play him whenever that might be possible in the next 2 years?

Sorry, I just don't get it at all. Why oh why oh why wasn't he on a behavior based contract anyway?
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These essentially are my own feelings on the FEV matter.

WE give him a shitload of money to go way, when all the noises he was making prior to the sacking were that he would do anything, sign anything if we would just let him play again.

We've forked out $1.6 million for nothing ,zilch, nadir, no return apart from some nebulous concept of maintaining our "culture". (BTW is there any clear statement as to what our culture actually is???)

In the process we had to trot out our captain mouthing the good old reliable but well worn and banal " lost the trust of the playing group" cliche (despite the fact that not ONE of the "group" had previously made any public comment to this effect, least of all the captain himself)

Not to mention hanging Voss out to dry in that he had nowhere to go other than to publicly "confess" that the signing of Fev was a Stuff Up of monumental proportions.

I'm not happy at all with the way the club has handled the FEV fiasco.

Maybe they think they've taken a "tough" decision

But I personally believe it was a weak face-saving, kowtowing to the AFL, pissing in the wind exercise that does us as a club, no credit at all.

A far tougher decision would have been to keep him, lay down some stringent behavioral ( and even performance) clauses in an attempt to get something for our money.

I've paid my membership again this year, I'll go to all the games, I'll passionately support the side through thick and thin but I'll also reserve my right to feel a healthy dose of cynicism and downright disappointment at the way $1.6 million of club funds has been pissed up against the wall for nothing.
 

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I know what you mean luthor, and i do kinda still feel the same way. He is still a match winner, and i think the majority of supporters would have been happy to have him in the team under a heap of behavioural clauses and reduced money. I can understand why the club has gone the way it has, but it is a heap load of money wasted. I was of the opinion that if we can get rid of him cheaply, it should be done, but paying him 1.6Mil is too much, we should have got some more footy out of him for that much. Love him or hate him, he still would have put some bums on seats at the Gabba as well.
 
Hammo seems to think the Fev deal hasn't been done yet, and that the figure may not be as reported.

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Fevola and the Lions are close to agreeing to terms of a payout, believed to be a bit over $1 million, that would include a clause that prohibits him from making any public comment on the club.
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TheBrownDog said:
Hammo seems to think the Fev deal hasn't been done yet, and that the figure may not be as reported.

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Very interesting...could one or more journos have gone off half cocked on this? - Hammo is in the right place to get it right and there has been no announcement from the club yet.

Actually what Hammo is saying there has been suggested a while back.

If it is so stand by for the Carlton ferals (and others) to renew their baying about salary cap rorting and unfair favoured treatment for the Lion's from the AFL.
 
Old Den said:
If it is so stand by for the Carlton ferals (and others) to renew their baying about salary cap rorting and unfair favoured treatment for the Lion's from the AFL.
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Always good for a chuckle. :D
 
I believe a precedence was set by the AFL with respects to the Andrew Lovett payout being spread over a couple of years for salary cap purposes

Can't find link to article but Adrian Anderson made mention of it during his Fev/Nixon press conference a week or so ago.
 
Time to move on and stop the bad mouthing, I wish him the best with his future endeavours and may the Retzlaff take his place as the future full forward of the Brisbane Lions as we look to the future and not the past time to get the roar back at the Gabba and make it our cauldron once again.
 
The shame of it all. Who cares what footy players do off the field!
Stop putting these blokes on a public pedestal. The bloke could/can play footy. For 1.6mil I would rather have him playing for us than us forking out huge bucks and not having him kick 50 goals.

He is a huge ******** but paying him $1.6 mil not to have him in the team seems rediculous!!!!!!

The pies will pick him up next year. Eddie does not give a rats what the afl or the general public think of his club and they have loads more cash than any other club. My money is on Fev in the black & white in 2012.
 

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Paulborracho said:
He is a huge ******** but paying him $1.6 mil not to have him in the team seems rediculous!!!!!!
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Trust me, it won't be anywhere near $1.6m...probably a tad over $1M from the Lions, with the Blues kicking in $100K...still not bad coin for doing nothing.

I can't believe the suggestion that Fevola will finally be disciplined enough for 10 straight months in order to revive his career outside an AFL environment. He has struggled within an AFL club environment, let alone outside one...please...:rolleyes:
 
correct me if I am wrong, but was Fev not happy to add a behavoural clause to his contract to play again?
If this is the case, let him play out his contract and if he does slip up there is NO PAYOUT as it is his own doing?

On another note, does Vossy still have an interest in Velocity sport with Lynch?
 
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correct me if I am wrong, but was Fev not happy to add a behavoural clause to his contract to play again?
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Only after he knew he was facing AFL oblivion.

If this is the case, let him play out his contract and if he does slip up there is NO PAYOUT as it is his own doing?
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Too late it seems. He had lost the faith of his teammates. Nowhere to go from there.
 
That right only takes one club to get something and two clubs to want him to get something ok. Name two Melbourne clubs that would be interested:

Doggies - If Barry Hall retires at the end of year
St Kilda - Would he be a better option than Kosi?
Tigers - depends how close they get this year
Melbourne - ?
North Melbourne - ?
Geelong - ?

Hard to say really but at least the club is thinking. They have given themselves a chance of getting something back for him.
 
In that list, I reckon only Geelong or the Dogs are possibilities. Surely, any club with a developing list won't go near him - ruling out Melbourne, North, Richmond. St Kilda must be going to keep their heads down drama-wise. Geelong probably has the strength of player culture to take a punt on Fev whilst the Dogs aren't averse to taking on a problem child.
 

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