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They were trades for Free Agents. That's more expensive.
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To the team we would be taking on at KP, who would have 1 game at best there in a season, sometimes one every two seasons, yeah, it would give us some sort of advantage I guess.
What’s the difference between 7 games there and 3? How much more familiarity in a season do you need at that level? Jesus it’s not a cricket pitch it’s a f**king oval where you kick a ball. What are they looking for land mines on it or something?
Also this was just a rumour I saw on bigfooty once, and probably is not true but I remember seeing a rumour that Geelong has a history of selling cheap property to their players, property below market rates and that is how they suplement their players pay.
if you’re talking facts then you must recognise that no team gets home ground finals. Teams get home state finals. Fact.
RUNVS is still calculating fair
trade value for those free agents and the many other names he listed, half of whom didn't even have a Geelong Falcon affiliation. I'm surprised he didn't also include Isaac Smith as one supposedly "returning home".
Hell, why not throw Cameron Mooney, Corey Enright, Brad Ottens, Sam Menegola, Jared Rivers, Lachie Henderson, Tim Kelly, Shaun Mannagh and Lawson Humphries in there? None of them first year senior players, who Geelong must have traded in cheap or scooped up through secret Falcons intel at the draft due to being Geelong boys.
Describe the fair value, trade wise, for getting those two restricted free agents.
This is the type of ungrounded whinging I didn't expect from you. Substantiate what was fair for each deal you state is unfair. Stanley, Rohan, Bruhn, Henry and a bunch of others you included as "cheap deals due to being Falcons"
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How about we explore Swans trades. No wait that's juvenile. All clubs trade for players.
RUNVS still silent on the fairness of club academies.
Wonder if he thinks playing 9 home games and 13 away games and gather round is fair.
I wasn't silent, I mentioned the last first rounder Sydney got from the Academy was 2020, and we are not getting a first round academy selection in 2024 either, meaning it has been 5 years since the academy system produced a top talent.
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No that isn't the unfair part of it. That you have one at all and 14 clubs don't makes it an inequity in your favour.
Swans fans often defend this as 'needing to expand' the game. Yet we can't protect tradition and have the GF where it always has been.
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At some point someone somewhere on this forum will actually nut-up and go ‘you know what? All 18 clubs play under the same rules of drafting and recruiting. They all play 23 games a year, in a home and away season. There are some nuances of the draw but they are allowed for, within reason, as best as geography and circumstance allows, and every winner that we have seen as far as memory stretches, has earned it, particularly during the era of drafting and salary caps.’
But no.
They were restricted free agents. You must know the rules regarding restricted free agents?
You're the one saying that Geelong paid unders for two restricted agents and about 10 other trade ins. All because of the Falcons history and Geelong home town (Ive already pointed out where you were wrong there).
When challenged, you cannot describe fair value for a single one of them. Please simply list the trade value for a handful of them and we can see what sort of deal Geelong got. Cameron, Dangerfield, Stanley, Tuohy, Bruhn and Henry is a decent start.
Instead, you're moving onto a different line of hearsay about property deals.
In other words throwing mud without anything to back it up and just hoping you aren't pushed to elaborate.
Pretty poor form buddy.
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Similar to the rumours about Subiaco in the WAFL back here and getting huge ups when subi was THE home of WA footy. Since the AFL moved away from Subi to Optus, Subi habe - unsurprisingly - fallen on harder times.
If we're proteccting tradition then let's not play finals at venues where they have never* been played.
*-apart from that one time when Geelong lost a home state final at KP after four Victorian teams earned the right to home state finals in week 1 of the finals
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As someone who follows a non-Victorian team that has played numerous grand finals against Victorian teams, all I can say to your claim of ‘neutral crowds’ is this.
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I’m sure disadvantages seem insignificant when they don’t affect you.
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Like having less home games than every other team, you mean?
*which for the record, doesn’t bother me - it is what it is, and isn’t changing any time soon and doesn’t impact on what happens to our win loss record.
But again, can someone tell me what is the difference between playing at a non-home ground 7 times in a season, and playing there 3 times? How much more familiar are those 4 games going to make someone?
‘Brodie why is it that Stanley can tap it to his midfielders and you can’t?’
‘It’s because he played here four more times this year, Horse.’
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