mistertroy
Debutant
Apart from funding the development of all young West Aussies so other AFL clubs could draft like the bloke thats on a 9 year deal at your place.
What has Sydney done? take away the "AFL funded Premierships" and South Melbourne's flags what have you guys got? you contribute nothing to the AFL, All you do is take. How successful were the Swans during the 80's without the AFL's help?
The team you fielded yesterday against Richmond is what your team would look like without your COLA.
Thanks se17enteen and everyone else for your responses.
If you take away the "AFL funded Premierships" and SM flags, we've got as many as you. I would probably argue that the team that won the 2005 flag was without COLA superstars, but as you were probably 12-13 years old at the time, you probably didn't follow our team that closely at the time (not having a crack at your age, just that if your name represents that you were 17 in 2010 when you registered, you were 12 or 13 at the time we won back then - merely stating fact. If I'm wrong here - my apologies). Anyway - if you agree with me that the 2005 Swans team wasn't a COLA packed team of superstars, we're 1 flag better than Freo. So we've already done a bit more than **** all in the scheme of things than Freo.
RE: your assertion that we are just taking from the AFL and not contributing, I dispute that we don't contribute anything, but obviously I'm not going to get anywhere here, so I won't bother arguing the toss. We close at 5 as well, so I've got to get on to shutting up the place... Anyway - I'd argue that even if what you state - that all we do is take - that this is still doing something in the grand scheme of things, but anyway... I agree we were absolutely shit house in the 80's, but at least as a 10 year old running around the SCG, my dad could watch me from the other side of the ground and I wouldn't get lost in the crowd, so there's definitely a plus of having crowds of 3-5K turning up!
And at further risk of sounding facetious, 9.8% of 22 players is only 2.25ish players, so what we put out to play yesterday is double the COLA effect
Good luck (although not too much) next week, into the rest of the finals, and for the future Freo.