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As opposed to Adelaide, who develop decent players only for them to leave at the first opportunity.
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Rumour Busted Shiel a done deal.
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Salary cap means we wouldn’t keep them all anyway, too good at developing and identifying talent. Equalisation means talent needs to be spread around the competition.
Adelaide will replace McGovern with another gun youngster, Carlton will continue to turn gun youngsters into ok players.
I'm not hanging shit on Adelaide FC, but you guys are losing more of your fair share of good talent though, more than you would if it was just salary cap. The club is definitely great at developing talent, but you've lost Cameron, Lever, now McGovern and possibly Crouch, within two trade periods. That's a lot of pressure to get those young kids up and running in a short period of time.
Don’t put Crouch into your argument.
Adelaide have also attracted Jenkins, Lynch, Gibbs, Betts, Seedsman, Stengle, Jacobs, Cheney, Hampton, Menzel on top so it’s not like it doesn’t come back the other way.
As an example, look at how seamlessly we replaced Lever with a committed, ready and excellent talent in Doedee. Runner up in the Rising Star, a far better first year player than Lever and has recommitted to the club. Imagine if Carlton had some idea on how to develop some of these 'left field' picks rather than just relying on SOS's strategy of raiding the GWS bin and relying on his relationships with those players. The well is dry there.
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Equalisation...you haven't won a premiership for almost as long as us...
We’ve won close to twice as many games though and made a GF.
And with only 4 top 10 picks in our entire history. Also worth noting that our sanctions for Tippett was exclusion from the draft. Carlton were excluded and then given given a priority pick despite systemic cheating. Double standards much?
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What a waste of time.
No it's not a waste of time. It drives all the areas that a club needs to grow membership, revenues, merchandise and general engagement.
There's a reason no one wants to watch Carlton play on a Friday night.
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So you're saying Adelaide's priority is to grow membership over winning premierships?
The two aren't mutually exclusive numskull.
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* Update Hawks officially told thanks, but no thanks this morning.
Well if you're right that makes me sad
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Seems weird that our two clubs are pretty close when it comes to memberships and attendance then.
Well, that’s a lie.
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Not really...
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Well, this thread turned to shit. Any news about Shiel?
Yeah only a slight 15,000 difference per game in attendance..
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Then the next thing you hear is he is nominating Hawthorn on Tuesday.
Referring to home game attendances. Of course the average overall is higher with the number of Melbourne based teams and fans that can attend far more "away" games.
