Rumour Tales from the Henley Beach Cafe: CROWS 2021 RUMOURS

[Betts are off]

Don’t sh*t where you eat is a pretty good rule to live by.

But try telling that to a young Slippery Pete. He didn’t wanna hear it.

Yeah, Young Betts are off in the OO's did not abide by such a logical rule either! He was a hungry hungry man!

 

[feenix67]

Hey Feen, have you been able to fixe that podcast loading issue from a few weeks back? FYI i'm still not getting it on the iPhone and Spotify Apps

No mate, my website hosts the feeds, and at the moment it's cooked - I changed hosting platforms over the summer and it has ground to a halt. I've asked the host to restore a back up, but apparently asking a hosting service to restore a back up on their own servers is like asking for a Crouch brother to run defensively... hopefully by the weekend.

 

[Slippery Pete]

Yeah, Young Betts are off in the OO's did not abide by such a logical rule either! He was a hungry hungry man!

I shat where I ate all over the country.

I escaped relatively unscathed but boy did I take some chances. I sweat just thinking about it.

 

[Betts are off]

No mate, my website hosts the feeds, and at the moment it's cooked - I changed hosting platforms over the summer and it has ground to a halt. I've asked the host to restore a back up, but apparently asking a hosting service to restore a back up on their own servers is like asking for a Crouch brother to run defensively... hopefully by the weekend.

Bugger. Best of luck with it. On the plus side, when they come back up i'll have a backlog of content to plough through I suppose! #Silverlining

 

[Betts are off]

I shat where I ate all over the country.

I escaped relatively unscathed but boy did I take some chances. I sweat just thinking about it.

Bad decisions make the best stories!

Unfortunately they also make lawsuits, but try telling a guy in his 20's that

 

[GreyCrow]

Two employees (no players involved) having an affair. Pretty unacceptable given the position (employment position!) of one of them.

People generally get moved on after this sort of business.

Probably not a Smart thing to do

 

[Slippery Pete]

Probably not a Smart thing to do

You just added about 20 pages to this thread

 

[Pick4To6]

Two employees (no players involved) having an affair. Pretty unacceptable given the position (employment position!) of one of them.

People generally get moved on after this sort of business.

Has this person of authority already been moved on?

 

[skam85]

Yeah, I'm a little surprised it hasn't been mentioned here since everything else gets analysed.

Maybe some of the 'in the know' posters can shed some light on this.

Considering you broke this story wouldn't that poster be you?

 

[skam85]

Mate i'm just fleshing out if this is one of those trains of conversation that is 100% made up or not. And by the vagueness of the details I suspect it is.

I really couldn't care less about who's dipping their pen in the company ink.

There might not even be a pen involved

 

[Mismatched]

Didn't he publicly come out and say he's prepared to fight for his future with the Crows and wants to be a 1 club player?

This is on record. That he has a house in Melbourne is old news and means nothing about his future ambitions.

Players say the want to be 1 club players all the time and then suddenly move clubs. Being a “one club player” is a romanticism in a professional game. Increasingly I think we’ll see quality, solid citizen players moving clubs in the twilights of their career, especially for a player in Talia’s position whereby his current team is in full blown rebuild. Some will move for one last chance at a premiership, others to advance their coaching aspirations. With significant cuts to soft cap, its much easier to have a couple of “development” coaches actually on your books as players.

If Talia doesn’t want to finish his twilight years fighting for a spoon then I wish him well

If Talia leaves, agreed, I would wish him nothing but the best. He’s given us his best, we’re full blown rebuild and at some point he’s only going to start getting in the way of his replacement gaining experience.

 

[mistylake]

Two employees (no players involved) having an affair. Pretty unacceptable given the position (employment position!) of one of them.

People generally get moved on after this sort of business.

I’m pretty sure lots of people meet their partners at their workplaces. There’s nothing wrong with that unless someone is abusive or creating trouble. Move on.

 

[mistylake]

There might not even be a pen involved

Do you mean two pens jousting or mixing 2 different brands of ink in the one ink well.

 

[CrowinNT]

I have always been suspicious of Claude the Crow

 

[Betts are off]

Do you mean two pens jousting or mixing 2 different brands of ink in the one ink well.

At some point this conversation turned into some kind of Bizarro Officeworks erotica...

And i'm into it!

 

[Coopers]

Players say the want to be 1 club players all the time and then suddenly move clubs. Being a “one club player” is a romanticism in a professional game. Increasingly I think we’ll see quality, solid citizen players moving clubs in the twilights of their career, especially for a player in Talia’s position whereby his current team is in full blown rebuild. Some will move for one last chance at a premiership, others to advance their coaching aspirations. With significant cuts to soft cap, its much easier to have a couple of “development” coaches actually on your books as players.

This is true of any industry. I'd like to remain loyal to my current employer, but if someone else is giving me a big fat pay rise and they won't match... well I got hungry kids.

 

[Crow till I die]

This is true of any industry. I'd like to remain loyal to my current employer, but if someone else is giving me a big fat pay rise and they won't match... well I got hungry kids.

haha - true that..I remember working with a guy years ago who accepted an offer with another organisation because the conditions were better. I then said to him, what if our organisation doubled your pay - would you stay. he said and I quote 'I am the biggest mind changer you have ever met'

 

[johnnypanther]

Two employees (no players involved) having an affair. Pretty unacceptable given the position (employment position!) of one of them.

People generally get moved on after this sort of business.

Sounds like every workplace i've been at. Nobody ever got moved on.

 

[Slippery Pete]

Sounds like every workplace i've been at. Nobody ever got moved on.

Unrelated: in my experience people get moved on much more for betrayals of trust and loyalty, than they do for rank incompetence.

 

[MRB37]

Didn't he publicly come out and say he's prepared to fight for his future with the Crows and wants to be a 1 club player?

This is on record. That he has a house in Melbourne is old news and means nothing about his future ambitions.

He also gave himself an out with the "well if they tap me on the shoulder..." type talk. His preference may be to stay, but if we don't guarantee him a spot he'll move on.

 

[Grave Danger]

Two employees (no players involved) having an affair.

I was going to post this, but I thought better of it...

 

[1990crow]

I was going to post this, but I thought better of it...


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I don't see the issue

 

[radiojake]

Who are they and why does it matter?

 

[FR0GGY]

Apparently 30 years to the day to our 1st game v Hawthorn.
If you watch the first bounce theres 10 players on the wing!

 

[Jirkago75]

Heard heaps of rumours about Rankine. He is definitely gettable as his family situation here is one that will almost certainly mean he will come back home within 2 years. Based on what I know, I am staggered gold Coast drafted him. I don't think they did their due diligence at all. Great kid but his family situation is the issue.

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Surely the price would be too high. Realistically he hasn’t shown much on the field either. Injuries have hurt him but barely played 3 good games. There should be question marks about him performing before we go throwing him a decent contract considering we will have a few good young players coming out of contract