Tom Scully as good as gone - Mike Sheahan

[kleos]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/tom-scully-as-good-as-gone/story-e6frf9jf-1226098658551

LET'S cut to the chase - Tom Scully will play with Greater Western Sydney in 2012. All the debate about Melbourne's offer and the GWS response is immaterial. He's off.
As good as the recent Melbourne offer might be - an estimated $3 million for five years - it won't be good enough.
GWS made him its recruiting priority early on and appears to have convinced him his future is with the AFL's 18th franchise. Ask those who should know in recruiting and the answer is the same - he's headed north.


So is he gone for sure then?

 

[nickh32]

Yay another thread on Tom Scully.

Honestly guys don't make a new thread every time a new article comes out.

 

[tigers_of_old_08]

Wow, ground-breaking news there from Mr Sheahan. How does he do it!

 

[The Speaker]

He's making an assumption for the sake of an article.

Next.

 

[tonk]

Didn't he write the same article last week?

 

[doug85]

Mike would have built a vast network of contacts in his time in the journo game to give him the inside scoop. He would be too experienced to run something like this unless he was certain it was across the line(unless he's pulling a Rohan Connolly reporting a James Hird comeback). Sounds as if Melbourne had better start looking at when they will use their two mid first round draft picks.

 

[jonoman89]

The media is trying to make as many articles about Scully as dollars he will earn at GWS.

We get it, he's gone.

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

He'll stay.

100%.

 

[the dog's kennel]

Very weak article.

Sheahan starts off confidently, asserting that Scully is definitely going like he's got some inside info.

Then he spends the rest of the piece backtracking, mumbling about how only Scully can know what's going on in his mind.

Scully may well be going. But if Sheahan wants to make a definitive call he should stand by it. All this mealy-mouthed half-committed rubbish smacks of space-filling.

 

[NTRabbit]

He would be too experienced to run something like this unless he was certain it was across the line

Nonsense, Sheahan is just as bad a rumour monger as the rest of them, people just let him get away with it because he's "the best and most senior writer in football" about 15 years ago.

 

[Bartram_Class]

Very weak article.

Sheahan starts off confidently, asserting that Scully is definitely going like he's got some inside info.

Then he spends the rest of the piece backtracking, mumbling about how only Scully can know what's going on in his mind.

Scully may well be going. But if Sheahan wants to make a definitive call he should stand by it. All this mealy-mouthed half-committed rubbish smacks of space-filling.

This.

It all equals a rubbish article. If there's nothing else to say, stop writing about it.

 

[benno87]

He'll stay.

100%.

Nope.

Like Ablett last year if he was gonna, he woulda already.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jonbe54]

Nope.

Like Ablett last year if he was gonna, he woulda already.

Yeah right like Swan this year. . . errrr

Like Pendlebury. . . . errr

muppet

 

[richskee]

I notice Tom Scully inventing a rift with management to justify leaving. I wish people in his spot just said "the money is too good"

 

[Demonheart]

That amount of money would put him in the top 3 earners in the league.

Can you imagine how much pressure he'll be on to immediately perform?

 

[zetz]

Is he that good?

Honest question - I haven't seen much of him

 

[jonbe54]

Is he that good?

Honest question - I haven't seen much of him

Nobody is that good

However

Its about supply and demand

GWS demands

AFL supplies

All the D's have to do is bend over and brace

 

[stickman11]

Nobody is that good

However

Its about supply and demand

GWS demands

AFL supplies

All the D's have to do is bend over and brace

I doubt Scully's knee is up to ten years of AFL football. He should take the money perhaps - maybe we should play 100% in the middle to test it out.

 

[ThePuppetMaster]

Terrible article, he may be gone (or he may not) but Mike Sheehan has absolutely no idea which way he is leaning.

He has kept up this point of view and if Tom does leave you can bet there will be an 'I told you so' article from this hack.

Frustrates me to no end.

 

[jonbe54]

I doubt Scully's knee is up to ten years of AFL football. He should take the money perhaps - maybe we should play 100% in the middle to test it out.

Like a car near the end of your lease plan, put the miles on it while you can

 

[ausbacker]

Is he that good?

Honest question - I haven't seen much of him

At present and from my observations no he isn't. If he does go to GWS they're buying him on their evaluation that he will be that good.

 

[DTRAIN87]

Just read this and it is absolute tripe. But hey, what do you expect from the chief football journo of a paper? Whether you buy the Age or the Sun they both provide you with crap.

 

[dutchy12]

If you want further tripe have a read of Jay Clark's article

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...he-money-and-run/story-e6frf9jf-1226098679151.

 

[1980GFVideo]

That amount of money would put him in the top 3 earners in the league.

Can you imagine how much pressure he'll be on to immediately perform?

Yeah.

The pressure was intense on Ablett and he had the experience to live up to it. He is their best player and no one at the club including players would dispute his pay.

Scully is going to be expected to carry a group of players who are only a couple of years younger than him and high draft picks themselves.

If Scully is still struggling with a knee then these guys could outperform him while on minimal player salaries. Would make for some interesting conversations and they would be pushing for a nice pay rise come contract time.