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At the end of this excruciating process - I am taking a punt and presuming it does end - we are left with a mish-mash of players who have switched to the clubs of their choice, or switched to clubs not of their choice, or tried to switch clubs and failed, or tried to avoid a switch of clubs and succeeded, or tried to go home and been diverted, kinda like Tiger Woods. Some go because their new club is trying to win the premiership, some because their old club is trying to win the premiership, and some because their club is not yet, or still, trying to win the premiership.
But all of them say they ''couldn't be happier'', and all their agents say they ''couldn't be happier'', and all their clubs, new and old, say they ''couldn't be happier''. Meantime, a raft of other players are politely sacked, mostly having not played a game, but all unanimously declared by their clubs to have made ''a valuable contribution'' as they shut the door behind them.
It is true. Really it's the same for us supporters:-
players we end up with ,we hope will be an improvement,
players we lose weren't good enough,or were lured by a pot of gold,
and any delistings- thanks for the effort ,
love em or hate em while they're wearing a saints jumper we'll support them.
samuraisaint wrote:Yeah, this 'newspeak' that everyone involved in footy uses these days is, to quote our notorious ex-coach "monotously boring."
Just my two cents worth-
I think it's brilliantly written and entertaining
Yeah I like the way the Age get a bit random with their sport journalism rather than just having a couple of ex AFL stars complain about the modern game or some hack journos writing speculative baseless crap designed to cause anxiety in the fans.
samuraisaint wrote:Yeah, this 'newspeak' that everyone involved in footy uses these days is, to quote our notorious ex-coach "monotously boring."
Just my two cents worth-
I think it's brilliantly written and entertaining
Yeah I like the way the Age get a bit random with their sport journalism rather than just having a couple of ex AFL stars complain about the modern game or some hack journos writing speculative baseless crap designed to cause anxiety in the fans.
agree it's nice to read it from a completely differant angle
Tim Pekin and Rob Murphy were and are entertaining to read- froma players perspective
where as Llyody tries to be a ' serious' commentator and doesn't succeed.
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Worst ever special comments man was the apallingly stage managed Brett Kirk. It looked like they got him on the dope lit some incense and got him to say his chakras on the oval. Embarrassing.
At the end of this excruciating process - I am taking a punt and presuming it does end - we are left with a mish-mash of players who have switched to the clubs of their choice, or switched to clubs not of their choice, or tried to switch clubs and failed, or tried to avoid a switch of clubs and succeeded, or tried to go home and been diverted, kinda like Tiger Woods. Some go because their new club is trying to win the premiership, some because their old club is trying to win the premiership, and some because their club is not yet, or still, trying to win the premiership.
But all of them say they ''couldn't be happier'', and all their agents say they ''couldn't be happier'', and all their clubs, new and old, say they ''couldn't be happier''. Meantime, a raft of other players are politely sacked, mostly having not played a game, but all unanimously declared by their clubs to have made ''a valuable contribution'' as they shut the door behind them.
It usually is a bunch of crappy players changing clubs with a few good ones thrown in.
The crappy players make bugger all difference to their new sides and the clubs that got rid of the crappy players bring in other crappy players anyway.
This is why we did so well to get Saad and Milera for a small pick downgrade. Utterly fantastic.
( God help me)
