Betts was gone before Malthouse even arrived. The Adelaide prez virtually announced ater the 2014 pre-season they had Eddie at the end of 2012. He played the entire 2013 season with us knowing he was going to Adelaide at the end of the year.

If you don't understand the concept of free agency, you should read up about it.

Bang your head against that.

Us v Sydney


What were people expecting?

Us v Sydney


What were people expecting?

Match Adelaide's offer and Betts stays and we don't get Dale Thomas, bang your head against that.

I just love the way people use those little laughing faces in lieu of logic. They mean so much to the sender and so little to the intended target. Because they were created for people who need them.

can i ask a serious question

do people believe were a good club with a crap coach???

He was sacked by Collingwood

Betts was never going to be our saviour

when are people going to realise that the only way to rebuild is through the draft

should have kept the compo pick and invested in youth, pretty obvious I would have thought

paying half a million dollars to a player who struggles against the better teams would have been ludicrous, just like the Thomas deal

ROFLMFAO. HE WAS SACKED????

You guys! He was sacked in 2009. What a great move. In the next 3 years after being sacked, he took them to a Preliminary Final, and 2 grand finals in a row, winning one.

That sacking was probably the single biggest blooper / face palm in AFL history. I'm amazed that Eddy survived that flower.

Whatever your argument about MM now, don't be using that ridiculous "decision" to back you up. It makes you look like dills.

I just love the way people use those little laughing faces in lieu of logic. They mean so much to the sender and so little to the intended target. Because they were created for people who need them.
Sorry, I thought this was a Sydney/Carlton post game thread.
I commented at the tome on the Melbourne and GS threads. If you can be bothered looking you'd see that.
If you want to exclude Sydney from the Carlton vs Sydney post game thread, perhaps you should go to the Carlton shit recruiting thread or the carlton shit coaching thread or the Carlton shit committee thread.
Don't pretend Sydney doesn't exist.
Don't pretend they aren't one game clear on top.
Don't pretend they picked up Franklin for a million a year when they already had Tippett on $900k and even the FL had to conduct an investigation into their TPP, which resulted in their changing the cola under pressure from the other clubs..
Don't pretend the AFL isn't artificially controlling this market to make sure Sydney TVs are turned on.
Don't pretend the other clubs haven't screamed blue murder and finally had the cola scrapped despite the AFL kicking and screaming and saying they will keep it but in another form and administered by them
Don't pretend that the cost of living isn't higher in Perth than in Sydney and yet the two WA based clubs get no assistance at all. NOT ONE CENT!

OK, we have recruited badly.
We haven't had any gun father/sons of late
We have had a shit boys club committee
Malthouse is a has been and we should have kept ratten or found someone else. Richardson was being bandied about a lot but he looks like being a good assistant coach and nothing more.
I concede all that but you can't just take money out of the equation.
Our glory years were before the cap when money wasn't an issue. So we won and we won. Then Brisbane, now Sydney and soon GWS and the Suns will be dong it. Winning, that is.
Hawthorn is the only club to buck this trend. Why? because they had good recruiting and behind the scenes staff from kennett down and because players who want to change clubs want to play there. But even Hawthorn with all its might and culture won't beat Sydney.
Why?
Because Sydney was able to just go out and buy the best player in the competition from them. That was after going out the year before and buying the second best forward in the competition on massive money. Hawthorn would have kept Franklin had they been able to match the offer but they couldn't.

The COLA was never intended to be an addendum to the TPP. So why is it? Because Sydney has allowed it to be and so has the AFL. Until 2016. The Swans just put 9 on to every player's salar and call it a COLA adjustment. So Buddy gets a cool 100k extra. Tippett gets a cool 90k extra. Why does someone on 900k a year need a cost of living leg up? There are people iving in Sydney who earn less than that aren't there?
It's a joke.
The other clubs think it's a joke and have finally pressured the AFL into doing something.
You, however, don't think it is an issue.

The only one marching in step.

We have a good coach
at $20,000 per week we don't want just a GOOD coach

Poor president
really don't know yet

Dysfunctional board with only 3 or 4 worthy of their position
who are the worthy 3 or 4?

Poor recruiting department
atrocious player development is even worse

Poor CEO
do we have one at the moment?

It is 5 years to build a base that might deliver sustained success
strong smart clubs are always developing their base

The whole Thomas argument suits the malthouse scapegoaters to a tee.
There is only one club individual that has been deflecting and scapegoating in the media recently - can you guess who it is?

well done AFL, a massive conflict of interest to the detriment of the other clubs......

....except for Hawthorn of course

and the cats

and the pies for year or two

and the lions, and Port, and I suppose the saints - they did OK as well

(and the kangaroos who seem to do OK almost every year)

why not the blues?