YEP, thats right, im off the tanking bandwagon.

I still maintain and insist that the best thing that culd happen to our club would be to finish the year on 4 wins and getting the PP but the writing is on the wall from now...the AFL are planning to sabotage us and give the Gold Coast franchise the top 5 picks in this years draft.

The AFL are toying with the idea for now but i am certain that they will implement the Gold Coast entry to this years draft ESPECIALLY if we do qualify for the PP.

Nothing would piss me off more than winning just 4 games this year but getting picks 6 & 8 instead of 1 & 3 all because the AFL wanted to sabotage us.

COME ON BAGGERS...GET SOME flower WINS ON THE BOARD!!!

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Walk on, Walk on,
With hope, in your heart,
And you'll never walk alone,
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!!!

08/02/1981 - GATE 7...Our brothers will never be forgotten!!!

Did our chat having anything to do with the change of heart


Didn't think so

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Mjonc signing off at 8888

Welcome back to the fanily Gav.....all is forgiven

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If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you!

That sounds like Bollocks to me - what if these kids want to play AFL next season? The best kids in the draft can't but the lesser ones can?

We are doomed, the competition is doomed. We won't win another Premiership for ten years at this rate and even that's doubtful.

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Just because I'm offended, doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Will one's view be the same if we are 3 or 4 wins after, round 17, let's say?

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THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

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*(grow - fun - gah)

Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

Good one GAV, as a former non-tanker turned tanker turned non-tanker I fully support your flip-flopping.

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Dont get me wrong guys, i would rather us get the PP but i can see the AFL shafting us this year.

Imagine being Natanui, getting snapped up by the Gold Coast and not playing till 2011!!!

WHAT A JOKE!!!

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Walk on, Walk on,
With hope, in your heart,
And you'll never walk alone,
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!!!

08/02/1981 - GATE 7...Our brothers will never be forgotten!!!

it seems like an awful misallocation of resources on the afl's part...but i spose the definition is a priority pick...so itd still be taken before the draft proper. and since we qualify via means outlined and implemented before the gold coast team we would surely, from a legal point of view, qualify for a priority pick before them...

either way i hope it doesnt come to that and we comfortably win more than 4 games.

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"In fairness it did seem in the early days of the draft teams would just pick a name totally at random out of a hat. I'm pretty sure we picked James Cook at #2 one year. The mediocre forward, not the explorer" - Me, 12/9/2011

Carlton 2012: Lets remind them why they once feared the Dark.

Won't happen.

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Mens sana in corpore sano.

Bring back the laurel wreath logo!!!

Restraint of trade - won't happen.

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb

Agreed, quite often those picked in the top 10 are a good chance to gain AFL experience in their first year....how would you feel as a draftee if you were farmed off to play in the AFLQ, QAFL (?) for 2 years before the possibility of making your AFL debut?

I can see them getting concessions in 2010, but certainly not the next two years.

Better hop back on GAV...

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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill.

The Gold Coast team will get access to 15 yo kids this year and then 16 yo kids the following year etc. etc. They will get priority access to younger kids that will be nurtured in TAC, SANFL etc until they were ready to be drafted.
Oh by the way I am sick of us losing.

Considering we will probably lose Hampson to the Gold Coast in a couple of years anyway ... Natanui here we come!!!

Tanks very much!

Jsut start winning Blues FFS!!!!

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C'mon Blueboys!

There are RICH pickings this year in the National Draft especially with NATANUI.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

Well Hampson is out of contract this season, so 3 year contract would hopefully bypass the uncontracted player clause that is being talked about.

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Mjonc signing off at 8888

How long has natanui been playing footy?

He's the last bloke i want to pick up if he is another athlete we turn footballer....

They are begining to change the way they are looking at players come draft time, it seem they want footballers that can kick a footy now.

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Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

yeah i've got the same concern, which is why i hope we get hurley or rich. provided we finish in the bottom 3 and the afl don't flower us over.

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