I'll speak for myself. Why do I have the feeling that someone is out to get us?
We sign Buddy Franklin and they take away our COLA. Everyone said we abused the COLA, but could not supply any evidence.
We are banned from trading for no explicable reason other than suspicion that we might do something wrong which would have been impossible to do under any circumstances since all such things that we might have done wrong would have been reviewed and required approval by the AFL before the alleged possible wrongdoing would have become a hang-able offense. Whooooooooo .......................
After 4 million dollars invested in a AFL promoted program (Academy), we finally land a potential star at a decent draft pick the entire academy bidding system gets reviewed with the probably that we will no longer get any real equitable benefit from the program.
We also have a potential high value Father-Son selection, so let's throw that in with the reduced benefits as well.
Now I read that Colin Sylvia and Freo have parted ways:
Sylvia 'wasn't at the level required': AFL days over for Freo mid - AFL.com.au
I was surprised to read:
IIRC, the point was made when we signed Buddy that we would have to include his salary in the our salary cap for the entire 9 years regardless of the circumstance that might arise during this time. So even if Buddy is incapable of playing, we could not reach the kind of agreement that Freo have reached with Sylvia.
Or am I wrong about this? And am I just being paranoid?
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