Chook said:
A transit lounge? That's rich coming from you. We've had to let players go because of a thing called the salary cap. You know that thing your club ignored for god knows how many years so it didn't become a transit lounge? It just keep paying everyone to stay rather than have to let them go. Don't you remember Zef?
You know, thats all sooooooo 2002.
Im talking modern times here, not ancient history. And from an outsider looking in Ill offer these observations.
There once was a time Easts were known as the transit lounge due to the turnover of players each year and it had nothing to do with the cap it was more a philosophy. Yous would try Smith & Jones and if they didnt bring you a Premiership, well thered be no patience shown for Smith & Jones so out theyd go and in would come Black & Brown.
Again, Im just making observations here but from the outside looking in, out goes Hodges, Hegarty & Byrne and in comes Firman, Monahan & Roberts. You could argue the cap but it looks more a like for like swap $$ wise so its looking decidedly
dare I say it
like a you know what.
And Ill make a further prediction here based on pretty common knowledge your lot are gonna make huge plays for both Mason & SB next season knowing that while you wont get both, youll make them too expensive for us to keep both, so well have to make a choice and youll nab the other. And when you get Big Willie Masons signature for 2006 itll be out with Crocker and in with Mason. Again something that looks suspiciously like theres that word again.
And furthermore if you really want to understand the mindset have a look at the Dogs Debate page in comparison to The Wall.. Were all talking about who we can keep yous are all talking about who yous can buy - Mason, SB, Fieldon, Orford, etc etc. Yous are already lining up your targets for Season 2006 and were not even into 2005 yet. Its a mindset thing its just the way yous think which is a tad different to us. On any given week on The Wall therell be a thread about who yous can buy and who yous can punt. Were always more concerned with who weve got and how we can keep them, and thats why give or take a player here or there, we always have a core group of ½ dozen or more in our team thats played 5-6 years together and thats in any era right back to the late 70s.
Yous were starting to look that way too, but just lately from the outside looking in its starting to look like yous are falling back into old habits.
At the end of the day its whatever works for yous I guess but from my understanding it never worked in the first place.
