Sojourner wrote:Robert Walls suggested that the main problem with North Melbourne is the fact that there players are all bought in from other clubs and no-one plays for the jumper, considering the pick ups by St Kilda, they may well be in the same basket for 2007.
You can listen to WALLS or you can listen to people who know about AFL footy like ME
North Melbourne was a powerhouse team a decade ago.
As with nearly all AFL clubs the salary crap I mean scrap I mean cap
has destroyed them as it invariably does with most clubs.
THESE CLUBS WIN FLAGS, START SLIDING BECAUSE OF THE CAP + DRAFT AND BINGO!!!
1995-2000 NORTH MELB super club NOW
2000-2004 ESSENDON super club NOW
2001-2005 BRISBANE super club NOW
2003-2005 PORT ADEL good club NOW
In the cases of NM/ES/PP look at the recycled players they have recruited
to supplement thier lists.
So playing for the jumper is ridiculed by the system not the clubs.
Now my team SK has been going ok for 3 years now because
of the draft picks they gained about 5 years ago.
SK has not capitalised on thier bonuses and now are heading
for a demise courtesy of the same system which improved them.
SK pick up a 33 year old ruckman....see my drift.
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SOUJOURNER your only a 100 post veteran but a word of warning
in the football rooms you are up against the best critics in the land
SYD-DOG/1980 TASSIE/DUTCHY/WEDGIE are all very very hard to beat.
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Cheers.
