human_torpedo wrote:Have a re read of the above post of your I quoted. You are talking about a senior contracted AFL player on the list. Not a top up, or a fabricated position to suit them, A player on the senior list.
'I'd wager that this is not just a new title, but the precedent for squeezing better footballers into a side already teeming with dollars far beyond the SANFL cap' - That is the kind of crap I was referring to. How the Crows utilise their senior list is entirely up to them. Had Thommo been signed as a 'senior SANFL player' outside the AFL cap and not on the senior list, then you may have grounds for complaint or feel hard done by
Not a fabricated position as yet. I highlighted the key words.
Just to underline the point, my concern is about the potential groundwork they are laying for the creation of a new position, it stinks of politicking to me. Why create that new title? This is what I am suspicious of. it is pretty difficult to claim entitlement to something if it doesn't yet have a name. But with the creation of an "On field setter of playing standards" (or whatever it was they called it), you now have an entity that the Crows might not willingly let go of at the end of the year. Would it not be reasonable that they have a senior player in the reserves group to mentor the younger players? The Magpies have one! Why can't the Ravens? It is unreasonable to expect the Crows to maintain a senior player on their list purely for the purposes of playing in the reserves.
The Crows have a history of dishonesty in their dealings with the SANFL, they have a set of rules that apply only to them, making it easier to push their agenda and have proven that they will seek adjustments when those rules don't suit them any longer. The Crows are a juggernaut compared to the SANFL, they need only get a foot in the door, next thing they dominate the room.
When the Crows first proposed the Ravens and people kicked up a stink, the pro-reserves argument went along the lines of: "Just see how it goes, you guys are all complaining about something that hasn't even happened!"
The same people are now saying: "It has happened now! It is too late, the reserves are obviously here forever! Stop moaning already, get out and enjoy the weather!".
The day that I accept that logic is the day I just give up thinking altogether.