2018 Rd 16: Pre Game Prattle: Carlton vs St Kilda

[Thryleon]

Which part of 'We offered him a contract - he left for more money at Richmond' don't you understand?

EDIT:
In fact, further to the above, rumour goes he had agreed to terms with Greg Swann who left on an overseas trip, then changed his mind and agreed with the Tigers in the meantime.

But sure, we should've offered him EXTRA coin on top of what he agreed to, just in case he was going to change his mind. You think he'd solve all our problems now?
Are you a member of his family??

If Im not mistaken, we had a couple of offers.

Richmond offered XYZ.

We offered ABC.

Shaun said no to ABC said he wanted XYZ

We then offered DEF whilst SHAUN was travelling, which he said yes to apparently.

Upon hearing we had countered, Richmond said to him we will give you another small z too, and then we countered again saying we would match it, and he said bugger it Im off anyway (thats how I remember it).



There is a common theme emerging.  Players were only staying for big dollars else they were leaving, and its because we as a football club have been very poor.  Ratten produced good results with our boys whilst we were here, but there is a tell about how well he performed as a coach, and it exists in the playing group we currently have.  I don't know who it says more about, be it Ratten, our coaching panel or perhaps our football club anyone else, but whilst Ratten was at the club, the only renduring players were either here before him, or on their last chance at AFL football with no real other options.

The second anyone else had an option they left and the only exceptions to that rule are blokes we elected to get rid of.

We seem to have the same problem today, and Im not sure how you arrest that slide, but Cameron Poulson getting a contract is a bit of a tell.  Half the kids probably dont want to stay with us, and we are renewing who wants to....