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Why did people in the 1990s not just simply watch the NBA- I'm a visionary - Only here to confirm my biases -Comment
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GG here is the evidence.
He was out of contract with the Bulldogs, who had reportedly offered him $1.3 million for three years (around $433k per year), and were ultimately unable to keep him at the Whitten Oval.
Eade coached the Dogs in 2011 before stepping down late in the season, not long before Ward was whisked away to western Sydney after just four seasons and 60 games in the red, white and blue.
The ex-coach describes it as ?bad management? that the club lost Ward who will play his 300th AFL game when the Giants meet Essendon on Saturday evening.
Eade indicated it was a shame that Ward, who grew up in the western suburbs of Melbourne and played junior footy for Spotswood, did not end up a one-club player with the Doggies.
?He?s been fantastic. His courage, his unflinching eye on the footy no matter which way the ball was coming, his hardness at it,? Eade said of Ward on SEN?s Sportsday.
?He was a good kid. Really it was bad that we lost him, it was really bad management at the time that he was able to go.
?Someone low-balled him a lot to his manager. He didn?t really want to go. I think he asked for a little bit more, about $30,000 a year or something, it wasn?t a lot.
?All of a sudden GWS, whether his manager mentioned something to GWS, came over the top and blew everything out of the park.
?We shouldn?t have got to that stage. It?s unfortunate (that he left the Bulldogs).
?He?s a really good lad, he?s had a fantastic career. He?s had a few injuries but it?s a testament, not only to his ability, but his mental and physical toughness to get where he is.?
Eade admits he was angry that the Dogs allowed the homegrown product to walk, referencing it as one of a few poor list management decisions the club made at the time.
?Yes, I was (furious),? he added.
?There were a couple of others that were nearly the same thing, trying to low-ball them. We nearly lost Brian Lake at one stage which was similar, before people intervened.
?There were a few bad decisions being made at that particular time, Jarrod Harbrow was another.
?You try to low-ball them too much, the managers are smarter and they go, ?Hang on, they don?t value you enough?. They?re the words that get spoken and they start looking somewhere else.
More of an In Bruges guy?Comment
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So Gowers and Rourke Smith kicked two each and McComb got 31 possessions at Port Melbourne as they defeated Coburg by 32 points.Bring back the biffComment
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FFC: Established 1883
Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.Comment
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I can't believe we lost Ward for 30 K a year. He is exactly the type of player we need now. In hindsight, if he stayed and got a premiership in 2016, that would have been worth it.
Consistent stuff up to also lose Harbrow and some other players.Comment
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This sounds ominous though :
?All of a sudden GWS, whether his manager mentioned something to GWS, came over the top and blew everything out of the park
Is 30k enough for Cal to be pissed off enough to leave? Something doesn't add up here.BT COME BACK!
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Yeah, that's by point. No chance.
I hear the story is he would have stayed for 465k.
Seems odd on every level.
Don't doubt the Eade/BT story. I just find it all insane!
I guess the time between our initial offer and theirs may make it clearer to me. With Sheedy involved i think Cal was probably on the radar of GWS.
Crazy period.
Fkn sheedy
Contract negotiations with the Bulldogs were fraught. The club preyed, in part, on his loyalty. But the offer over five years was scarcely half of the reported $4 million over five seasons Ward was offered to head north to join a club considered the AFL’s greatest gamble.
A car ride through Sydney with league legend Kevin Sheedy, who coached the inaugural Giants, helped to seal the deal as he considered his future in footy aged just 21.Comment
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