CUTTERMAN wrote:Ak, Stuffed if I'm gonna quote the half page of insight and stuff up everyone else on this forum. So I'll do it this way-
To quote you-
"So, they've gone from crying poor 2 months ago to throwing around money left, right and centre (they've paid atleast $75,000 in transfer fees of late)."
left right and centre? mate give up on the exaggerations, FFS.
Do you understand that we have basically got Hassan and,(take your pick) Hinge or Giles for almost the same price you've paid in transfer fees for Boyd! Do you understand that? Entiendo? Sabes tonto?
Where do you base the $75k at?
Not to mention the "at least" bit.
2 months ago? What orrifice do you find this informative lint in?
Recruit 3 players and it's a sin! I couldn't give a **** how we afford it! If we can then we can. If players see a better future and playing enviroment at Sturt then good. Other's misfortune. Call the Vatican!
One thing you need to look at is the amount of players that have left Sturt to another SANFL club recently, how many of those have gone on to become prominent players, THEN, you want to have a look at how many players have come to Sturt recently, stayed and become better players.
So AK, going on that, once you've done the research, (apart from the paper gossip), try to determine the thinking of the players coming to the club based on recent history and any reasons why they want to leave their present/recent club.
here's a list for you going back when we WERE monetarily ******.
Atkinson, Squire, Threadgold, Conway, Bratton, McGlone, Cubillo, Gum, Vassal, Johncock are just off the top of my head, all have stayed for a good amount of time, become better players/medalists/captains and clubmen, none of these have walked out, only retired.
Note sure if McGlone is a good example - was on $35k plus a car at South and advised South he left because they could not match Sturt's offer. Although his ex-team-mayes advised he has had enormous issues actually getting the promised amount paid to him at Sturt
