Former #30 Patrick Ryder - we dodged the bullet

[Hawcazzo]

You’ll find my views and others in the James Hird and in The Saga Threads

Sorry Saga - “It’s actually quite funny people thinking they know more than they actually do”

I wonder if Burnside can win kooyong at the next election?

[Hawcazzo]

And this one

James Hird: Releases the lid right off!

Just saw on Ten news. Hird was taken to hospital last night with major health concerns. No other info available.

[Sameolds2010]

Wife is a banana bender I think

Wasn’t someone else bending his banana and his missus found out

[barnz]

One of my pet hates is things like that. You’d be surprised how many contracts and legally binding documents I see have basic spelling and grammar errors in them. I understand it’s social media and not a contract but the amount of people who cannot correctly use there, their, they’re or were, we’re or where or your and you’re in the right context would blow your mind. These are tertiary educated people making these errors too. These things raise some red flags for businesses I can assure you.

got nothing on people misspelling their name on legally binding documents. The document gets registered then they have to fork out several hundred in legal fees and document registration fees to rectify it.

[Stressed_out]

I enjoyed re-reading those posts. You sum up mine, and many others feeings very well.

[up_up]

I refuse to believe this club ever hired someone by the name of John Elliott

Wasn’t our John Elliott involved with the saga? Maybe one of a couple of people who tried to blow the whistle on some computer shenanigans and got asked to leave?

[Hawcazzo]

I enjoyed re-reading those posts. You sum up mine, and many others feeings very well.

Thanks mate, appreciate the kind words. The saga has well and truly killed my love of the game. Whenever I see Gilligan, or read, see or hear something that even remotely has the most minor reference to it makes me wild with anger.

I don’t believe my love for the game will ever return, especially when I consider I wasted 5 years living through it.

Truly sad for the players (excluding that dog Ryder) and James Hird and his family.

[Clone_Hirdy]

Fark Ryder and the horse he rode in on.
That is all…

Hey… Leave the horse out of it!

[efc1robbo]

How long did Dean wallis have a job again?

the question should be why was dean wallis ever given the job in the first place

[domaura]

I’m still so pisssed about the saga that I will never forgive nor forget how he treated the club.

(1) He was half way through a front loaded contract and left us with 2 years on low salary remaining.

(2) He was all for going to an interstate club in QLD or NSW so he could walk the streets and not be recognised. He was adamant he didn’t want to go to Adelaide or Perth due to the fishbowl environment.
So what does he do? The exact farcking opposite. We work with GWS but then he dogged us and instead of going to GWS and us picking up pick 4 (from memory that would have given us Bontempelli who we had our sights on), he goes to Port.

(3) And then there was all the carrying on about the uncertainty of his unborn child. We lost our leverage so he could get to Port. We let him walk half way through a contract and got sfa.

I was one of his biggest fans and still remember how Sheeds called him the next Pollie Farmer when we drafted him. I loved him as a player but now I cant stand him for the way he treated us. Even Carlisle who said our club was farcked insisted that the Saints work with us and we ended up with their pick 6. Who was the better player? That says it all.

So after weeks of arguing with Port they give us pick 17 we ended up with Langford ok, but we gave them a 150 game AA tap ruckman with a good injury record. That’s an early first round pick not pick 17.

As far as I’m concerned he can get farcked if he comes back to EFC that will be the final straw for me. I’m pretty close now tbh so pisssed with football but if he were to come back that will be the final nail for me and I’ll be gone.
That will certainly please a lot of you out there but im sure there’s a lot more that agree with me.

Never forgive never forget !

Great rant Hawcazzo.
Just want to ask.
Where will you go and what will you do during the footy season?

[domaura]

There’s been some busts in that draft already
McCartin
Gws didn’t fare well (4,6,7) Pickett, Ahern, Marchbank all gone. Could have been DeGoey, Wright, Lever.

Was that when Silvagni was there?
If so figures.
If not also figures.

[domaura]

Wife is a banana bender I think

That gave me a different connotation until I got me head around it.

[Hawcazzo]

Great rant Hawcazzo.
Just want to ask.
Where will you go and what will you do during the footy season?

I’m not going anywhere per se, but I am just about ready to give up on AFL. The ONLY thing keeping me somewhat engaged is the EFC, although I’ve also just about had enough of their performances and the constant dribble I hear from the coach. I will always follow them but my level of support will definitely reduce next year. I am cancelling my family High Mark memberships, probably go with something a lot less - the love is gone.

The saga has drained me completely. I actually can’t stand the game style, officials, umpiring, comentators, but mostly that (Insert expletive starting with C here) Gilligan. My blood boils at the sight of him, and I switch off when I hear him.

I reckon I’ll go back and start following my local team again, Vermont in the Eastern Football League. They’re on top and I can experience what it feels like to follow a consistent winning team again.

[rossoneri]

Yep, I think I may have been the only one thinker she’s a Queenslander.

[brem06]

(1) He was half way through a front loaded contract and left us with 2 years on low salary remaining.

See I made that comment on fb when he left, and an old school friend of mine who was working for the AFL at the time told me in no uncertain terms that I should check my facts because he wasn’t.

[theDJR]

(1) He was half way through a front loaded contract and left us with 2 years on low salary remaining.

See I made that comment on fb when he left, and an old school friend of mine who was working for the AFL at the time told me in no uncertain terms that I should check my facts because he wasn’t.

Did the AFL punish your friend for that governance failure?

[brem06]

at that stage i don’t think the afl were monitoring fb private messages…

could be wrong though

[Humble_NSW_Fan]

Would be a terrific replacement for Draper.

/s

[Go_Team_2.0]

eaking.
in his first season at port he had a 3 possie game, he “peaked” for one season like 2 odd years ago, and it was for one season.

will go down as one of the most wasted talented players to stroll through a career not even realising a 10th of his actual potential.

He was top 10 in our B&F in 2014. He won Port’s best and fairest in 2017.

Has had pretty bad injuries over 2018.

Ryder was robbed of the chance to play footy at the peak of his powers - with a year out of the game.

I reckon he’s one of players the saga impacted from a career standpoint the most. If he’d been given the chance to play footy distraction free from 2013-2017 he could have had multiple all Australian selections and probably finals success at Essendon.

[domaura]

Great rant Hawcazzo.
Just want to ask.
Where will you go and what will you do during the footy season?

I’m not going anywhere per se, but I am just about ready to give up on AFL. The ONLY thing keeping me somewhat engaged is the EFC, although I’ve also just about had enough of their performances and the constant dribble I hear from the coach. I will always follow them but my level of support will definitely reduce next year. I am cancelling my family High Mark memberships, probably go with something a lot less - the love is gone.

The saga has drained me completely. I actually can’t stand the game style, officials, umpiring, comentators, but mostly that (Insert expletive starting with C here) Gilligan. My blood boils at the sight of him, and I switch off when I hear him.

I reckon I’ll go back and start following my local team again, Vermont in the Eastern Football League. They’re on top and I can experience what it feels like to follow a consistent winning team again.

I think a lot of us are with you on this Hawcazzo.
By the way is your name what I think it is in italian?