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+x+x"Adelaide United chairman Greg Griffin has slammed Football Federation Australia (FFA) over its intention to make Asian players a compulsory feature of the A-League's foreign contingent.A fuming Griffin claimed clubs are stridently opposed to FFA's decision to introduce a four plus one quota rule from the 2018-19 season, and accused the governing body of acting on political motivations.The pending change, confirmed by FFA chief executive David Gallop and subject to final review at the end of 2017-18, will not impact clubs' current quota of five foreigners but means one of those players must come from an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) members federation.It will move Australia's top tier in line with other AFC competitions and force A-League clubs to scour the continent for talent."There is strident objection from the clubs to any change to the existing visa rules," Griffin told AAP."That objection will remain; we see absolutely no point in going 4+1 and compromising the product we provide in some attempt to curry favour with the AFC.Im starting to think this man is a bit racist. Also he tends to disagree with almost anything the FFA does, from this to even last week with the olyroos tournament situation, he isnt the type of person who could help grow the game. well Greg Griffin sold craig Goodwin for 2 million dollars. He then used that money to buy a 2 million dollar Mansion in one of the richer suburbs in Adelaide. So much for growing the game when any transfer profit he makes goes to his pocket. Did you manage to turn that computer on all by yourself?
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Davide82
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like..
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. If they don't scream for a bigger slice of the TV deal now, the owners sure ain't going to get it because the FFA feel guilty. Whatever the franchises don't get will be divvied up amongst the FFA execs. Vultures are circling around that FoxCash, and grassroots has no say
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it.................................
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight. Being vocal coz someone is being vocal is obviously a noble cause as oppose to my apparent shit fight aha My shit fight being appealing for some logic and reason when reading articles. If the other owners did not want him pushing their agenda in the media in the lead up to splitting up TV money he wouldn't be chair of the ownership committee.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight. Being vocal coz someone is being vocal is obviously a noble cause as oppose to my apparent shit fight aha My shit fight being appealing for some logic and reason when reading articles. If the other owners did not want him pushing their agenda in the media in the lead up to splitting up TV money he wouldn't be chair of the ownership committee.
But this goes way beyond the lead up to the broadcast deal. That to an extent I could understand, but im talking about the plethora of times he has come out in response to any FFA initiative in a negative way. Why else would posters on here say he's a whinger if it was clearly a one off? There's a pattern here and the public are picking up on it. If Di Pietro came out with a negative statement regarding an FFA initiative, you can rest assured the majority of posters would have a different reaction. THey may perhaps disagree with him but it's unlikely he would get so hardly labelled a whinger like we've seen here. Hence why Griffin's pattern of behaviour has caused to establish the opinion football fans on this forum have of him. If you want me to sound less bias, im happy to accept that Arnie is a whinger too. He's another classic example of someone that has a reputation of being a whinger because he has a tendancy to always have an opinion that portrays him as a whiner. Griffin is exactly the same, and as I said before, people on this forum as well as other members of the football community have picked up on it.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight. Being vocal coz someone is being vocal is obviously a noble cause as oppose to my apparent shit fight aha My shit fight being appealing for some logic and reason when reading articles. If the other owners did not want him pushing their agenda in the media in the lead up to splitting up TV money he wouldn't be chair of the ownership committee.
But this goes way beyond the lead up to the broadcast deal. That to an extent I could understand, but im talking about the plethora of times he has come out in response to any FFA initiative in a negative way. Why else would posters on here say he's a whinger if it was clearly a one off? There's a pattern here and the public are picking up on it. If Di Pietro came out with a negative statement regarding an FFA initiative, you can rest assured the majority of posters would have a different reaction. THey may perhaps disagree with him but it's unlikely he would get so hardly labelled a whinger like we've seen here. Hence why Griffin's pattern of behaviour has caused to establish the opinion football fans on this forum have of him. If you want me to sound less bias, im happy to accept that Arnie is a whinger too. He's another classic example of someone that has a reputation of being a whinger because he has a tendancy to always have an opinion that portrays him as a whiner. Griffin is exactly the same, and as I said before, people on this forum as well as other members of the football community have picked up on it. So you recant your original opinion that he was a tight arse?
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x[quote]Griffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight. Being vocal coz someone is being vocal is obviously a noble cause as oppose to my apparent shit fight aha My shit fight being appealing for some logic and reason when reading articles. If the other owners did not want him pushing their agenda in the media in the lead up to splitting up TV money he wouldn't be chair of the ownership committee.
But this goes way beyond the lead up to the broadcast deal. That to an extent I could understand, but im talking about the plethora of times he has come out in response to any FFA initiative in a negative way. My very first comment refers to the fact I think he enjoys the spotlight a little too much. I also have many gripes with how United is/was/will be run. I just think he gets jumped on by people on here (the public that are so clever) for saying things they have either been saying themselves (such as his criticism of the cahill fund) or the foreign quota change in this case. I have seen a LOT of people on 442 making the exact points he does but when he says it it is whinging from a small club mentality. OUr views on marquees differ slightly too but you also claimed we spend the salary floor. We don't. We also couldn't have held onto hardly any of the players that left after last season (reasons for which have been spelled out here by various posters but it gets lost in the cacophony of "youse are shit" quoality comments). Also, remove what I said about TV deal and my point still stands. Griffin is the chairman of the ownership committee. He was elected to be so I assume and can be removed if he no longer speaks for the other owners. I'm sure he doesn't speak for them all as the concerns of a club like United are different to a club with an oligarch owner but that is the point of the committee. Fact is that while he is chair of that committee he will be asked for and give comments on ownership issues much more frequently than any of the others and his opinions would be somewhat representative.. The fact he seems to enjoy it so much is another point. The fact that nobody here even thinks about that when they whinge he whinges was my point. Ugh. Feels like i logged in as Bluebird or something.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight. Being vocal coz someone is being vocal is obviously a noble cause as oppose to my apparent shit fight aha My shit fight being appealing for some logic and reason when reading articles. If the other owners did not want him pushing their agenda in the media in the lead up to splitting up TV money he wouldn't be chair of the ownership committee.
But this goes way beyond the lead up to the broadcast deal. That to an extent I could understand, but im talking about the plethora of times he has come out in response to any FFA initiative in a negative way. Why else would posters on here say he's a whinger if it was clearly a one off? There's a pattern here and the public are picking up on it. If Di Pietro came out with a negative statement regarding an FFA initiative, you can rest assured the majority of posters would have a different reaction. THey may perhaps disagree with him but it's unlikely he would get so hardly labelled a whinger like we've seen here. Hence why Griffin's pattern of behaviour has caused to establish the opinion football fans on this forum have of him. If you want me to sound less bias, im happy to accept that Arnie is a whinger too. He's another classic example of someone that has a reputation of being a whinger because he has a tendancy to always have an opinion that portrays him as a whiner. Griffin is exactly the same, and as I said before, people on this forum as well as other members of the football community have picked up on it. So you recant your original opinion that he was a tight arse? lol
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I need to write a Press Release. Can Griffin please help? I heard he is very good at it.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x[quote]Griffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight. Being vocal coz someone is being vocal is obviously a noble cause as oppose to my apparent shit fight aha My shit fight being appealing for some logic and reason when reading articles. If the other owners did not want him pushing their agenda in the media in the lead up to splitting up TV money he wouldn't be chair of the ownership committee.
But this goes way beyond the lead up to the broadcast deal. That to an extent I could understand, but im talking about the plethora of times he has come out in response to any FFA initiative in a negative way. Ugh. Feels like i logged in as Bluebird or something. double lol
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight. Being vocal coz someone is being vocal is obviously a noble cause as oppose to my apparent shit fight aha My shit fight being appealing for some logic and reason when reading articles. If the other owners did not want him pushing their agenda in the media in the lead up to splitting up TV money he wouldn't be chair of the ownership committee.
But this goes way beyond the lead up to the broadcast deal. That to an extent I could understand, but im talking about the plethora of times he has come out in response to any FFA initiative in a negative way. Why else would posters on here say he's a whinger if it was clearly a one off? There's a pattern here and the public are picking up on it. If Di Pietro came out with a negative statement regarding an FFA initiative, you can rest assured the majority of posters would have a different reaction. THey may perhaps disagree with him but it's unlikely he would get so hardly labelled a whinger like we've seen here. Hence why Griffin's pattern of behaviour has caused to establish the opinion football fans on this forum have of him. If you want me to sound less bias, im happy to accept that Arnie is a whinger too. He's another classic example of someone that has a reputation of being a whinger because he has a tendancy to always have an opinion that portrays him as a whiner. Griffin is exactly the same, and as I said before, people on this forum as well as other members of the football community have picked up on it. So you recant your original opinion that he was a tight arse? No he shouldn't recant! Anyone who manages to turn a Championship winning team to wooden spooner material, deserves everything they get. I mean, it takes some doing to achieve that and recognition needs to be given wherever its due!
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I am really surprised the pissants just accepted all that shit!
Is their no dignity in pissant Adelaide? If this happened at WSW, or MVFC or Perth Glory, there would be boycotts and 60 minute walkouts from the Active Poznans!
And to top it all off, the pissants are making excuses for him. You got to laugh really!
Can't keep the power on and can't play Football. Pissant mentality for a pissant town with a pissant team with pissant active support.
And that megaphone! Ugh! Cringe-worthy!
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight. Being vocal coz someone is being vocal is obviously a noble cause as oppose to my apparent shit fight aha My shit fight being appealing for some logic and reason when reading articles. If the other owners did not want him pushing their agenda in the media in the lead up to splitting up TV money he wouldn't be chair of the ownership committee.
But this goes way beyond the lead up to the broadcast deal. That to an extent I could understand, but im talking about the plethora of times he has come out in response to any FFA initiative in a negative way. Why else would posters on here say he's a whinger if it was clearly a one off? There's a pattern here and the public are picking up on it. If Di Pietro came out with a negative statement regarding an FFA initiative, you can rest assured the majority of posters would have a different reaction. THey may perhaps disagree with him but it's unlikely he would get so hardly labelled a whinger like we've seen here. Hence why Griffin's pattern of behaviour has caused to establish the opinion football fans on this forum have of him. If you want me to sound less bias, im happy to accept that Arnie is a whinger too. He's another classic example of someone that has a reputation of being a whinger because he has a tendancy to always have an opinion that portrays him as a whiner. Griffin is exactly the same, and as I said before, people on this forum as well as other members of the football community have picked up on it. So you recant your original opinion that he was a tight arse? No he shouldn't recant! Anyone who manages to turn a Championship winning team to wooden spooner material, deserves everything they get. I mean, it takes some doing to achieve that and recognition needs to be given wherever its due! A couple of things to consider: - He's not solely responsible for signing players. The squad apparently is costing the full cap + concessions which him and the other owners in the consortium are most responsible for.
- Let's wait and see where we are at the end of the season. We're not the first team to win the title one year and have an average season the next so I'm not sure how this takes "some doing".
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+xI am really surprised the pissants just accepted all that shit! Is their no dignity in pissant Adelaide? If this happened at WSW, or MVFC or Perth Glory, there would be boycotts and 60 minute walkouts from the Active Poznans! And to top it all off, the pissants are making excuses for him. You got to laugh really! Can't keep the power on and can't play Football. Pissant mentality for a pissant town with a pissant team.  I mean no offence to the decent Perth fans on here of which there are many :)
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight. Being vocal coz someone is being vocal is obviously a noble cause as oppose to my apparent shit fight aha My shit fight being appealing for some logic and reason when reading articles. If the other owners did not want him pushing their agenda in the media in the lead up to splitting up TV money he wouldn't be chair of the ownership committee.
But this goes way beyond the lead up to the broadcast deal. That to an extent I could understand, but im talking about the plethora of times he has come out in response to any FFA initiative in a negative way. Why else would posters on here say he's a whinger if it was clearly a one off? There's a pattern here and the public are picking up on it. If Di Pietro came out with a negative statement regarding an FFA initiative, you can rest assured the majority of posters would have a different reaction. THey may perhaps disagree with him but it's unlikely he would get so hardly labelled a whinger like we've seen here. Hence why Griffin's pattern of behaviour has caused to establish the opinion football fans on this forum have of him. If you want me to sound less bias, im happy to accept that Arnie is a whinger too. He's another classic example of someone that has a reputation of being a whinger because he has a tendancy to always have an opinion that portrays him as a whiner. Griffin is exactly the same, and as I said before, people on this forum as well as other members of the football community have picked up on it. So you recant your original opinion that he was a tight arse? No he shouldn't recant! Anyone who manages to turn a Championship winning team to wooden spooner material, deserves everything they get. I mean, it takes some doing to achieve that and recognition needs to be given wherever its due! A couple of things to consider: - He's not solely responsible for signing players. The squad apparently is costing the full cap + concessions which him and the other owners in the consortium are most responsible for.
- Let's wait and see where we are at the end of the season. We're not the first team to win the title one year and have an average season the next so I'm not sure how this takes "some doing".
That's all good if he is not solely responsible. He is the CEO though and as such will take the brunt of abuse. Was it him who wrote that Press Release? We will never know because no one will own up to it. I want to know who wrote it. One thing not taking responsibility or accepting blames but to abuse the fans is something else.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight. Being vocal coz someone is being vocal is obviously a noble cause as oppose to my apparent shit fight aha My shit fight being appealing for some logic and reason when reading articles. If the other owners did not want him pushing their agenda in the media in the lead up to splitting up TV money he wouldn't be chair of the ownership committee.
But this goes way beyond the lead up to the broadcast deal. That to an extent I could understand, but im talking about the plethora of times he has come out in response to any FFA initiative in a negative way. Why else would posters on here say he's a whinger if it was clearly a one off? There's a pattern here and the public are picking up on it. If Di Pietro came out with a negative statement regarding an FFA initiative, you can rest assured the majority of posters would have a different reaction. THey may perhaps disagree with him but it's unlikely he would get so hardly labelled a whinger like we've seen here. Hence why Griffin's pattern of behaviour has caused to establish the opinion football fans on this forum have of him. If you want me to sound less bias, im happy to accept that Arnie is a whinger too. He's another classic example of someone that has a reputation of being a whinger because he has a tendancy to always have an opinion that portrays him as a whiner. Griffin is exactly the same, and as I said before, people on this forum as well as other members of the football community have picked up on it. So you recant your original opinion that he was a tight arse? Anyone who manages to turn a Championship winning team to wooden spooner material, deserves everything they get. Like Lederer ?
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight. Being vocal coz someone is being vocal is obviously a noble cause as oppose to my apparent shit fight aha My shit fight being appealing for some logic and reason when reading articles. If the other owners did not want him pushing their agenda in the media in the lead up to splitting up TV money he wouldn't be chair of the ownership committee.
But this goes way beyond the lead up to the broadcast deal. That to an extent I could understand, but im talking about the plethora of times he has come out in response to any FFA initiative in a negative way. Why else would posters on here say he's a whinger if it was clearly a one off? There's a pattern here and the public are picking up on it. If Di Pietro came out with a negative statement regarding an FFA initiative, you can rest assured the majority of posters would have a different reaction. THey may perhaps disagree with him but it's unlikely he would get so hardly labelled a whinger like we've seen here. Hence why Griffin's pattern of behaviour has caused to establish the opinion football fans on this forum have of him. If you want me to sound less bias, im happy to accept that Arnie is a whinger too. He's another classic example of someone that has a reputation of being a whinger because he has a tendancy to always have an opinion that portrays him as a whiner. Griffin is exactly the same, and as I said before, people on this forum as well as other members of the football community have picked up on it. So you recant your original opinion that he was a tight arse? No he shouldn't recant! Anyone who manages to turn a Championship winning team to wooden spooner material, deserves everything they get. I mean, it takes some doing to achieve that and recognition needs to be given wherever its due! A couple of things to consider: - He's not solely responsible for signing players. The squad apparently is costing the full cap + concessions which him and the other owners in the consortium are most responsible for.
- Let's wait and see where we are at the end of the season. We're not the first team to win the title one year and have an average season the next so I'm not sure how this takes "some doing".
That's all good if he is not solely responsible. He is the CEO though and as such will take the brunt of abuse. Was it him who wrote that Press Release? We will never know because no one will own up to it. I want to know who wrote it. One thing not taking responsibility or accepting blames but to abuse the fans is something else. He's not the CEO, Grant Mayer is. If he was he would deserve even less of the abuse as the CEO takes care of the business side of things, not football operations (though last year we had Petrillo doing both). He's equal majority shareholder with Rob Gerrard and the chairman of the board, yes he should receive some criticism but only where it's factual. The press release was shit as were a number of other ones that have come out in the past. We're not talking about that though, we're talking about the persistent claims that HE is not spending any money on the club and that he's some how pocketing rivers of gold directly from the club.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight. Being vocal coz someone is being vocal is obviously a noble cause as oppose to my apparent shit fight aha My shit fight being appealing for some logic and reason when reading articles. If the other owners did not want him pushing their agenda in the media in the lead up to splitting up TV money he wouldn't be chair of the ownership committee.
But this goes way beyond the lead up to the broadcast deal. That to an extent I could understand, but im talking about the plethora of times he has come out in response to any FFA initiative in a negative way. Why else would posters on here say he's a whinger if it was clearly a one off? There's a pattern here and the public are picking up on it. If Di Pietro came out with a negative statement regarding an FFA initiative, you can rest assured the majority of posters would have a different reaction. THey may perhaps disagree with him but it's unlikely he would get so hardly labelled a whinger like we've seen here. Hence why Griffin's pattern of behaviour has caused to establish the opinion football fans on this forum have of him. If you want me to sound less bias, im happy to accept that Arnie is a whinger too. He's another classic example of someone that has a reputation of being a whinger because he has a tendancy to always have an opinion that portrays him as a whiner. Griffin is exactly the same, and as I said before, people on this forum as well as other members of the football community have picked up on it. So you recant your original opinion that he was a tight arse? No he shouldn't recant! Anyone who manages to turn a Championship winning team to wooden spooner material, deserves everything they get. I mean, it takes some doing to achieve that and recognition needs to be given wherever its due! A couple of things to consider: - He's not solely responsible for signing players. The squad apparently is costing the full cap + concessions which him and the other owners in the consortium are most responsible for.
- Let's wait and see where we are at the end of the season. We're not the first team to win the title one year and have an average season the next so I'm not sure how this takes "some doing".
That's all good if he is not solely responsible. He is the CEO though and as such will take the brunt of abuse. Was it him who wrote that Press Release? We will never know because no one will own up to it. I want to know who wrote it. One thing not taking responsibility or accepting blames but to abuse the fans is something else. The press release was shit as were a number of other ones that have come out in the past. We're not talking about that though, we're talking about the persistent claims that HE is not spending any money on the club and that he's some how pocketing rivers of gold directly from the club. Thank you
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight. Being vocal coz someone is being vocal is obviously a noble cause as oppose to my apparent shit fight aha My shit fight being appealing for some logic and reason when reading articles. If the other owners did not want him pushing their agenda in the media in the lead up to splitting up TV money he wouldn't be chair of the ownership committee.
But this goes way beyond the lead up to the broadcast deal. That to an extent I could understand, but im talking about the plethora of times he has come out in response to any FFA initiative in a negative way. Why else would posters on here say he's a whinger if it was clearly a one off? There's a pattern here and the public are picking up on it. If Di Pietro came out with a negative statement regarding an FFA initiative, you can rest assured the majority of posters would have a different reaction. THey may perhaps disagree with him but it's unlikely he would get so hardly labelled a whinger like we've seen here. Hence why Griffin's pattern of behaviour has caused to establish the opinion football fans on this forum have of him. If you want me to sound less bias, im happy to accept that Arnie is a whinger too. He's another classic example of someone that has a reputation of being a whinger because he has a tendancy to always have an opinion that portrays him as a whiner. Griffin is exactly the same, and as I said before, people on this forum as well as other members of the football community have picked up on it. So you recant your original opinion that he was a tight arse? Absolutely NOT!! And it's actually quite farcical how some here are backing him on issues surrounding their squad. They have lost a number of their best talent and replaced them with squad players at best, minus the signing of Holland.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight. Being vocal coz someone is being vocal is obviously a noble cause as oppose to my apparent shit fight aha My shit fight being appealing for some logic and reason when reading articles. If the other owners did not want him pushing their agenda in the media in the lead up to splitting up TV money he wouldn't be chair of the ownership committee.
But this goes way beyond the lead up to the broadcast deal. That to an extent I could understand, but im talking about the plethora of times he has come out in response to any FFA initiative in a negative way. Why else would posters on here say he's a whinger if it was clearly a one off? There's a pattern here and the public are picking up on it. If Di Pietro came out with a negative statement regarding an FFA initiative, you can rest assured the majority of posters would have a different reaction. THey may perhaps disagree with him but it's unlikely he would get so hardly labelled a whinger like we've seen here. Hence why Griffin's pattern of behaviour has caused to establish the opinion football fans on this forum have of him. If you want me to sound less bias, im happy to accept that Arnie is a whinger too. He's another classic example of someone that has a reputation of being a whinger because he has a tendancy to always have an opinion that portrays him as a whiner. Griffin is exactly the same, and as I said before, people on this forum as well as other members of the football community have picked up on it. So you recant your original opinion that he was a tight arse? Absolutely NOT!! And it's actually quite farcical how some here are backing him on issues surrounding their squad. They have lost a number of their best talent and replaced them with squad players at best, minus the signing of Holland. Why do I keep logging back in? The only player we realistically could have held onto was Sanchez and maybe Kamau but he was gone 6 months before the season ended and was not a starter at the time. Shit happens. Yes, we replaced them all with shitter players who were desperate last minute signings who we seemingly paid overs for. It sucks. Shithouse squad management. Griffin is not solely responsible for that. Djite - Guardiola Sanchez - Henrique Mauk - Holland Goodwin- Garrucio (goodwin was more effective but Garrucio is easily as good as Goodwin was when he came here and is about 3-4 years younger I believe) They may all be shitter in hindsight but I doubt they are that much cheaper and some of us had higher hopes for these players. Garrucio has been brilliant yet he is the one on the list you WOULD'T expect...... Goodwin and Mauk were always gonna head to Europe no matter which A League club they played for. Djite was staying till the last second when he was offered a pay day in Asia and we had to scrap our plan to buy a winger and got Guardiola to replace him. Kamau - see above Being bottom after 13 rounds is really really shit but we are not the first team it has happened to and won't be the last. If Guardiola had converted his chances we wouldn't be bottom. He could easily have been an upgrade on Djite from glimpses early in the season. His head dropped. If Holland and Isaias had found a way to play together we would look even better. Holland is the one player you say wasn't a shit signing but he is the one who has fit into the team style the least. Do you really want to continue this? Due to tackles from hack players players like Carrusca and Cirio also got no preseason and you can/could tell. We also missed playing our best squad for the first month or more when we played all the top teams and as a result got oursleeves into a hole that this time we couldn't crawl out of because the team was new and didn't have the same bonds as the squad last year had built up over a couple of years. Nah, let's blame Griffin for every single shit thing. Shall we continue?
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight. Being vocal coz someone is being vocal is obviously a noble cause as oppose to my apparent shit fight aha My shit fight being appealing for some logic and reason when reading articles. If the other owners did not want him pushing their agenda in the media in the lead up to splitting up TV money he wouldn't be chair of the ownership committee.
But this goes way beyond the lead up to the broadcast deal. That to an extent I could understand, but im talking about the plethora of times he has come out in response to any FFA initiative in a negative way. Why else would posters on here say he's a whinger if it was clearly a one off? There's a pattern here and the public are picking up on it. If Di Pietro came out with a negative statement regarding an FFA initiative, you can rest assured the majority of posters would have a different reaction. THey may perhaps disagree with him but it's unlikely he would get so hardly labelled a whinger like we've seen here. Hence why Griffin's pattern of behaviour has caused to establish the opinion football fans on this forum have of him. If you want me to sound less bias, im happy to accept that Arnie is a whinger too. He's another classic example of someone that has a reputation of being a whinger because he has a tendancy to always have an opinion that portrays him as a whiner. Griffin is exactly the same, and as I said before, people on this forum as well as other members of the football community have picked up on it. So you recant your original opinion that he was a tight arse? No he shouldn't recant! Anyone who manages to turn a Championship winning team to wooden spooner material, deserves everything they get. I mean, it takes some doing to achieve that and recognition needs to be given wherever its due! A couple of things to consider: - He's not solely responsible for signing players. The squad apparently is costing the full cap + concessions which him and the other owners in the consortium are most responsible for.
- Let's wait and see where we are at the end of the season. We're not the first team to win the title one year and have an average season the next so I'm not sure how this takes "some doing".
That's all good if he is not solely responsible. He is the CEO though and as such will take the brunt of abuse. Was it him who wrote that Press Release? We will never know because no one will own up to it. I want to know who wrote it. One thing not taking responsibility or accepting blames but to abuse the fans is something else. The press release was shit as were a number of other ones that have come out in the past. We're not talking about that though, we're talking about the persistent claims that HE is not spending any money on the club and that he's some how pocketing rivers of gold directly from the club. Thank you If he is spending the dosh, then it's the same thing. they have a Football department that hasn't a clue.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight. Being vocal coz someone is being vocal is obviously a noble cause as oppose to my apparent shit fight aha My shit fight being appealing for some logic and reason when reading articles. If the other owners did not want him pushing their agenda in the media in the lead up to splitting up TV money he wouldn't be chair of the ownership committee.
But this goes way beyond the lead up to the broadcast deal. That to an extent I could understand, but im talking about the plethora of times he has come out in response to any FFA initiative in a negative way. Why else would posters on here say he's a whinger if it was clearly a one off? There's a pattern here and the public are picking up on it. If Di Pietro came out with a negative statement regarding an FFA initiative, you can rest assured the majority of posters would have a different reaction. THey may perhaps disagree with him but it's unlikely he would get so hardly labelled a whinger like we've seen here. Hence why Griffin's pattern of behaviour has caused to establish the opinion football fans on this forum have of him. If you want me to sound less bias, im happy to accept that Arnie is a whinger too. He's another classic example of someone that has a reputation of being a whinger because he has a tendancy to always have an opinion that portrays him as a whiner. Griffin is exactly the same, and as I said before, people on this forum as well as other members of the football community have picked up on it. So you recant your original opinion that he was a tight arse? Absolutely NOT!! And it's actually quite farcical how some here are backing him on issues surrounding their squad. They have lost a number of their best talent and replaced them with squad players at best, minus the signing of Holland. Yes farcical indeed. And very funny but what else do you expect from pissants?
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xGriffin comes across as the greatest whinging arse in the country. Maybe he will go back to AFL soon where that shit is lauded. One third of the Australian Clubs are owned by Asian interests. The League's major sponsor is Asian. The League winners are invited to play in the Asian Champions League where genuine status and fair money resides. Griffin's anti-Asian stance should bite him on his whinging arse. I agree does this guy ever shut up?? How about he actually pulls out his wallet for a change and actually bring in some top.talent rather than c9nstantly scraping by using the absolute minimum the cap allows and rely on the good will.of the fans to.show up week.in week out. He wants a new stadium but meanwhile he can barely get hindmarsh filled week in week out. Bring in a real marquee and see the place swell. Where to even begin with this post.... . And rather than constantly chat about certain marquee players they have missed out on, how about they actually land one for a change. ............ They won the title last year ........... LOL My point isn't about building on the park, it's about building off it. It's what Griffin seems to go on about a lot. So im answering in relation to that. PS where are they now on the ladder? LOL! You are answering a question I did not ask and doing so in a hysterical manner as seems to be your way. It's amazing. Your initial rant was also based on the assertion we pay the bare minimum salary floor and always have done which is just plain wrong. You then took something you made up, ran with it and whipped yourself into a frenzy. You then rant about the type of marquee that we have seen maybe 3-4 of in A-League history across all teams (all of which were flops on the park but one was good off it) and suggest he should pay for one because you, a fan of another team who has a Russian sugar daddy and the advantage of being in the biggest, best known city in Australia where the benefits of a marquee MIGHT actually exist, would like to see one to prove he has the same passion for a football club as you do.....Someone who runs one of the clubs in the league and has seen us stop being nomads, have a training base and win a fucking championship, premiership and FFA Cup in the same time frame that you joined this forum as a mild mannered young poster who became a hysterical loud mouth who follows a club who has done JACK SHIT trophy wise in the same years Griffin has run United. Griffin can be a tosser, but you talk more shit than even he does. Have a good day :) My point on all this (which btw was also echoed by a number of Adelaide United fans on this thread earlier), That's not necessarily in your favour aha Umm well it is in my favour if they are all saying the same thing Im saying regarding Griffin being a whinging little prick. Happy to go back a few pages and copy paste the responses if you really like.. Yeah...that red mist doesn't help you "get" stuff, does it................................. Fact of the matter is this. Griffin has been firmly much more vocal in a negative sense than any other owner on all things FFA. Myself and the vast majority here can see it and have been vocal about it. You obviously fit in the minority. That's okay buddy, keep fighting the shit fight. Being vocal coz someone is being vocal is obviously a noble cause as oppose to my apparent shit fight aha My shit fight being appealing for some logic and reason when reading articles. If the other owners did not want him pushing their agenda in the media in the lead up to splitting up TV money he wouldn't be chair of the ownership committee.
But this goes way beyond the lead up to the broadcast deal. That to an extent I could understand, but im talking about the plethora of times he has come out in response to any FFA initiative in a negative way. Why else would posters on here say he's a whinger if it was clearly a one off? There's a pattern here and the public are picking up on it. If Di Pietro came out with a negative statement regarding an FFA initiative, you can rest assured the majority of posters would have a different reaction. THey may perhaps disagree with him but it's unlikely he would get so hardly labelled a whinger like we've seen here. Hence why Griffin's pattern of behaviour has caused to establish the opinion football fans on this forum have of him. If you want me to sound less bias, im happy to accept that Arnie is a whinger too. He's another classic example of someone that has a reputation of being a whinger because he has a tendancy to always have an opinion that portrays him as a whiner. Griffin is exactly the same, and as I said before, people on this forum as well as other members of the football community have picked up on it. So you recant your original opinion that he was a tight arse? Absolutely NOT!! And it's actually quite farcical how some here are backing him on issues surrounding their squad. They have lost a number of their best talent and replaced them with squad players at best, minus the signing of Holland. Why do I keep logging back in? The only player we realistically could have held onto was Sanchez and maybe Kamau but he was gone 6 months before the season ended and was not a starter at the time. Shit happens. Yes, we replaced them all with shitter players who were desperate last minute signings who we seemingly paid overs for. It sucks. Shithouse squad management. Griffin is not solely responsible for that. Djite - Guardiola Sanchez - Henrique Mauk - Holland Goodwin- Garrucio (goodwin was more effective but Garrucio is easily as good as Goodwin was when he came here and is about 3-4 years younger I believe) They may all be shitter in hindsight but I doubt they are that much cheaper and some of us had higher hopes for these players. Garrucio has been brilliant yet he is the one on the list you WOULD'T expect...... Goodwin and Mauk were always gonna head to Europe no matter which A League club they played for. Djite was staying till the last second when he was offered a pay day in Asia and we had to scrap our plan to buy a winger and got Guardiola to replace him. Kamau - see above Being bottom after 13 rounds is really really shit but we are not the first team it has happened to and won't be the last. If Guardiola had converted his chances we wouldn't be bottom. He could easily have been an upgrade on Djite from glimpses early in the season. His head dropped. If Holland and Isaias had found a way to play together we would look even better. Holland is the one player you say wasn't a shit signing but he is the one who has fit into the team style the least. Do you really want to continue this? Due to tackles from hack players players like Carrusca and Cirio also got no preseason and you can/could tell. We also missed playing our best squad for the first month or more when we played all the top teams and as a result got oursleeves into a hole that this time we couldn't crawl out of because the team was new and didn't have the same bonds as the squad last year had built up over a couple of years. Nah, let's blame Griffin for every single shit thing. Shall we continue? Mate it's not about hindsight, your fans were already pissed off before even round 1 of the season had kicked off, due the lack of any real recruitment. Or have you forgotten??? I even recall the club having to release a statement on it all at the time, trying to defend themselves from the onslaught of criticism. So the writing was on the wall from the get go. UPDATE: Here is the link of the letter by Mayer to the fans at the end of August defending the clubs position after clearly the fans were furious with the recruitment drive the club had undertaken after the losses of their key personnel : http://www.adelaideunited.com.au/article/grant-mayer-gives-us-an-update/1rh3ureh65lsf1h0l38eq9jv35I never said he was the only person responsible however he is the owner so the buck stops there. He's in charge ultimately (as well as the other minor shareholders).
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And, if they lose 2 more games which they will, it's going to flare up again.
The Melbourne City game was a fluke.
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