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Football => View from the Outer => Topic started by: WilliamPowell on October 30, 2012, 08:27:48 PM
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BREAKING: St Kilda Football Club has terminated the playing contract of Jason Gram.
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Gram contract terminated
St Kilda media release
8:21 PM Tue 30 Oct, 2012
Breaking news
ST KILDA has terminated the contract of midfielder Jason Gram.
The club said the decision follows Gram's arrest on Monday night and follows charges laid against him on September 6.
St Kilda said Gram has failed to honour repeated undertakings to the club about his behaviour after the breakdown of a personal relationship.
The club stressed Gram's conduct had been of a non-violent nature.
Gram had a year to run on his contract.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/150513/default.aspx
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WP not knowing saints too well..is he one of their guns?
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WP not knowing saints too well..is he one of their guns?
His one of their main play makers who set up off the back line. Got a decent 50m kick.
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WP not knowing saints too well..is he one of their guns?
Always played well against the Tigers
This season kicked 2 goals in about 3 minutes to give the Saints the lead
I would've thought with the loss of Goddard he was going to become a more important player for them
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By reports today, i think he has other things to worry about.
Was lucky to get bail from the info i heard.
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We should grab him. We badly need a half back, he'd be perfect. Especially if someone goes down with injury. Better do a psych test just in case.
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We should grab him. We badly need a half back, he'd be perfect. Especially if someone goes down with injury. Better do a psych test just in case.
I know after the "incident" with Edwards we probably look like a shelter for the AFL's "misfits" but seriously we are not and shouldn't be
So with that in mind we shouldn't grab him at all. Not worth it
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Losing Gram and Goddard would give them salary cap space.
Whether they have any up coming talent they need to pay to keep from leaving is another matter though.
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We should grab him. We badly need a half back, he'd be perfect. Especially if someone goes down with injury. Better do a psych test just in case.
Badly need a half back??? Half our team can play half back :lol
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Gram given marching orders
October 31, 2012
Michael Gleeson Sports Writer for The Age
NO ONE at St Kilda knew when or if Jason Gram would play for the club again after he was quietly exiled from the club last month after running foul of police.
On Tuesday night, that picture became clearer - Jason Gram will never play for St Kilda again after being sacked by the club.
Coincidentally, the club had already decided 12 hours before his police arrest that it would terminate his contract after a series of lapses in his behaviour.
When police knocked on Gram's door on Monday night, as he sat at home with his housemate, and took him away to the Moorabbin police station and put him in the cells for the night, Gram would have suspected his days as a St Kilda player were over.
He had been warned by coach Scott Watters when he was suspended indefinitely in September that he was on his last chance and that, unless certain standards were met and certain behaviours stopped, he would be sacked.
On Tuesday, when he emerged from the cells and after appearing in Moorabbin Magistrates Court, he attended a meeting with club officials, accompanied by his manager Tom Petroro and AFL Players Association representatives Ian Prendergast and Brett Murphy, where he was told his fate.
Gram was understood to be contracted for about $350,000 to play next year. He is likely to nominate for the national and pre-season drafts in an attempt to find a new club.
Watters had already adopted a tough-love approach with Gram when, last pre-season, he sent him back to the VFL for about a month to improve his fitness.
The decision to sack Gram has reinforced the message emanating from St Kilda that certain standards would not be compromised. It is understood that was the essence of the message Watters gave to all players contacted after Gram's sacking.
"Following the breakdown of a personal relationship, Gram failed to honour repeated undertakings to the club concerning his behaviour," a statement from St Kilda said.
''[The club] has been working with Gram for a number of months on this issue in an attempt to ensure his behaviour appropriately reflected the values shared across the club and to assist with the management of his personal welfare.
"The club recognises that Jason's conduct has been of a non-violent nature."
It is understood St Kilda had been offering Gram and his former partner support and counselling over many months and had vowed to continue to do so.
The club said the AFL had been informed of the situation and supported St Kilda's position.
Gram, 28, played 156 games after making his debut in 2003. He played in all three of the Saints' recent grand finals.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/gram-given-marching-orders-20121030-28gun.html#ixzz2Aoi4w2nd
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We should grab him. We badly need a half back, he'd be perfect. Especially if someone goes down with injury. Better do a psych test just in case.
Badly need a half back??? Half our team can play half back :lol
um which ones would those be? Post? gone Griffiths? young Astbury? young injury prone. We have recruited specifically for this purpose but no one has been raving about Chaplin, he may turn out good and I hope he does but Gram is pretty damn good insurance if he doesn't.
Personal issues or not he is a pretty good grab.
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We should grab him. We badly need a half back, he'd be perfect. Especially if someone goes down with injury. Better do a psych test just in case.
Badly need a half back??? Half our team can play half back :lol
um which ones would those be? Post? gone Griffiths? young Astbury? young injury prone. We have recruited specifically for this purpose but no one has been raving about Chaplin, he may turn out good and I hope he does but Gram is pretty damn good insurance if he doesn't.
Personal issues or not he is a pretty good grab.
Every player you've listed is a KP back. Abnd since when has Griffiths been "gone"
Gram is not a KP back he is a flanker which we don't need because we have Houli, Newman, Ellis, Batchelor, Morris and in the past we've also used Deledio, Helbig & Conca
We don't need and hopefully don't want Gram
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We should grab him. We badly need a half back, he'd be perfect. Especially if someone goes down with injury. Better do a psych test just in case.
Badly need a half back??? Half our team can play half back :lol
um which ones would those be? Post? gone Griffiths? young Astbury? young injury prone. We have recruited specifically for this purpose but no one has been raving about Chaplin, he may turn out good and I hope he does but Gram is pretty damn good insurance if he doesn't.
Personal issues or not he is a pretty good grab.
Every player you've listed is a KP back. Abnd since when has Griffiths been "gone"
Gram is not a KP back he is a flanker which we don't need because we have Houli, Newman, Ellis, Batchelor, Morris and in the past we've also used Deledio, Helbig & Conca
We don't need and hopefully don't want Gram
He meant for you to read it like (Post? gone) (Griffiths? young) (Astbury? young)
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We should grab him. We badly need a half back, he'd be perfect. Especially if someone goes down with injury. Better do a psych test just in case.
Badly need a half back??? Half our team can play half back :lol
um which ones would those be? Post? gone Griffiths? young Astbury? young injury prone. We have recruited specifically for this purpose but no one has been raving about Chaplin, he may turn out good and I hope he does but Gram is pretty damn good insurance if he doesn't.
Personal issues or not he is a pretty good grab.
Every player you've listed is a KP back. Abnd since when has Griffiths been "gone"
Gram is not a KP back he is a flanker which we don't need because we have Houli, Newman, Ellis, Batchelor, Morris and in the past we've also used Deledio, Helbig & Conca
We don't need and hopefully don't want Gram
He meant for you to read it like (Post? gone) (Griffiths? young) (Astbury? young)
"Let's eat Grandma!"
"Let's eat, Grandma!"
Remember kids, correct grammar saves lives.
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We should grab him. We badly need a half back, he'd be perfect. Especially if someone goes down with injury. Better do a psych test just in case.
Badly need a half back??? Half our team can play half back :lol
um which ones would those be? Post? gone Griffiths? young Astbury? young injury prone. We have recruited specifically for this purpose but no one has been raving about Chaplin, he may turn out good and I hope he does but Gram is pretty damn good insurance if he doesn't.
Personal issues or not he is a pretty good grab.
Every player you've listed is a KP back. Abnd since when has Griffiths been "gone"
Gram is not a KP back he is a flanker which we don't need because we have Houli, Newman, Ellis, Batchelor, Morris and in the past we've also used Deledio, Helbig & Conca
We don't need and hopefully don't want Gram
He meant for you to read it like (Post? gone) (Griffiths? young) (Astbury? young)
Yeah like he said. Griffiths young not gone.
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Ian Stewart and Michael Malthouse - only good things to come out of St Kilda
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Ian Stewart and Michael Malthouse - only good things to come out of St Kilda
u obv dont know much about stewart and why jeans wanted him out of the saints
lets just say stewart is no saint and will burn in hell , should have gone to the demons lol
as for malthouse, he is a w@nk
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Ian Stewart and Michael Malthouse - only good things to come out of St Kilda
u obv dont know much about stewart and why jeans wanted him out of the saints
lets just say stewart is no saint and will burn in hell , should have gone to the demons lol
as for malthouse, he is a w@nk
I don't care what they did all I know is Stewart is a Brownlow Medallist and Premiership player at the Tigers and Mick is a Premiership player also. History can't take that from them no matter how hard others try to tarnish reputations.
How would you know? Same reason Hafey and co wanted Barrott out of Richmond? :help
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didnt ian stewart get pulled over by a cop when he was dressed in drag, the cop recognised so he took off and dragged the copper down the road?
Malthouse is an arse wipe.
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Gram arrested again
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Gram arrested again
Saw him last night hanging out of a tree with a pair of binoculars.