I'm sorry to see Paton go: I reckon he might still make it at another club. I saw a fair bit of Hotton playing for the Zebras this year, and he never stood out among the VFL players in the way that you would expect from an AFL player. He was more of a link man than a playmaker. I'm not sure what to ...

My question is are Collingwood just desperate for key forwards (hence the two year deal) and rolling the dice, or can Members realistically squeeze out another two years and we just decided he’s surplus to requirements? He was definitely a heart and soul player and as much as it pains me that he go...

My question is are Collingwood just desperate for key forwards (hence the two year deal) and rolling the dice, or can Members realistically squeeze out another two years and we just decided he’s surplus to requirements? He was definitely a heart and soul player and as much as it pains me that he go...

I thought Membrey went pretty well this season and - assuming that the stuff in the media this morning is correct - there has to be a reasonable chance that he could figure prominently in a Collingwood finals campaign next year. Conceivably even a premiership. We have to assume that the people runni...

I think we might still look for a delisted player to trial on our SSP allocation or look to the Pre season draft a few teams are delisting players now as picks have been sorted out so might find a player like Kruger, has been injured or someone else. I reckon that's what we'll do but, if so, why di...

This must be total crap. Surely no club, no matter how badly run, would adopt such a ridiculous strategy. What if they went through all that and then another club took the guy they want with pick 5 or 6? They'd be better off hanging onto pick 2 and take him with that. That way, they're getting the p...

And, seriously, the most hated journo for me will always be Tim Lane. Notwithstanding his intelligent and fragrant daughter.

Tim Lane has a visceral hatred for St Kilda. So he can go stick his head up a dead bear's bum AFAIC. And I mean it literally, not figuratively.

My late mum was a staunch St Kilda supporter, but she did confess to me in her later years that she dated a Swans player for a while in the late 1940s. But I forgive her for that. And one thing I can say for her is that, despite coming from a family of journos, she never became one herself. So in th...

So what does our new coaching structure look like??? Obvious Lyon managers the entire team, with Enright instructing the backs, Harvey instructing the mids (we also have a ruck coach but I forget his name). But who in charge of the Forwards?? hopefully we get someone the understands forward craft &...

He looks to have real potential as a coach. I think the work he did with Phillipou this year was obvious to see. And, by the end of the season, the midfield was functioning much better as a whole, with Jones also lifting his game significantly. (And Steele coming back into form, although I suspect i...

saynta wrote: ↑Fri 11 Oct 2024 1:28pm Effing Kane Cornes reckons Saints signing King to a long term deal was done solely to annoy/troll him. What a wanker.

Well, annoying Kane would be a pretty good reason for doing it in my book. He's annoyed the s__t out of me often enough.

It would have been a travesty if Cripps hadn't won. He certainly was the best player this season, by a fair margin. But I agree that 45 votes was ludicrous. And even more ludicrous was how much the possession-gatherers dominated the votes this season: more than I can ever remember. The top ten inclu...

Simply dreadful news. Top drawer bloke. Not so much the forum’s poet as its shaman. We never managed to meet up in person, although we made various unsuccessful arrangements to do so in various parts of the country. And yet I still considered him to be a friend. I can’t believe we will no longer be ...

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Vazelos: if what you say is true, then I can’t see much wrong with what Sam and Mrs Mitchell have done. If you look after you employees, they are going to be keener to work for you. As long as the holiday house was Mitchell’s private property and didn’t belong to the club, it’s not an inducement. Wh...

If Battle has truly left us for less money, then all I can say is "F--- you Josh Battle!" And, as the Irish say, "May the road rise up to meet you...and smash you in the face!" And, as for Hawthorn, I hope you lose every game of football for the next decade. Apart from all that, ...

It’s funny. On many threads on here the prevailing theme is “sack half the list, clear out the dead wood, we won’t tolerate mediocrity.” But on this thread people are keen to hold on to very minor talents like Van Es, Hotton and McLennan. Not to mention Heath. I think I’ve seen enough football to fe...

As I understand it, Crouch will need to retire voluntarily, or else we will have to keep him on. Hopefully he will agree to go. Surely Van Es and Ross are gone. I reckon Bonner should be gone too, but I suspect he'll be retained. I don't understand why people think Hotton should be kept on: he's cur...

Great last number of games. Makes you wonder what he was doing in magoos Byrnes is one of a number of players who were sent back to the Zebras this year to work on their game and actually lifted. Byrnes, Phillipou, Jones and Sharman were the stand outs. Stocker, Caminiti and Membrey to some extent ...

If that was 15 metres, then I have a foot long appendage.

My man Pou!

Great bit of play by Sharman there.

Started a thread at the same time. Please ignore it everyone. Here's what I said: Carlton are really struggling, given how badly we've played. Our forward line has looked undersized for the first game in a while. Dow hasn't impressed me. NWM continues to struggle, as he has done for a few weeks. His...

Carlton are really struggling, given how badly we've played. The forward line has looked undersized for the first game in a while. Dow hasn't impressed me. NWM continues to struggle, as he has done for a few weeks. His confidence seems a little down. But, after stuffing a few things up, he has this ...

Tanking tomorrow would send a message to our fine group of older stars) Marshall, Wilkie, Sinclair, etc - that we have no plans to play late in September for the rest of their careers.

Which would be a really dumb and demoralising thing to do.

So I guess that’s what’ll happen.