Graham Cornes: The Paris Hilton Pies

Collingwood's habit of running roughshod over the AFL has to be curtailed. The ridiculous situation where the club refuses to wear an alternative uniform to avoid clashing with opponents is an example of its arrogance.

I detest alternative strips

Jumpers DO NOT clash

we do not have the number of teams that requires it like english football for example

I do think Collingwood could yet be the saviour of retaining traditional jumpers for the rest of the competition

good article

i hate the way that the AFL bend over for Collingwood

However, i am still greatful for Eddie McGuire allowing us the Queen's Birthday home games

good article

i hate the way that the AFL bend over for Collingwood

However, i am still greatful for Eddie McGuire allowing us the Queen's Birthday home games

I just finished reading today's Herald Sun sports lift out. In the middle of the first month of summer, the Collingwod Football club got more coverage and was mentioned in more articles than our test cricketers, tennis players and track and field athletes combined.

If anyone bends over for Collingwood it's that newspaper!

However, i am still greatful for Eddie McGuire allowing us the Queen's Birthday home games

That's dead naive!

Collingwood, like us put in their fixture requests each year.

Collingwood, unlike us, have most, if not all their, requests granted.

The AFL do the fixture - not Eddie Maguire despite his obnoxious claims.

I would laugh if Collingwood were given our draw. Imagine the hoo ha - but then again, the compensation they would receive would wipe off their $8m years losses in one hit. The AFL are looking to give us a paltry $250K

I'm sorry but they are just not a viable club and are a victim of the national expansion of the AFL. I think its time that they either moved to Tasmania or West Sydney.

Port Moresby Pies has a nice ring to it!

The further away the better

That's dead naive!

Collingwood, like us put in their fixture requests each year.

Collingwood, unlike us, have most, if not all their, requests granted.

The AFL do the fixture - not Eddie Maguire despite his obnoxious claims.

I would laugh if Collingwood were given our draw. Imagine the hoo ha - but then again, the compensation they would receive would wipe off their $8m years losses in one hit. The AFL are looking to give us a paltry $250K

Exactly.

If any Collingwod support tries to get mileage out of 'them' giving 'us' the Queens Birthday game, make sure you agree completely that it is totally unfair, and that the only way to restore equitable treatment would be for Melbourne and Collingwood to swap fixtures every second year...

Port Moresby Pies has a nice ring to it!

The further away the better

Merge them with Port & export them to South Aus'.

This is a bad year to realise the losses that the Pies have just done because next year it's going to be bloody hard.

Regardless I'm more interested in what we're going to do, even though it would make me smile watching them struggle.

Whatever we might think about Eddie and all the advantages Collingwood gets, I think he's right on the issue of Richmond's application to move Polak to the rookie list. It's opportunism at its best and really smacks of draft tampering when you try to change the rules at this stage of proceedings. That said, I'm not sure that we're going to be inconvenienced all that much and I'm not sure that the Tigers will get as much mileage out of Ben Cousins as they think they will.

By the way, we own a few pokie venue leaseholds too, don't we?

I wonder how they're travelling?

However, i am still greatful for Eddie McGuire allowing us the Queen's Birthday home games

Allowing us? Oh please.......

Oh yeah, of cause it is theirs to give away as they choose !!!

Merge them with Port & export them to South Aus'.

Merging the ferals with the filth, now that's an idea. It will also see the benefit of improved crowd numbers at AAMI.