Jimmy Mac to play for GWS

[DeeSpencer 25,468]

Eating humble pie after slagging of Spy and Source's horrible record on twitter, but at least he got one right.

Good luck to junior. However we now joint St Kilda, Port and Brisbane in retiring players before they felt like it so hopefully we don't cop too much crap for this.

My god we need a senior coach who will tell the players that he calls who gets a spot on the list and not them and they can whinge all they like.

[Jesse Christ 2,884]

Not happy about this. Junior should have been playing this year, for us. Obviously that didn't happen and nothing can be done about that.

Now, after taking a year off he is pulling on the boots again- for what will be the most hated teams in the competitions history. Along side money hungry mercenaries, getting smashed, week in week out.

GWS will ruin my fond memories of James. We can only blame ourselves though. That's probably the bit that hurts the most

[beelzebub 23,313]

Well when I first saw the headline that Junior was going to the Dwarves I just assumed it was as a enlargement of his mentoring role..i.e some for of Coaching Assistant. I got that bit right but wasnt prepared to see him done the boots for them. My first gut reaction is hes got to be having a lend of himslef..or someone is. I still think that will be the case.. Sheeds , as Sheeds always does is thinking laterally and doing things a different way.

The notion of onfiled mentoring by utilising a bunch of fossils on face value has its attraction. In some ways the kindergarten kids will feel a little protected with the old blokes there but the reality I fear is that in the hurly burly of the ever faster game of Footy, that these blokes will get their saggy arses kicked. Junior will be one.

Someones kidding themselves me thinks.

[Pates 9,660]

GWS will ruin my fond memories of James. We can only blame ourselves though. That's probably the bit that hurts the most

There's a little bit of that with me too, means he isn't a one club player (although will always be a MFC champion), and he's going to my now most hated team. I do wonder weather his presence helped sway "he who must not be named's" decision.

[Doggo 32]

Ah J-Mac. I love the guy, but this just shows the makings of a man who doesn't know when to call it quits. The only reason his "retirement" was undignified was because he was unhappy about it. He didnt know the writing was on the wall and the club had to tell him.

^this.

[rpfc 28,262]

Eating humble pie after slagging of Spy and Source's horrible record on twitter, but at least he got one right.

Good luck to junior. However we now joint St Kilda, Port and Brisbane in retiring players before they felt like it so hopefully we don't cop too much crap for this.

My god we need a senior coach who will tell the players that he calls who gets a spot on the list and not them and they can whinge all they like.

All clubs 'retire' players before they want to go.

We screwed ours up in two ways: we suprised Junior with it late in the year, and (this is my personal view) we didn't reverse the decision when Bruce [censored] off.

Sh!t happens.

[EVIL DEE 1]

I hope all the forced 'retired' players kill it. it would take away from these stupid notion that players are done once they're 30 plus and you need to play toddlers instead.

[beelzebub 23,313]

I hope all the forced 'retired' players kill it. it would take away from these stupid notion that players are done once they're 30 plus and you need to play toddlers instead.

Evil. ... please I do concur and empathise with your sentiments. In a perfect world we would all just totter off this mortal coil and end up in a wonderful place and do so even whilst inbibing the very air we breathe. We would all like all of our cherished champiosn to be exalted, to be honoured even in real time but then there's reality.

In hindsight had Bruce the Goose been p!ssed off earlier we'd stil have seen Junior run the lines in ever decreasing minutes but in a manner more befitting HIS idea of egress. This fairy tail idea of footy just has to put to bed. It unrealistic for clubs, spectators and players. Junior came under the microscope not because of his age but because of fitmess. He was off more than he was on. Sh!t happens. Life happens. We all get old.

Sure in many ways 30 something hardly seems over the hill but in football it's bordering on octenarian !! Every player will and ought to be judged on merit. Junior probably has his old mate Cameron to thank for his (in his view) untimely demise.

We have to move away from the notion is something akin to a benfit society for sportingly inclined to the idea that we're an elite sporting club entitled to field the very best in competitive line ups. James I fear is ling in yesteryyear. If 24 hours is a long time and a week an eternity then a year must seem like eons.

As the game inches evermore quicker the likes of J Mac get evermore slower. This glaring difference will come home hard the first time he takes to the field in the grey/orange strip.

I really dont wish him ill. But hes in for an almighty wake up.

Sometimes the past is just that..the past.

[Whispering_Jack 29,780]

As a big admirer of James McDonald I have mixed feelings about this. I'm a self-confessed traditionalist and like the concept of a one club footballer and the thought of him wearing those colours rankles. In addition, I thought he was past his prime at the end of 2010 so I wouldn't really be expecting much if he did play at GWS next year.

On the other hand, if that's what he wants to do, then I wish him good luck.