1 minute ago, stuie said:

It's about his journey from the slums of Rio to winning an AFL Grand Final, sounds like a story worth telling to me.

 

That's beside the point.  He was paid a lot of money to focus on his AFL full time job.

1 minute ago, Satyriconhome said:

Steady Stuie, even though it has been reported on all media outlets including the club website, the concussion is not real

Saty this is where it gets silly.  I don't think anyone is saying that concussion doesn't play some role.  Many, like me, think it's a small part of the story but it is being used publicly to hide other issues.

 

I don't get the angst aimed at HL......he is a different cat.....So What?   There are so many robots already in the AFL.   Any one a bit different is treated like they are insane. and are scorned and belittled.

He has now gone.........Lets move on.

 

 

3 hours ago, sue said:

Or it may be no one's fault since we can assume the club was well aware of the alternative of keeping him on the list as a LTI and decided that on balance what they did was the best thing to do. As usual, and not unreasonably, we are not privy to the details.

I would have thought at the least I would have got a call from Josh and PJ explaining it all to me.

3 minutes ago, Vogon Poetry said:

That's beside the point.  He was paid a lot of money to focus on his AFL full time job.

What has that got to do with anything? There are 0 players in the AFL who spend all their time "focusing" on footy.

 

2 minutes ago, Vogon Poetry said:

Saty this is where it gets silly.  I don't think anyone is saying that concussion doesn't play some role.  Many, like me, think it's a small part of the story but it is being used publicly to hide other issues.

 

It is stated "he has retired on medical advice", it is only getting silly because some posters on here have now managed to get the 'mob' howling behind them, you believe there are other issues, I don't, no excuse for some of the disgusting vitriol being posted here

6 minutes ago, Bossdog said:

I don't get the angst aimed at HL......he is a different cat.....So What?   There are so many robots already in the AFL.   Any one a bit different is treated like they are insane. and are scorned and belittled.

He has now gone.........Lets move on.

 

 

It is a public forum, the above is standard behaviour, why the need for anonymity, as some would never 'dare' do it face to face

Interestingly, it is the second year in a row, where the AFL has denied us the right to upgrade a Rookie, despite having a spot available to do so.

While the Bombers uplifted players to replace suspended ones, we were not allowed to replace Melksham, who was also suspended.

If Melksham had remained a Bomber, they would have been able to replace him.

As a bonus, they were given the first pick in the draft. 

2 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

 

grieving for Mohamed Ali.. Give me a break. 

I miss my mate Paul Hester, but i didn't take 6 months holiday in his honour...

Well you should have, as Paul was a much better drummer than Ali and Ali didn't live in a crowded house.

Silk:

My lud I move the thread be closed

Beak: on what grounds?

Silk: on the basis that our continued discussion may give cause to the belief that we care

 

2 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Well you should have, as Paul was a much better drummer than Ali and Ali didn't live in a crowded house.

Sharp today Mr Leg!

46 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Interestingly, it is the second year in a row, where the AFL has denied us the right to upgrade a Rookie, despite having a spot available to do so.

While the Bombers uplifted players to replace suspended ones, we were not allowed to replace Melksham, who was also suspended.

If Melksham had remained a Bomber, they would have been able to replace him.

As a bonus, they were given the first pick in the draft. 

I've been bleating about this to my mates recently, i can't see why us (and bulldogs and saints) weren't afforded the same opportunitys last year as the drug cheats, we were the inoccent parties after all, not them!

I believe the  club was caught between a rock and a hard place with this one.

1 I reckon they took the risk of paying him out hoping that the AFL would consider the case unique enough to grant a rookie upgrade

2 Clearly the club needed to move him at all costs given his very strange rationales at play regarding playing and or not

3 It has backfired but not irreperably Heritier didn't offer all that much in the time he was here and Colingwood probably knew that from a management piont of view he was hard work. I agree between Dawes and Heritier we really didn't get value fpr money, although in Chris Dawes case his body let him down, but at least he tried and did the right thing by the club.

Time to cut loses and move on!

Mods can you please warn tge usual supects about the very tiresome endless arguments. One in particular.

The same point made more than twice veers into troll territory as it is simply is designed to wind people up. 

13 minutes ago, binman said:

Mods can you please warn tge usual supects about the very tiresome endless arguments. One in particular.

The same point made more than twice veers into troll territory as it is simply is designed to wind people up. 

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