47 minutes ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

Brisbane have some of the worst facilities in the league.  They, like us, have been trying to get their own home base for years.  It's on the cards, but hasn't happened yet.  If he selects Brisbane, it's definitely not 'facilities' that won him over.

 

Lions are moving to purpose built facility  at Springfield.

16 minutes ago, demoniac said:

Lions are moving to purpose built facility  at Springfield.

Right downwind of Mr Burns’ state of the art nuclear plant ☢️ ???
Homer will  become their #1 fan.  

Edited October 7, 20195 yr by monoccular

Embarrassing if Brisbane pipe us here and he ends up in QLD.

Are we going to boo Elliot like we booed Judd because we were mad he didn't choose us?

Would be surprised if he stays at Collingwood simply because he ranks behind De Goey and Stephenson and maybe Mihochek in the forward area.When Cox returns that's another place up forward gone.

Oh well back to the drawing board

Just now, praha said:

Embarrassing if Brisbane pipe us here and he ends up in QLD.

Are we going to boo Elliot like we booed Judd because we were mad he didn't choose us?

No

20 minutes ago, demoniac said:

Lions are moving to purpose built facility  at Springfield.

Oh Springfield. Horrible option

I don’t think I’ve ever boo’d any player and not going to start booing Elliott, who seems like a decent young fella, just because he didn’t come to us. 

Additionally, if I had the choice of transferring to a new workplace, I’d stay away from the one that was run like our club and had the track record like it. I don’t blame him at all. 

Edited October 7, 20195 yr by Ethan Tremblay

Interesting. Mahoney should have kept his mouth shut. We look a bit foolish now. I wonder if there's anything else brewing.

Edited October 7, 20195 yr by A F

According to Michael Gleeson Age he has ruled out MFC - onwards and upwards !

1 hour ago, Nasher said:

 

Great news!

Let's find a solid replacement

12 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I don’t think I’ve ever boo’d any player and not going to start booing Elliott, who seems like a decent young fella, just because he didn’t come to us. 

Additionally, if I had the choice of transferring to a new workplace, I’d stay away from the one that was run like our club and had the track record like it. I don’t blame him at all. 

I certainly wouldn’t boo Elliott, I am already over him. 

I think I have only ever booed one player, in the year he left us for GWS and who is now at the Hawks. As you know I don’t speak his name. 

I booed him in his first game against us like many others did and then just ignored him. 

Will never regard him as a Dees player and probably neither does he. 

43 minutes ago, demoniac said:

Lions are moving to purpose built facility  at Springfield.

Not for a couple of years though.  Should be a great facility, but Elliot won’t see much of it.

My point was that Brisbane now appears to be a very attractive club for players for many reasons - just not their facilities.

We also tend to exaggerate how bad our facilities at AAMI are.  They’re very good, just not exclusively ours. 

The likelihood is that this was always a case of a player manager using another club’s willingness to bargain in order to get the best possible deal for a 27 year old client who has been injury prone for the last two years. He wanted to prize out the extra year for Elliott and found us agreeable to the three year term. 

I was never convinced about Elliott and am fine with the situation. I don’t believe this has an ramifications about us being a destination club either. I’m sure Josh  Mahoney is moving on.

46 minutes ago, Redleg said:

I certainly wouldn’t boo Elliott, I am already over him. 

Who's Elliott?

2 minutes ago, A F said:

Who's Elliott?

still be nice to get someone with skill who can kick and has pace.

Bring back Jeffy.

Just now, Bay Riffin said:

still be nice to get someone with skill who can kick and has pace.

just wouldn't fit in at Melbourne with those attributes

Close thread. 

15 minutes ago, A F said:

Interesting. Mahoney should have kept his mouth shut. We look a bit foolish now. I wonder if there's anything else brewing.

Did he say something that was wrong? Did he say Elliot was in the bag? What secrets did Mahoney give out?

40 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

Did he say something that was wrong? Did he say Elliot was in the bag? What secrets did Mahoney give out?

He clarified the contract length. No need to say anything.

Mahoney just said what was the truth, it wold have came out in the press at some point.

 

If we had had a solid 2019 players like Elliott would have come across I believe. 

We are back in the “Can’t be trusted” category 

 

1 minute ago, A F said:

He clarified the contract length. No need to say anything.

If that's looking foolish then so too must Coll and Bris because they mentioned contract lengths as well.

Honestly, you think he looks foolish because of that? Or is it just because he's Josh Mahoney from Melbourne? 

A F, please tell me you haven't come down with the dreaded MFCSS...?

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Josh Mahoney confirms

Listen: https://mde.whooshkaa.com/show/9121/episode/442865.mp3

41 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

If that's looking foolish then so too must Coll and Bris because they mentioned contract lengths as well.

Honestly, you think he looks foolish because of that? Or is it just because he's Josh Mahoney from Melbourne? 

A F, please tell me you haven't come down with the dreaded MFCSS...?

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Haha, I don't have the dreaded MFCSS. Mahoney has never laid his cards out before without knowing the answer to the question being asked.

I did say in this thread over the weekend that there may be an ulterior motive for mentioning contract length.

Look, it probably doesn't matter to be honest...

Edited October 7, 20195 yr by A F