5 hours ago, Wrecker45 said:

I wish he could come back now and end this curse.

If, you want that Demon attitude back,  then bring back Checker first.

 

It's not Smithy we're missing, its the Political Correctness that rid us of Smithy,  that continues to kill this club.  Political Correctness was just arising in the 60's,  and the New-Broom swept the winning Demon, right out of the club.

People more concerned with their own world perceptions,  took over the world & the Mfc,  and have done increasingly more damage to the way things were, and were done.  For good and for bad.

 

For good,  black rights, womens rights. etc.

For bad,  new mining activities, and forestry practices,  outsourcing, etc

 

Some things need to step back to older ways.  Fishing activities. Forestry,  and the Demon attitudes.

Some things need to keep modernising.  Womens, Human rights, population growth, decentralisation, etc.

Horrible recruiting decisions such as  selecting  Jimmy ( "confidence issues"  ) Toumpas over Ollie Wines have nothing to do with Political Correctness .

5 hours ago, MyFavouriteMartian said:

If, you want that Demon attitude back,  then bring back Checker first.

 

It's not Smithy we're missing, its the Political Correctness that rid us of Smithy,  that continues to kill this club.  Political Correctness was just arising in the 60's,  and the New-Broom swept the winning Demon, right out of the club.

People more concerned with their own world perceptions,  took over the world & the Mfc,  and have done increasingly more damage to the way things were, and were done.  For good and for bad.

 

For good,  black rights, womens rights. etc.

For bad,  new mining activities, and forestry practices,  outsourcing, etc

 

Some things need to step back to older ways.  Fishing activities. Forestry,  and the Demon attitudes.

Some things need to keep modernising.  Womens, Human rights, population growth, decentralisation, etc.

Never would have picked this as the reason we haven't won a premiership since 1964. I thought it was because we weren't good enough.

12 hours ago, MyFavouriteMartian said:

If, you want that Demon attitude back,  then bring back Checker first.

 

It's not Smithy we're missing, its the Political Correctness that rid us of Smithy,  that continues to kill this club.  Political Correctness was just arising in the 60's,  and the New-Broom swept the winning Demon, right out of the club.

People more concerned with their own world perceptions,  took over the world & the Mfc,  and have done increasingly more damage to the way things were, and were done.  For good and for bad.

 

For good,  black rights, womens rights. etc.

For bad,  new mining activities, and forestry practices,  outsourcing, etc

 

Some things need to step back to older ways.  Fishing activities. Forestry,  and the Demon attitudes.

Some things need to keep modernising.  Womens, Human rights, population growth, decentralisation, etc.

I think climate change might have cost us dearly as well.

7 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Never would have picked this as the reason we haven't won a premiership since 1964. I thought it was because we weren't good enough.

That attitude goes right thru the club,  not just players,  so it underpins everyone's jobs,  and how they go about them.  Whether 'the staff' are a bit shy in attitude,  or go 'hell-for-leather',  to get what we want...  whether that be recruits  or HQ's,  training venues,  or growing our support base.

 

This attitude must invade every  nook'n'cranny of the club,  and everyone in it.

Hell we all know its been missing for half a century,  and still counting.

28 minutes ago, Wrecker45 said:

I think climate change might have cost us dearly as well.

Well, the climate in our support base has certainly gotten cold,  over the past 50Yrs.

Interestingly the same time frame,  as the worst of our climate warming.   Since 1970, we seen the warming and the rise in inflationary investments,  and homes becoming commodities.  And out of affordable range,  for the most vulnerable of our fellow Australians.

So yeah,  as it happens,  you seem to be onto sump-thin, W45.

You seemed to have neglected Big Carl played for St Kilda first. 
This post could be on a Saints board. 
I believe the blonde bombshell is the only player to have returned to two clubs - St k, Melb, St K, Melb

Apologies, RE-read your post. You do acknowledge he returned to Saints. 
only player to do it twice. 

Edited April 21, 20204 yr by radar

Didn't Big Carl belt 5 or 6 Collingwood players in his last game for us? (Round 22 1980)

The headband & the handkerchief were his trademarks. 

Not to be messed with was Ditterich.  A nasty piece of work and of course, a very good player.

Laurie Fowler regarded him as his best coach.

Edited April 21, 20204 yr by Macca

And Jack Baquie, [censored] Taylor, Don Hooper and Norm Matthews.

And on the subject of Ditterich going from St K > Melb > St K > Melb, another German footballer has recently done the same thing:
Mats Hummels (Bayern > Dortmund > Bayern > Dortmund)!