Engorged Onion

I often think of Talking Heads "Stop Talking Sense" when I read your posts @Axis of Bob Well researched yet again. (and again and again). Some people cannot help post absolutist, provocative statements, without nuance to them...and perhaps that's ok..but appreciate your response nonetheless.

I wish we could resolve our Wing situation...and perhaps soon. Once upon a time, I did see a rumour... "Which player spreads both butter and his wings, yet remains ocean-bound?"

I hear what you are saying, AND I disagree. Do you know the full context @Better days aheadfor your entitlement to be able to 'heavily criticise' him? He is/was a marketable commodity, and the deal was made at a time when he was tracking beautifully. He presumably has been cruelled by injury. He didn't ask for that, and I am sure he is ALSO disappointed with his output. AND, he and his manager negotiated the best outcome for Tom and his family at the time... this is actually the reason you try to get as much as possible financially... so that when you do get significantly injured, it may be a long time (if ever) that you get back to playing your best. Big coin doesnt mean yer sitting on yer ar$e.

Good chat. And good to also educate people between 'trolling' and merely 'deriding'. Did you seriously spend time developing your cartoon, to have a crack at a bloke, whom no doubt back in 2018 you were frothing over. You. actually. spent. time. doing. that? Good chat indeed...

@Nascent - could give a bit of a synopsis from JS and his clip that those of us that don’t want to trawl through the web could understand

I feel the need to post and let some random know that you’ve ‘ignored’ them fairly hilarious. As though the thought of someone ignoring me (as I’m sure there are plenty) should upset me, particularly as I have never met them. ***it’s also valuable trade content that I’d rather not read, but then again, on second thoughts, trade time is really about 3-5pm on a Thursday for the ? appeal from the delivers of ‘content’. So I revise it, everyones soap operas just help me get though my meaningless life as a Melbourne Supporter

I was speaking to his eldest son. He was telling me the other day that when he was at Richmond, yes his knees were dodgy, and to find a way, to keep him in the loop and connected with the club, they got him to run clinics to kids, which he loved to do, and continued to do so after his playing days in to the Gippsland area... He really felt the need to invest in children. Apparently he would turn up to Punt Road with a carload of kids, giving them milkshakes after his clinic, and it's one of the reasons there are lots of Richmond supporters of a certain generation ☺️

Are you feeling anxious @Hogan2014 You know trade time is about negotiations? Which is time consuming? Which is about the previous fostering of relationships both with 'said' player and incumbents at other clubs to get trades done. Slow motion isn't inactive... we've got great recent history. Saints aint the bench mark... and quite frankly if you're benchmarking trade time, you're focused on the wrong thing.

seriously, that's a pretty out of line comment. staff have all moved on. It's not endemic to the walls of the club (even though the moved from windy hill to tullamarine). don't tar current staff for previous staff's failings.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention @Whispering_Jack. I knew one of his son's rather well through university, so shall make contact. The beauty of this site is the interconnectedness, and at times, helps reconnect during the most important times of life. Cheers.

Damned if you do and don't in a position of mouthpiece eh. Not once under Mahoney's tenure, (with perhaps Langdon last year as an exception) was it telegraphed what players we were bringing in. Matter of fact, not sure how this article/interview came about (mandated monthly fluff piece??), but if he had to give something, he gave that.. Josh has more straight bat's than a willow factory when it comes to conjecture.

It's been debated elsewhere no end on this forum. Perhaps you should write a letter to the club, air your concerns, but I would presume the FD have thought of all these possibilities??

Hi @Hannibal Inc., I'm neither here nor there with Adam Treloar, however you've gone with the highlights package and inherent within that is 0 errors to be viewed. Far more meaningful would be the Statspro App of his games via the AFL website. Man, having watched just a handful of his games this morning, eyeballing him, he goes barely better at 50% retaining the ball on his delivery. If I knew how to convert what was on my screen into a video that was able to be viewed, I'd forward it on to this thread. Ultimately, though the question for all us backseat FD department decision makers is... does his limitations outweigh what he brings? Oh..and are his hamstring shot? Oh and what is his character like? ?

I find it intriguing. I like Hunt, I think he has some great assets, and he floats in and out of games. Now whether that is just the nature of him, or whether it is where the FD position him is up for debate. As a byproduct of this, he flits in and out of the side. So from my end, I am intrigued as to why Hunt would choose to stay, where that seems to be his 'lot'. Unless of course, there is no interest for him elsewhere.

still the hardest man on here, Barry... it's never as clear cut as anyone wants to make it...

#postoftheyear

whilst it may be accurate... cheap shot.

Oh, I didnt even click the down bit on the link... I get it @Wiseblood, i would trawl as well.. but in the cold hard light of day ... I can't see that a midfielder of ours for Ben Brown would be commensurate... so yeah Clickbait.. but tasty clickbait I guess.. when we're worried that the midfield would get disbanded... when we are finally coming up to the goldlilocks zone...

snarky ? Surely people get that some posters have their one trick pony schtick (a bit like Ben Brown allegedly) - and we all openly acknowledge this, without ever actually telling the person that we know that their schtick is boring as feck. And that's ok. But then every now and again the schtick changes and you realise that said poster *ahem, cough* Ben Brown has more in his armoury than given credit for. And it's a lovely surprise. Some posters however... drone on and on and on... best to mute methinks... even if the 'crowd' think they're amusing..... And so linking that back to Ben... it's ok to sledge Ben, over his hair, his run up... but when you're 8 can's deep at the preliminary final next year, 4 goals up and Ben is managing momentum/time wasting with his run up, or his brush back of his voluptuous hair...(yes I know the clock has stopped)... we can all probably reflect on how, when for north melbourne, for the love of god, who is this [censored]...but now.. .my man, I always knew this would be a great trade so that I, and only I can finally reach the holy grail of a premiership and cry many many many many tears of joy... but then you come back to reality and the G, probably in the ponsford stand if you are from the country like myself... and give yourself a little fist pump and knowing smile, that hey... this Brown bloke, much like some posters on Demonland, can actually surprise you...even though they're as beige as feck.

Why? Does Sam Weiderman love collingwood? or is it just. a. lovely. romantic. link.. that only certain people above the age of 50 'fondly recall'. as though the boy has always wanted to go home? actually, it's pretty [censored] hilarious, this notion of just doing what your parents and grandparents did, irrespective of your current circumstance, and the people you as a mid 20yo care for and have formed relationships with.

Mmmmm,** I often think of Hawkins, Franklin, Kennedy, Darling, Westhoff, Lynch, Brown and Reiwoldt as high defensive pressure forwards, and when I do, I slap myself in the face and remind myself what the [censored] they are there for. 1. If you can, mark it...do your best to kick straight. 2. If you can't, halve it 3. When you halve it, as much as possible do it in favour of your forwards. 4. If you can't do that... (we have metrics on your aerobic capacity)...gas yourself out in the first 15 minutes of Qr1 with intense bursts of speed (not looking at you Sam Weiderman) and do feck all for the rest of the match. 5. Slap in the face...Scratch 4 - use your body to smash the backmen physically, stretch them, dummy lead, allow your smaller forwards to wreak havoc. **I concur fully.

Interesting isn't it - I see Collingwood as the 'Denmark' in this. As in, who is driving the narrative around the first 4 items you listed? It's not Treloar. It seems bitter, and clearly relationships will never be repaired.

mmm, cat amongst the pigeon's. almost sounds like we pulled away from Smith, and Phillips for something else.

If we had him in 2018, dead cert's for the premiership!

I dunno @Cheesy D. Pun - a good nick name never needs a walk-through explanation.