Sorry kids

Great to hear. I was at the Collingwood practice game and literally the first thing I saw was this big scary guy, and within a minute he took a big grab and kicked from 50 out towards the flank. I am bewildered he has not played more often.

Anyone know by how much the 3 game membership inflates the figures.

Jordan Lewis is a professional footballer.

Say it aint so...

A very curious question. What is your intent behind asking that?

Gave me a genuine laugh.....

I know you are a committed and passionate supporter so do not wish to argue your point. I just wish we could wave a wand and have the MCG as our home base too. I just cannot see how it could come to pass.I agree on the hard work and hard work and think we should have looked at a monster Barassi type offer for Joel Selwood years ago to teach a generation how to prepare and play the game.

Unlikely

Good for you. However its unlikely they even barrack for us and get paid every week anyway. The more I think about our problems the more I think our biggest one and most pressing is being homeless. It is really difficult to fully comprehend as we are so used to it. Even the most basic of suburban Clubs has an oval with a pavilion, car parking and a community club feel. That is why I am so hard on Pert, nearly one year in and no communication towards a solution after wasting time on the proposal at the G that should have never got past its initial brainstorm.

I was a Manager at Carlton Social Club in the early 80s. Fifteen thousand footy members and thousands of social members , both footy and social club worked together, it ran on a shoestring budget and staffing. No one is suggesting that but all member complaints were taken seriously and members were known by name. And if they were not satisfied all hell broke loose at the Annual General Meeting. It was a success driven Club and everyone happily met what was expected of them

I have contempt for surveys that try and fashion responses into x amounts of words. A bit like interviewers who ask to describe yourself in one word. Amateur hour and lazy.

I have contempt for surveys that try and fashion responses into x amounts of words. A bit like interviewers who ask to describe yourself in one word. Amateur hour and lazy.

The true results of the survey will be manipulated. Back it in. They will already be locking in key words like improving, potential.....

irrslevance And further BB, I challenge them to put the same question to opposition supporters around the Country to get a true picture of our current and past incompetence and .irrelevance apart from them having a two out of three opportunity to rack up another win.

Still stuck in the fifties.

When I made a complaint to the Club earlier this year I was told by the young person looking after it that, "I am frankly disappointed in your attitude and lack of appreciation for what we do" . I wont go into the complaint but I took it up the line and it went nowhere. In a way I could live with the old days of minding my business at the footy sitting with other club supporters in the AFL members and being positively oblivious to the inner workings of the Club. Sadly the more people are getting paid and the more I hear the more let down I feel. And that is why I and others sometimes vent on here when we recognize incompetence for highly paid professionals on and off the field.

Members surveys are as good as the person writing up the report.

I have never bet against us but those Carlton odds are tempting

Is it his fault Melbourne could not build a body on the skinny player we recruited as a high pick.

Yes, the main reason there is not more pressure on the club and goodwin is no one gives a stuff about us. All are happy to just have us where we are and have a 2 out of 3 chance of beating us.

It will not be an easy game but no better opportunity to give Toby Bedford a run.

I do not want WA or SA players. Too much of a go home factor for us. Big name Clubs are better at holding them than us.

Bolton and Goodwin, would be like two learner drivers at an intersection wondering who should turn first.

I love your thinking and had not considered Oliver forward and Petracca in the guts. Co incidently I was listening to a bloke called Thomey/ on eadio today talking about how in Petraccas draft year he had moved from being a destructive forward to someone who could go in the middle. He stikes me as the kind of young man who needs an arm around him while being told, "Christian, we need you now, you are the one who can give us all a spark and the rest will follow" I am not saying it is easy but a reasonable mid or mids should at least break even with Gawn palming it down. It makes me wonder if some of our guys think they are better than they would be if not for the big fella. I would try even use Maynard as a battering ram and rotate different players fast and hard to see what we have and have not for end of year planning. It is a shame modern coaches are not prepared to mix it around like the old days. Never forget players running from one end of the ground to the other to give a chop out or provide a spark. At worst it puts you on the offensive and makes the opposition think and or react. Preuss Maynard or Preuss Petracca would give us some grunt and fear factor if they are tuned in.

It would be near impossible for young supporters to know what Robbie Flower meant to supporters, young and old in those dismal days.Even when he had an average day of 15 hard earned disposals he did things that made the best of the opposition look second rate. And who could forget his Big V appearances. We knew he would star for the Vics and show everyone how good he was and he never let us down. I only ever saw him slightly beaten once and that was at Princes Park by a young South Australian, Motley, just before his tragic accident. What a player he would have been.