'All the information points to Collingwood if you ask me. He wanted the best facilities, the best footy department and a chance of winning a flag, now as much as we dislike Collingwood, with Judd entered into the side which lost to the cats by 5 points.... things could have been very different. '
I disagree with this. West Coast have made a point in recent years of not trading with Collingwood. And Collingwood performed this year for two reasons - one being Medhurst and the other _MAJOR_ one was because better teams underperformed. Adelaide had a poor year, West Coast were under-manned, teh saints and the Dees didnt perform at all. Collingwood nearly beat Geelong because they paniced, not because they were nearly as good as them.
For my mind Collingwood have the facilities, but we will have quite good facilities late next year. For my mind, there are too many rumours saying one way - Hutchie, BT, Sheehan etc are all saying his a demon and now its just down to how the trade will go.
Also from what Ive heard he had to nominate two clubs - being most likely the dees and collingwood - Melbourne would be more willing to trade better players than a performing collingwood side. I think all indicators have us firmly favourites - as we are at sportsbet - $1.70