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1 hour ago, whatwhat say what said: yes and no - i mean, obviously ever senior exec / ceo i've had the (mis)fortune to deal with has had some sort of mentor / consultant that they have used as a leadership guide etc. etc.
but it's still hard to disagree with what you have written
they kind of HAVE shut up about it tho
"nothing to announce, hopefully more soon... now, moving on to our next item of business..."
‘Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open your mouth and remove all doubt.’
They don’t have to talk about the fact that they may be able to soon talk about things that might be happening possibly in a future timeline in this universe or a parallel universe at some point in the future.
Just ACTUALLY shut up.
And I don’t want to hear from any trainees on things they apparently don’t know much about.
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1 hour ago, Redleg said: Yep, sort of like Goody’s role Coaching Dean Cox and far lesser tennis players coaching the best players in the world like Nadal, Federer and Djokovic.
No, actually it would be more like getting someone from outside the industry to be mentored by someone from inside the industry.
Say if you got Djokovic to play world football and got Loinel Messi to teach him how to kick a football…
Probably should have got someone who can kick.
May as well just get Messi in there
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They should all just shut up until they have something to announce.
They are just the most naive when it comes to messaging and their own image with their stakeholders.
Nearly every time each one of them talk - I cringe. For I know ‘that was not what they meant to say’ or ‘they can’t say more than that’ or they are ‘not across it entirely yet.’
SAD!
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6 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said: Do we put any substance into the reason why we have brought Brian Cook in to help mentor Guerra..?
I put some sadness in it.
What a place to be in; high paid CEO who requires development and training in THE INDUSTRY HE WAS HIRED FOR.
It’s laughable really.
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6 minutes ago, bluey said: Our wonderful board, hand picked by their mates, everyone else is excluded, couldn’t arrange a plate of sand witches.
Organising sand witches is famously difficult for anyone
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What is going on here? This thread will be bumped when one of you doesn’t get the ratchet set you wanted for Xmas.
Just let it die. It’s like the living embodiment of the Paul Bettany character from The DaVinci Code. Flagellating and whipping himself all silly to get himself to the big O for his supposed god
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8 hours ago, Pirlo said: Of course we are likely to fall. We just sacked a Premiership winning coach and cleared out our two best midfielders in the past 30 years. We have also brought in some mature talent to help hold the fort for a year or two, and added even more quality young players to go with those already playing good footy. The point was to bleed a bit now to avoid falling into a pit.
Exactly right and while I am not as high as DD36 - I can see intent.
What I won’t do is live in an alternative reality where we take these ‘hits’ and don’t bleed in 2026.
These happy warriors whistling into the void are (most likely) going to get a rude shock.
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42 minutes ago, The Taciturn Demon said: December 2025: Eight teams should make it at least to a Prelim.
October 2026: Oh my god! Only four teams made it to a Prelim. Here's why those who failed to make it should now merge or be relocated...
Well an argument can be made for the Pies…
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2 hours ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said: Hmmm...
We exited a player who wanted to continue playing midfield but we told him he mightn't be, and we got a player because he was told he mightn't be playing midfield and we wanted him to.
I'm OK with the former and happy with the latter, btw. But curious, innit? Kinda confirms there was a lot more to both moves, particularly the former.
Does anyone with half a brain think there wasn’t more to the moves?
Not trying to be rude - but a mate of mine saw Oliver out just after the season doing ‘the same old thing he’s been doing’ so it’s addition by subtraction.
And Steele is required because of the massive gap we now have in our ‘older than 20 midfield brigade’
It’s not a straight swap in any other sense than the play similar positions.
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She is only a Melbourne Premiership player, and she should remain that way.
Great to be able to continue to watch her play in red and blue.
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2 hours ago, monoccular said: So true, My Lord.
I used to pride myself on my pedantry but I now realise that I am a mere beginner.
One does not simply misuse the Boromir meme. It is folly.
Now that’s pedantry!
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On 26/11/2025 at 09:47, Ghostwriter said: I know it’s all part of the “industry” but I find it a little sad that there’s so much attention paid to Kalani’s build. He’s painfully aware of it. He knows he is “too skinny” (his words, not mine). I think it’s harsh that this is something powerful enough to erode his confidence and I reckon that’s what’s happening right now. The pressure on him is real. He’s still a kid 😕
Well feel free to take the pressure off him with the ‘rpfc guarantee’ that he won’t play (but will stay on list) until at least 2030.
That’s another rpfc gaurantee!
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2 hours ago, Bang Bang Bang said: Very interesting article.
Am I reading it correctly? If Essendon took X Taylor then we would have taken Nairn and Pickett and left Farrow on the board. The melts would have been something else.
The melts would have been delicious. I would gotten drunk on the tears of the self-righteous and ignorant…
“Farrow was so much higher than Pickett in all the Phantoms!1!1!1”
Ahhhhhhhhhhh.
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Why has noone ever mentioned putting May up forward?!
It’s a lack of imagination that I, in the form of this post, through the medium of this forum, have to be the FIRST to bring up this idea, or thought bubble if you will.
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9 minutes ago, GawnOfTheDead said: this is on topic but also sort of not. With the picks chosen, what’s the best 23 looking like? Are any of the new pick ups walk up starts like Linsday and Langford were?
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9 hours ago, Gator said: The new Neale-Bullen ?
I always have grand hopes. I hope he's a lot better than Neale-Bullen.
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2 hours ago, Kev said: I would have loved the Men to give the Women a guard of honour welcome to Gosch's (as the crowd did), and then get out of the way.
Easy to brand, difficult to act. There is an obvious hierarchy and disconnect.
Nothing on the players, more the organisers and proactive decisions.
‘Nothing’ on the players? You are right it is more on the admin but some poster told me that the players go to games and that says they are ‘holding up their side of the ‘one club’ bargain’
Nonsense.
That read above was infuriating- they are doing their captains run before an effing prelim. They are sticking around to make sure ‘the boys get their kms in’ - get around the girls and then go do a run around the tan…
It’s nauseating.
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42 minutes ago, GS_1905 said: B-, C+ Not exactly a glowing review of our draft hand.
lol beat me to the joke
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You’re not joking are you
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Jake Bowey Re-Signs Until 2028
in Melbourne Demons
Great little player. Hope his 2026 is not too impacted by his injury. Great to keep him into his RFA