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Understandable for people to feel like this, but don't come on here complaining about the Tigers and their Tiger Fund that is designed to go over and above their debt and push cash into their footy dept and into luring a free agent after 2012. This was bound to happen. They are going to go to all their revenue streams and ask for more money. It isn't great and we would all love to be Collingwood. We are not there yet. Personally, I would be more horrified if they didn't ask that question of fans, but that's just me.

I don't know. Anyone? Jus' spitballin... Throwin' it out there...

lol My support of the Dees isn't dependent on us keeping Tom Scully OR Colin Sylvia. I want to keep them both, on a price that allows us to do the things we want to do (sign up Trengove, target a star in FA). The club knows that keeping Colin is important, but at the right price. If he thinks he could get an extra $50k elsewhere and leave us after we kept him going through his constant injuries and personal issues then that is his issue. As a fan, I want to keep our best players, but if they don't want to stay then my next question isn't "who else am I going to support?" it's "let's wring all we can out of this guy's value."

We won't progress until the 'senior' players are Grimes, Jones, Watts, Scully, Trengove, Gysberts, et al. Green, Davey, Moloney, Rivers, and Sylvia cannot drive us to where we want to go. Green and Davey have, of course, been down. Rivers and Sylvia are anything but consistent - although I am holding them to a higher standard, but that is the burden of being a senior player. And Moloney is a good leader, but doesn't back it up in big games. In all thrashings this year - bar Coll - Brent hasn't cracked 20 touches. His bad games have to get better or he won't lose the 'beating up on poor sides' tag that some have given him. This isn't doom and gloom, the talent may come on, in large measure, next year. But the club has to take a risk and attempt to fast track them by giving them the Leadership Group, and then choosing their captain. If it's Brent, then fine. If it's Green, I'd be surprised but that's fine too. We need them to take over the club soon and drive us to where we want to be.

I do make sweet music with the keyboard... The difference is the current movement of the negotiations? Sylvia's contract is apparently at an unhappy impasse. How is that better than one that is scheduled for September? Comparing Colin and Tom is a subjective nightmare. But if was in charge of any club, looking for someone for the next 5 years and beyond, I know which footballer and individual I would want...

So we can't compare the timing of the Scully-Sylvia contracts, but we can compare their inherent market value?

To me this is giving Bate and Dunn a chance to salvage something out of the year and their careers. The pressure is on.

Wham!

rpfc is an enigma...

rpfc is above emoticons...

That leads to tender chicken...

It was TOC. All those things have been said about Tom Scully. That was the balance of my point.

Whoosh! It was a joke.

I don't want Colin to hold us to ransom... He will take what we can afford or he can leave... His kicking isn't that great either... He's not worth that figure now and we don't now if he ever will... He wasn't smiling at the membership drive in the 6 minutes I saw him there - this means he doesn't love the club... He has to decide now whether he is with us, or with the terrorists...

If we lose him than we may as well keep Bailey whatever happens toward the end of this season because it will again push back our window - more than losing Scully would. Losing both would mean a couple of years in my opinion.

Second that. I have no faith in Green, Rivers, or Moloney in big games like this. I know that is unpopular but Brent has been terrible in the thrashings we have endured. Jones has been far more consistent than those three and I expect him to continue that form.

He is a tough consistent footy player, and until Moloney brings his worst games up a bit, is the most reliable senior player. Good on him. There are always spots in Premiership sides for tough, neat players like Jones. And his decision making is getting better which has always been his major drawback IMO.

I'm just saying it is a huge month for the club but as big a one for Moloney as Green.

It's another rpfc gem... I sometimes feel as if there are Melbourne fans that subconsciously see the MFC as the little red-headed brother of Hawthorn, Essendon, Collingwood, etc. with regard to keeping players, winning big games, general clout in the game, and general respect. You won't become a big club and gain respect, if you constantly think so little of yourself.

It's a good question. But whether it is the chicken ot the egg it still doesn't allow Brent to get off the hook. He doesn't play well in those games where we need him the most.

I love Beamer and his clearance work is up there with Judd. But he can be accused of being a frontrunner, or at least, someone who can be tagged out of a game. Against Haw (17 disp), WCE (18), NM (15), Carl (16), and the WB (18) Beamer was down on output and effectiveness. And, bar the Coll game, those games were all our worst losses. And its those games that you won't your leaders to stand up and lead the way.

We have to put on our big boy pants sometime in the next four weeks if Bailey wants to keep his job. Will it be this week? I don't know. They will be strong, and they are a much better side than we. I want us to play some confident, tough footy and see where we are at.

Considering the stratospheric expectations that some people had at the beginning of this season, it is the right message. We thought - we are the Sydney game of 2010. Without qualifying that by saying that we lost the only proper leader at the club and a seasoned pro in Junior and Bruce, and we became younger, and less experienced for the 4th straight year. We have a ways to go. PS. That doesn't mean we won't play finals or win them in 2012 and 2013 but that we will face teams better than us in the finals.

Just realised we can't because of Fevola... Next season - train the kid to play in the square.

The emergence of Martin has moved the goalposts significantly. We are no longer looking for a Hale-second-ruck-type but a legitimate forward who can kick multiple goals. Narrows the field and the possibility of finding one. Fevola is not going to be apart of a flag winning team. Read into that statement all the different angles. I reiterate my point about Gawn - if he is to play semi-regularly in the next three years it will be as a FP. So I say train him up!