KozzyCan

Where has this idea that our use of Gosch’s paddock gives us any kind of leverage come from?

This is where Mihocek and Steele will come in handy.

Not a controversial take. We have a tough draw. If we win two of our first six we’d be doing very well.

How foolish of me. I didn’t realise one poster has free reign to take potshots at other posters and the rest of us have to cop it on the chin.

Lamb and Taylor work together. Often his job is to get picks to secure a player Taylor has identified. Their jobs are not siloed.

That's fine. She can give whatever info she wants to. But she had a crack at me first for reacting to Sam Edmund's piece on SEN rather than taking her word as gospel, which I think is a bit rich from someone who doesn't have a perfect track record herself.

It came from a demonland poster actually.

Great news. Star

Yeah, nah. If GW wants to have a crack at me for merely reacting to a journalist giving the story then I'm happy to return serve.

Did Judd McVee tell you this?

Bit dumb not to go to a doctor after getting a dog bite.

The last off-season was basically the best list management we've had in years. Really clear direction from the club. Reminiscent of when Roos came on board.

Goodwin talked a little bit about this in his 'disease of the self' speech after he was sacked last year.

6 year deals are for A-graders who have bodies you can rely on. Brayshaw was never that. I can't remember where I saw it but I do remember seeing a report that the club had been aware of Oliver's issues for a while before they came out. My point was more about us not taking the opportunity to remove a cultural cancer from our list when the terms were in our favour. It was pretty obvious at the time that Viney was leveraging an offer from North to get an extension. He's had a lot of seasons and pre-seasons interrupted by injury and those things take their toll once guys get over 30. He was already starting to slow down a bit in 2024. No surprise he's going to miss a lot of this year.

I actually never had an issue with the Petracca contract or the Kozzy contract. Both are complete professionals who you could trust to live up to their end of the bargain and neither have really had repeated injury issues throughout their careers. The ones that have been head-scratchers are the Brayshaw one given his concussion history it was always a risk to give him a long term contract. The Oliver deal, given we knew he had some issues internally before it blew up and we proceeded to balk at two opportunities to get him off our books when it did. The Viney one, 4 years for a 29 year old who has had frequent injury interuptions throughout his career is just madness.

Teach your dogs bite inhibition, people.

Bizarre story. Our forwardline can't take a trick.

If you're smart about how you manage your cap you can open up opportunities to splurge like the Saints did last year.

You really would have thought we would have learned our lesson with Brayshaw and Oliver but then we gave Viney a four year extension when he was thirty.

The best Melbourne Defender I've ever seen. Hope he can sort out his life away from footy.

Maybe he's taking notes.

I genuinely don't see how the two are related at all. From the reports I've seen it feels like Caufield is generally supported and the main issues are disagreements with the specifications.

Was a pretty scrappy game and the conditions wouldn't have helped but I'm going to love watching us play with this intent to score. The players look like they're having a lot more fun when they're kicking goals.

So are the members all becoming Collingwood supporters? I don't get your argument.

They'd be well above the ledger after winning 5 games in a row to win the flag.