pitmaster

I know that unfortunately there are many fans who support Melbourne and other clubs who are discouraged from attending Collingwood games because the ratio of ratbag-to-regular supporters in Collingwood ranks is so out of whack that they make the game an unpleasant experience.

This is as true in the MCC members as elsewhere. And it has become a self fulfilling observation as more and more stay away, the rat-baggery of Pies people deepens and is not challenged.

That's why it's important those who can get there, do so. Me included, with immediate family, but sadly others in our Demon network will be absent.

8 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Life was not meant  to be easy

A rebel board member has called for a spill of the Melbourne Racing Club committee following scathing criticism of Caulfield Racecourse’s new $160 million mounting yard facilities as well as the club’s $250 million plans to replace the Rupert Clark Grandstand.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/racing/rebels-call-for-spill-of-melbourne-racing-club-board-saying-caulfield-revamp-in-disarray-20240822-p5k4mk.html

Toss up as to how this might affect/delay our plan

A change of committee could only be bad news for us bringing more delay and uncertainty.

3 hours ago, Stretch Johnson said:

You realise that you are one of the "everyone else"?

You're quick, speedy. That, and the fact that it's risky drawing conclusions about Trac, is precisely my point.

12 hours ago, Gawndy the Great said:

Nope that ship has sailed IMO. After all that has transpired I don’t think you can ever fully trust Trac to have the best interest of the club at hand again. He has shown a part of himself that cannot be unseen no matter the circumstances.

Written by someone who, like everyone else on here, relies on gossip, rumour and press leaks for their information, this a reckless and unworthy statement. None of us really knows what is going on. While Trac is testing our patience with his silence, we need to understand that he is one bruised personality right now, having apparently looked the big goodbye in the eye.

5 hours ago, KLV said:

Sam McClure obviously didn't watch our win on the weekend. What a d*head

My thought exactly. There's no recognition of the fact that we were the first - and only - Victorian club to win up there this year.

McClure is a goose. "litany of scandals"

5 hours ago, KLV said:

Sam McClure obviously didn't watch our win on the weekend. What a d*head

My thought exactly. There's no recognition of the fact that we were the first - and only - Victorian club to win up there this year.

McClure is a goose. "litany of scandals"

8 minutes ago, Demonland said:

From about 3:14 re: Trac meeting

 

Bonzer. Thanks.

Anyone hear Goody's press conference this am and can post a link?

1 hour ago, Clintosaurus said:

Tom Morris isn't going to back down. None of the media ever do. On the basis everything sorts itself out, he will just say that he understood it was true at the time but things changed. 

That's absolutely correct. "True at the time" is the universal self justification escape clause. And that's true ALL the time.

7 hours ago, Gawndy the Great said:

Wouldn’t he just be in the Nick Daicos shadow though? 
 

Pies just don’t work in so many levels.

1- He’ll be second fiddle

2- Can’t afford to pay him as well as we would

3 - Their list is going nowhere 

 

If CP's family is so red hot for the Pies I reckon they would be drooling at the thought of their boy playing alongside Nick Daicos. Not much of what has consumed this thread makes much sense given, as others have observed, this apparent tantee does not put Trac in a good light. A fleeting thought that is of no greater value than any other speculation here is that maybe Tom Morris' link is with the family rather than the Connors group and that this whole thing has become a Petracca clan fever dream.

Don't know if anyone has raised this but the way the Blues are despatching WC they are putting finals out of reach for Collingwood.

We would have to lose by something like 150 points for the filth to make up the percentage gap they now face...and that ain't happening.

4 hours ago, Norm Smith said:

I think long term, not short term.

I can't see the value in us handing better draft picks to the Suns, Pies and Dons. (And worsening our own picks.)

I think we should blood : Jefferson, Adams, Verrall, Farris-White.

Give Woey and other kids more game time.

Rest ANB - he's not our future.

  

The idea that we should blood kids against the filth, who are playing for a finals spot, is so absurd that it discredits anything you have to offer.

If we were going to debut Jefferson it would have happened by now. We are playing next week to win and to cruel their finals aspirations. It's not a time for experimentation.

Made a BIG BIG statement today. It's significant that injured players were flown up to keep the unit together.

And that photo at the end, they are really saying something about loyalty to one another.

And sticking it up hacks like Damien Barrett.

Percentage booster coming up. Go Disco go.

Morris was wrong in the podcast with his comment that Melbourne pushed Jesse Hogan out (pursued relentlessly by Fremantle, suffered from the death of his Dad, treated for testicular cancer wanted to be close to family, and sent a message of gratitude to Melbourne supporters once the deal - which Melbourne almost walked away from - was done), but otherwise Morris comes across as pretty genuine.

I know plenty of people don't want to hear that because he has such a punchable head, but I was impressed with his professionalism. And he is right - footy fans don't understand mass media.

13 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

For two first rounders, he can stay right away from our club. Thank you for never coming. 

Exactly. Maybe worth two 2nd rounds but at Port’s price no way

11 minutes ago, frankie_d said:

The loss of Burgess has been keenly felt, I reckon. He was the instigator of leaving Jackson on the field at the end of the third quarter (Bang, Bang, Bang) - Goody just sort of agreed and broke the news to Max. Our injuries and our management of them - I don't know enough to compare Griffith and Burgess, but I do know that we have had plenty of problems with injuries 2022 onwards. Getting Burgess back (dream on) would be a major victory for the club.

This is an entirely new take on what happened. Max's account is that he told Goody to let the kid run while he was hot. I tend to believe that version since it was the one told closest to the event.

I don't rate 'Fly' who has been incredibly lucky to be a premiership coach but he can GAGF with this garbage about puling Trac over to the filth: "“I’d bet he’d look good in black and white. I’ve got a car park here he can have too if he wants it,” McRae said in response to photoshopped images circulating of Petracca in the Collingwood guernsey.

I don't really want to fuel this thread but if Trac is concerned about the direction of the club - one of the vague accusations that's been levelled - maybe he is dispirited by the lousy crowd attendances since he started paying attention again...

It can't be the contract extensions and new signings of valued and young players.

36 minutes ago, picket fence said:

Um his dad is connected to Norf..... GO FIGURE!

Hid dad was also a one club player. As Jack will be.

51 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

Moving to Marvel won’t solve a thing. We would have had 15k if it was there. As I said in an earlier post, the whole problem is the time slots for these interstate games. Not even Collingwood plays interstate teams at home on a Saturday night. They play all of them in an afternoon slot. I suspect the club has something to do with these night game schedules and we need to abandon them asap. We had 32k against the Eagles on a Sunday afternoon. It would have been 25k if it was a Saturday night. Pert needs to lobby for us to have all our home games against interstate teams to be an afternoon slot next year.

Agree the time slots are rubbish. At least this week it was not arctic weather but the previous MCG match I shivered through the game.

We won't have to worry about those times next year. We'll have Hawthorn's schedule and watching yesterday's sunny Sunday game looked like football should.

As a former board member said to me at half time: "Like the team the fans have dropped off. Only the diehards are here tonight."

Don't mind the Dogs going down. Copped what they served up to us. Too bad.

1 hour ago, Jibroni said:

We dont need Houston

If Oliver needs surgery end his season now.

Goodwins coaching was poor tonight.

Kozzy was fantastic

Agree. If we do anything like pick 6 for Houston I may have to give up the game.

30 minutes ago, hardtack said:

Never mind that fact that our Olympic diving expert is Tubby Taylor!

For a sane insight into Olympics commentary check out Rampaging Roy and HG Nelson's daily show on ABC RN called  People, Medals and Cheese. Very funny and ripped into McGuire a couple of days back, having lifted an eyebrow about Tubby's efforts in the diving earlier.