pitmaster

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.

7 hours ago, RickyJ45 said:

Acting like a sore loser even though hes always a winner, "umps don't always get it right"

27 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Ha McCrae said that 50 would had been paid if it was at the MCG.  Probably because your feral fans would have demanded it.

Your team was 27 points up & blew it.

Welcome to being an afl coach when it's not always sunshine and roses. 

McCrae said home teams have an advantage."It would've been paid at the 'G"  In other words he admitted his mob are gifted an armchair ride at the 'G. Moaning about the umpires is something I'd never expect Goodwin to do. It was entirely p&$# weak of McCrae who has had it easy and been a smug so and so. What goes around comes around. Lovin it and about to sit down and watch the last quarter again. SUCK IT UP SUNSHINE.

10 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Those handful of deliberates late were a bit much.

Thankfully Collingwood were the ones to cop them.

The decisions were correct. No doubt at all. (It would’ve been better if they weren’t but you can’t have everything.)

On 02/08/2024 at 23:34, titan_uranus said:

That’s what I said - May out injured, Petty goes back, Jefferson comes in. 

Worth considering Jefferson. It's certainly not worth having a compromised May being belted out there. Charlie Dixon would hit those ribs every time. Lever, Petty, TMac back in the Men's Department.

Top of the head Sunday morning rant.

Would not mind if Freo won it.

I'd also cop GWS. Love Tobes and Jesse.

Pies and Blues always repugnant.

Port are undeserving as is their coach.

Brisbane would be almost acceptable.

Had a gutful of the Cats and they're probably not good enough.

Dogs are a chance but not sure they can maintain this form which needs a 2016 repeat.

14 hours ago, Colm said:

How did Jed Adam’s go? Seemed to be getting a few mentions early?!

Sorry, but what is it with the apostrophe?

Some of you need to understand where the Dogs are right now. Beat Carlton, the Cats by 47 at Taxpayer Park, then Sydney by 39 at the SCG.

We are without Brayshaw, Trac and a fully fit Olly and Gawn and are rebuilding on the run. And that was no capitulation. We were outclassed but it was fought out and we upped our pressure in the second half. 

11 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Look after yourself mate. Feel free to flick me a message anytime for a chat. 

(I didn’t go because I had severe diarrhoea)

I went, and suffered your condition after I watched the replay and saw the shove in the back on May that gave them their second last quarter goal.