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Yet the Bulldogs are looked after and LiamJones is available for a final a week after another player was rubbed out for the exact same action.

Next time Moore drops to his knees just keep running. Over the top of him if necessary. Just keep hunting the ball.

You made me smile.

It's also nonsense. The midfield is what we need to rebuild. We have two young, emerging forwards but we need players who can deliver it to them. This McKay swap yarn is rubbish. I saw it on Nine last night and was left wondering why some genius like Matthew Lloyd could not work out its list management implications. Sam McLure, Carlton fanboy, has a fever dream is my summation.

Don't forget this all started with Darcy Moore's knee. We owe those jerks SOOOOOO much pain. One year I hope we deliver.

Sam McLure - all vibes and feelings. Only in football media would that rate as a story. McLure does not so much as claim to have spoken to any senior players about Trac or to have knowledge of any conversations about or with him. Would be laughed out of any journalism school.

Where has he said this stuff? I don't have time to read the entire thread...

I'm agin the Dogs because I'm full to the gills with anger over the soft ride they enjoy from the umps. It happens too often. Watch the highlights from their flag in 2016!

Sydney or GWS. I remember after Brisbane won their first of a triple in 2001 that the following day it was like nothing had happened. No gloating fans in anyone's face. An all-Sydney GF would be perfect.

If the Saints could handpass to the receivers' hands rather than their ankles and knees they would transition better. Who does that remind us of, I wonder idly?

If the Saints win that's unlikely because we'll be pick 5 and the Crows pick 4.

The Brownlow is rubbish determined by fools as most serious supporters understand, but it has a wider impact on club morale and individual player status. That’s why I hope the Bont wins it. Anything that makes Collingwood feel good is best avoided. Bont is also more deserving. He plays, and does his best work, against actual opponents. Daicos is most effective playing solo.

Brilliant, Jack.

Over reaction. The second and third quarters were well contested and but for the crowd umpiring the second term we'd have won it by a couple of goals. Consecutive goals in the third had us 21 points down and another at that point would have made it interesting but a depleted group could not keep it up. They were honest for a period but ultimately not skilful or fit enough. The fact that Goody mentioned the heat the week before when he normally doesn't make those concessions tells me we were badly affected. Don't exaggerate though, the second and third terms were 100% up on that insipid first quarter. However, I agree wholeheartedly on Billings and that handful of NQRs picked up from the Dogs, Lions and SA.

He doesn't deserve your sympathy. He's not good enough and has already cost plenty with his appalling finishing. He's not good enough and is emblematic of our poor trading over the past two years.

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.

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

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

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.

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"

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"

Bonzer. Thanks.

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

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

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.