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obviously a huge part of their future over the next, well, seven years has played in 22 wins, 1 draw, and 89 losses

dear was a father-son pick and always going to dingley

tex didn't want to leave adelaide (the city) and lynch felt he 'owed' the tigers to stay given the way he joined a premiership side and all their other premiership players were walking out

the real toffs in town - pure filth https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/never-talked-about-this-the-power-struggle-that-moved-a-collingwood-great-to-tears-20250324-p5lm4e.html

crom ain't even made finals with a rankine dawson, keays, cumming, keane, peatling as yet (but they surely will) danger, cameron, and smith were the hallmark recruits of the puddy tatts' 2022 flag, while smith looks like being part of their finals team if they make it this year what, drafted them? that's jvr / el jefe and turner - a first rounder and a speculative pick (although i think walker was actually an academy selection?) i love that there seems to be this belief that bringing together a premiership side, and then after a premiership, is so easy we tried for tex, we tried for lynch - both said no it ain't for want of trying to bring in class

bassett was well regarded at the pear

clangerfilled is what we want petracca to be when he's in his mid 30s such a good footballer

fritsch as a wingman stronger in the bod

fair goal from ol man tex to start proceedings

it's gil's round a party week in his home town paid for by taxpayers classique mclachlan move

i immediately think of a recruit from another club who came with party boy history

to be perfectly honest, anything over 50k is a 'win' for mfc - our standard attendance is 25k or thereabouts; our membership-to-attendee # remains quite strong the notion that we are a big or even a mid-sized club is a misnomer; we're clearly not - we're always around about par with the aints, and barely ahead of footscray and north, purely from a membership perspective at our most successful, post-premiership, we achieved around 70k members - at our lowest ebb, a bit over a decade ago, we were around half that i seem to recall now, admittedly, memberships for all clubs have 'grown' since the mid 00s, but memberships are a 'nice' thing for the club not something that actually effects the day to day of what is happening from an afl-wide or an organisational standpoint; from head office's pov the only thing that matters is that broadcast revenue (from the saudi pif via dazn now) and wagering revenue (from a myriad of gambling agencies) continues to rise

it's why we tried for tom lynch two years in a row - we were prepared to take on his salary and dodgy knees in order to get a genuine #1 tall forward jvr is an ideal #2 and el jefe is... well, tbh, i don't really think he's good enough at vfl level let alone afl level at this point in time

goodwin's record of three consecutive top 4 finishes at the end of the home and away season, including a premiership, is the most successful three year period we've had since the 1960s under norm smith daniher's record was up and down and northey was our last 'consistently competitive' coach from 87-91 inclusive, and both those sides were always good but not quite great at the end of every season - they always fell short year after year balme had one great year and lost every key pillar to injury, bailey was on a hiding to nothing, and neeld was an incredibly divisive and distruptive presence that required paul roos to come in and calm the farm goodwin deserves the rest of the year imo at the end of the season a calm and considered opinion by a new ceo and a board with a new president in charge is warranted he may survive; he may not

unlikely to be a brother as this one is at geelong; xavier was gippsland power

hopefully he's as good as bailey and about 10cm taller - the ideal key forward in 20 years!

well, it's important for the equalisation of the competition, promotion of northern franchises, and protection of the broadcast rights' value

nah, pear vs dingley comes at the conclusion of gil's round tailor-made for broadcast back to victoria

his inability to really launch at the ball probably precludes him from playing forward anymore, as he himself has stated we have never been the same since he hurt his foot mid-2022

not in #34? disgrace! i'mma write a stern letter

was spargo smiling?

no, the sa govt does

which one's pink?

the answers are already in this thread if we had an ai chatbot on this thread i think it would be an answer summary consistent of... ceo recruitment takes time and intensive interviews rumours have it that we have approached multiple existing afl ceos; they have rejected us rumours have it that we have approached the likes of stuart fox; he has rejected us rumours have it that we have approached the likes of football gms, such as jason mccartney at gw$ ergo, the board is actively recruiting for the role rumours have it that smith has been consulted in the search and was underwhelmed with the first rank of candidates david chippendall remains the acting ceo and is still a chance for the role brad green has been at pains to point out that he is NOT a temporary president - he is a longstanding board member and the current president greater research is required to determine whether or not having a president who has been in the role for less than a year and a longstanding coo who is acting ceo and also in the running for the role permanently is unusual

the denver nuggets - who won their first championship in the nba less than two seasons ago - fired their coach and gm this morning using nba coaching logic Goodwin would’ve been sacked after 2023, Macrae after 2024, and Malthouse would be at his 7th club 😛 he and sheedy fighting it out for first coach to be at 10 clubs