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Be very VERY surprised if this lad goes anywhere. Too important to Collingwood's list...too important to their brand etc The argy bargy of 'negotiation' will eventually come to a ...dare I say....happy ending. North and Aints will STRUGGLE to land anyone...to many other BETTER destinations out there.

anything above tracks is a curiosity of sorts.. reminds me a little of how it works in China where NO ONE owns the land but they might own whats on it...and have the right by a lease to have it there. My understanding is you can buy air space but NOT above tracks...there it is a lease...invariably 99 years. The chattels are yours in the normal commercial manner...so YOU reap any benefit other than the outgoing of the air-lease This is NO reason not to consider this scenario.

im not even sure so much it's about how hard our blokes will fight, though at times you might wonder if a limiter/governor has somehow been implanted. it just seems to me some teams are far more switched on/alert when the pressure goes into the red zone. Mention has been made of structures. Structures are NOT, I repeat not a player decision. They are a COACH"S area of influence. That and the strategist. We have some good ideas and structures for a specific style of game. Once any influence of them has been exhausted by a team with a BETTER set of structures our all go 'poof' into thin air and we are steering aimlessly thereafter whilst the opposition runs riot. Damo has been around the block a few times. He's learnt considerably. He's managed to groom/grow a few of his charges ( to say the least ) into a formidable troupe. The result...they have an understanding of what to do with the ball...and WHEN that far outreaches the scope of our team and our BOX. If Simon truly wants to develop both himself, our list and our 'brand'/ style he might fair far worse than lock himself ( and his fellow gurus ) in a room and watch ALL of Richmonds games. He might truly learn something useful...both about how they tear teams new orifices and how occasionally someone gets the better of them. As Bing181 suggest...he is one Grand Finalist....who's the other ? who knows other than to say it's NOT us by a country mile !!

Was out dining with family and friends last night but the venue had a sports bar nearby and a couple of sneaky visits had. What i saw is what we need to be...abd we're nowhere near it yet. May or may not be heading in right direction but we're quite some distance from what i saw Richmond doing. Good luck to them Over to you MFC

We win at Etihad.... recovery a tad better too

Yes , leave fabrication to the experts .... 4th estate

Funny that some dispute he's in a rut ...but he's just a bit inconsistent.. consistently !! ?

Sue...if i may, A good way to stay sane, grounded and reasonably happy ( other than the assault on our demeanor made by the MFC during its annual comedy parade ) is to just not indulge the media by reading/watching any of it. It's just about guaranteed to be 99% recycled garbage . The only publishing i personally take much notice of are ...the results Anything from clubs is especially chancey ... anything from players...meh Anything from 'experts' invariably requires a spray of dettol. Each to own of course

A question...to all and any. If this were the case then EVERY team above us will have beaten us. They will have done so because they nullified out "game" and played theirs. We have NO plan/game B Why would anyone presume any success ? Its just a question. I think a valid one. Do some subscribe to different outcomes for same scenarios ? Einstein had a thought about that ?

The man knows how to handle a club....

Hope some of you chaps and chappettes are right otherwise a somber sept awaits... A little over that

Taking a positive view ... it's an opportunity to rejig that areavof the park. Possibly make less restrictively formal in setout...introduce a copse or two...really green it up. Currently the swathes of carpark lawn are mundane and underutilised.

Im curious .. perhaps surprised ...how many gloss over the game against Freo in Darwin. This looms . We have had stuff all success there. Freo do well. Dockers travelling sort of OK...bit under the Radar. This might be where we stumble.. and stumble badly.

No...we need the best 'efforts' on the park. Its abit like the dif between a team of champions.. and a champion team. Better a B grader trying /playing flat out....than a supposed A giving 25% return on a game and going missing. Drop him... make a statement. Make it LOUD

If only Trac were more Flower and less Dorian Gray.... we'd have a bottler. All fizz at present.

Another thought....put car parking under the new oval. Why use valuable leasable/ usable building space ?

As part of the beautification and making the new oval meld into its hosting environs plant lots of trees of suitable types to encircle the grassed surface...giving the new ground a permanent image of being guarded and watched simultaneously. How many trees got knocked for Tennis ? Its not like theyd need to take out that many. The new ' Forrest' will compensate

We share aami Its notlike we can use it whenever the lads want. This has at time needed players to find their own facilities to do out of session work. NOT under the watch of our med/fitness guts. Amateur hour really. Time to leave motel8 for the Hilton

A very fav film btw Im sure folk will find the place without too much difficulty... It'll be right next to some other ground of note ?

I mentioned in another thread.. we were goalless in last qtr.. That's not really finishing it off too well...is it ?

This to me is indicative of our culture...the idea that playing finals is an achievement. It's not really....it's an opportunity...an avenue to an Achievement. Playing a GF is an Achievement...winning it an even bigger/ better one. Playing finals is a means to an end only. No one cares who comes 2nd 3rd etc.

Clarko would presevere with him in the Magoos....wouldnt have started him in the 1sts till was actually developed..is..had a tank...had the right mindset. Reputation means zilch with Alistair....you earn your spot. Christian currently holding a golden ticket

Might needmore than a week OD

He might have all the right ingredients...but he's working to a very ordinary recipe. He seems to have neither the tank nor a grasp of the everyday work ethic required to put in 4/4 of 100% effort. If he doesn't discover these he might as well be traded. He indeed could be anything...but if you were to ask the broader footballing community who would rank among the most disappointing in 2018...i think CP would be right up there. Needs to lift.

And yet strangely reminds me of someone ?