Nasher

Greg Healy is a better option, and that's without looking outside the existing board.

Stop making shit up. You have no idea how much the settlement would be if anything, so stop talking as if you do.

Oh Jesus. I love the Ox, but the man's never made a sound decision in his life. Someone with some business acumen who knows footy, please.

Doesn't need its own thread.

Thank you Cameron. You have made the correct decision for the club. One down.

Wanky job title notwithstanding, I would be amazed if TH had any more than a bit part in choosing who is on the list. That has to fall to the coach and the chief recruiter. It just has to.

There's already more than one thread on this.

The "deckchairs" cliche has never been more true than it is now. I can't think of a time in my life that I've cared less about who comes and goes. Would like to see Kent get a game though.

Does it? Equals Harrington crunches the numbers, Prendergast picks the players. Given that part of Prendergast's (and Viney Snr's) role is conducting player trades, it's a no-brainer that they have to work closely with the guy responsible for player contracts.

Good question, don't know. He may have input, but it seems unlikely to me that an analyst would have the authority to get a team "stuck" with a player longer than the footy guys wanted him. I expect he gets told by the footy boffins what the parameters are like who they want to keep and for how long, then he negotiates with the player managers on their behalf. I'm just guessing now though.

19, you guys do an amazing job. Seriously got your work cut out for you this week. Best of luck.

I could be wrong, but my understanding is that he's a number cruncher whose chief responsibility is to manage the salary cap for now and in to the future. I'd be amazed if he had that much say in the actual comings bode goings in the list, and I highly doubt Barry reported to him. He and Baz would have been at the same level on the org chart.

Would make an excellent caretaker coach.

I'm still pretty sure this has little to do with sacking of Norm Smith, Rob.

Decent players like Garland and Frawley are playing like absolute vegetables. There's no doubt there's a still a smattering of awful players in our team, but I can't believe we're 150 points bad.

Yes - in the early stages it reeks of Ben Nelson for David Gallagher to me.

I'm in. I'm broken and battered and have felt like I can't possibly take any more for months now, but can't walk away.

If they win, I'll take heart from it. While it would be disappointing to know that the effort comes and goes, I'd take that over the idea that they're hopeless beyond redemption, which is how it seemed last week.

You reckon? I'd say being pathetic was a pretty large part of the problem.

Something whacky going on here, it's put La Dee-vina Comedia's post in to the top of a thread started by tonatopia. Closing the topic anyway.

When I opened the thread, it took me to the first new post since I last looked, which was on page three, and wasn't aware at the time that he had been. Even if I'd known I'd have still answered as I thought it was a good question, even if the manner in which he asked it was less a question and more an accusation.

My definition of legitimate, constructive discussion is the opposite of what I described in the first half of my post. It is topic agnostic.

My view is that there is a balance between mega-threads, which I oppose, and one-thread-per-thought, which I also oppose. The idea of a "whinging and complaining" thread is okay to me so long as the posts in it are purely just that, and not designed or intended to actually generate any discussion. Threads that contain legitimate, constructive discussion definitely do not belong here.

BH is on a self-imposed holiday. I expect he'll be back eventually.

If I thought this topic was salvageable I might clean it up, but I went five pages back and found nothing but squabbling, so it's closure time. Also, while I understand the "beating your wife" analogy, I and many others find it very distasteful and I'd appreciate if we can find a better one next time.