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jnrmac

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  1. I'd suggest respectfully you have never been involved a sponsorship deal. And while your first sentence is correct, the second is just not how it works. They want maximum bang early on. Confirmation they have made the right decision, immediate impact etc. In 3 yrs time everyone will have forgotten the launch but keep in mind the discussions around this would have been going on for a long time internally and maximum exposure early would be a key reason for timing.
  2. I'll make the point here for those that have forgotten, DB was out of contract at the end of 2011. The club was weighing up whether he should be given an extension or not. After some of our insipid efforts throughout the year the Board and supporters were agitating for change. As you would expect when we had not shown any improvement. 186 meant things were spiralling out of control and a circuit breaker was needed. DB was likely dead man walking by this stage. And the perceived fact the players were whinging about the footy department meant that they rightly needed to be told to pull their heads in. In particular our senior players who showed a disgraceful lack of leadership throughout the year (Beemer excepted). That (IMO) was deemed more important than the rising angst against CS. What has happened to our club has been terrible but where we sit now I am glad it happened and we are where we are. We are in a better place although time will tell of course. Or as someone wise once put it: It is always the darkest hour before the dawn - so if you are going to steal your neighbours newspaper, just before the dawn is a really good time to do it.
  3. How is that misleading? I would have thought it fact since Darling went at Pick 26.
  4. I don't reckon you can credibly say that either!
  5. Yeah, like Martin Pike (4 times premiership player - I hate reading that). What would you do if players turn up to training having been drinking? And the biggest criticism of ND is that he played players who did not deserve a game because of past form and reputation. You can't have it both ways. You either have a team structure and discipline (Coll, Geel) or you have undisciplined rabble. Players with chequered pasts are a timebomb.
  6. Wow. WHat a breathtakingly stupid post, What were you doing in economy you cheapskate....
  7. Sorry but I have read that everywhere and am yet to see the 'Luke Hodge laser left foot' of Strauss. In fact all I have seen is horrible mongrel drop punts from Strauss. I honestly reckon its an urban myth.
  8. I care. It means every club passed on Jack Darling before West Coast took him. So it wasn't such a golden opportunity was it? I am sure you could draft a really good team in hindsight but that's not what clubs do. Darling had a few issues. So did Buddy Franklin - even Hawthorn passed on Buddy with their first pick.
  9. So did every other club in the comp...
  10. Wow. These reports are great. I haven't been to a training session since DB days over summer and have always complained bitterly about our lack of 'real life' drills with the footy. DB hardly ever got the footy out until about February. To paraphrase Todd Viney from the time " we'll build up their bodies and then worry about the game plan". Absolutely infuriated me and demonstrated clearly the club was treating these guys like kids. In contrast it sounds like an unbelievable change under Neeld. Hard, intense, game drills with accountability all over the place. We'll see the results in due course but I suspect we won't be seeing the same "deer in the headlights" results when the heat is on. They players will have a routine, game plan and understand exactly who does what, where they must stand and defend etc. I have been shouted down in the past for expecting no less but I have to say I am genuinely excited about our ability to compete this year. With 4 rds to go we were something like 1 game out of the eight so I would expect a good improvement from that. Particularly with our favourable draw. They might run out of gas mid year but our frustrating first half last year was dispairing and if they come out of the blocks firing and fade I won't be unhappy. It sounds like we are finally n the right path.
  11. Plenty of mindless speculation here.....
  12. Thanks for that Harry (hindsight)...
  13. not much point announcing it on Jan 17 with no merchandise. perfectly sensible
  14. Pickles Evans is still on the list, has bulked up considerably.
  15. I hope it's Davey. Needs a rocket.
  16. Two things I noticed: Has Beemer got a new sleeve tat? What's up with Stefan martin's hair?
  17. Oh, and at 9:33 Trengove would have beaten Scully !!
  18. You are right and you are wrong. NRL in 2008 (when this whole expansion was conceived) had 16 of the highest 25 rating sports broadcasts (excluding the Olympics). No-one goes to RL but they watch it in droves. Coupled with 60% of advertising revenue coming from NSW and Southern QLD you have the whole recipe neatly encapsulated. So it's not Victorian games that they were seeking but extra games in NSW and Southern QLD where they could target advertising revenue for the NEXT TV rights deal. Simple really.
  19. Donald 'Duck' Dunn, Matt Guitar Murphy, Alan???. great band...
  20. Gee whiz this wouldn't be a new 'member' from PETA or some such other organisation would it? "I've been a reader for years...." Sounds like Letters to the Penthouse Editor...
  21. I agree. WCE got great value from their vets. Shouldn't happen two years in a row. The others will have worked out their press by now as well.
  22. What a ridiculous statement about measuring our success on the ability to retain the scum. Get a grip. Really? Who? How? When? Maybe in your mind but no-one else's. The club did everything in it's power to entice hime to stay as we would all expect but they NEVER went anywhere near the kind of statement you have made. As for CS, take it as a given that he is polarising and prone to talking the talk but not walking the walk, My bet is that CS won't last 2012
  23. Wow. "proven AFL player". He certainly has the speed and commitment to play at this level but my God he has barely been promoted off the rookie list and you make him sound like Chris Judd. He has some potential. That's it. Hardly proven.
  24. It has been blindingly obvious that our midfield is our weak link. Posters here have rated our midfield (probably more its potential) but the reality is when we have the highest i50s against us that is the midfield not working hard enough. Neeld's new fitness regime is almost living proof of that. Couple that with: Beamer essentially being a flat track bully Gysberts inability to damage with his posessions Sylvia's inability to play consistent hard damaging footy. Jones not really damaging oppositions with his possessions We need some grunt and players who can win the footy and dispose of it properly. All day. We have recruited that this year. Let's hope some of them make it.
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