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Will never forget the 2nd and 3rd quarter onslaught against the Crows in the Semi in 2002 at the MCG. TJ absolutely killed it. One of the best individual performances I've ever seen live.

I went there about 6 months ago and discovered I couldn't sign up. Completely and utterly defeats the purpose of having an open forum. I own an online community (one of the most influential in Australia) and something like that is an insult to the very notion of online social communities. RIP 'ology

What Vlad is doing is hardly wrong - he is trying to expand the game into other sport heartlands, and you need a solid foundation to do that (otherwise you end up with Port). In saying that, other clubs are suffering from the propping up of other clubs. It's a catch-22 situation, and as a recipient of AFL handouts, we shouldn't be overly critical of other clubs being given a helping hand by the league.

The club has used the whole Air Jurrah thing before. I have a Jordan-esque Air Jurrah sticker on my car right now that I got from the club before last season. Surely other people did too?

Oh OK. So it's not a new mascot, it's just one for the kids.

I personally think the old clash with the demon on the front was too obvious. The club is opting for a more traditional guernsey design, and they are keeping things quite conservative. This helps to create a more consistent brand, as opposed to having a rather timid normal jumper as well as a jumper that has a massive demon on it.

lol @ troll

Love it! Going to be the first jumper I'll be buying since 1997 (my current Melbourne jumper has gone from red to pink...) I guarantee we will be the first club to bring the collar back. You watch it come back over the years now. About time we set a trend.

OP - How old are you?

They will play finals in 2012. Wouldn't be surprised if they play them next year.

Sorry for your loss. And Ingerson was one of my favourite players growing up. Never did anything flashy, but always put the team first and was a great leader down back.

Summary? At work.

I don't mind the Giants. Who really gives a crap if it's "American". Since when did America own the rights to have a Giant as a mascot?

It would take 75% salary increase, of which would never be possible (unless you have an empty cap and money to spend like GC).

Would be a decent replacement for Bruce, especially if Bruce was only going to be used as an emergency anyway.

Sylvia.

The problem is Daniher created a specific culture, and I think Bails was always intent on completely draining the club of any drafted players under Daniher, which is fair enough. I think this is going to be a really good era under Bailey. I've only really seen maybe 2 eras (the Balme and Daniher ones) beforehand, and the end of the Northy one, but this one feels very different. I think that within the club the younger players are getting treated extremely well, maybe even better than some older players (the likes of Bruce, Jnr etc.). I'm not worried that this would cause discontent around the club among the players.

Thanks

I believe Collingwood was the youngest team to ever win a flag on the day with an average age of like 24 or 25 or something.

I thought he'd been banned for speaking his mind?

I'm not going to fall for it. The club is going to come out looking bad in all of this, but if a 31 year old won't accept a reasonable deal at 31 at a club he has spent his whole career at and made a crap load of money at, my bet is he already has a deal on the table from another club, or several others. You don't just walk out on a club that has your best mate, new facilities, high promise etc. etc. If he has, his ego is bigger than any of us imagined. In saying that, this doesn't look good for the club. They've said goodbye to so many veteran players now, and it might be hard to attract free agents in future if they aren't confident they're going to be supported by the club until they retire.

I rarely take any attention of what happens in the off-season, including injuries. I judge the team by on-field performance during the season, and if they do have off-field issues, I want to see them counter them successfully as a good team should be able to. But also because I dedicate 99% of my attention to the NBA season - League Pass, baby! I hope the AFL introduces some sort of HD live game streaming online some day for a yearly price.

Happy that it's 1 year. We have a number of players coming out of contract next year, don't we?

lol Ashley Pansen, amiright?

The difference is, the Yankees have a very big fanbase, and an established brand. If we don't have a brand after having used the original logo, why keep it? The reason for this new one is to help create a brand. Not sure why you'd want to go back to something that never brought us any off-field success in the first place...