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and Hogan will just be getting it on a silver platter from them where's the goodwin emoticon?

absolutely noticed it, not something you expect to see so early and a very good sign about his instincts, as many have noted

as do I, and I think in a roundabout way the club has clued us in to this with the recent comments by Vince.

In a way our club is at stake. It could be the end of us if he leaves and I'm being serious. Our supporter base is in big strife and there are plenty who would take a hit like this as the final straw. We NEED him to stay and be a marquee player and drag us up the ladder or it's very dangerous waters. Dramatic I know but I truly believe it.

It will be going straight in Hogan's wallet.

good news for us

different player, different club, has zero relevance to this discussion. If you are anybody in the 'footy world' who is outside our club there is a very strong chance you have a low amount of respect for us. That's just a fact. If you don't believe me, pretend you barrack for someone else and ask some random blokes at the pub tonight. You will not get a glowing assessment. Hogan, like everyone else, is part of that group. It will stay that way until we can prove otherwise and make it up around the top 4 for a number of consecutive years. These are hard truths, that you know to be true.

would you like to tell me which part of my post is wrong

Correct. Surely everybody here knows what type of club we are talking about. Sure, things are looking up, but they were looking up in 2011 also. Hogan, like us, must acknowledge the possibility that the club will fall to bits again and resume regular 100 point beltings. Don't forget that yet again we have another assistant coach taking the reins as head coach in 2017. We don't actually have any idea how we are going to go once Roos takes his dump truck full of cash and hits Hawaii. I don't think it will happen, but our horrifically poor history speaks for itself. Hogan is in a position to get everything he wants, and no doubt that includes being part of a side that is at least moderately successful for the bulk of his career, so to commit to us long term right now is a bit of a risk. I firmly think the WA/family thing and the money thing aren't his issues, we hold all the cards except the success card.

as good as he is, he's a smaller fish than Hogan

It really is annoying isn't it. There is another thread more about his but it sucks so bad that in this day and age it is impossible to just enjoy having a gun player in your side, because the landscape has gotten to this point where there is constant threat of players selling out. When Jesse has a great game I just can't ignore the elephant in the room and it really tempers my enjoyment of it. I try to ignore it but it is there looming always

Very good. The only mistake he made was "more than 100 seasons"..159 is quite a bit more than 100

in the bustling metropolis that is Freo and the hallowed turf of Patterson's Stadium :|

good post, but the sad reality is that if he does in fact it leave it will just about be curtains for the club. Do you realise how many of our already-diminishing supporter base are just hanging on by a thread after all we have been through? They won't be able to see your logic through the emotion and nobody could blame them. A huge number will simply give the game away if we lose a superstar after waiting decades for one to come along

I responded to this and it was deleted. Apparently one person blatantly trolling another is fine but defending yourself is not.

I agree. All threads should generally contain more comments about people commenting on other people's content, and whether it is acceptably close to the title of the thread or not. That is the type of quality people come here to read and moderators should be enforcing. Q. In your mind, if someone mentions the MCC or anything not specific to the title, and I have a response, do I have to go start a new thread for it? Or is it possible that maybe your brilliant mind can tolerate a slight, brief deviation from the topic you were just reading? Is that really so much to ask of you and your busy schedule?

570 or something.. goes up every year because they have carte-blanche to just charge whatever they want because its not like you can just go elsewhere for their produc,t and if you leave there is 200,000 waiting to take your place. Their profits must be amazing.

how do you know I'm not on exactly the same coin as you but just stretch further to pay my MCC dues? I'm not the one generalising, you will notice I am the one PROTESTING against the poster who made a generalisation.. joking or not there are some chippy shoulders here no doubt

yes I do, and it's a pure donation like the vast majority of MCC members give. This is in addition to the million that the MCC gives the club each year just for the hell of it

I've read these forums long enough to know there is a contingent of 'supporters' who hide behind a 'sense of humour' to mask a genuine chip on their shoulder. I don't appreciate being labelled by some prat with an inferiority complex as fairweather/non-knowledgeable when I fork out 4 times what the average joe does to support the dees and I rarely miss a game and there isn't much about the club I don't know.

oh really well IDGAF what you think

I don't know why the MCC members, the ones who fork out the most every year to see the Dees play, are considered to be the least knowledgeable supporters There's an obvious level of commitment/dedication there, simply by virtue of the cash you have to fork out

I'm in the MCC

oh cool thanks, so is that what they call him around the club and is that what we should yell out at the ground?