Chook in Perth

Haggers? dolt. the end.

What the hell do you want them to say about us? Lie and be positive? We ARE pathetic. How else can you describe it after the last 6 years? It can be turned round with hard work and savvy recruiting, but you can't hide from the recent past.

Be stuffed if I want my membership money paying for his QC. Port can get Denis Denuto to represent him.

Anyone who call racist when clubs think twice about recruiting indigenous players should STFU and look at what this club has been through in the last 4 years.

Fancy a game of poker mate?

FFS the body isn't even cold yet and you lot are dividing the assets?

1989 called it. Its wants its football knowledge back. Do you still yell "kick the bloody thing" Fence?

04, 05 and 06 all petered out to nothing. But for periods in those years, particularly 05, we were probably the best team in the comp. Lapses like losing to Carlton (wooden spoon) twice in 06 meant we finished 7th instead of 3rd. Thats where you can probably point the finger at Daniher. He had 200 game talent like Yze, Johnstone, White, Green and Bruce who were either inconsistent or wilted under pressure. he didn't get the best out of them often enough.

I'll try and get along to the pre game gig at the Subi room. I haven't attended a function there since the 2006 semi when I had words with Chris Fagan, called him an arrogant [censored] on Ology and ended up with a 3 month holiday. Might be time to have another crack. Hopefully the Coronas are still $5.

I'm no advocate of Daniher, but the the draft sanctions bit him on the arse at the time when we could have really set up to challenge in 05/06. Think about what a difference first round picks in 99/00 would have made 5 years later. Take it a step further and swap Luke Molan for Dal Santo and Steve Armstrong and Aaron Rogers for Sam Mitchell and Leigh Montagna. Not only do you have 750 games instead of 40 (sob) you've put a big dint in the St Kilda midfield. Footy is all about preparation and development. But every premiership team has had a bit of luck here and there along the way. Daniher was a poor tactician after 2000, but you could argue that he never had those little bits of luck required for the next step.

How's that comment working out for ya today champ?

I've surprised myself at how easy I've made the transition here. Not really missing Ology at all. The 95 page threads here do my head in. but otherwise I'm focused on keeping my "like" count above my post count. Concentrates the mind and stops me from writing mindless tripe on said 95 page spreads. RIP Ology you glorious bastard. PS: I hope Rono hasn't necked himself through frustration at losing his bragging outlet.

As I said, what was raised equates to less than 2% of our forecast revenue for the year. You're a smart boy Andrew, surely you can work out for yourself that we could pay the TPP comfortably without those extra funds? Like any business, if you invest cash in a certain area you need to cut down in others. often my boss (CFO) will give marketing some additional funds for a campaign. But those funds don't come from cash reserves - we take from another area of the business that can do without. You know where I work - we aint going broke.

Find it remarkable people think funds from the well to do is in anyway negative. If that was a major source of income you could rightly be worried. But $750,000 equates to less than 2% of our forecast revenue. Its tops up the coffers and allows some value adds we otherwise wouldn't have. Every club does similar things. Actually, every professional sporting club on the planet does it. Jesus, even political parties rely on the donations of the well healed. Coteries have been around for a generation now. They aren't there just to pat each other on the back. They raise funds. The only difference with the Foundation Heroes is they got publicity because 1. Jimmy was the public face, and 2. they retired debt at such an astonishing rate that whole football world sat up and took notice. Just no pleasing some people.

that game is a whole "what if" thread on its own. looking at you Spalding, Yeats, Eishold, Campbell and one other sitter that I've forgotten about.

Bingo. I'd rather that than Col's haircuts and Riva dinners.

I'm not easily impressed by footballers, but there's just something about this bloke. He's a heart and soul type - do anything for his team mates, particularly the dirty work that the layman doesn't notice or understand. Now that will only get an individual so far and a club can only have a small amount of that type. But I think he's a beauty. He's like a pure bred dog thats been unloved and untrained. Give him a new owner who puts the time in and watch him flourish. I'll be gutted for the kid if he gets the flick, and filthy on the club. Surely there's enough lazy, unaccountable deadwood in front of him. Surely.

"What if" is a Melbourne supporters favourite 2 words. What if Gerald Healy hadn't gone to Sydney a year before we made nearly made a GF? What if Sumich hadn't hit the post in the 1990 QF and a rampant Melbourne weren't forced to take a week off? What if the AFL didn't change the prelim final location rules in 1994? What if Schwarz, Jakovich, Viney and Prympke had played in 1995? What if we hadn't rorted the salary cap and got high end picks in 99, 00 and 01? What if we'd sucked in 2004 instead of 2003 and got Buddy and ? instead of McLean and Sylvia? What if we were already in AAMI Park when Judd came sniffing? What if we'd lost to Carlton in round 22 2007 and got Cotchin instead of Morton AND Watts AND Naitanui a year later? What if....Its enough to have you staring at the ceiling at night.

Don't want sound like a wet blanket, but why even bother starting these sort of threads?

For memory the gap between a 1 handicapper and a touring pro is basically the same as the gap between a 1 handicapper and an 8 handicapper. Even at the amateur level a 1 handicapper would come up against blokes playing off +2 at the elite pennant level. anyway carry on. No to BJ from me. We've got enough blokes with bad body language and I reckon he's played his best footy.

Um I think you forgot one champ. Look left.

Until this trial is over there will continue to be innuendo and confusion. He's out of contract so the smart thing right now is to put him on the Rookie list on a one year deal. If he's cleared, he can focus on footy and get back his spot. If he ends up in the clink... actually I don't want to contemplate that.

Got to be Carlton. 1. Any kid born between 1975 and 1980 either barracks for Essendon or hates them more than cancer. 2. Carlton won't make the 8. A win for them will torpedo Essendon's chances. That said, I enjoyed the Bummers getting their arses handed to them in the first week of the 2009 and 2011 finals.

we could really do with a fat has-been who gets on the [censored] before games.

Akin to the worst employee at the Ford factory quitting a week before they lay off 500 people.