andrewlamprill37

Jack viney rnd 1 when he roved it off half back and nailed a 55m pass hands down

gotta stick with him at half forward playing very short stints on ball - his similarites to chappy are huge. just needs to string games together, get some confidence and some presence and he will be dangerous off half forward for a long time to come

Breeze died down apparently....

Agree Through the whole process the clubs stance was to protect the integrity of the footy club and defend all employees where they could. Up until 5 minutes before the press conference it was widely reported that the club would be found guilty, imagine the penalties then. The footy club clearly fought this hard and won which was clearly a good result. The evidence put forward by the AFL clearly showed wrongdoings by CC + DB. Their penalties are harsh but considering Demetriou's comments earlier in the year they could have been harsher. CC has accepted he made a stupid comment about losing and DB admitted to coaching differently because of this, whether this was all that occurred or not doesn't matter, this was the evidence. The club doesn't exactly have a strong case defending them, clearly an agreement was made that wouldn't cripple the club. Saying that, the fine was clearly too big and there is no doubt the club would be fuming. A figure of 50-100K would have cleared a lot of confusion up about the whole thing. But it is not worth fighting a costly legal battle throughout the whole season, to maybe get the fine reduced a few 100K. During which time we would battle to sign/resign sponsors. The sooner we can play footy without having the whole thing over our head the better. Bring on Friday

Geez I wonder why Gardner didn't call an election...

Jimmy Toumpas is a serious talent, a leader, hard and has elite endurance, pace and skills... Sign him!! Wines will be a great player but Toumpas has some x-factor that we need! Especially with with a midfield shaping up as Jones, Viney, McKenzie, Trengove, Grimes and hopefully Evans and Taggert. Watch that video and tell me he isn't exactly what we need, if he slips to 4 could be steal of the draft.

its only because now you can pick up on his mistakes - he will call a player wrong 3-4 times a quarter - used to love him at mmm but now dead to me as a commentator

people forget that the board consists of some seriously established and successful businessmen who know what it takes to run a successful business (which is what Schwab has to do) and can make hard decisions. no doubt the board has played a huge role in clearing the debt but that doesn't mean schwab has sat on his hands for 4 years. a couple in particular Stuart Grimshaw - CEO of BOQ + Guy Jalland - Legal Exec to the Packers. I'm not going to dance around like some of you here and say its a fantastic or suicidal decision but i do know that a) these guys are far far more qualified than most on here and B) they actually get to work with him and see the inside of the club If they've come to this decision it wont have been without hours and hours of debate and scrutiny and i will stick with them on it

let alone port

Probably had enough of coaching after being knifed in the back by the previous melbourne board and also essendon. Think he's set up nicely in West Coast, built a list that is looking like being a contender for many years to come... cant see him going anywhere.

Gerard's obsession with nik-nat is painful. Listening to him commentate eagles games is worse than Roos commentating the swans with Joey and goodsey and mummy... Clearly natanui is a gun but talking up a 14 possession average is pathetic

The same issue of TPP was presented and promoted at last years dinner with the aim of attracting (clark) and keeping (scully) players at our club.

$5000, and each foundation hero is invited each year to this dinner at no cost. but obviously are tempted with auctions, raffles etc to support the club. this string of dinners has been a massive factor in the club surviving, and then getting us in the position to pay front end contracts and manage players like Clark coming to the club.

I saw him at training this morning and he looks like a school kid, he is going down the Morton path but i cant see him being given the same 7 years before patience is lost!!

cant believe the pies had a president called Ronald McDonald haha