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I don't understand why people are blaming the leaks and mfc brand damage on Christian and his advisors. It means you believe the Morris/McClure trash ... if we believe them we need to believe reports the club/players leaked and ipso facto they have also damaged the club's 'brand'. Lets face it the damage to our brand started 12 months ago when other players' poor behaviour was front and sent in the media and is where the poor culture narrative started. The brand damage continued thru 2024 as did the associated poor culture narrative. The Christian drama has been sorted in 3 weeks. The dramas and brand damage by others of 12 months are still not fully resolved. Stop blaming him for the club's image woes!!!

For all those that think Christian's commitment is half hearted and he is staying because he had no choice, lighten up and enjoy what is ahead. Otherwise it will be a miserable year around here if folks keep playing that song. Lets remember Richmond fans got behind Dusty, who actively wooed other clubs, no takers, he stayed, And. the rest is history: 3 Flags, 3 NSM, 1 Brownlow. Christian is quite capable of doing something similar. As I said earlier get behind him.

Folks on here wanted Christian to speak. He has spoken. He is staying. Time to get behind him Time to drop the bickering. It is my guess Max was a major architect of the bridge that was built between the club and Christian. Max will make sure the player are all behind him. I'm ecstatic !!!! Onward and upward to 2025.

Wish he would! 2027 seems a stretch. If he doesn't get to WA this year he will probably try again next year when the WA clubs will be better prepared for a trade. My fear is other WA players will follow. Except for my special boy McVee most of them have extended their contracts. But as we know contracts don't mean much. McVee will be upgraded from Rookie to Seniors later this year but at this stage is contracted only for 2025. I'm hoping when he is upgraded his contract will be extended. If it isn't I will get very nervous.😓

A passing interest. In the FTA days it was in the wrong time slot. Nowadays, other things to do. Of the little I saw - a very clever show!

We must be in different generations Mr D ... I only recognise a handful of those characters! Just as well I didn't try too hard to solve the puzzle, eh!. My brain would be fried trying to remember something that isn't there!!! As always thanks for your work ...

Succinct as usual, dc. 👏

I'm beginning to wonder if our doctors were in touch with his family or hospital medical staff while he was in ICU. If so they would have known Christian nearly died on the operating table. I hope to God that info somehow made it to our doctors, to our player welfare staff and to Roffey. I hope it was just an oversight her not saying that other senior people made contact with the family during that critical period. I would be very angry if that was my son and no one bothered to check in.

It didn't sound like any senior person reached out to them while he was in ICU or in the early days when he was in virtual isolation at home. Now, I understand the family being a bit upset and he may have a good case for being disappointed re lack of communication/lack of caring.

Managers saying a player is happy and going nowhere is the equivalent of a Board saying a coach has their full support ...

With all our own dramas, this event has gone unrecognised. changes-that-helped-greater-western-sydney-giants-star-jesse-hogan-finally-realise-his-potential Rapt for Jesse after a checkered career to date. Great reward for his hard work. Still one of my favourite players. He (and captain Toby) are the only reasons the finals hold any interest. Hope Jesse adds a 🥇 to the Coleman and holds up 🏆

I was referring to the the rules allowing a reduction in the sanction rather than would we be successful. Would we have a case on down grading from 'severe'? I wold say so: he bounced straight up and played on, no trainer even went to him. Very different than when someone is knocked out cold and has to helped from the ground. imv the latter is 'severe'. I reckon there is a Kozzie 'tax' in the MRO's 'severe' grading.

I was going to give that a 💗until I saw the Hawks part ... sorry.

As it would be an appeal for the MRO sanction (rather than a Tribunal sanction) there is a bit more room eg if the classification is reduced from 'severe impact' to something lower (high, medium or low) then the penalty would come down accordingly.

Thanks for that info. I hope he was referring to the 24 to 28 yo which I agree is our weak spot. Unfortunately, I didn't hear the interview so I don't have the context of his comment. Unless there is something wrong with my arithmetic, replacing the older players departing with some in that key demographic group is making us younger which doesn't fit his comment ...

What a guy! I choked up reading that. I still think of him as 'Our Jesse'.💞

Hmmm, not convinced. Of the names mentioned only ANB has been best 22 this year. Losing those older players might make us younger but they haven't really helped our performance this year. If anything their presence has meant we lacked depth (younger) players elsewhere. Anyway, will nervously wait and see what happens.

100% agree. 😼 We lose older/experienced players like ANB, BB and probably Tommo this year so adding players in the critical 25-27 age group will make us younger!! It seems like he is targetting players around 30yo!!🤷‍♀️

Not sure where to put this. Somewhere I read that Richardson said 'we need to get older not younger.' That doesn't compute: we have the 3rd oldest list and the 2nd most experienced list. And, we won the premiership with one of the youngest and least experienced lists. He (and TL) doesn't have a good track record of player trades since taking over as GM, FD 3 years ago so his comment makes me nervous. Very nervous! I hope Richardson doesn't turn us into a 'dad's army'!

Jesse 😊 Reckon there is still some ❤️and 💙in his heart.

Agreed, there is no chance Kozzie will get off. The best hope is to reduce the number of weeks by arguing he wasn't careless and it was reasonable action in the circumstances. Or argue the 'severe impact' down to 'high impact' especially as Moore played on and showed no signs on the field. Of course it depends on what the Coll doctor report says ... fwiw, Houston didn't even hit the Crows player in the head. It was the shoulder but the MRO and Tribunal deemed it to be high anyway because it was 'the top of the shoulder'. Go figure! They make up the rules to suit the outcome they want. The only leniency on tackles etc this year has been to Brownlow candidates or 'famous' players.

Yes, a nice sentiment but as you suggest hardly an 'award' or a 'prize'; more of a token so not sure it will be looked upon as something special like other AFL medals. Given the type of player Barassi was it is a shame it couldn't be for the 'toughest' GF player, then anyone (not just a midfielder as is usually the case for the NSM) can win it and to be the 'toughest' is something any player would be rightly proud of. But no idea how 'toughness' could be assessed. It would then be a medal that honours his spiriit and how he played the game as well as honouring his name.

Yeah, just name the actual premiership player medals after the great RDB! As long as the AFL doesn't bring in those grotesque Yankee rings for premiership players that were proposed a few months ago ... at Collingwood's behest🤮

It seems the proposal is to award an RDB medal to the Premiership captain. I did wonder why the Premiership Cup isn't in his name but apparently he was against it. really-fitting-afl-to-honour-ron-barassi-on-grand-final-day-with-magnificent-gesture Not sure why they didn't name the official premiership medal that every player gets the RDB medal ... It seems a bit weird that a medal can be awarded that wasn't specifically 'earnt', in the sense of being a BOG or some other achievement. But then we already have the NSM. Having two demon champions honoured on each and every GF day is pretty special. It was quite an honour to meet him at the 50 year anniversary player celebration 10 years ago. Hope the RDB medal has Red and Blue ribbons rather than the team colours of the winning captain! 😁