Diamond_Jim

Guess the Oliver story..... I want to improve the kicking side of my game... Not sure re Gawn........perhaps holding him back for the captaincy announcement and the membership drive

Expect Dusty to be targeted. With our luck they'll use Tomlinson and he'll come over with a six match ban !!!!

GWS have been very physical with their starts over the final series. Could be a fiery first quarter

Could we have a repeat of the Alistair Lynch "massacre". Had not thought about that.

Well ... here it is ... are we excited... probably not Coniglio has ruled himself out which leaves spots to be found for Greene and possibly Whitfield. Richmond will be raging favourites and deserve to be. Do GWS have someone to stop Martin, Lynch and Riewoldt? Will Cameron do a Tredrea and sacrifice his game by playing upfield and allowing the likes of Finlayson to kick a bag? And of course how will the prospective Demon in Tomlinson fare?

Probably right LH wonder what the equivalent of a Visy ambassador is at Collingwood. As an aside American college footballers are not supposed to be paid but there is a network of rich/influential alumini known as "boosters" who they use to circumvent the rules.

tell me we didn't..........please

if it's only dollars Pies will find the money Term is another issue

A 27 year old who has played 105 games in his career. Hope it's no more than a 3 year offer Why is he leaving Collingwood out of interest?

In reality Stretch is worth no more than a fourth round pick so it's not that tempting for GCS. If Billy can get a game up north he should go for it. With Maynard, JKH and Stretch gone our back up midfield starts to look thin though.

Collingwood = Whittlesea/Mernda

sadly that is the EPL these days .... hard to get off the merry go round. Bit like the AFL and the gambling coys but many times worse

maybe but you have to admit I have a point. We weren't even as good as Fitzroy with the Marseillaise (sacre bleu) who at least changed a lot of the words. You're a grand old flag You're a high-flying flag And forever in peace may you wave You're the emblem of The land I love The home of the free and the brave Ev'ry heart beats true Under red, white and blue Where there's never a boast or brag But should old acquaintance be forgot Keep your…

actually getting rid of the song would be a good move. It's a jingoistic American ditty about the stars and stripes written for a play called George Washington junior and made famous by George Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy. Almost cringeworthy when you think about it. Mind you most of the former VFL clubs suffer form the same problem but ours is particularly bad.

Interesting as I see the move to Gosch's as being exactly what you describe. In ten years the big teams will all have dedicated super facilities. What is a super facility...indoor training facility, two ovals one being MCG size the other convertible to match all other ovals, pools and gyms etc etc. Collingwood are on the lookout to move and Richmond cannot be far behind. Carlton is an interesting one as they have the Princes Park reserve but talk about resident issues !!!

I get upset if I don't get a whole section of stand to myself these days. Went to see Bombers play Port at Docklands. Had to sit beside someone.... very strange

yawn....... Is there any award show that isn't a yawn. Never could understand why people watched them. As a separate issue there is "the award" itself. It's nice but.......... Mind you the system is better than the MFC BnF

Yesterday the Storm played the Eels in a knock out second semi. The Storm have been in Melbourne for 30 years and have won 5 premierships (although two were taken away) and have been runners up on no less than four occasions. They have been wooden spooners once in 2010. AAMI stadium has a capacity of 30,050. Why after 30 years of sustained success couldn't the Storm fill AAMI stadium yesterday? For the same reason the Giants will go nowhere. The AFL interest that there was in Sydney which was never great has been well catered for by the Swans who have been in Sydney for 37 years. The quaint idea that you need two local teams to provide TV interest has never been a strong argument. In fact one city teams are the norm in most sports. In short GCS and GWS will never succeed in the way we think of success.

They have about thirty thousand listed members. How many would be sponsor comps I am not sure. The pre registration may have caught a lot of the three game members out. If that requirement was not there you could expect the full entitlement to be taken up. There were suggestions in the past that some of the smart money had seen Gws membership as a good way to arbitrage gf tickets

will be interesting to see how many GWS members registered for the ballot (remember that last year) for GF tickets. Had forgotten about that little ticketek/AFL earner. (At least it was Cats and Magpie fans who donated this year). The feral Tiger supporters are already eyeing off the GWS ticket allocation

In the OP's defence the relationship between Casey listed players and MFC could be better explained. As I understand it on most occasions the Casey group train alone and have a separate pre-season. The fact that the Casey players are part time as against the MFC listed players dictates such an arrangement. Nevertheless I would be interested to hear if that is the same with other VFL aligned/owned clubs. At the next bargaining round/TV rights deal I would not be surprised to see the VFL comp re-organised at least as one often hears that they cost a lot of money to maintain. Interesting to see that until this season WCE didn't have its own WAFL side.(Good wiki below.) https://eaglepedia.fandom.com/wiki/Reserves

Subscribed to kayo this year and was really looking forward to a change in commentators only to find that on the streaming service they take the Channel 7 coverage. Increasingly the mute button is my friend. Must say I found the Ashes commentary very enjoyable when we were winning. (Suspect that applies to many sports.)

yep and our answer is to recruit Tomlinson who was hardly sighted yesterday. A good coach plays to his strengths....not sure Goodwin knows how to do that. Anyway not holding out much hope for next year unless we can get that connection and brand working. Good to see Storm bounce back yesterday but to miss six shots for extra points was unbelievable. Bit like the Wallabies in the first half against Fiji. On a related note if you want to see a coach go "nuts" in the box watch Craig Bellamy. Even when they were 22-0 he was still on edge to say the least.

oh.....NO.............please

definitely fat lady time !!!