Diamond_Jim

That's not right when you are one of the also rans such as ourselves, Bulldogs Saints etc. It's all about giving your supporters both a competitive team and some hope. Whatever you may say North have done that very well over the last twenty odd years. I think most of us on this board would be quite happy to have North's record rather than our own

North aren't worried about winning a flag. (would be nice to have though).Their aim is to remain relevant and push for the 5-10 position. You have to admit they do a good job at it.

I was there that day. His job was to run with the likes of Cousins and Kerr take the handball and dish it back to them as they streamed down the field. He did his job perfectly

does raise a significant salary cap issue including pay relativity for the likes of Brayshaw, Oliver and Petracca. He's no superstar this guy

North are reported to be offering Papley 800k plus per season https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/afl-trade-wrap-swans-star-given-monster-offer-daniher-wants-to-be-at-swans/news-story/8f232007cc6fd48a1a3ba1ab0a27a7f4

they're from years ago. (2016 !!) Boy someone must have nothing to do to have noticed that exchange

hopefully he delivers but 4 years helps me understand why other clubs weren't interested. It's a long contract if he is NQR. Good luck to him. The salary at around 600k puts him objectively in the top 30% of the list which is around our top 14 players so it's not high if he delivers. Four years ?

Take your point but as I understand the award the votes by the coaches are heavily weighted to team contribution,adherence to gameplan etc. If Viney's efforts were so valued by the coaches it suggests to me that they set the wrong KPI's for him.

and I'll raise you May for pick 6

we always cave... It's the Melbourne way and Goodwin is desperate

just wouldn't fit in at Melbourne with those attributes

hope not... it means we caved. Why doesn't that surprise me

along with Oliver handballing to someone's feet and Viney getting caught with the ball it does say something about the coaching staff and their Band F voting. A very underwhelming performance in a totally underwhelming year. I hope we get to rate Goodwin in this activity

Would be surprised if he stays at Collingwood simply because he ranks behind De Goey and Stephenson and maybe Mihochek in the forward area.When Cox returns that's another place up forward gone. Oh well back to the drawing board

Langdon deal will take a while given we are in the box seat due to the PSD. If we are going to give up the second rounder I hope we trade for a later second round pick and thus get value. Given where we finished the season our second and third round picks are very high value. Long way between pick 20 and pick 38 all of which are second rounders.

do we put this activity on hold now?

Believe it or not but his goalkicking may have improved in 2019. 19G 23 B in 2018 22G 14 B in 2019 https://finalsiren.com/PlayerStats.asp?PlayerID=2626

Kenny and his port a loos spring to mind. Nothing better than the smell of a port a loo in the hot summer sun !!! I have a wonderfully eclectic photo collection of alternative toilet designs from a recent trip to India if we need inspiration.

Will be interesting AFL said when Buddy went to the Swans instead of the AFL preferred GWS that they would strongly resist any salary cap relief should Buddy not be able to play out his entire contract. Times change though and AFL want a strong Sydney

"Insiders at Pies confident " Are they ever anything else. How could any Collingwood desired player ever wish to leave the bosom of the magpie nest for an also ran such as MFC. Play regularly before crowds of 70k plus diehard fans or go to the Alice and play a home game before a 10k crowd of which 60% or more barrack for the away team.

Richo will not have come cheap

At Elliot's stage of life it's all about contract term and dollars. At 26 this is his big signing. Finals footy is just a cherry if other things are equal.

$750k for Elliot would be madness if it it didn't come with some heavy KPI's. If real there is no way Pies would match it

the soft cap IS the football department. Its success drives almost every other aspect of our revenue. If you cut (which may be necessary) the last place is in the football department. On the membership side a lot of those new members were increased contra from sponsorship deals. We could be in for a big hit in 2020 membership wise due to the decreased contribution from NT and who knows what from Jaguar. Also we would have budgeted for big money from our home MCG games (the last three). Probably cost us a million bucks just there. 2019 has been such a bad year for this club on so many fronts. Let's hope 2020 delivers.

If you don't have enough money to spend the full soft cap a club is in trouble. For those who can remember the requirement to spend 90% of the salary cap was brought into pressure Fitzroy