I dislike Geelong so much. I don't know how good Sam McClure's information is, but it has rubbed me the wrong way.

In all honesty, I would rather have Clarry on his current salary averaging 22 possessions for us than paying him 700k to play well at Geelong.

If he is deadset on leaving, the club needs to make it clear that his fresh start has a significant associated cost and the club will not be paying a single dollar of his salary to play in other colours.

Tommy has had an absolute rollercoaster career with us.

From the depths of our slump in the early 2010's, to the false start in 2018, to a premiership player. From backman, to forward, to swingman, to forward to backman.

Honestly just a great servant of the club who at 32 is in as good of form as he has ever been. An absolute credit to his work ethic and ability to get and keep his body right.

Hope he makes it to 300, he certainly deserves it.

F1 in town next week. See if Christian can get the Red Bull drivers down to the Dees and in a jumper

Rare to hear a nice word from Kingy and Cornes, but nice to not be discussed for the wrong reasons at least

I would rather pay Oliver a mill a year to sit on the couch than to see him play well at Geelong. For the love of god don't trade him/

8 minutes ago, 58er said:

I know it’s a long shot but  I wonder if our recent issues and Trac’s situation might have occurred if Gus was still at the Club.

I really think Trac might like others be missing the Gus effect within the Club.  

Good point, and I highly doubt it would have. Gus was loved amongst the playing group because of the strength of his character, and you know he would've been talking to Christian non-stop and keeping others apprised of the situation.

There is no doubt in my mind that Gus was the next captain of the club, and his speech saddens me to see. I can only imagine whatever he does next, be it in footy or out, he will perform extremely well

10 minutes ago, sue said:

True. But doesn't seem to affecting Twitter/X etc.

Just now, djr said:

Or BigFooty

Only takes someone with a big enough wallet to engage a lawyer.

I would suspect smaller sites probably just comply with C&Ds and remove comments on request to avoid litigation

31 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Demonland may, at times, choose to remove certain allegations, even those that may have a basis in truth, in order to protect the individuals involved.

Very common sense approach, especially given in Fairfax Vs Voller the high court indicated a web forum could be considered a publisher and responsible for content posted on the site

4 minutes ago, Deelectable said:

'Journalists don't make things up'.🤣🤣🤣 Only one brain-dead take here. Sam McClure " my sources are strong that Harley Reid will not go to the Eagles". Goodnight. 

I said they may have unreliable sources but they don't just make things up.

Another room temperature IQ take from you.

9 minutes ago, Deelectable said:

Point being mate anyone can say they have a source to support anything.  It's totally meaningless. 

Yep they can say whatever they want, you can choose to believe them or not, but no one that knows anybody at the club is going to come out and name them on a public forum.

Then you suggest professional journalists have no sources. Their source might be unreliable but they don't just make these things up mate.

Like I said before, to ask someone on this board to put someone they know at the club, and to suggest journalists just make up stories out of thin air, is a braindead take.

31 minutes ago, Deelectable said:

Just gotta love these people🤣🤣🤣" I have actual sources. I work in the field". Side splittingly hilarious! Go on, supply those sources. Of course you can't.Like McClure, Morris etc you have none. Meantime I have a source that says you're a Collingwood plant on these boards. Sorry, can't reveal who that is.😘

"Out your friend who gave you inside information in confidence publicly or you're a liar"

Braindead

1 minute ago, peasant said:

I ordered mine from The AFL Store the day after the Grand Final and it only arrived on Monday. 

Still waiting for the Max Gawn Diary ordered through Booktopia which has been sitting with Australia Post since Dec 9. Was meant to come last week, expected delivery is now Dec 27.

Very disappointing. I know it's for yourself but you would hate to have been planning to give it as a Christmas gift

21 minutes ago, Demonland said:

I didn’t know that there were two versions of the Premiers Beanies and Scarves. 

Left was purchased from the MFC & right was purchased from the AFL. 

 

I remember seeing the two different beanies when I ordered from the club on the night of the game. I preferred the one on the right, which finally arrived today.

6 hours ago, Mr Steve said:

A little annoyed that my copies of At Last $39.99 and Max's Captain Diary $32.99 have still not turned up but both are in my local Target store at $19.99 and $24 99. 

All my big expensive items have arrived now but nothing from the club or the AFL store. Learnt a lot after 57 years of waiting. ie the Demon Victory Pack is $94 at JBs Yet wait a few months "If you can" at it will be $6.95 like the Richmond 2020 one. The Full season one is $139 and the 2020 one is $34.99. 

Next year I will be buying from the Demons store in person and not on line. 

 

 

 

Certainly hasn't been ideal, but at the end of the day I prefer the money to go to the club rather than Target.

Got notice from Australia Post today that my beanie has been sent, and Gawny's book.

I was so keen to read it I've bought it on my Kindle so I dont have to wait for Australia Post

1 hour ago, Mickey said:

Ha anyone received their premier's beanie yet? Just working out if I send the club a hurry up email

I haven't recieved mine yet either.

I note the website still shows them as a pre-order item with an expected release date of November 1
The AFL store website shows they have them in stock though.

I hope the club gets these out in time for Christmas, though I would've liked to have mine before next weekend.

I see a lot of similarities with Carlton right now to when we hired Neeld.

Old coach fired after only a few years
Bring in the club legends to pick the new coach
Experienced senior coach pulls out of the race because the selection process seems a bit scuffed (Sheedy and the powerpoint)

I hope for their sake it goes a little better than it did for us.

6 hours ago, roy11 said:

Changing sports for a minute, 3 Portsmouth youth players (all aged under 18) were sacked after a racist conversation was leaked online after the Euros.  It's balancing act of punishing the individual/needing to set an example against educating the offender. (An Extension of the retributive vs restorative justice debate if you will)

I don't know the answer or what is appropriate punishment for any of these instances. For Walker you can say 6 weeks isn't enough and you're probably right. Even if the AFL went harder on Walker I sadly don't think that would reduce the amount of racist comments some indigenous players receive online.

Fair enough. Perhaps cancelling a contract is a step too far, but my main point is the disparity between the way the general public is punished for a similar incident, and the way Walker is.

It comes off like the AFL is tough on racism until there's a chance it will cost someone money, then 6 weeks is good enough.

35 minutes ago, Dwight Schrute said:

6 Matches is not enough, i am of the view that if a player makes a comment like this they should be given a zero strike policy, they should be sacked on the spot. 

AFL players carry a responsibility to be role models and how many feral Adelaide Supporters, and wider supporters (Collingwoods entire base) will now think it's okay to say things like this because Tex did 

Im inclined to agree with you. Case after case of rank and file punters shouting things over the fence at players have resulted in membership cancellations and multi-year bans. The same integrity unit at AFL house then comes out and slaps a former club captain with 6 weeks.

Should the standard for players, especially a former club captain not be the same if not higher than that of the fans? What is this difference in this case?

I would think in this current year we would be moving towards flat out cancelling contracts for this kind of behaviour.

52 minutes ago, Sydee said:

Yes I thought the same thing

I understand why Goodes has problems with the way he was treated but I don't really understand his reasons for rejecting what appears to me to be clear recognition of his contribution and significance to the game

 

Having watched the documentary they did on his last season, I would say he doesn't want anything to do with the AFL. Fair enough

53 minutes ago, Sydee said:

Feels like we can never forget or forgive and move on and therefore racial tensions can never be resolved - rejecting the invitation may make a statement that your [censored] off but it doesn't seem to help with reconciliation and healing which has to start somewhere/sometime 

I don't think Adam Goodes owes anything to anyone. Last time he took a stand on racial issues, he spent the remainder of his career getting booed by crowds, and mocked by a club president. Why should he jump at the opportunity to 'help with reconciliation and healing' when he got burned so badly in the past

1 minute ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

Anyone live tweeting the hearing..?

 

Now hearing they may not be allowed to play?

4 hours ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

Let us not forget the cowardly filth supporters who attacked Nathan Jones dad in the MCG carpark as a very young Zak Jones looked on helplessly.

I actually knew those guys, went to school with them. I will tell you now it wasn't the first time they had done something like that either, just the first time they got caught.

It was a pretty sad family background, mum was a heroin addict and the dad spent most of their childhood in prison for a pretty high profile shooting.

12 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Big development...

the Kayo Android TV app is now out and available on Google Play

Search for "kayo s" as just kayo does not show it.

Let the games begin

You need AOS version 7.1 on your TV so you may have to update your TV software

Brilliant news! I will have to install it tonight

Any early impressions?

1 hour ago, monoccular said:

Not that I actually care one iota but what sort of crowd did they get?

Were there any Poweraids Super Dopper Pooper Scoopers?  Did both in the crowd go bananas in response?

23k or thereabouts