From the president

skaman · Posted: Wed May 11, 2016 5:02 pm

PNC..surely youre not takin Hiss seriously?

John Wren · Posted: Wed May 11, 2016 5:08 pm

35forever · Posted: Thu May 12, 2016 2:29 pm

As I thought, it was just a five yearly fly-over with handfuls of pretty plastic toys for the moronic natives. Membership, facilities, Vic Park, Corporate crap.

Who the F**K cares about any of this shite while we're being stomped by shite sides?! And of course many of us thought The Prez had dropped in again. He hasn't. Not in 2015, and not now.
But of course a busy President has far too much on his hands to drop in here...

Bulls**t! Where could he or anyone else possibly get a better idea of what the real die-hard supporters & members are thinking & talking about among themselves. How could that not be important to the President of the club? If things are important he can make time, he's clearly a very skilful time manager, he couldn�t do his many jobs if he weren't! Don't tell me he can't have a lackey look in once a month and gauge the mood of the people. If he thinks he's gonna get that at an end of season audience he's very much mistaken. Most of what he heard last year at his little 'celebration of failure' was the same sycophantic shit famous people hear every single day! Then some mealy-mouthed crap about membership packages, parking, seating, and other entirely extraneous effluvium!

What most really care about is getting rid of the complete dud of a coach, and getting someone else to salvage something from this truly screwed year.

If anyone, including Ed, can't see that Buckley was handed a brand new, absolutely perfect Ferrari in 2012, they are truly blind! The thing was running better than any Ferrari had in 60 years plus. Constant checking, calibrating, and changing of worn parts had created a dream machine, which the previous owner was forced to deliver to Buckley, who didn�t even have a licence!
So he took it, stuck a HQ front grille on it, added a set of sheepskin seat covers, and wrapped it firmly around a pole. There it sits still, an object of derision & laughter for anyone going down Victoria Parade. Rusting away for all to see. All the work, all the heartbreak, all the sweat, blood & tears that had gone into making it perfect were now smashed, or had been nicked by kids from Lygon St.

But what can be done?! Is it hopeless? Actually no. Bring in a really highly trained mechanic, someone who has worked on the latest models, and get rid of the bogan who can't drive for sh*t!!!!

If the owner refuses to let us do that, then he has to go as well. We bloody-well refuse to tool around in a beat up 1973 Zephyr with no paint and a stuffed carb, when a bit of spit & polish could put us back in the fastest machine the game has ever seen.

It's really not that hard, but there is NO WAY the current mechanic can even get it back on the road, and if we don't get it done NOW it will be towed and stripped for parts.

Which way do YOU want to go?!

thompsoc · Joined: 21 Sep 2009

Which way do we want to go!
A new ferrari first and then a new mechanic!

35forever · Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 5:05 pm

courtza · Joined: 26 May 2013

Damien · Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 6:24 pm

35forever · Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 10:59 pm

35forever · Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 1:22 am

It would be a very good time for Ed to drop in again, however if he's really as big a Magpie tragic as he claims, he'd surely be reading stuff quietly, without comment. I don't know of any resource with Collingwood discussion or information I haven't found and devoured. I don't claim to be as busy as big Ed, but I work a hundred hours a week, (by choice) and find time, nay make time, to read what I can here, and even write a sentence or two... or three... OK four, shutup!
As they say, you want something done ask a busy person. He must be a wiz at time management, so reading a bit of Nicks or Big Footy surely can't be difficult, in fact I'd be surprised if he doesn't. Maybe he has a lackey compile the most interesting bits (which compliment him), and has Bucks read them out to an MP3 file so he can listen to them in his favourite voice!

Apart from the first several months after the suck-session, I've always been very happy to have him as our President, he has a media voice and gives us some advantage. At this point I'd be glad for him to stay on, but if he won't get rid of Buckley, and I don't think he can, then he has to go as it will take a board spill to get Buckley gone. The anti-Buckley chorus will naturally go quiet after the large, if rather errant, win tonight, and given that we won't be expected to get anything but a pair of beatings from the next two, there won't be huge outrage unless we get 100+ point pantsings, but a half-decent Collingwood performance would get us over Melbourne and Port, however if we fail in both, finals aren't a realistic proposition, and then it's just a matter of how far down. In that circumstance I'd expect to continue the 'Buckley run' and finish lower than thirteenth or so, maybe 16th. Even if we roll Port and Melbourne we would still have to perform far better in the second half of the season. Freo & Carlton shouldn�t be too hard (although our awful record first up after a bye gives Freo a good shot), but that would only get us to 7 with 5 more needed for a finals slot from the 8 remaining games. Most of which we won't be favourites for. In fact without dramatic circumstances only Richmond & GCS would see us start favourites, meaning we'd need to win 3 from GWS, Adelaide, North, West Coast, Footscray and Hawthorn, but again, even if they droop, our record in the final round of the season is a shocker. Can anyone see us winning three from that lot? Sure, we beat GWS & North last time we met, but things are somewhat different. Footscray? Adelaide at home? Not as things stand, but this once I'd be way happier with 9th than last coz there's no advantage, and so GWS don't get a top 5 pick.
On the other hand, if we threw the truck into reverse and won the lot from here on 17 wins is our ultimate tally and that would give us a top 4 spot - from first to 4th over the last several years.

It's nice to dream, and I'd certainly jump off Buckley's back if it happened and be pleased to do so. But that just aint the likelihood. The overwhelming likelihood is that we'll hand back every point of tonight's percentage boost against Geelong and Footscray, and go on to win maybe 3 or 4 more, say Melbourne, Carlton, Freo and Gold Coast. That would be slightly better than we've done thus far as it means beating 2 sides who already beat us this year, and another w haven't beaten in years, but it is an even bet. That�s just seven wins, and recent history means that's bottom 4, hell, if we don't win at least 1 more we're looking very closely at a 3rd spoon and a VERY happy GWS side!