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When does the silly season with respect to possible trades, speculation and rumour start?
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watt price tully wrote:When does the silly season with respect to possible trades, speculation and rumour start?
About 2 months ago.
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watt price tully wrote:When does the silly season with respect to possible trades, speculation and rumour start?
Does it ever end? I don’t think so! Anytime is a good time for speculating about anything relating to footy. I guess that’s why we like it
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stui magpie wrote:
watt price tully wrote:When does the silly season with respect to possible trades, speculation and rumour start?
About 2 months ago.
As soon as a star player is on the long term injury list ;)
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watt price tully wrote:When does the silly season with respect to possible trades, speculation and rumour start?

...anytime a player is 12 months out from being out of contract


...anytine a player wants to boost his contract negotiation position

...anytime a player on a large long term contract and has form dip!


Anytime a journalist is bored...
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gobbles21 wrote:
MatthewBoydFanClub wrote: We have Cameron and Cox, with Begg developing and could have kept Lynch if we wanted to. As well as all that we would have had the money to recruit Taranto and still keep De Goey. Typical of the former football department regime which tried to keep what they thought was a premiership team together ignoring the lack of talent coming through on the list. It's a mistake Graham Wright won't repeat.
Um, no we couldn’t have. We wanted to keep him. He asked to leave for greater opportunity. Hawthorn promised him a shot at being number 1 ruck.

And, umm I hate to break it to you, but Graham Wright was already here when this happened
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Presti35 wrote:
watt price tully wrote:My mail is unwanted advertising and bills to pay.
I got a birthday card once.
On your Birthday?
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I think most of us will be onboard with the clubs decision to pursue McStay if they intend on either experimenting with him over summer in a key defensive position, they believe he's capable of more scoreboard impact than his forward role at Brisbane generally allows or we have strong intentions of seeking a trade for Grundy and a player like a McStay could provide another option as a relief ruck should we experiment with a single ruck setup in 2023.

If people want a glimmer of hope of what he might be capable of when playing as the second banana his round 4 11 mark 3 goal game against Geelong (at Geelong) looks to be his best of the season while the round 7 clash with Sydney (in Sydney) produced 3 goals and 6 marks.

Not sure how much recent evidence exists to suggest he's a viable key defensive option, however I'll remain open minded on that. Prior to this season his biggest hitout tally for a season was 13. He currently has 37 this season from 16 games so it's fair to say he's not experienced in that role.

I think where most people will have a concern is if the club is getting him to fill a similar role at Collingwood that he occupies at Brisbane and are comfortable getting that same return for $600,000 a season. We need to be aiming higher for him than that surely.

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stui magpie wrote:
Presti35 wrote:
watt price tully wrote:My mail is unwanted advertising and bills to pay.
I got a birthday card once.
On your Birthday?
I got a birthday card once
It was close to my birthday
Ok it was in my next doors neighbors letter box.
But his 7 yo already had 20 cards
Got $10 off his grandmother as well :D
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scoobydoo wrote:
gobbles21 wrote:
MatthewBoydFanClub wrote: We have Cameron and Cox, with Begg developing and could have kept Lynch if we wanted to. As well as all that we would have had the money to recruit Taranto and still keep De Goey. Typical of the former football department regime which tried to keep what they thought was a premiership team together ignoring the lack of talent coming through on the list. It's a mistake Graham Wright won't repeat.
Um, no we couldn’t have. We wanted to keep him. He asked to leave for greater opportunity. Hawthorn promised him a shot at being number 1 ruck.

And, umm I hate to break it to you, but Graham Wright was already here when this happened
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^Yes they do but not many and not disastrous
Wright hasn't made any real mistakes yet as he hasn't been here that long
As time passes he will simply because no-one is perfect

I also give Fly a lot of credit for the teams performance this year
Also a lot of other people at Collingwood have helped

Eddie did leave the place with a ton of money no debts and lots of sponsors
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MatthewBoydFanClub wrote:
scoobydoo wrote:
gobbles21 wrote: Um, no we couldn’t have. We wanted to keep him. He asked to leave for greater opportunity. Hawthorn promised him a shot at being number 1 ruck.

And, umm I hate to break it to you, but Graham Wright was already here when this happened
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stui magpie wrote:
watt price tully wrote:When does the silly season with respect to possible trades, speculation and rumour start?
About 2 months ago.
Anyone else see serial arsehat Jon Ralph throwing players names around like confetti, during the halftime break on 504 tonight?

Anyhoo, Operation: Get Hopper, for mine...
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Post by Marvelos »

Considering our centre bounce clearance problems we probably should start there, costing us 5 goals a game IMO, I’m not sure who to target though.
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