Apparently he wanted 3 years, the Dons only wanted to offer 2 years. Reportedly there is some residual displeasure about the way Matty Lloyd left the club (only offered 1 year no assurance wont spend it in the VFL).

Mc Phee is a great contested mark, one of the best, BUT his decision making on the ground is appalling. Dumb footballer.

Backs are under increasing pressure from forwards (frontal pressure) these days and under pressure dumb disposal decisions will cost even more goals.

Not losing sleep over losing him.

Off topic, but Freo seem too often to be taking career half over players in that 2nd tier of quality bracket.

Redb

Dont mind him as a player…. whats the problem …..money issues at the Dons ?.

http://mm.afl.com.au/portals/0/images/collingwood-masthead.jpg

Not a bad job Pies.

We play as a team and dont rely on a superstars to get fans excited.

The bloke in front is Paddy Ryder, maybe not a household name but keen footy followers will know him soon enough.

Go Dons!

Redb

I dont mind KB either from time to time but this rant about ‘football’ was off topic not to say very boring.

More importantly it is taking away any mometnum from building further antipathy towards Carlton. KB always said he liked Carlton maybe it was his strategy.

Redb

I think I might just shut up now, as I think I’m hijacking …

It’s one thing to ‘hijack’ a week old thread when the topic of discussion has moved on (often to new articles) – - – but, in this case – - – far from that!!

Perhaps it was just that there was a HAL-less weekend????

. . . as per George Orwell that is, not Ch. 10

Brave or delusional?

They’ll need a mighty big wooden spoon to stir that pot

Redb

to my mind, a very unsatisfying way of ‘scoring’ a goal.

And so, it is back to Australian Football………the only code of football that requires the ATTACKING team to KICK a goal to regiser a major score.

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Freud

In Gaelic football goals dont have to be scored with the foot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_football#Scoring

“…..A goal can only be scored by kicking the ball into the net, you cannot fist pass the ball into the net. However, a player can strike the ball into the net with a closed fist if the ball was played to him by another player or came in contact with the post/crossbar/ground prior to connection……….”

The way KB goes on about this is nothing short of disgraceful and pathetic, i really feel sorry for people that have to work in aged care.

*Football (soccer) – Can score a goal with any part of your body except your hands/arm
*Rugby (both codes) (sometimes known as football or footy) – Have to run the ball over a line and kicking is only a secondary objective
*NFL (American football, the word football is used inside America) – Kicking the ball through the sticks is again a secondary objective

Now:

AFL (Football or footy) – a goal can only be scored with the use of the lower leg or foot
Gaelic Football – a goal – that is under the crossbar – can only be scored with the foot

There is no point going on about who used the word when, words change their meanings over time and become interchangeable, AFL is a relatively new term but is very commonly used for example but if you had of said it 30 years ago it would have had no meaning.

But the aim of the game is scoring and winning and only in Gaelic and Aussie Rules is scoring goals A) The main objective and B) Done with the foot.

This is about carlton not about which football was invented first etc

Sometimes I wonder !!

But Rugby Union, American football , Gaelic or Australian football are not football codes.