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Josh, I’m not sure if yourself and many others are aware that Collingwood’s constitution is set up so that only Club 5, Legends, Captains and Social Club members can attend and vote at the AGM.

Assuming that most of the Collingwood rank and file would hold regulation home and away memberships and below and not every one of those higher (and more expensive memberships) would attend the AGM, it would not take a lot for Eddie and his board to get reelected. And if you’re at an event where Eddie has the mic I can speak from experience that he’s quite the charmer. Incredible gift of the gab.

(The board heads have also remained very static since 2007 with the exception of Christine Holgate)

Eddie McGuire given his standing,contacts and influence in the football TV, radio and print media would be the hardest club president to run against in my opinion. Criticism of his presidency has been extremely light in mainstream media. Imagine the bloodletting and scrutiny from the media if Richmond had put up this run of results since 2012!

Let’s not make an assumption that most Collingwood supporters simply bow at the altar of Eddie and see him as infallible and keep reelecting him to the post. Most Collingwood supporters are rendered powerless.

Even if this is an excellent review I’m not confident that the decision makers at the club will make the right appointments given their track record since 2012.

Bucks has his limitations sure, (every coach does I’m sure) but I doubt a Jeans/Norm Smith/Parkin/Clarkson hybrid could have had Collingwood flying given the condition of other areas of the club at present. No one single person has the power to solve everything.

Also I wonder how much “jobs for favourite sons” has hurt Collingwood (talking appointments other than Bucks here)
Did Collingwood stop going for the best people post 2010?

The game can be influenced most through kicking goals.

I would go for the key forward provided he has the whole package of being able to read the play to mark contested and on the lead, be good below and knees when the ball is on the ground and in the air, be able to kick goals from open play and set shots, doesn’t suffer from the yips, has leadership qualities and sets the example on field and off field and very importantly, is mentally and physically durable. No point if he can’t get on the field.

That’s quite a list! I’m not sure such a player actually exists in reality…

I just feel that kicking a goal also psychologically has more of an effect on the opposition than a clearance won on the wing

Glenn Archer made a point in an interview that when Wayne Carey was ‘on’ running amok on the field the effect wouldn’t just demoralise Carey’s opponent but would also have the simultaneous effect of demoralising Archer’s opponent at the other end of the ground (and stands to reason it would do so to a lot of other player match ups on the ground) thus making Archer’s job easier during the game.

Great key forwards are worth their weight in gold and then some….

Which AFL star would you build your team around?

2007 list of retirees:

Chris Johnson, Darren Gaspar, Brent Montgomery

James Clement, Daryl Wakelin, Glenn Archer

Scott Camporeale, Mark Ruccito, Andrew Thompson

Anthony Koutafidis, Chris Grant, Aaron Hamill

Byron Pickett, Lance Whitnall, Matthew Lappin

Luke Darcy, Nathan Buckley, James Hird

Matthew Clarke, Joel Smith, Paul Licuria, Chris Scott

That’s just a starting 22 list for 2007 retirees (there’s more)

13 x Premierships
3 x Brownlows
2 x Norm Smiths

I could be bothered calculating the number of games played, the All Australian Jumpers and Club B&F’s

Equal to if not greater than the 2017 retiring class

Is 2017 the greatest retirement class of all?

Appreciate the reply DF.

We in the East get exposed to a lot of stereotypes about our WA & SA friends by our footy media.

No doubt you hear your fair share about us over there.

Bucks and Eade under pressure, but Adam Simpson should be too

That should read Hawthorn, Geelong and ADELAIDE obviously above there^….

Note to self: Avoid typing comments on a device under the table during a presentation

Hawthorn vs Sydney: Friday Night Forecast

I’m not convinced just yet on the Swans of 2017. Hawthorn, Geelong and Hawthorn all away in 4 weeks in a mighty handful.
Sydney have looked good against undermanned and/or out of form sides in the last few weeks.

I feel they are more likely to lose all of the above 3 and still miss the eight.rather than win make a GF.

I think Adam Simpson did a remarkable job to take the Eagles from an ordinary 13th in 2013 (where they didn’t beat a single top 10 side, apart from an already finals disqualified Essendon late in the season) to a GF in his second season. A game I really thought they had plenty going their way in the lead up and that they’d win.

The list profile of WC is the oldest in the comp currently and needs refreshing. It wasn’t a young side that took to the MCG that October in 2015. Priddis was the only player over 30 but Elliot Yeo was the only one aged under 23. (22)
The average age was 26 and the average games played per player in that 22 was 112 games.

The fresh blood will take time to gel and develop. I see WC making finals in 2017 but finishing bottom 6 in 2018 & 2019.

My question to WCE fans (especially those living over in Perth) is will Simpson be given a fair crack at rebuilding or will there be unreasonable and undue pressure on him from the local fan base, media and most importantly, the club hierarchy?
Will him being a non Sandgroper count against him?

Not trolling, I’m genuinely curious?

Brynn, regarding your comment “it would be a shame for North Melbourne to delist Daw after eight years of development”, are you aware of Sunk Cost Fallacy where it comes harder to abandon an investment the longer you go on with it, even when logic dictates that you should cut your losses, because you have become emotionally attached to it.

With the greatest of respect towards Majak, watching him play it looks that he is wildly out of step with the pace and flow of the game at AFL level. I see him as a very good player at the lower levels where his immense physical strength and athletic leap would be that far ahead of the blokes around him that he’d dominate play there.

But in the AFL against blokes of similar physicality and greater nous for the game he is made to look listless for large parts of the match.
I understand he’s had 8 years at it and is contracted until the end of 2019 so North should give him every chance and any assistance on the training track to make him a better player but he shouldn’t be a walk up start every week irrespective of form.

My 2 cents: If Majak was going to become the player North were hoping he’d be, he’d have done it by now….

Don't shut the Daw on Majak yet