I wish an audio recording existed of "this campaigner reckons he's too good to play with us" would send a shiver down me bloody spine I tell you what
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I hope it to be.Did Luke Darcy just say that it's easier to score goals from outside 50 at the SCG because the ground is shorter???
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Figjam will be in bed eating an apple when the Collingwood board come around to sack him. He'll get the wife to sort it.
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I said nothing about the Hub
Read between the lines.
Brown had someone in his ear when decisions were to be made. Others have confirmed this to be Hester.
Hester rubbed people at the club up the wrong way, she was constantly getting involved in things and giving her opinion for the sake of having an opinion. Even when those subjects had nothing to do with her.
She cracked the shits with the club on occasion over little things and annoyed a number of players, staff, family members etc with the way she went about things.
The people I spoke to basically said a large portion of their family can't stand the way she acts and feel shes a huge reason Ben is now playing at the Dees.
Figjam will be in bed eating an apple when the Collingwood board come around to sack him. He'll get the wife to sort it.
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Yeah lolI doubt it. I think she's blocked his number.
I said nothing about the Hub
Read between the lines.
Brown had someone in his ear when decisions were to be made. Others have confirmed this to be Hester.
Hester rubbed people at the club up the wrong way, she was constantly getting involved in things and giving her opinion for the sake of having an opinion. Even when those subjects had nothing to do with her.
She cracked the shits with the club on occasion over little things and annoyed a number of players, staff, family members etc with the way she went about things.
The people I spoke to basically said a large portion of their family can't stand the way she acts and feel shes a huge reason Ben is now playing at the Dees.
That's all well and good but I can't see how and why an annoying WAG would be sufficient reason to move on one of the club's few elite players, with no logical replacement, and managing the trade in a manner that saw us get bent over.
Seeing Ben Brown at one of end of the ground, the worst forward line in living memory at the other, a lop sided scoreboard and the Dees 7-0 and first on the ladder and us 0-7 and last is going to be heartbreaking.
Meh.. need to move on man. Plenty of fish aka joeys in the sea/fieldThat's all well and good but I can't see how and why an annoying WAG would be sufficient reason to move on one of the club's few elite players, with no logical replacement, and managing the trade in a manner that saw us get bent over.
Seeing Ben Brown at one of end of the ground, the worst forward line in living memory at the other, a lop sided scoreboard and the Dees 7-0 and first on the ladder and us 0-7 and last is going to be heartbreaking.
1994 and 1998 were heartbreaking...and 2002That's all well and good but I can't see how and why an annoying WAG would be sufficient reason to move on one of the club's few elite players, with no logical replacement, and managing the trade in a manner that saw us get bent over.
Seeing Ben Brown at one of end of the ground, the worst forward line in living memory at the other, a lop sided scoreboard and the Dees 7-0 and first on the ladder and us 0-7 and last is going to be heartbreaking.
LOL imaging thinking the club traded one of the best forwards in the league, our most marketable player since Carey, because his missus was a bit difficult. It's absolute ******* nonsense. If it had any bearing on the way things progressed it would be in the range of about 0.000000001% of the reason why he's at the Dees. Some people just want an easy target at whom to direct their ire and you can be defensive about the gendered aspect all you like but it absolutely, undeniably plays a role in this rubbish -- for some subconsciously, for others overtly.
I like him and reckon he should continue coaching collingwood for as long as he can.
I agree with everything but your first sentence. If things did indeed progress as it's been reported (by reliable sources) in regards to his manager rejecting the contract we offered and then wanting to accept it after he'd been injured and rubbish all year, then I actually don't blame our list management team. Or, at least, I don't apportion the majority of the blame to them.It's unpopular but imo we f’ed this one ourselves, hardly a shock that opinion. I'm unconvinced Hester's life views played a part in this.
IF they did, we deserve this outcome for our list management being based on such flimsy foundations.
1994 and 1998 were heartbreaking...and 2002
This is a passing pimple
Maybe Alicia Molek will be available.I doubt it. I think she's blocked his number.
Let's be clear here.All the things mentioned by various posters no doubt contributed to the sigh of relief issued when Ben (and Hester) left, but none of them are the reason he's no longer at the club.
Length of deal we offered in early 2020 was deemed insufficient by Brown and his camp.
We wouldn't offer the length of deal he wanted because of our concerns about his knee.
There have been a few stories around and I think it was a combination of a few that sealed his fate.Let's be clear here.
Despite how some seem to have taken it, I never claimed it was THE reason Ben is no longer at the club.
Simply passing on information that I was made privy to about factors that may have played into his decision making process when he chose to knock back the deal we initially tabled him. Thought some may have found it interesting.
Let's be clear here.
Despite how some seem to have taken it, I never claimed it was THE reason Ben is no longer at the club.
Simply passing on information that I was made privy to about factors that may have played into his decision making process when he chose to knock back the deal we initially tabled him. Thought some may have found it interesting.
Exactly right.There have been a few stories around and I think it was a combination of a few that sealed his fate.