Hey all, it's been fun being more active on bigfooty, but things could get real messy because of one of my posts and I'm opting to take a break in the interim.
Hopefully it's not our last VFL match at Vic Park for the year, but given it's our last home and away match at our traditional home for the year I figured we'd be silly not to make the most of it.
Saturday 13th August
After the final siren of the VFL match (~ 4pm)
Lulie St Tavern - rear 288...
Dave Lowden was just on SEN talking with Bartlett about sources in journalism and the need for anonymity.
Lowden: Robinson made up the figures and club in the drug story where he named Collingwood
Bartlett: Robinson would argue he had a source
Lowden: has to be careful what he can say in...
Official eligibility criteria:
http://www.foxsportspulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=1-118-0-0-0&sID=277333
FINAL SQUADS
Collingwood + Footscray to be updated once teams are finalised
COLLINGWOOD
Eligible (15 players):
F: Toovey ~ Frost ~ Goldsack
HB: Golds ~ Marsh ~ Williams
C: Sier ~...
This proposal would have changed the football landscape like no other. Basically the idea was to bring Sydney Rugby League and the ANFC in line with each other to create a universal code. Reads like talks were occurring for some time and that possibly the war stopped the draft rules progressing...
Thought this deserved it's own thread, instead of tacking it into the Malthouse one.
Congrats to both.
EDIT: only just read that Eddie Hillgrove and Heloise Pratt were also awarded life membership. Don't know much about either, but I'm sure both have made worthy contributions.
Dane Swan
3 games - equal 7th most CFC games
4 games - equal 6th most CFC games
8 games - equal 5th most CFC games
11 games - equal 4th most CFC games
20 games - equal 3rd most CFC games
30 possession games
10 games - equal 1st with Harvey (Mitchell is 2 games behind Swan, Ablett 6 games...
With all these picks likely to be burnt by academy selections thought I'd do an updated list on where our picks actually sit. Obviously we may not take 5 selections and not all picks may be used by others.
1 to 9 - non academy clubs
10 - GWS
11 to 32 - non academy clubs
27 - (live 26) -...
A bit of discussion in the finals thread about how the introduction of Gold Coast and GWS has shaped the current form of competition and in particular Hawthorn's sustained dominance. The same could be said of Geelong. Obviously there's more to their success, but as Ant85 suggested it's worth...
There's been a lot of talk about Carlton and Brisbane getting band 1 compo (picks 2 and 4) following Melbourne getting pick 3 for Frawley last year. There's clearly a lot wrong with the current compensation bands. While I think there's merit in a similar ranking system to father son/academy...
http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/news/2015-09-08/exmagpie-named-in-hall-of-fame
Drafted in 1992 at pick #31, before team mate Scott Burns (#90).
42 CFC games
Traded to Adelaide where he played in a flag
Returned to Norwood and kicked on winning their B&F 3 times
Remember him playing the odd...
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/sydney-swans/sydney-swans-defender-rhyce-shaw-to-retire-at-seasons-end-20150819-gj3b45.html
Know he's not at the 'pies anymore and was much maligned, but reckon he's got the best out of himself and had a great career. Started to turns things around and played good...
According to The Age Swann and Eddie are pushing the AFL to reduce the games criteria for father-sons, which is being considered for 2016 to balance out the academies. The article says it could be reduced from anything between 1 to 50 games. Goes on to talk about grandfather-sons, which is...
Looking at this http://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/matches/ we really have been privileged to have had such a great run of making the finals in recent years. Last night ended our streak for consecutive years of finals at 8 years, which equals our second greatest sequence. 8 years of finals is...
The club needs to decide if we are a genuine chance next year or if we are still a couple of years off and trade accordingly.
If they believe we can make up the gap in strength and experience with the addition of a few players we should go all out and gain those players. Much like St Kilda...