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When all you can beat your chest about is crowd noise you should realise your club is in trouble.

But Kochie's Koolaid Kids won't realise that.

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When all you can beat your chest about is crowd noise you should realise your club is in trouble.

But Kochie's Koolaid Kids won't realise that.

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The beauty of the crowd-noise bit is that there is no objective way of knowing whether it's true or not.

This is very comforting when you rank a distant second on every measurable metric.
 

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Judd has a point though. Past and current players shouldn't have to pay to get in. He's coming across as a bit of a sook but he is right.
Well, if it's a past player AFL benefit thingy, surely he should have some kind of ID or ticket?

If I get a gig as a security guard, I'm not going to recognize tons of players from god knows how long ago.
Hell I couldn't pick half of GWS or Gold coasts current team out of a lineup.
 

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It's interesting how they've eased Grundy out of the ruck to give Mason Cox a more prominent role.

The plan is a bold one but has just one flaw:

Cox is utterly useless.
How can we engineer a trade of Jenkins to Collingwood for a first-rounder? They're in desperate need of a big forward and he fits the bill plus it would allow McGovern to take a more prominent role in our forward line not to mention off-loading an oversized contract onto another club (but he'd be a bargain compared to Mayne!)
 

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How can we engineer a trade of Jenkins to Collingwood for a first-rounder? They're in desperate need of a big forward and he fits the bill plus it would allow McGovern to take a more prominent role in our forward line not to mention off-loading an oversized contract onto another club (but he'd be a bargain compared to Mayne!)
Actually his contract next year will be significantly less than this year.
 

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Actually his contract next year will be significantly less than this year.
It was five years IIRC...so you're saying it was front-loaded in first 1-2 years and then falls at the back end? Even if that's the case and the salary cap benefit is minimal I wonder whether he could be a valuable trade commodity to the right club (and when we'd like trade currency for local junior guns...)?
 

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How can we engineer a trade of Jenkins to Collingwood for a first-rounder? They're in desperate need of a big forward and he fits the bill plus it would allow McGovern to take a more prominent role in our forward line not to mention off-loading an oversized contract onto another club (but he'd be a bargain compared to Mayne!)
Wishful thinking, but I can't see Collingwood making the mistake again. E.g taking another team's spud. They've been burnt there enough times in recent history.

Jenkins is in line to be the main whipping boy of 2018 tbh.
 

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It was five years IIRC...so you're saying it was front-loaded in first 1-2 years and then falls at the back end? Even if that's the case and the salary cap benefit is minimal I wonder whether he could be a valuable trade commodity to the right club (and when we'd like trade currency for local junior guns...)?
It was 525K (which isn't big money BTW) that was front loaded.
 

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How can we engineer a trade of Jenkins to Collingwood for a first-rounder? They're in desperate need of a big forward and he fits the bill plus it would allow McGovern to take a more prominent role in our forward line not to mention off-loading an oversized contract onto another club (but he'd be a bargain compared to Mayne!)
I'd absolutely do it, collingwood might be dumb enough to do it too
 

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Wishful thinking, but I can't see Collingwood making the mistake again. E.g taking another team's spud. They've been burnt there enough times in recent history.

Jenkins is in line to be the main whipping boy of 2018 tbh.
You can't see them doing it again...... really......
 

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Wishful thinking, but I can't see Collingwood making the mistake again. E.g taking another team's spud. They've been burnt there enough times in recent history.

Jenkins is in line to be the main whipping boy of 2018 tbh.
I think most of us are dirty on Jenkins for his perceived lack of G&D - especially in the grannie...but that said you can't put him in the same category as Mayne and he's certainly no spud. The numbers don't lie - he kicks goals and for the right team could be their #1 or #2 man...could be Collingwood's consolation prize if they miss out on Lynch.
 

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I think most of us are dirty on Jenkins for his perceived lack of G&D - especially in the grannie...but that said you can't put him in the same category as Mayne and he's certainly no spud. The numbers don't lie - he kicks goals and for the right team could be their #1 or #2 man...could be Collingwood's consolation prize if they miss out on Lynch.
He wasn't alone in the GF
 

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If I was a Tealster I would be questioning the real worth of China and how well their club is ran after seeing our results compared to theirs.

So much wasted resources down the road for such little result.

Of course few will.

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We made a profit (albeit small), our football department is very well resourced and we have very good community programs.

We we are leaps and bounds in front of where we were when this administration came on board.

Why do we need to compare to the Crows?

It is no more relevant than you comparing yourselves to the Eagles.

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We made a profit (albeit small), our football department is very well resourced and we have very good community programs.

We we are leaps and bounds in front of where we were when this administration came on board.

Why do we need to compare to the Crows?

It is no more relevant than you comparing yourselves to the Eagles.

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But Pear posters on our board are constantly writing favourable comparisons of Peardom versus Crowland. Our posters are merely setting the record straight.
 

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We made a profit (albeit small), our football department is very well resourced and we have very good community programs.

We we are leaps and bounds in front of where we were when this administration came on board.

Why do we need to compare to the Crows?

It is no more relevant than you comparing yourselves to the Eagles.

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Better hope Nick X doesn't destroy your pokie revenue

What was it last year? Around the $7m mark I believe

You wrote down SFA debt and you still have the $5 mill China fiasco with no new major sponsorship.

Good luck

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The beauty of the crowd-noise bit is that there is no objective way of knowing whether it's true or not.

This is very comforting when you rank a distant second on every measurable metric.
That's not entirely true. Don't you remember the time when we drowned out the siren against Collingwood?

Port people felt aggrieved by all the talk about it in the media that they retaliated weeks later by trying to break the world sound record for stadium noise. They measured it and failed miserably. Little brother syndrome at it's finest.
 

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That would be the cardboard?
We made a profit (albeit small), our football department is very well resourced and we have very good community programs.

We we are leaps and bounds in front of where we were when this administration came on board.

Why do we need to compare to the Crows?

It is no more relevant than you comparing yourselves to the Eagles.

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Small profit! That’s nice. Sturt made a $500k profit and won premierships in all three grades.
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That's not entirely true. Don't you remember the time when we drowned out the siren against Collingwood?

Port people felt aggrieved by all the talk about it in the media that they retaliated weeks later by trying to break the world sound record for stadium noise. They measured it and failed miserably. Little brother syndrome at it's finest.
It's only loud at Port games because it echoes around the empty stands

It was the same at Footy park
 
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