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Eddie yesterday indicated that the club had been reliably informed from elements of sympathetic Collingwood supporters within the HerSun jornalistic community, that Collingwood is very much in the gun this year.
Apparently their not even waiting to see what transpires during the year but have already decided to slash and burn us in their newspaper columns.

Intrestingly today their is a spread on past recruiting mistakes and a damning analysis on out midfield group. Fair enough I guess in their biased styles they are allowed to write what they want but its always interesting to see T Shaw always available and ready to go on record with his assertions. No anti Malthouse bias there!!!
Mick Mcguane is the other who roasts us and in this instance I'll see Mickey as someone who was continuously over looked for assistants roles at the club and herein lies an opportunity to just remind the club he is around....

Shaw lost me a long time ago for his inability to demonstrate any sense of solidarity for the Collingwood footy club but Mickey , who is actually a little more passive in his remarking of the midfield group has dissapointed me a bit.

My theory is voice your opinions guys if you have the means to do it but geez we look like hams when its done publicly and 15 other clubs have the chance to poke fun at us. Its not what we should be about when things dont go as well as we like and inparticularly after round 1.....
 
The media can bag us all they like, I just hope that MM and the boys proove the tools wrong through out the year. Especially this week against the crows.
 
Ah! the Tony Shaw years, I've long since supressed the memory of those times, but I do remember darkness, futility, and rocking up to games with no expectations.
 

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Just read the Heraldsun article and I thought it had many valid points. What I don't agree with and never will is keeping Paul Williams. His last year with us was decent, but the 3 years preceeding it were ordinary, and we got Clement 28 and Holland 25, Williams is 32. Now letting Scotland go and keeping Cheesy, thats another story.
 
jabso said:
Williams wouldn't of added much. If we had P.Williams this story would of still have been written but instead of saying Brodie is the only mid that shows a bit of pace they would say "Paul Williams is the only one that has pace, and he's 32!".
Exactly. Ask the Swanettes if they want to straight swap Holland and Willo at the end of the year!
 
pieman1 said:
Just read the Heraldsun article and I thought it had many valid points. What I don't agree with and never will is keeping Paul Williams. His last year with us was decent, but the 3 years preceeding it were ordinary, and we got Clement 28 and Holland 25, Williams is 32. Now letting Scotland go and keeping Cheesy, thats another story.


In hindsight Scotland leaving was a blemish but in this article things are contrived a little further to make us look bad. Scotland is no express paced midfielder and if anything would be part of a one paced midfield group which we currently are, but hey thez the breaks...
Williams was a highly paid player who had not met expectations when he was traded and subsequently re-invented his career at the Swans which is a risk you take come trade time. The article failed to mention this other then to have Shaw quoted as saying that Williams was great blah blah blah...
Perhaps if he thought Williams was so great preceeding his departure year of 2000 then it may explain Shaw was in fairy fairy land hence our 99 spoon...
 
While i understand that us Pie supporters in general hate anything that is written negatively against us, who is going to say that what was written in that article isnt true....not me for sure


And btw Willo was a gun and he HAS been sorely missed by us since he left
 

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