Re: Didak to stay a pie

[FootyEater]

just heard eddie on SEN saying that all things being equal didak will be a pie next year, and that that is what eddie would like to see.

i guess that answers that hey

 

[rose jam]

there's no way he'll leave,

All focus on cousins and the draft.

 

[The Royal Sampler]

I just want an answer on our captain going around again.

 

[FootyEater]

I just want an answer on our captain going around again.

yeah ed was coy about that, said that he has a fair idea of what will happen but that it wont be annouced till next week.

 

[The Royal Sampler]

Cheers, at least I don't need to waste time lurking around news sites over the weekend then.

 

[FootyEater]

Cheers, at least I don't need to waste time lurking around news sites over the weekend then.

no worries mate

 

[Pedro]

The impression I got from that was that the news on Burns might not necessarily be what we want to hear. Nothing was said, but it was just the gut feel I got.

 

[Skade]

I heard on local Mildura radio this morning(no real identities) the comment "now that Burns & Wakes have retired".

Probably can't read too much in to it, its just that the other guy didn't correct him.

But fantastic news about Dids

 

[shawthing09]

I have been a fan of if Cousin's was to play not having Burns Cous and O'Bree in the same midfield as it would just put to much of the workload on the old blokes and keep the young guys out. That said my preference was for O'Bree to be pushed out, it doesn't seem that it will happen.

Could possibly be waiting to be confident about getting Cous before accepting Burnsy's retirement

 

[Jonnos Right Foot]

If he said "all things being equal", it mens he didnt say he is staying.

If a Kerr trade came up, he would be gone quicker than a premature ejaculator.

 

[Smoky]

If he said "all things being equal", it mens he didnt say he is staying.

If a Kerr trade came up, he would be gone quicker than a premature ejaculator.

If a Kerr trade came up? What, you mean if he told WCE he wanted to be traded to a Victorian club... Well as thats already happened and then Eddie said what he said means he safe as houses.

No way will Collingwood trade someone who has been given 2 lifts in cars by 2 people he shouldnt have got in the car with for someone who steals prescription pads and takes Ketamine!

 

[Pie eyed]

If he said "all things being equal", it mens he didnt say he is staying.

If a Kerr trade came up, he would be gone quicker than a premature ejaculator.

That is "spin" for Didak is definitely staying at Collingwood, unless he "****s up in the meantime".

 

[heffernone]

McGuire backs Didak to stay with Magpies

dam Cooper | September 20, 2008

WAYWARD Collingwood star Alan Didak appears set to continue his AFL career as a Magpie after club president Eddie McGuire last night gave him the strongest sign of public support over his future.
Didak has been touted as trade bait since he and teammate Heath Shaw lied to the club over Shaw's decision to drive his car drunk, with Didak as a passenger, last month.
Collingwood suspended the pair for the remainder of the season.
Didak apologised to his club and supporters, and to McGuire personally, on Thursday night, saying he was desperate to continue his career at Collingwood.
McGuire said last night the Magpies would consider any potential trade deal in next month's exchange period, but expected Didak to be playing for Collingwood in 2009.
"All things being equal, you'd like to think that Alan will be at the club next year," he said on radio station SEN.
"He's a required player. He's contracted for two years. He's a very, very good footballer and all things being equal, I'd love to see the No. 4 (guernsey) galloping around in black and white stripes with Alan Didak in it."
McGuire was one of the Collingwood officials embarrassed in the drink-drive fiasco, as the club hierarchy stood firmly behind Didak and Shaw before it emerged the pair's story, that Didak was not a passenger when Shaw drove drunk, was a lie.
Last year Didak was also a passenger in a car driven by Christopher Hudson, who later pleaded guilty to shootings in Melbourne's CBD which left one man dead and two people injured.
McGuire was confident the 2006 best and fairest winner had learned a lesson from his latest indiscretion.
"I like Alan and we've got a good rapport for each other, and I've stuck my head out on more than one occasion for him over the duration," he said.
"He's a good young fella and I think he has learnt a lot over the last six weeks.
"If he hasn't, well, there's nothing that can teach him."
Didak told the Nine Network on Thursday night the past six weeks had been the toughest period of his life.

 

[Teh_Nub]

i think it was kinda obvious if Collingwood were wanting Didak to do an interview on the footy show which apparently collingwood had a lot of power of what would go to air according to carro on footy classified.

 

[heffernone]

Alan Didak a keeper if Pies swoop on Ben Cousins

Mike Sheahan | September 20, 2008


SURELY Alan Didak is safe and secure at Collingwood.

The club's keen interest in Ben Cousins would leave it exposed to the charge of gross hypocrisy if it was still of a mind to unload Didak between seasons.
How can it take a moral stand on Didak while taking a risk on Cousins? A huge risk.
On his own admission, Cousins has a drug addiction. He has our sympathy, yet it is a problem of his creation.
In the context of role models, it is difficult to argue Didak's indiscretions pose a bigger threat to the younger players than Cousins' problem.
Cousins knows he isn't over his problem. Doesn't claim to be. He knows better than most those afflicted with any addiction always are just one bad day away from falling back into the abyss.
It's a weird scenario, this one. On the day coach Michael Malthouse and the club's head of football operations Geoff Walsh met Cousins in Perth, an apologetic Didak pleaded his case on The Footy Show. No, Dids isn't going anywhere.
As reader and Collingwood lover Anthony Hayes said yesterday: "If Cousins comes to Collingwood, Didak has to stay. Same as if they tried to recruit (Daniel) Kerr."
The interest in Cousins is genuine. Malthouse wasn't in Perth for any West Coast Eagles reunion. He was in and out, having had a D & M with the Brownlow medallist.
Collingwood knows Cousins represents a big enough risk without compounding a potential problem by dumping Didak.
Imagine, for example, Didak starring in different colours next year at the time news breaks of "personal problems" for Cousins at Lexus Centre.
Those who should know say Cousins desperately wants to resume his AFL career next year.

That all the signs are encouraging.
The rumour mill continues to spin, but eyewitnesses say he is in superb condition, his enthusiasm renewed.
The latest indication is three and maybe four Victorian clubs are open to the idea of drafting him. Where he ends up is anyone's guess, but, if it's Collingwood, he will have Didak for a teammate.

 

[heffernone]

Magpies players 'to have say on Cousins'

September 19, 2008

Collingwood players and their families could have a major say on whether the Magpies try to recruit Ben Cousins and end his AFL exile from a drug addiction.
While AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou said Cousins' return to top-flight football was far from a done deal, Collingwood president Eddie McGuire said the club would meet again with the Brownlow medallist.
Magpies coach Mick Malthouse and football operations manager Geoff Walsh reportedly met with Cousins on Thursday in Perth but McGuire would not confirm that.
However, he confirmed Collingwood would be meeting again with Cousins and would consider recruiting the former West Coast captain, who has been treated for a drug addiction and remains de-registered by the AFL, for bringing the game into disrepute.
"Our club is considering every player that's available," McGuire told radio station SEN.
"If you're saying have we ruled him out, no we haven't."
Cousins, 30, is training with WAFL clubs Perth and East Fremantle in a bid to rekindle his AFL career.
To do that, he must satisfy the AFL's medical staff and the AFL Commission that he has beaten his drug addiction before he can be re-registered and apply for either this year's national draft or next year's pre-season draft.
McGuire said Collingwood would discuss Cousins' possible recruitment with the players given the decision's significance.
"One of this magnitude I think it has to be a club decision," he said.
"I think the players would get a say in this.
"And I'd also talk to the players' parents, everything. This is a big decision.
"I think with this one, the decision has to be made that you want to help rehabilitate the guy.
"It's not just the matter of him getting a kick for you.
"Would he make that big a difference at (almost) 31 years of age? Well, it's questionable.
"If it's a good thing for football to help rehabilitate one of our own and then we all go into it together, it needs to be a pretty broad church of opinion to say yes, let's take on what is a pretty big task."
McGuire said Collingwood also had to weigh up the PR value of recruiting Cousins, and said there was more "downside than upside" for any club considering the move.
He said other clubs had spoken with Cousins and expected them to do so again.
"If it came together and Ben was able to make something of his life, get over his addiction and play good football, it would be one of the greatest stories in the history of the game," he said.
Demetriou said despite all the signs appearing to point to a Cousins return, there were still hurdles the 2005 Brownlow winner needed to clear before being given the green light by the AFL.
"They (the AFL conditions) involve things around testing, medical reports from his medical officers and our medical officers ... that would play a very large role, and what is his frame of mind and his attitude?," he told Fairfax radio.
"Does he want to play? Is he healthy, has he been rehabilitated? Again this is all presumptuous; we don't actually know whether he wants to play."