"Collingwood Football Club: Embracing mediocrity since 1990" ...?
Our clubs problems go well beyond your short life.
For almost 50 years Collingwood has acheived off field notority on the back of the McHale dynasty and as a result 'taken their eye off the ball' and achieved very little on it.
The legacy of King Eddie and Madhouse will be the same as that of all his predecessors dating back back to Carlyon in the 50s. In taking the lease on VP and building the god forsaken and social club the club sold its sole and has been cursed by the Colliwobbles ever since.
The club doesnt need a shake up, it needs to be turned UPSIDE DOWN! We need a spirtual revival, because I am affraid THE CLUB is now just another footy team and a struggling one at that.
Collingwood is the most famous sporting club IN THE WORLD and this was acheived ON THE FIELD, ON THE SODEN TURF OF VICTORIA PARK, its equally infamous ground. Not in SOFT recliner chairs in elitist social clubs or in the lavishly SOFT gymnasium of the Lexus centre. The supporters that bother to turn up to games have even gone soft, too old, too many dissappointments.
My plan:
Demolish the Rush and terrace right round to the Ryder. Cheer squad in the Sherrin, with the posh up the back and make em pay top dollar too. Renovate the Ryder, remove the Rose and put a two deck ex-players stand. The rest of us stand around the ground and make sure those bast@rds that visit OUR home know they are up against 40 thou pack shoulder to shoulder, not just 18, all ready to KILL FOR COLLINGWOOD!!
Wake up Magpies, Collingwood is dieing.