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Love the father son rule and great to see another Daicos at Collingwood. if only we kept pick 2...

Did you ignore half the quote? We were below standard when it mattered 2 years running and had a disasterous trade week (and off season) that saw the last 5 first round picks exit for bugger all and we basically hung Treloar out to dry and put it on the players saying they didn't want to play...

Ironically GWS might use "our" pick 2 to bid on Daicos forcing us to pay a high price. Just to rub salt into our wounds of incompetence. Did we really think that pick would be much later after 2 dismal finals exits in 2 years and that trade week?

No offence, but that's a naive view of the world and a fancifull take on reality at Collingwood and you don't strike me as either of those things. Yes any member can nominate provided they are either sufficiently qualified as such or determined by the board to be membership qualification...

I've been outraged ever since the constitutional amendments were used to avoid member votes by using the casual vacancy appointment to ensure every board member is a sitting member at election time and the club strongarming any potential candidates out of nominating. End result is an...

If Daicos qualifies then so does Dennis Banks. I'd have him in the back pocket ahead of Dunne. Andrew Ireland was a very good (under rated) HBF. More importantly, how could you leave out Geoff Hayward? Obviously more concerned with his off field habits than on field prowess! Glad to see...

Correct. None of the fans on this board or any of the other 6 billion humans on this planet have been or are being elected to the (current) Collingwood board.

I am very confused by the thread title. Who elected O'Donnell? I can't find a member that can recall casting a vote. As far as I can see O'Donnell replaced the last remaining elected board member, albeit that said election occurred last century.

Just the Treloar contract when we were already projected over the cap should be enough to end his tenure let alone anything else.

There are no vacumes. The board is responsible for the people in charge of making all the decisions, including the list manager even if only via the appointment of the footy department head if they don't do it directly. In our case in particular we had a report telling us the salary cap was...

And made sure he appointed every board member since, including Korda.

Aside from a number of reputational damaging comments, casualy vacancy appointments to replace directors for every available position for the entirely of this century, $12m down the gurgeler on the pubs and changing coach after winning a flag and then having our best winning season in our...

Kelly looks a player

Hi tackling stats will keep him in the side. Hopefully he can show some more impact with the ball in the coming weeks.

Fair to say Cox is a bigger problem.

We are right where a poorly run organisation with unaccountable administration would put any club. The board appointed by the ex president can't turn around the ship it already sunk. We need wholesale change off field before we can really improve. On filed we have some serious issues. We...

None. That doesn't give us anything to trade with or salary cap space to pay one. What we need is beside the point. what we can afford is - NOTHING! Yes, it's poor list management of the highest order.

Based on his answer to the direct question on SEN the other day Bertrand has no interest in being on the board and supports those charged with making the decisions.

With what - peanuts? We couldn't afford his salary and didn't have the draft picks to land him anyway.

Yep - both. We identified the salary cap issue in the last review and then signed big long term deals after that and ended up hopelessly desperate to push players out for whatever we could get.

Good sentiment but in my view more of what has held us back for half a century. We actually need to spill blood to heal IMO and the only way to get that started is for clearly visible repocussions. To me that is either a mass exodus of members or a revolt. The former is more likely than the...

He'd be an interesting option. Whether he's up for a hostile takeover is another matter. Eddie would have to clearly see the writing on the wall to step aside but Bertrand would possibly be the type of person he'd may way for - as opposed to a more aggressive/combative option.

No Eddie, the man YOU brought in and who cost us Balme didn't do Beams or Treloar or Stephenson or Phillpis' contracts let alone Grundy's or De Goey's and he didn't pay all our first round picks for the last 5 years for 3 players who won't play another game for Collingwood.

But not naive? You are probably as optimistic as I am! I hoped for better but didn't expect it unfortunately. Actually I hoped no one would take any of the 3 on offer and the club would be forced to face the music. Maybe then we get accountability. As it is Ned Guy will get the arse after a...

You can sign petitions and ring call back or post on boards but money talks. If you really want to send a message you find an agitated Collingwood loving lawyer, get him/her to set up a trust account and get members and supporters to pay a membership equivalent into the account instead of...

Kelly? No way in hell he challenges his mate Eddie and in any case his son on on the list. What we need is someone not connected to playing for or working for Collingwood that will hire the experts to do their job competently.

Unfortunately that was naive and optimistic. If everyone knows you are desperate and without option you have no bargaining power. That's a result of incompetence to a level that more than just can't be hidden but has to be exposed to achieve the result. It's bad enough that we arsed up the...

Trust me I hate everything about it but it got the result it was designed to get. We were desperate because we are incompetent.

If you wrote it down 18 months ago you would be locked up in a padded cell. Unfortunately before this trade week began it was 100% certain to play out like it did.

Think you missed the point