Just a thought, if trade period was say, 2 days, then none of this would have played out like it did. Day 1 the rumor surfaces, day 2 it is confirmed...all over and half the people on here don't hate the other half.
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YesHow did you get that, was it over just the generic membership email?
if you read our board at 731pm last night... there were plenty screaming bloody murder and well run was not a phrase to be heard.Tell me, what is it like supporting a well run club?
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 latter IMO but it will be a slow continuation of an existing process.Dunno about all of this. I think right now the club needs our support more than ever. The media are salivating over our apparent demise. There’s a tsunami of anti-Collingwood sentiment. We seem to be at a rather low ebb.
I’m not talking about individuals, and I’m not supporting all that has happened. And the sooner Edie goes the better.
But I don’t like us eating our own, and kicking ourselves when we’re down. There are enough haters out there to do that for us.
Yep I got the same reply. Very prompt. I'm impressed. In fact, its the most impressive thing to come out of the club in some time.JUST GOT A REPLY FROM MEMBERSHIP DEPT.
With regards to your most recent request, I have successfully opted you out of any 2021 membership renewals.
We hope to see you back in 2021, and until then I hope that you stay safe and well.
If you have any further questions feel free to reply to this email, or contact us during business hours via webchat from our membership website to speak to a staff member in real-time -
Yep I feel the same way. I was angry last night but today I am over it.Dunno about all of this. I think right now the club needs our support more than ever. The media are salivating over our apparent demise. There’s a tsunami of anti-Collingwood sentiment. We seem to be at a rather low ebb.
I’m not talking about individuals, and I’m not supporting all that has happened. And the sooner Edie goes the better.
But I don’t like us eating our own, and kicking ourselves when we’re down. There are enough haters out there to do that for us.
Don't they validate the card before you add? Oh wait, this is Collingwood, of course they won't ha haIt is possible. I just logged on to the website and you can edit the payment method.
Sounded like it. But was it anyone with any credibility - Angry Adrian?
This x 100So to sum the pies have lost Dunn, Beams, Treloar, Stephenson, Phillips, Reid, Varcoe, Broomhead, Bosenavulagi, Scharenberg a total of 1154 games of experience.
We have brought in pick 15 and retained pick 17 and have no real points left for Reef McIness if he falls afterwards and if we rate him where our pick falls that makes this even more of a disaster. We gave the Bulldogs 500 points more for their pick 14!......That is worth pick 36 so basically for a player Ned and the brains trust thought was worth 2-- 1st rounders 4 years ago we are upgrading a 2nd round pick for him. And we are paying for this.
We are paying I am guessing 700k (the club treats fans with no respect so wont tell us) for beams to do some finger painting and Treloar to play elsewhere because of his wifes career decision. That’s an A grader at most clubs to Ned that is probably a 31 year old 30 game VFL player with a substance abuse problem poor foot skills from a basketball background.
We didn’t think a guy who won the best young player in the competition and averages 1.5 goals a game was worth persisting with.
We go into 2021 with both a coach and vice captain who breached AFL protocols….unprofessional.
Ned Guy thinks a 29 year old finger painter with mental health and injury issues was worth 2 1st rounders but Treloar, Stephenson and Phillips all loyal best 22 players are worth pick 14 that might well out to pick 17 once we get to pick.
And given our strategy based on players wives career moves how do we know our draft picks have partners who will make the correct career decisions? What is the club doing to guarantee us this?
At least Ned knows how to use an excel spreadsheet!……………no he is useless at that to. Easiest job in the world you have X to spend and you need to divide it among 44 players but don’t go over that amount. We have more names on the speadsheet because Ned thinks it is a good idea to pay players to play against the club.
Our most expensive player finished the year as our back up ruckman!
We have no respect at the negotiation table and are a laughing stock and have trashed the clubs image……………But the club is like nothing to see here we all seem to be doing a good job. We are Nth Korea and Ed is Kim Jong Il.
Bucks admits it’s a lose-lose but necessary. Most ridiculous statement ever and once again a lack of regard for the fans who they are treating as stupid. Yet we are not the ones making stupid decision after stupid decision.
The only time I have recently heard ED speak out was to support the board member we have spending public money on Cartier watches for her staff at the post office. Clearly he is not for the members but his useless board (or she would we just call them what they are Eddies mates) Members are fuming no answers just like when he lost club money in the pub deal. Lack of leadership but he is in a complete bubble and nothing to see here. Kim Jong Il is surrounded by his lunching mates on the board.
He did speak up after our embarrassing final against Geelong. It was blah blah blah more spin we are doing a good job. Most insipid effort from a Collingwood side in years so bad he had to talk about the game we played the week before.
We have Lumumba’s case coming up and that makes me feel confident given we have a president who’s idea to calm down the Goodes disaster was to have him open King Kong. Yes lets put out a fire with petrol.
I am not a fan of Lumumba but do feel he was wronged. More lack of professionalism with the club. It is one thing to get someone in to review the club who is genuinely neutral but we are getting Larissa Behrendt in who is an activist and after attacking Bess Price for what is a different opinion shows Larissa is of poor character herself. Her enquiry is only going one way and will be 100% against the club.
Judging by followers on Social media, Collingwood have 20% more followers than Richmond but 20% less members. I am frightened to think what this will be next year given the lack of respect shown to our fans and loyal players…………The marketing and communications team are also sadly a fail masked by loyal fans.
It really is a time for the club to draw a line in the sand.
Ned Guy……….I feel sorry for him as he is easily the most incompetent person ever to work in the AFL BYEEEEEEEEEEE
Ed……….You have done some great things but are currently President of the least professional club in the AFL, the organisation you lead with your mates is the shame and the embarrassment of the AFL you are more interested in fighting for your friend who buys cartier watches for staff with public money than the great Collingwood football club.
BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Lets name the toilets at the Collingwood centre after Ed and Ned so we never forget them when we do a dump. Its time to wipe our arse of these two and move on.
Marketing and Communications team…………BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEE……….we are fans and not idiots.
CEO………….No idea who you are. Humphrey B Bear would have said more. We are Collingwood we need a leader not someone who is a dead fish BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Board member who spends public money on cartier watches……….you should be nowhere near an organisation run by members…Look at your watch it is time for you to leave………BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Bucks………You are a great Collingwood person and leader but have let the club and fans down. You are leading a team and organisation with its back to the wall. You have made decisions and people are angry. Our last game our players we played was insipid the hardness of some wet lettuce.
In 2021 you need to make sure they are the most bonded group of players and our players feel the anger and passion of our fans. They need to join us with the pitch forks and breath fire. First we need to burn the club down so we can rebuild and then we need to burn the competition up. We are not a blow up sex sheep that gets f’ed by everyone we are the Collingwood football club. Our adminstrators stayed in a caravan park that’s how much the comp thinks of us. The club needs to win its respect back. Right now we are Johnny Depp and Ned Guy/ED are Amber Heard leaving a dump on the bed. The good omen is Johnny Depp made his name in 21 Jump Street and next year is 2021. Lets get our name back in 2021.
If pies fail next year and that should be based on competivess and prospect of improving then it is time to say BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
If we don't make finals and he extends him again, will be the end for me...I'll just watch the game as a nutural.Do you really think Ed won't extend Buckley's contract next year, even if we aren't doing too well?
What's very significant in all of this is they wanted to move Treloar and Phillips {plus Cox} on last year, while it was very obvious that Stephenson was on the nose. These aren't the names Bucks was forced to come up with out of the blue to relieve cap pressure like you're implying.In my mind it's clear we had a salary cap problem exacerbated by this season and the reduction in TPP for 2021, (at least).
Ned would've told Walshy who in turn told Ed, (if they didn't already know).
The message was then conveyed to Bucks, we're going to have to let some players go.
Notwithstanding we have un-contracted players that can still be let go, our issues lie/lay within the contracted players.
Bucks was tasked with identifying those players, (hence his comments on twitter).
"The Club" were silent as they knew it was their fault.
Bearing in the other clubs knew, (and majority of the salaries were being picked up too) we were never going to get decent picks.
Just on that, the $300k for Treloar will be for next year only IMO.
Ned inherited a cluster.... and has been trying to fix it, (his lack of apparent personality tells me he's good with numbers).
Walshy, Ed and The Board, (the only constants) are to blame here for allowing this to happen.
Bucks wouldn't know unless told and Ned was brought in to fix it.
They were silent as they knew nothing they said would matter or change anything.
I don't/won't blame Ned, Bucks or the players - this is on our Football Manager, CEO and Board to own.
Now they owe us supporters an apology/explanation and if they don't own it they should be replaced.
Fair point.What's very significant in all of this is they wanted to move Treloar and Phillips {plus Cox} on last year, while it was very obvious that Stephenson was on the nose. These aren't the names Bucks was forced to come up with out of the blue to relieve cap pressure like you're implying.