Pies should focus on premiership, not Thomas

[35forever]

I've only just heard this on 360, and it's horrifying, given that everyone rumored to be going to Gold Coast last year went to Gold Coast.

Aside from having pipped (or at least equalled) Dids as my favorite player last year, Daisy is easily one of the 2 or 3 most important guys at the club as regards our premiership aspirations in the near future. There are obviously several guys in our side that can change a game including Pendles, Swanny, Heater, Dids, and half a dozen others. The 2 guys I was most worried about losing were Daisy and Pendles, as they are the ones that I believe can turn a game off their own boot, but for me Daisy is the most important because he is an emotional player, a player who can lift those around him, a player who can do the unexpected, and a player who combines the party tricks of Kraks or Didak with the work ethic of Ball or Tooves.

We've seen how he goes in finals, and I believe he was THE most important guy in our side in the 2010 series. The excitement and lift he can provide with a kick, mark or goal has developed into a phenomenon this year, the torpedo goal, the speccy over Natinui, the bursting runs down the flank ending in a lace out to a Cloke or Dawes, the unseen gut runs the length of the field to be on his own in the square to recieve a pass from Did's or Swanny, the guy has got it all!

But it's more than that, its a vital part of our ethos that Collingwood remains the one side whose players can't be poached, because for us it's about more than just money. It's about unfinished business, it's about playing for your mates, and Playing for the jumper. If anyone personifies that ethos it's Daisy. Anyone who has seen CTV knows how much he enjoys playing for Collingwood and playing with his mates. If Daisy walked it would be far worse than simply losing an elite player, it would mean that the magpie ethos is nothing more than a myth, and that loyalty means nothing in the modern game.

I have been hoping more than anything to hear the news that we've signed Daisy until 2015, but instead I hear Gerard & Robbo talking about his departure to GWS as a done deal (I actually wrote 'fait d'accompli', but then I remembered where I was!). On top of the news that he had his brownlow chances stolen, (I had dollars on him! mongrel MRP!) it was almost too much to bear.

I had no worries at all about beating Melbourne without Swan, but without Daisy... It's only the second time this year I've feared we could just possibly not win, although I still think we will win, it will be hard work. I HATE that!

Please CFC, sign the man! We need him desperately! The idea that we should be concentrating on flags rather than players is redundant, they are the same argument.

And Daisy, please, even though I don't believe you're thinking of leaving, tell your manager to get his finger out and get a deal done so you can concentrate on playing your best Footy with your best mates for the best side that ever existed! Remember, your real earnings will come after you retire, and the best thing you can do for that day is to be a 3 or 4 time Premiership player for the most famous team in the game.

There is only one Collingwood!

[E]

[35forever]

This is all too true, I see no doubt that Demented-roo will hand both new teams a flag or 3 within half a dozen years. I guess most people think that teams are winning their first flag, or their first in fifty years purely by chance. But have a look at the Demetriou decade: After decades of Hawthorn, Carlton, Essendon, with the odd Adelaide or Kangas flag, suddenly Qld gets it's first flags, followed by a debut flag for Port, a debut flag for Sydney, One to keep WA happy, a first in many decades for G'long, a first in a long time for the rich folks in Hawthorn who are used to winning, a second flag in a century for StKilda... Oh dear, Collingwood stuffed that up! No doubt the doggies were supposed to break their drought too but got pissed instead! Very interesting set of flags indeed. Unfortunately for sides doing well through great recruitment, training, coaching and sheer hard work, the likes of GCS & GWS will need flags to sign up fans in a hostile market, so once again we might see Eddie looking very unhappy after a meeting with der Fuehrer, a la 2003...

We better win a few on end before the window slams shut!



They'll pay for that!

[jack_spain]

The longer the parties fail to come to an agreement the more certain it is that Daisy goes.

The club should be moving heaven and earth to keep Daisy and it is NOT a distraction to the premiership. Different departments are looking after the contracts anyway.

Just get it done.

But a warning: If Daisy goes he can get stuffed as far as I'm concerned. If he stays I will love him for ever!

[jack_spain]

How much prison time do you reckon a man might do if he blows up the GWS headquarters? With Sheedy in it!

[nulla]

[eddiesmith]

Daisy we cannot afford to lose, he and Pendlebury are the perfect partnership in the middle and without either our side would suffer

We however might still be able to win premierships, but definately not with the ease we are doing so now throughout the home and away season

Trouble is Daisy seems just the type to take the money...

[Deja Vu]

At the start of the year I thought to myself if our stars weren't signed up by the mid-year break there is trouble in paradise...

If it gets to say Round 14 or so and Daisy still hasn't signed I'll be preparing for the worst.

[bwphantom]

Lifestyle...think about it?...Gold Coast great lifestyle. GWS?? FFS it is a hole. No amount of Money would entice me to move to Sydney or even worse Western Suburbs.


Daisy will stay.

[Deja Vu]

You don't actually have to live in Western Sydney though do you?

[blackandwhite4life]

[jack_spain]

[mattd]

If we did happen to lose him, what would be the Likely
compensation? First round draft pick?

[Deja Vu]

Connors is a stand up manager. He delivered us Jolly and Ball. And Taz too I believe?

[AN_Inkling]