Nathan Brown rumour

[Joel]

Well, we will just have to wait and see, won't we?

[David]

I reckon Collingwood should stick with what they have. They've got about a dozen guys who haven't played a game yet, and the fact that good players like Scotland, Betheras and McGough are struggling to get games shows the depth of the side at the moment.

[burnsy17]

Rumours... arent they fun at this time of the year?

I heard Timmy Watson is going back to Essendon who will then trade him and their second round draft pick to Hawthorn in return for David Beckham who they'll receive from Real Madrid in a straight swap for Angelo Lekkas.....

Seriously people, i dont think that MM and the rest of the Collingwood crew care about whats going on with trades right now... they have something more important on their mind at the moment.... i believe its referred to as a 'premiership'.

Go Pies. Go Burnsy.

[Athas]

carlton will sign brown and are hoping to get soloman as well (don't ask me how).
expect manton and campo (amongst others) to be traded.

reliable source.

[HotPies90]

It's great hearing these rumours suddenly popping up all over the place (and it's not even silly season yet!). I wonder who all these 'reliable' sources are! Heck in a couple of weeks its going to be Brownlow time, and I'm just waiting for the board to get flooded with 'leaked vote tallies'.

Isn't it great living in a sports-mad city like Melbourne?

[Blanch]

Newsflash!!!!! Leak in the brownlow count:

Joffa leads the brownlow count as of last week closely followed by tessa with blanch a distant 3rd.

[Trippy Pie]

Mathew Allen wants to leave carlscum.
Does that mean we are going to get him too?
Shoild be a long playing list next year with all these new players coming to the club.

[Donny]

We won't be getting Allen.

The deal is if we want him we've gotta take the rest of the team off their hands.

[Member]

The reason all this rumour talk has surfaced is due to the fact
that player managers are talking with representatives of clubs and trying to see what they are prepared to offer in order to get player "X" across to that club

all it means is that the player manager is seeing what is being offered in the market place

At collingwood management has indeed been active in talking to player managers but no secret deals have been done with anyone

yes they have identified the type of players they need for next year

As far as to what Nick Stevens and Nathan Brown are doing
well only they really now

the word is that Nick is considering returning to melbourne as his brother no longer lives in adelaide so family is pushing for him to return to melbourne

i guess he will be weighing up his options after Port's finals campaign

Nathan Brown is a smart cookie, he wants regular finals experience and a handsom salary to go with it

The dogs will find it very hard to accomodate a package that nathan wants

The dogs are willing to let him go in order to make room in their cap to sign other players like Murphy

the clubs facing TPP (Total player payments) issues are Port adelaide, brisbane, stkilda at this stage

collingwood has been reorganising their TPP for a few years now