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mudlark
Joined: 19 Mar 2002
Location: Maroochydore Qld
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This is just a waxing lyrical,post season thought,so don't everyone get too down beat about it,but 2 seperate acts of Bastardry may well have determined our season before it started. The first was by the AFL for allowing Sydney to change venues at the 11th hr. Would Swanny have destroyed his foot if we had played at ANZ and would Faz nearly have broken his neck if the game was on the more expansive ANZ??? We will never know ,of course, but the course of history was changed and these events may never have happened.
The second and most despicable,was the releasing of the off season drug taking of Collingwood players ONLY ,by the biggest pile of human excrement,no names required, which traumatised a very youthful team to the point they were smashed all over the ground and added to the 2 major injuries,put our season on the road to ruin before it had all begun.
I reckon it took a good 3 >4 weeks before the team and club came to terms with these 2 acts and by then our season was gone along with the mounting injury toll.
Just a thought and I'm putting out there to see if anyone else has had similar thoughts. |
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mgh3536
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Melbourne
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| mudlark wrote: | This is just a waxing lyrical,post season thought,so don't everyone get too down beat about it,but 2 seperate acts of Bastardry may well have determined our season before it started. The first was by the AFL for allowing Sydney to change venues at the 11th hr. Would Swanny have destroyed his foot if we had played at ANZ and would Faz nearly have broken his neck if the game was on the more expansive ANZ??? We will never know ,of course, but the course of history was changed and these events may never have happened.
The second and most despicable,was the releasing of the off season drug taking of Collingwood players ONLY ,by the biggest pile of human excrement,no names required, which traumatised a very youthful team to the point they were smashed all over the ground and added to the 2 major injuries,put our season on the road to ruin before it had all begun.
I reckon it took a good 3 >4 weeks before the team and club came to terms with these 2 acts and by then our season was gone along with the mounting injury toll.
Just a thought and I'm putting out there to see if anyone else has had similar thoughts. |
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RudeBoy
Joined: 28 Nov 2005
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| mgh3536 wrote: | | mudlark wrote: | This is just a waxing lyrical,post season thought,so don't everyone get too down beat about it,but 2 seperate acts of Bastardry may well have determined our season before it started. The first was by the AFL for allowing Sydney to change venues at the 11th hr. Would Swanny have destroyed his foot if we had played at ANZ and would Faz nearly have broken his neck if the game was on the more expansive ANZ??? We will never know ,of course, but the course of history was changed and these events may never have happened.
The second and most despicable,was the releasing of the off season drug taking of Collingwood players ONLY ,by the biggest pile of human excrement,no names required, which traumatised a very youthful team to the point they were smashed all over the ground and added to the 2 major injuries,put our season on the road to ruin before it had all begun.
I reckon it took a good 3 >4 weeks before the team and club came to terms with these 2 acts and by then our season was gone along with the mounting injury toll.
Just a thought and I'm putting out there to see if anyone else has had similar thoughts. |
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Member 7167 
"What Good Fortune For Governments That The People Do Not Think" - Adolf Hitler.
Joined: 18 Dec 2008
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We were screwed before the season got started. As for Robbo's efforts, I vew him now with utter contempt.
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| mudlark wrote: | This is just a waxing lyrical,post season thought,so don't everyone get too down beat about it,but 2 seperate acts of Bastardry may well have determined our season before it started. The first was by the AFL for allowing Sydney to change venues at the 11th hr. Would Swanny have destroyed his foot if we had played at ANZ and would Faz nearly have broken his neck if the game was on the more expansive ANZ??? We will never know ,of course, but the course of history was changed and these events may never have happened.
The second and most despicable,was the releasing of the off season drug taking of Collingwood players ONLY ,by the biggest pile of human excrement,no names required, which traumatised a very youthful team to the point they were smashed all over the ground and added to the 2 major injuries,put our season on the road to ruin before it had all begun.
I reckon it took a good 3 >4 weeks before the team and club came to terms with these 2 acts and by then our season was gone along with the mounting injury toll.
Just a thought and I'm putting out there to see if anyone else has had similar thoughts. |
Clutching at straws here mate.
Excuses are for those who dont make it. Hawthorn lost their spearhead forward (and second bet ruck rover - same guy) to cancer this year and that didn't stop them.
My point is, no matter what the valid excuses we think we have, its pretty hollow....
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doriswilgus
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Location: the great southern land
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| Well,whether it's making excuses or not,that night really was the end of our season.It was a catastrophic night for us. |
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HAL
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| Oh I get it. Very interesting. |
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Cam 
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The drugs scandal caused a massive bout of infighting that took weeks to sort out apparently.
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HAL
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RudeBoy
Joined: 28 Nov 2005
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My mail is that when that grub Robbo became aware that a club (apparently Hawthorn) had 23 of its players test positive for recreational drug use, he decided it was probably Collingwood. He then rang our club and spoke to someone who told him he was way off the mark but couldn't tell him what our number was, but it was less than half of what Robbo suggested. That's how the figure of 11 druggies at Collingwood became the story. Robbo had no idea at all what the number was, but simply ran with 11 (being less than half of 23). That's why Bucks virtually called him a grub on Footy 360.
There was indeed a lot of internal soul searching and blaming going on in our club for weeks following this disgraceful episode. Arguably, it completely sabotaged a large chunk of the first half of our season. |
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magpieazza
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Location: Griffith N.S.W
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I agree totally with you Rudeboy and OP mudlark. It screwed us for the year and I hope Bux doesn't ever forget Throbbos intentional sabotage. It basically derailed us and Swans injury was just the salt we didnt need.
I had high hopes for a great year even without thinking we were going to be premiers.
2017 will be better surely, with the right trades.
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BBHS 
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| I thought this was about Steven May. |
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Beast
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| Agree, the whole last 5 years should really be called "what may have been" |
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mudlark
Joined: 19 Mar 2002
Location: Maroochydore Qld
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| E wrote: | | mudlark wrote: | This is just a waxing lyrical,post season thought,so don't everyone get too down beat about it,but 2 seperate acts of Bastardry may well have determined our season before it started. The first was by the AFL for allowing Sydney to change venues at the 11th hr. Would Swanny have destroyed his foot if we had played at ANZ and would Faz nearly have broken his neck if the game was on the more expansive ANZ??? We will never know ,of course, but the course of history was changed and these events may never have happened.
The second and most despicable,was the releasing of the off season drug taking of Collingwood players ONLY ,by the biggest pile of human excrement,no names required, which traumatised a very youthful team to the point they were smashed all over the ground and added to the 2 major injuries,put our season on the road to ruin before it had all begun.
I reckon it took a good 3 >4 weeks before the team and club came to terms with these 2 acts and by then our season was gone along with the mounting injury toll.
Just a thought and I'm putting out there to see if anyone else has had similar thoughts. |
Clutching at straws here mate.
Excuses are for those who dont make it. Hawthorn lost their spearhead forward (and second bet ruck rover - same guy) to cancer this year and that didn't stop them.
My point is, no matter what the valid excuses we think we have, its pretty hollow.... |
No surprises here.Well 1 i guess,that you'e the only one to come forth.the night is still young. Poor old Hawthorn EH!!!! |
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Piesnchess
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| Member 7167 wrote: | | We were screwed before the season got started. As for Robbo's efforts, I vew him now with utter contempt. |
Yep, its all sliding doors isn't it, if that ball hadve gone to another part of the ground in the swans game, at that insant, swannie would still be on our list. Yes, and robbo is a gutter journo, nothing more. 
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