I wonder how that flower with the decorated van from my thread a few weeks back took this

McGuire said he had expected Swann to say one of two things when he flew to Sydney to inform the president of his resignation — that there was a drug issue at Collingwood, given the events of the past week in Perth, or that the AFL had hired him.

"When he said Carlton, that was a different thing altogether," he told 3AW

I wonder how that flower with the decorated van from my thread a few weeks back took this

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"I don't think Greg would have been just seduced by the cheque, he's a far better person than that. I think it would have been the challenge and maybe he felt he'd given all he could to Collingwood."
(McGuire)

Good luck and best wishes to one of lifes gentlemen in Michael Malouf
Thanks for your efforts over the last 4 years and not many people will ever know what issues you had to deal with in those long 4 years and the lengths you went to right the ship

Here here

Hear hear.

"Rape and pillage" eh?.....does that describe all Club presidents Ed?

"Rape and pillage" eh?.....does that describe all Club presidents Ed?

Mate, we could have had the AFL All Australian Team during the 1970s and 1980s and we still would have lost all those Grand Finals. As a club we are jinxed to always fail. Look at Tuddy and McKenna running into each other in the 1970 Grand Final and knocking each other out. Look at the fact the 1979 Grand Final final quarter went for less than 27 minutes, look at Shane Bond with the ball on the HFF in the 1977 draw, another 20 seconds and we score and win.

If Bernie Q played for us he would have got injured in the finals or rubbed out like Fabulous Phil did. We are just jinxed.

Except in 1990 when my father was lying there dying and God came to me and said would you rather I save your father or let Collingwood win one premiership in your lifetime and I chose the premiership for the Pies. So we won one, my old man carked it two weeks after the Grand Final and we carried him to his grave draped with a Collingwood flag around him. Anyway, this is my little secret that I will have to answer to on my deathbed but don't expect any favours from God, on the field, too soon. I got no Relos left.

As for Brisbane being allowed more money and it being sour grapes. Well why not throw out all rules then. I didn't even start on Rocca being rubbed out in 2003 for nearly getting his elbow within 5 metres of Brendan Lade. Today, such an incident would be laughed out of the tribunial under the new system.

Losing Rocca destroyed any chance we had in 2003. That reason alone killed us. Why? Well we had beaten them very easily two weeks earlier. By taking out Anthony Rocca at the stage, you were taking away out heart and our soul and our toughest player. Look at how our player responded to Rocca's performance the year before. Plus Nigel Lappin was on stuff that would make Ben Cousins and Daniel Kerr look like choir boys, just so he could play with 4 broken ribs.

I hate Greg Swan now, did you hear what he said laughingly. when you transfer from Collingwood to Carlton, you get out of there as quickly as possible. Giggle. Giggle. Bastard. Ugly Shitface, Rot in Hell.

What about the 1978 Preliminary Final, where Ronny Wearmouth had his checkbone shattered and played on while being able to look only through one eye. If Ronny could have looked through both eyes he would have seen Ray Shaw and Graeme Anderson standing open in the goal square rather than blasting away for a point when we were coming home with a strong finish wih the breeze.

What about 1972 Preliminary Final, when Royce Hart came off the bench with a bung knee when we were 25 points in front in the last quarter of the Preliminary Final and even in the last two minutes when wee Georgie Bisset handballed the ball through for a behind rather than kicking that goal. Bitchmond went on to win the Grand Final.

What about 1992 Qualifying Final against "St Killed her", when Michael Christian let Stewie Loewe take 47 marks cause he was too fat and slow and Leigh Matthews kept Daics on the bench for too long in the 3rd Quarter and when Daics was thrown onto the ball in the last quarter we blitzed and Big Ronny McKewon had that shot for goal that was called a point and we ended up losing by 5 points and we got kicked out in the first week of the finals even though we finished equal top on the ladder because of the stupid finals system they used that year that they got rid of the next year. We would have killed the Weagles if we got through Plugger and co.

What about Pants getting into his car when he should have taken a taxi.

What about the 2002 Grand Final, with the Rocca goal/behind and Tazza being pack raped by White in the forward pocket in the last quarter when we were a couple of points up. Tazza was grabbed and held and the umpires swallowed their whistles on purpose then the ball went down the other end and Lynch fell over his shoelaces and somehow one of the moron umpires deemed it a free kick, when it never was. The commentators were as dumbfounded as the players.

See it is all a big jinx.

Once or twice is bad luck but time after time means you are hopelessly and irrevocably Jinxed, Jinxed, Jinxed as a football team. Jinxed, Jinxed, Jinxed I tell you.