Thank you for a balanced view. President and CEO are absolutely culpable for de-motivating the playing list
Not sure if La Guidice is a great thinker.
La Guidice's response "Win some games" to the question what does the coach have to do to retain his postion was another example of simplistic bottom line thinking that has ravaged the club
The correct response should have been. a) develop players
b) engender endeavour
c) We will win some games if we tick the first 2
A president actually has to lead, support, motivate and fire up the club in its time of need

juice is just a puppet. nothing more than a mouthpiece.

I don't think he did that because he was told to.
But he did say that because he doesn't understand football.
He's a puppet in the manner that he is there because he's allowed to be there.
He's allowed to run the club as long as it fits the dimensions of his authority.
He can't clash.. That's for sure!
He certainly isn't an independent as he likes to pretend.
We all know what is in store for him at the click of the fingers...
There is nothing he can do about it when it comes to that moment... Same as for sticks.

They're taken out the back and the pump action is unloaded on them...

He has no allies when he's not needed.
It's the nature of how it all works.
My message to mark is... "Cross your fingers "

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I take it you mean that after round 2 it was stated that all players could be up for trade and we would look at trading into the draft.
How unsettling this must be for the players.
Yesterday Murphy and Gibbs looked broken at the press conference. When asked about them being traded by the club Gibbs responded that they had long term contracts and that meant that they wanted to be there and the club wanted them.
This is appalling by the club to make this statement when it did.
These two players showed loyalty to the club by turning down offers from other clubs when they became free agents.
The club is imploding and is fractured.

the whole club is amateur hour at best. everything we do and say is half-arsed.

Sport is competition not excuses.
Round two in a twenty two round Computron is way too early to pull the pin on competing


It's like a white guy in the 100m sprints looking around and saying
Right! I'm not doing this race I need to do some more training and I'll be back next time.

If it isn't the most disgraceful statement ever made in sport!
What a pathetic idiot!

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Often in a sport like boxing the guy goes down the referee calls for a technical knockout and them guy who went doormen his berserk because his competitive ego doesn't allow him to just be taken out.
Here we have a president of a football club in effect saying he's winding up this season and looking towards 66 games down the track in round two of competition..
He's not only pulling the plug on this season he's telling you in round two of this season that he's pulling the club on the next few seasons.

Is there any wonder our club doesn't have a backbone to be a stand up kind of club on and off the field?

Excuses around this club are like flies on shit

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In a workplace you are made redundant. It's called a change management plan. You are often forced to compete for limited positions. Happens all the time. The change management plan was announced in week 2. They have 20 odd weeks to compete for limited positions.

They ain't kids

Listened to Mick on 5AA. Kids only played because of injury list and it's about winning. Sounds like its back to the usual suspects.

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#NewBlues beginning 25th August 2015

OK is there a sounsbyte?

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yep

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yep

its amateur hour

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We are in trouble this Sat, we will be made to look stupid. Then follows the usual:

*Post game interview Mick will keep fighting, its only round 7
*LoGiudice will keep saying nothing at all
*Sunday papers will sack Mick, trade player XYZ, suggest new coach from list XYZ
*Talkback radio sack Mick and drop Gibbs and tell us Murph not as good as Hodge, also throw in some Eddie and Waite regrets
*Monday Robbo, Lloydie, Lyon, Carro and Brownie suggest player trades and new coach
*Tuesday LoGiudice re confirms he thinks maybe no decision on Mick until end of season, Gibbs, Hendo, Yarran and Murph sort of wanted, maybe, but he needs to check with SOS first
*Wednesday Carlton website has feel good piece on something old and irrelevant or a story on Kruezer
*Wed Trigg contradicts LoGiudice or vice versa
*Thurs TC slam the MC for not playing the kids and not dropping Gibbs, Jones and Murphy and for not playing Watto
Friday hit repeat button

Need help?
13 11 14
Lifeline Australia

"make no mistake, GWS are a very, very good side..."

out: Judd, Thomas, Armfield
in: Kennedy, Betts, Menzel

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*(grow - fun - gah)

Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

I so want to remain positive with this. Excited about menzel coming back in, ditto Henderson and yazz and maybe even kreuzer........


But I just can't. I know were gonna play bullcrap negative football so I'm just not even gonna bother.

Sad really. I want to get excited about watching these guys play - but the excitement just isn't there.

I suppose that's why our membership tally is so low.

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i swear to god if we rush kreuzer back into this hot mess and he breaks down again.

get it right

make no mistake, GWS are a very good FOOTBALL side

It won't make a difference. The more games he plays in a row and the more training sessions he pushes himself in, the closer he is to the foot letting him down again.

They will have to find some crazy way of managing this injury.

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