FFS Guys,

We did as well if not better than we are given credit for. Sure we could have snagged another player during the trade week, but at what cost? Would you have traded Fevola for pick 8 and a turd like Ray Hall? All that would have got us is an untried kid who would take up to 3 years to develop and a player on the scrapheap. Get real.

The Filth hardly even participated except offloading one of their duds to the Scum and their list is as bad as ours. Its about time we stopped reading the crap that journalists report and accept as gospel. As they say "Why let the facts get in the way of a good story"

I am often accused of being too optimistic particularly when it comes to matters Blue, but I am very positive about the refreshing of our list and am eager to see who we are gunna pickup in the forthcoming drafts.

It would be nice to see who else on this board shares these views and stops canning every friggin thing the club does.

Overly simplistic, God.

You're basing your strategy on the assumption that money is the overriding motivator behind a guy like JK.

We throw $700k at him and he's then supposed to turn around and burn his club and the players he's grown up with... the club that he'd think was on the verge of a great era?

Money on its own isn't going to land anybody anymore. These guys are getting excellent money where they are. When you're on 400k, is an extra 100 or 200 really going to make that much difference to your lifestyle? Especially to a bloke like Kossie who strikes me as a genuine, honest 'bloke's bloke (ie, the opposite of Nathan Brown) if that descriptor makes any sense.

Bigger picture - is the club being run intelligently enough? I'd say no. But I don't think Kossie was going to walk no matter how big the bag of cash we dangled in front of him was.