Hi all, This is the time where you need to think like I did, for Mark Thompson and his dodgy property deal at Armstrong Creek, Geelong. This WILL Impact your club, as Hawthorn must have a relationship with the City of Kingston to have this section of land in Dingley. Hawthorn will now be lobbying t...

Hi all, This is the time where you need to think like I did, for Mark Thompson and his dodgy property deal at Armstrong Creek, Geelong. This WILL Impact your club, as Hawthorn must have a relationship with the City of Kingston to have this section of land in Dingley. Hawthorn will now be lobbying t...

Hi all, This is the time where you need to think like I did, for Mark Thompson and his dodgy property deal at Armstrong Creek, Geelong. This WILL Impact your club, as Hawthorn must have a relationship with the City of Kingston to have this section of land in Dingley. Hawthorn will now be lobbying t...

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/back-to-the-future-in-radical-zone-plan-20150604-ghh30v.html With this initiative tabled by the AFL of player academies and zones for all 18 clubs, allowing the priority access at the draft, what will be the outcome? My concern is this is a win for the bigger cl...

I would love someone to show me where the figure of $2.0m profit out of pokies comes from. Do you mean where the figures quoted in the paper came from? It says it 'raked in' 2.0m. Not an accounting term. I wonder if that is turnover? Yep you're right its revenue of over $2m - with reported costs of...

Was it a good win or an inevitable result given how badly cut up the Lions were on the injury front last Sunday? The TV commentary made mention of several injuries and it's a huge number of injured outs for one week, almost unheard of. I think it was win/win. We won to get some immediate gratificat...

Verdun66 wrote:I would love someone to show me where the figure of $2.0m profit out of pokies comes from.

Do you mean where the figures quoted in the paper came from?

Well it seems we make over 2 million on the pokies, I don't see how we could go without them at this stage. Anyway here is an anti pokie article about the bloke trying to stop them. Pokies plea to saints http://issuu.com/chelseamordiallocnews/docs/cmmn_20th_may__2015/1 Continues on page 6 With supp...

Poached Hawthorn email: Email to members:- As a valued member, you would be aware that for the past three years the club has been in the process of conducting a feasibility study on the future of Waverley Park. This has been a very thorough and comprehensive project, and the Board has received regu...

A little ironic if you think about it when you consider all the players they scored off us down the Peninsula in the 70s and 80s when it should have been designated as the Saint's zone. Then we move down there 5 years ago only to move out again when they announce the Dingley move and to potentially...

Rosco wrote:If hawthorn being within 15 kms of Moorabbin is a problem, how will Collingwood / Carlton / North Melb / Melb / Richmond cope being so close to each other?

My gut feel is they will all have their own issues but the best facilities will attract the best talent...I think.

Well, we shall see. Player academies are the future IMO. Can't see the AFL allowing any Vic team to have a Player Academy. But most of the northern clubs have them, Port have one, the Crows have one and we have what we call a "player academy". I am sure I read somewhere that this is the b...

Well, we shall see. Player academies are the future IMO. Can't see the AFL allowing any Vic team to have a Player Academy. But most of the northern clubs have them, Port have one, the Crows have one and we have what we call a "player academy". I am sure I read somewhere that this is the b...

Well, we shall see. Player academies are the future IMO. Can't see the AFL allowing any Vic team to have a Player Academy. But most of the northern clubs have them, Port have one, the Crows have one and we have what we call a "player academy". I am sure I read somewhere that this is the b...

They're eating our lunch. Years of poor decision making at the adminstrative level now coming home to roost where now we are not strong enough to defend our own backyard. Success feeding off incompetence. Why? How does it effect us at all? Please explain. Location of facilities builds support in th...

They're eating our lunch. Years of poor decision making at the adminstrative level now coming home to roost where now we are not strong enough to defend our own backyard. Success feeding off incompetence. Why? How does it effect us at all? Please explain. Location of facilities builds support in th...

They're eating our lunch. Years of poor decision making at the adminstrative level now coming home to roost where now we are not strong enough to defend our own backyard. Success feeding off incompetence. Why? How does it effect us at all? Please explain. Location of facilities builds support in th...

They're eating our lunch.
Years of poor decision making at the adminstrative level now coming home to roost where now we are not strong enough to defend our own backyard.
Success feeding off incompetence.

Last wooden spoon of Premiership teams 2014 Hawthorn 1965 2012 Sydney 1994 2011 Geelong 1958 2010 Collingwood 1999 Josh Fraser dropped before 2010 finals 2006 West Coast ---- 2004 Port Adelaide ---- 2003 Brisbane 1998 Des Headland played in 2002 Premiership 2000 Essendon 1933 1999 North Melbourne 1...

I think Chris Pelchen would say he wants to see the team give great effort week in week out whatever the win loss record. This whole idea that this is a natural extension of the strategy is a total crock. We turned over our playing list for younger kids and performance suffered as a whole we all kne...

I think Roo will be around longer than Fisher (body and form wise) and Nick is more versatile (can play wing). Gears is not guaranteed a game (He played in our two worst games - Pies and Blues and we did fine without him v Lions). Armo is not even 27 yet. Has to be a no brainer? Gears played agains...

Would have been so nice to win the Essendon game without Rooey to get the belief in the group that they can do it. Atm it would have to be Armo. Wouldn't be surprised if Rooey tosses it in at the end of the season. He doesn't seem like he is enjoying his football and given what he has been through w...

We have a talent base but not enough genuine A-Grade midfielders. I see two KPP's and perhaps a talented ruckman coming through but I don't see any midfielders of superior game-winning quality. I like what's happening so far but I am really concerned that the talent is base is not enough to win a f...

As frustrating as he is, it has to be Schneider. The young fella's got a full career ahead of him and will be upgraded to the list next year.

I dont care what we will do in November when you are in our position and list position right now is not smart. Sure, it provide an all nice and warm feeling and 'youre not a loser' blah blah blah and certainly panders to the masses on here but in reality it isn't smart. Does No 1 pick (we wont get ...