Hmmm, Holden sounds good...

Caroline accused Hutchy on Footy Confidential of being a mate of RB's. I think Hutchy admitted to being mates with Butterss - but Caro accused him of 'advising' Butterss which he strongly denied. At the time I thought 'who would be dumb enough to take advice from Hutchison' but then I wondered if p...

You might be right Magic - just out of interest who are the journos you reckon might have been primed? To me the scuttlebutt that something was going down seemed to be led mostly by Caro Wilson, who seemed to be pushing the line that it was going to get very ugly - she didn't seem particularly pro-c...

Now yes, Westaway has obviously built a good logistics business, but Logistics is quite different from football and entertainment. The Footy first needs as a priority to co-opt others onto the Board in this area if he really wants to be best of breed. SKFF appears to have a link to Justin Morley an...

Good news guys, here's a recent group pic of the rebel faction:

Can you post the content?

But what do you do in this case of Ball/Telstra, when the deal was aparently done 2 years before the Vodafone one? The club should have had this info on record, and it should have been disclosed during negotiations with Vodafone. Vodafone's options would have been to simply ignore it, try to buy Ba...

This club needs stability, not another board. Unfortunately there is little stability in the current board - ill feeling is strong throughout the fans and the board itself. Simply voting for an instable board will not make it stable. Butterss et al have done well, I'm sure we all appreciate it, but...

Magic, I expect you will find that when a player signs a contract, one clause is that they run ALL potential business deals past the club, for exactly this reason. I have some experience in corporate communications, and as I mentioned before, this is not new in sport - conflicts like this have been ...

The club MUST be fully aware of ALL contractual arrangements involving players. It is just absurd to suggest otherwise, with so many big biccies involved in sponsorship and so much corporate embarrassment on the line. This has all happened years ago in other sports, for example Nike sponsoring a soc...

I would love if we could snare david friend back. Interesting you should say that Dan. A quick WHOIS lookup reveals that the 'stkildafootyfirst.com' domain is registered to one Justin Morley, who is a close friend and business associate of David Friend (they produced Puppetry of the Penis together ...

It isn't about rewarding past success. So Butterss / Howard cleared our debt and put us back in the black. Thanks guys, have a life membership. Now, where do we want to go? Who is going to do it best? If that means it's 'time gentlemen please' for Rod or John so be it. I also fail to see how a group...

I think it's time for a change. Butterss has really dropped the ball this year, it's been ugly and bitchy and hasn't been focussed on the success of the team. I don't feel confident that our problems will be properly addressed by the incumbents. I like the look of the new ticket, I don't think there...

Apparently Hutchy and Butterss are friends, I think Caro was just flinging mud in the hope some of it will stick.

You'd have to be a fool to take advice from Hutchy anyway wouldn't you?!

No news at all really, Hutchy and the crow having a bitch fight but no decent info. pfft.

Burkey today:

there are some people with concerns about the direction of the club

been in discussion with a number of parties

can't say anything at this stage

Caro thinks Butterss has to go

Hutchy reckons the Saints are in the best position in 5 years

No opinion so far from Lyon or Duck

"St Kilda Footy First" faction

Ticket to include:

Nathan Burke, Andrew Thompson, Ross Levine

after this break...

I don't believe Cousins was an addict, no. I think he was an arrogant tosser that partied too hard. The 'rehabilitation' was absolutely a stunt IMO, and not a very convincing one either. If he had been able to turn up to his club commitments straight, then he would not have been rumbled, until he te...

Meher Baba, I tend to agree with just about all of your comments, but I beg to differ in this. There is a very real difference IMO between Cousins and the 20-odd other players who have tested positive. As far as I know, none of these other players have failed to turn up to training, or turned up so ...

Occasional drug use is one thing. I don't condone it, but I understand it. When I was younger I did sh*t too. the point was, it was 'recreational', I could handle it, and I didn't understand why 'society' made such a big deal about it. Then I grew up. I realised that I wasn't functioning properly in...

Personally, I couldn't give a flying feck at a rolling donut whether he apologises or not. It's not about apologies, it's about the character of the guy. Is he the slightest bit remorseful for being such a tosser as to turn up for training ripped off his face (if he turned up at all)? He doesn't loo...

No sympathy at all. Seeing him spitting on the carpet in the rooms confirmed that he is a feral wanker of the highest order. But even before that, I never bought into this whole 'has a serious drug problem that he has successfully rehabilitated from' bulls***. Cousins is and always has been a rich a...