Retirements, Trades, Delistings and the Rookie list

[Sedat]

Re: Retirements, Trades, Delistings and the Rookie list

The new coach may have to convince him to stay based on what I saw/interpreted.

That's how I saw it, and Lake pretty much admitted this. Pretty hard for him to be definitive about his future when there will be a brand new coach in charge next year.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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That's how I saw it, and Lake pretty much admitted this. Pretty hard for him to be definitive about his future when there will be a brand new coach in charge next year.

It also reinforces the fact that we need to make more changes.

Monty shouldn't be at the club.

[kruder]

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It also reinforces the fact that we need to make more changes.

Monty shouldn't be at the club.

Yep, Montys comments were a disgrace!

[Bornadog]

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Yep, Montys comments were a disgrace!

and they are not the only things he has said. He undermined Eade when discussing the game plan in public, and he has clashed about his opinion on certain other players as well.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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and they are not the only things he has said. He undermined Eade when discussing the game plan in public, and he has clashed about his opinion on certain other players as well.

It's just another 'shake of the head' moment, isn't it?

Why are these blokes (Monty, Fantasia) STILL at the club after their incredible mistakes? It's just amazing to think they've still got their jobs - and probably will for next year.

I hope to god a new coach brings his own assistants.

[comrade]

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It's just another 'shake of the head' moment, isn't it?

Why are these blokes (Monty, Fantasia) STILL at the club after their incredible mistakes? It's just amazing to think they've still got their jobs - and probably will for next year.

I hope to god a new coach brings his own assistants.

Did Monty and Garlick play together?

[Rocket Science]

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Did Monty and Garlick play together?

Yep, laced them up as team mates during the '99 season.

The Footy 'Industry' is unavoidably nepotistic by it's very nature, but the same things that shit me about the lazy, inbred, self-satisfied culture of the footy media and the AFL more broadly are beginning to shit me more and more about the club I support. By extension I suppose that should come as scant surprise.

Maybe success helps to encourage overlooking such qualms, and lack thereof the opposite, but Dogs fans have had a gutful, so habitually in fact we've normalised the concept, and are watching their club go to relative shit yet again. Footy's a cyclical beast, but when supporters feel like they're being let down by the league, and their club, and increasingly mercenary-like behaviour of certain players, something's going to give in terms of their, nay our, devotion to the game.

Heaven help wider footy goodwill if there's a player strike.

Pardon the catch-all rant. I'm mostly annoyed at the Dogs' dipping predicament and our inability, both onfield and off, to negotiate this challenging new frontier with integrity, professionalism and ruthless ambition.

As you were.

[LostDoggy]

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Monty shouldn't be at the club.

I agree.

I'd have forgiven his bizarre pot shot at our full back if I thought he could coach at all.

Our new coach should be allowed to pick one or two of his own assistants and our forward line needs serious attention.

I also wasn't crazy about Paul Williams suggesting that some of our fans were 'UN-Australian'. Bloody stupid thing to think; even stupider thing to say.

[G-Mo77]

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Maybe the truth hurts.

Prima donna is our Lake. I'm really not fussed if he is there or not next year.

[Mantis]

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Monty shouldn't be at the club.

Monty is contracted next year.

[chef]

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Maybe the truth hurts.

Prima donna is our Lake. I'm really not fussed if he is there or not next year.

Suppositories 3x4 times a week just to train.

[Jasper]

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Brian has never appeared to be the most bubbly personality in the AFL, but even for Brian his performance on the Footy Show was flat, and basically said 'I am for sale, offers welcome'

Now I wonder which team was recently monstered by shite big fwds in a final.......? Hmmmm

I agree that Monty's comments were rubbish about Lake and Eade, interesting that neither may be at the club, while Monty looks set to remain...Hmmm

[Bornadog]

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It's just another 'shake of the head' moment, isn't it?

Why are these blokes (Monty, Fantasia) STILL at the club after their incredible mistakes? It's just amazing to think they've still got their jobs - and probably will for next year.

I hope to god a new coach brings his own assistants.

Monty and Williams are contracted for next year, however, Dean's contract is up.

[The Underdog]

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That's how I saw it, and Lake pretty much admitted this. Pretty hard for him to be definitive about his future when there will be a brand new coach in charge next year.

It seemed he was using the new coach as a way to be pretty undefinitive about his future.
It felt to me like he'd be gone if he had the choice.
I really hope he does stay and gets back to where he was but that interview left me unconvinced about both.

[GVGjr]

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Maybe the truth hurts.

Prima donna is our Lake. I'm really not fussed if he is there or not next year.

Lake wants out that's fine .We are not going to win the flag in the next 2 years lets get the most we can for him cya Brian. Have fun at the Bombers or the Hawks.