Colless sets Tiger boss straight

[dimelb]

Again a Melbourne club leader spouts ignorant rubbish, and cops a pretty fierce return of serve:

Colless hits out at Tiger boss' claim

[Primmy]

Kapow!!!

[ShockOfHair]

Well said as usual. He will be missed.

[Ruck'n'Roll]

Leaving aside this Richmond $%^&'s real agenda, it's interesting that Colless said it was "an inexcusable breach of confidence" not a "falshood" - so maybe we are struggling?

[Melbournehammer]

we have struggled financially each year. If you look at our finances we are not a club which has much in the way of a profit stream. This is despite having more members than kind of EVER and sustained on field success.

[Doctor]

Leaving aside this Richmond $%^&'s real agenda, it's interesting that Colless said it was "an inexcusable breach of confidence" not a "falshood" - so maybe we are struggling?

I noted that choice of words too.

[MadCanuck]

Again a Melbourne club leader spouts ignorant rubbish, and cops a pretty fierce return of serve:

Colless hits out at Tiger boss' claim

Colless: "I didn't know Gary (March) was still alive." Gotta laugh.

[GongSwan]

We might be up against it abit with the SCG redevelopment crowd numbers would be down in total, even with memberships up, still need bums on seats

[Dosser]

Bang! What a great response! Unfortunately, this Richmond fool has sprouted it on SEN which means that it is now 'fact'. I hope they will get Colless on the same program to put them straight.

[gumby_bolts]

Swans are a expansion club now? Who knew?
I think this clown, Eddie and co will only be truly happy if AFL reverts back to VFL days, the rich Victorian play in a English Football Premiership style competition and the rest of us play in a reserve level comp where the winner gets the spoils of playing the glory boys for a season.

[swansrob]

Swans are a expansion club now? Who knew?

This is probably the dumbest statement in his whole rant. He realises that out club is eleven years older than his, yeah?

[dimelb]

It seems a particularly Victorian attitude, and reminded me of a criticism in another post I put up, about John Devaney from Lincolnshire. He only lived in South Australia for seven years from age 6 to 13, but that was enough to make him a life-long footy fanatic.

One constant theme that runs through Devaney's work is not just his affection for the sport but his antipathy towards the body known as the AFL, and the Victorian-centric way in which it has sought to commandeer the code. He hates, for example, any reference to amateur, country and suburban footballers playing ''AFL''. No they're not, Devaney says, they're playing Australian football. ... In fact, so sorely was Devaney's loyalty tested in 1977, the year the VFL ''sabotaged'' the National Football League's nascent attempts to develop an Australia-wide competition by withdrawing its support and setting up its own rival tournament, he gave the game away altogether. That meant for three years disentangling himself emotionally from the sport, and trying to purge it from his system.
Only when, perchance, he flicked on the television in September 1980 and saw the Kevin Bartlett-led Richmond side completely dismantle Collingwood in the Grand Final did footy once again regain its hold on the Englishman. ''Whatever the rights and wrongs of the VFL's attempts to take control of football, the game itself ... remained unsurpassed in terms of its sheer skill, athleticism and physical toughness, while its spectacular elements were completely unique,'' he said.

Here is a genuine love of the game, an attitude people like Gary March could learn from, instead of indulging in envy. The game is bigger than Richmond, and the Swans have nothing to do with where the Tigers are coming from. That's completely down to them.

[Nico]

Mate that was the beginning of the end of South Melbourne. The NFL games in Melbourne were to be played at the South ground, the only one that had lights at the time. South were tenants of the South Melbourne Cricket Club and the VFL threatened to take South away from the ground if they hosted the games. Of course being the main paying tenant the cricket club backed down. I saw the letter to the cricket club.

[satchmopugdog]

I found it interesting the replies to the newspaper article were just the same re-hashed arguments that the Tigers boss and Eddie spout all the time........it was as if they had not read the article or if they did they assumed Colless was lying and whinging......made my blood boil. Can see why Colless is sick of it.

[Doctor J.]

Mate that was the beginning of the end of South Melbourne. The NFL games in Melbourne were to be played at the South ground, the only one that had lights at the time. South were tenants of the South Melbourne Cricket Club and the VFL threatened to take South away from the ground if they hosted the games. Of course being the main paying tenant the cricket club backed down. I saw the letter to the cricket club.

Absolutely the beginning of the end. Bloody VFL and everything it stands for I despise. The whole VFL centric nature of the AFL comp is what I hope one day will be a thing of the past.