Collingwood topped Richmond legend ‘Captain Blood' Jack Dyer's hate list (H-Sun)

[mat073]

I want to forget the last 9 years...pretty excited about the next 9

Why alot of good things have happened in that time?

Look at the calibre of player we have drafted over the last 9 years

Deledio
Cotchin
Martin
Reiwoldt
 
Just to name 4, want to forget the last 9 years, then we don't have them 

Deledio, Cotchin and Martin are fantastic players, not a day goes by that I don't thank the " footy gods" we have that magnificent trio...

However the facts are they were a "special reward" for being so completely useless for almost a decade.

The pain of having to go through the process of rebuilding  the rebuild ....that's what I think of when I remember the era of captains wearing the number 17.

[Judge Roughneck]

They were not a special time. We got ducked over so many times.

Several times we should have had higher pick ie. Finishing lower and we still shafted by the cartoons and Melbourne and AFL priory picks.

The Johnson trade we for ripped out with our pik turning into pick 2 after we had traded.

We we were at our crappiest the AFL made new clubs meaning we misses out of our rightful talent.

The football gods put rixho into the fence he he was on the verge of being Carey like. We lost our only a grader pre2004. To injury. Cogs.

When we were 7-2 brown #1 player in AFL at that time we lost never to return to that level.

Going thou this and rebuilding via 2004 draft means our beat players are young. And our young players outside the 22 are talented. We got no help. Don't get interstate salary cap increase or a gun fs

[WilliamPowell]

The pain of having to go through the process of rebuilding  the rebuild ....that's what I think of when I remember the era of captains wearing the number 17.

What I remember of it is everyone person given the honour of captaining our club in last 9 years embraced it for the betterment of the club

It is my belief if the current captain had of chosen to wear number 17 and embraced the "tradition" the club wanted to create then so many more people would have embraced it too

As I said I have a view that not many people on here share and that's fine. Alot of my other Tiger friends agree with me and that's fine too

My final comment on this topic is this: we have the perfect bloke captaining our club and I don't think many on here would disagree with me there. It is simply a case of he has made a decision I don't agree with for a number of reason and I've listed them previously. Nothing wrong with that I hope 

[Penelope]

I reckon all the parents who forked out quite a bit of hard earned for their kids to wear guernsies with no. 9 on the back would be quite happy with trents decision, something i think he may have said played a part in his decision.

[WilliamPowell]

I reckon all the parents who forked out quite a bit of hard earned for their kids to wear guernsies with no. 9 on the back would be quite happy with trents decision, something i think he may have said played a part in his decision.

He did indeed say that 

[Yeahright]

I reckon all the parents who forked out quite a bit of hard earned for their kids to wear guernsies with no. 9 on the back would be quite happy with trents decision, something i think he may have said played a part in his decision.

He did indeed say that 

and no. 9 might be a bit of a tradition to him, I know I hate wearing a different number  . Nothing we can do and all entitled to our opinions only Cotchin's is the only one that matters. FWIW a mate of mine told me he lost a lot of respect for Cotch when he chose 9, although he thought the 17 went for ALOT longer than it did