It's official: Pies are totally deluded

[Moi]

Goodbye TAC sponsorship 

Now will this get a mention on the Footy Show after all the fuss they made when it happened to us? 

Don't hold your breath, MT - won't even get a mention 

[mightytiges]

Goodbye TAC sponsorship 

Now will this get a mention on the Footy Show after all the fuss they made when it happened to us? 

Don't hold your breath, MT - won't even get a mention 

It got a mention but nothing like the sensationalism we copped  . All that was said was the Pies want to fine Morrison $20,000 instead of the "maximum" $5,000 that's set out in the AFL players' enterprise bargaining agreement. Unless I missed it I didn't hear them mention what's going to happen with the Pies' TAC sponsorship  ???.

[mightytiges]

Geez I'd laugh if the Pies miss the finals. 3 losses from their past 4  .

[Bulluss]

i cant wait to hear the talk back in the morning.

After last week, Collingwood supporters will be jumping off in their thousands tomorrow morning 

Could be a few hit and runs, as people fall off the bandwagon.

If i hit a Collingwood supporter i wouldnt stop

[mightytiges]

Saw this article on BF. Serves the Pies right for selling out their traditional home  .

Pies out in the cold
Lyndal Cairns
The Leader
12Jul06

COLLINGWOOD Football Club has accused Yarra Council of shutting it out of its spiritual home of 114 years.

The Magpies want to return to train at Victoria Park - and are willing to pay $200 an hour - but the council are refusing the club's request to share it with the AFL Umpires Association and the Fitzroy Reds.

Magpies chief operating officer Eugene Arocca said Yarra should spend the money required to fix Victoria Park's surface so it would cope with a more rigorous schedule.

``We've been told we can't train on the oval because of its condition,'' he said. ``If the oval's not up to it, it needs to be upgraded.''

Mr Arocca said the club hoped to train there once a week.

The Pies are looking for new training pastures because its current ground, Edwin Flack Field in the Olympic Park precinct renamed Bob Rose Oval is set to become a 20,000-seat rugby and soccer stadium.

Yarra Mayor Jackie Fristacky said Collingwood had no special rights because it was based outside the municipality, at the Lexus Centre.

``They have withdrawn from Collingwood and we had a settlement,'' she said. ``I can't imagine we'd give Collingwood Football Club preferential treatment over the Fitzroy Reds that are based here.'' 

Collingwood is also at loggerheads with Melbourne Council over the club's plan to install advertising at Gosch's Paddock, in the Olympic Park precinct.

A council report seen by the Leader opposes a proposal to surround the oval set to become the club's permanent training site with 1m-high signs, a decision ultimately for the State Government.

Planning committee chairman Cr Fraser Brindley said it would destroy the open look of the ground and commercialise a public park.

``It is completely against the feel of the paddock as it is,'' he said. ``It is a sign of Collingwood's arrogance.''
Greens upper house candidate Greg Barber warned it was the first step in a plan to ``lock up'' green space.

``Anyone who thinks those areas are public open space for the future will be in for a rude shock,'' he said.

[Moi]

Good on Yarra City Council lol 

Wonder if that will be reported on the Footy Show tonight 

[one-eyed]

He (Malthouse) is adamant that the Pies will not only play finals, but win them in 2007.

http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2007/02/14/1171405294297.html

 

[Stephanie]

 
That's gold!
I'll have whatever he's been smoking 

[Fishfinger]

I'll have whatever he's been smoking 

Mick doesn't smoke. Maybe he takes his medication in suppository form (personally administered by Dr McGuire).

[Moi]

He (Malthouse) is adamant that the Pies will not only play finals, but win them in 2007.

http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2007/02/14/1171405294297.html

 

I believe Peter Schwab said pretty much the same thing about the Hawks when he was coaching them.
I think they came last
Hopefully a bit of deja vu 

[Hellenic Tiger]

That was 2004 they came 2nd last we came last.

[cub]

Listening to the run home on SEN Mark Robbertson tipped the pies for the spoon. Lucky for me it was early on in my 60 minute trip to work and had a great laugh at all the delusional skunk supporters going feral and predicting top 4 or 8 minimum.

Hmmmmm Wonder what odds they are for the spoon, might make a decent bet.

[Hellenic Tiger]

Its laughable isn't it. Two years ago in 2005 after we beat the Pies in round 8 thanks to
Browny's fabulous five goal last quarter the Pies were 1 win 7 losses.
What I found staggering were the Pies were $12 for the flag and the spoon.
Collingwood fans are not only dreamers but they are absolutely stupid to boot.
Of course as Tiger fans we all knew that.
I was wondering how the majority of their fans could actually afford to make bets like that
and actually think they have a chance at winning.

[mightytiges]

Just 1 flag in almost 50 years and they still convince themselves they are the greatest club in Oz    .

We've owned the Pies since the 1991 Mothers' Day massacre. Something like 15 wins to 7. We want to play them twice a year not for the gate receipts but for the 8 points. I wish we could play them 22 times a year  .

[crackertiger]

How about all this sooking over the rule changes from Malthouse, Clement and Buckley. They must know their in trouble!

Presti and Clement will struggle with this rule.