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If Daisy was on 200k he would still not be earning his money so I'm not sure why anyone here feels the need to inflate the figure? There is no need to.

In fairness to many posters on here, they are just believing what Anderson wrote, that was their first mistake!

Who is Anderson?

It doesn't really matter whether Daisy is on $600,000 or $750,000 per season.  Reasonable due diligence would have revealed that $500,000 was more than enough and, more importantly, he would never get close to his best form.

Interestingly, his lack of leadership is revealed as one of the reasons Collingwood was keen to move him on.

It really was a poor, indeed inexplicable decision.

maybe Carrots, but if its true, then our club was in dire straights and had no hope of pulling out of that mess with any credibility.

I don't know an organisation that is run by a CEO in isolation without input from many people which indicates we had multiple points of failure regarding all those poor decisions made.


In any case we have put it behind us, and no matter how bad these decisions were:

1.  We have moved on.
2.  It wont be a millstone that plagues us for more than a couple of years.
3.  We shouldnt lose any young talent on the back of not having cap room as we frankly have SFA players left worth paying big dollars to anyway.
4.  Regardess of what has happened, our future is looking up with SOS driving our policies in similar fashion to last year.

last but most importantly:

5.  As abysmal as our decision making has proven to be, nothing has/or ever will hurt us as much as the decisions that the Collins administration made on the back of the poor decisions made by Elliott which has brought our club to the position its in today.  We may have navagated out of our current mess much earlier with some better administration, but nothing compares to what happend back in 2004.  The decision to cut ties with Brittain was just one poor decision in a long line of other poor decisions, but the breaches and penalties have rendered us a basket case beyond anything else we have or ever will experience ever again.

My bad, it was Jon Ralph writing the article not Jon Anderson.

Easy to claim due diligence in hindsight, hard to see how people establishing player values after the fact would translate the knowledge they gained into a prediction. Any such statements are really rubbish unless they can travel time.

Cannot take much notice of Collingwood's statements, they are all after the fact and they have a vested interest in bashing Carlton, but at the time they were ultra-bitter about Daisy's departure.

Mate I beg to differ. We had already recovered from that under Ratts, the decision to sack him and appoint Mick, or moreover (IMO) the move to get Swann over from Collingwood, was the beginning of the end.

No, they wanted him gone.  My outlaws have Collingwood connections and they were rapt with him going and us paying overs 

Easy to claim due diligence in hindsight, hard to see how people establishing player values after the fact would translate the knowledge they gained into a prediction. Any such statements are really rubbish unless they can travel time.

Swann was hired in March 2007.

We should have taken medical advice ahead of some schmuck's belief that he has the heart to work through the injury.

There's no point defending it, the only question is how McKay has survived it.

Mate I beg to differ. We had already recovered from that under Ratts, the decision to sack him and appoint Mick, or moreover (IMO) the move to get Swann over from Collingwood, was the beginning of the end.

It's like us saying we were glad Betts was leaving at the time, hardly a convincing argument after the fact and such statements usually arise out of bitterness.

"Daisy was the face of Collingwood" for much of his time over there, he was their poster boy despite his run of injuries. The day after he left he was all but accused of being the munitions supplier to Alan Didak and Christopher Wayne Hudson!

Your assertion must be true, because Collingwood fans are never bitter at all!

You assume we didn't and you assume it was only McKay's responsibility.

Which is likely to be as accurate as the assumption that the club sacked Fev.

Do you think we run a lemonade stand or something?

We should have taken medical advice ahead of some schmuck's belief that he has the heart to work through the injury.

There's no point defending it, the only question is how McKay has survived it.