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Haha didn't you see him do WWFs with his cast on Sunday? Cracked a Saints player good and proper, of course nothing was said.

I am not sure ANY of the board members were directly responsible for recruiting Thomas. I seem to recall that a certain former coach, some recruiting staff and maybe a GM having more input than any board member, including the President of the club. Most of these have been replaced already.
That the board must have rubber stamped it, they probably remember now with embarrassment, but it is not their responsibility to make those decisions. if they had interfered with that process, then they would deserve to be sacked.

Unfortunately the recruiting of Dale Thomas is going to go down as one of the worst decisions of the Malthouse administration. Not only did it cost a lot of money over an extended time period, but it had to have an effect on retaining (more accurately, the no - retaining) of Betts.
Thomas has been an excellent player, but his body is no longer allowing him to do the things that made him such a good player. He is fragile. He breaks very easily (in that regard he has taken the mantle from Broke McLean).
His pace, his aggression at the contest, his spring and solid hands and the depth of this kicking have all disappeared. He has shown some of the indomitable will (like the smother against the Weagles last year), but he just doesn't get to the contests any more.
He has to be thinking of retirement. He is a proud man: he cannot be liking what he is producing any more than we can like seeing it.
At this point he id not being able to deliver enough with any consistency. It must gall him at least as much as it galls us.
With his body no longer being reliable, he has to be considering his future.

I don't disagree, but that raises a very interesting question.

How unanimous do you think the board is at the moment?

Here is what I think, if posters like yourself and Jeffy38 really believe that Bolton's results make no difference. Then please make sure you tell the thousands of members who have already failed to sign up in 2016 to get on board soon. Because if that membership trend continues in the light of Bolton's ongoing good losses he's a dead duck, no matter how honorable his intention is.

Second half of the first quarter and most of the last  were acceptable. The young 'uns were good.

We're such an easy side to coach against - shut down Cripps and double team Levi and our poor disposal and decision-making will do the rest.

Buckley's a worry in terms of where to play him. Is it good enough to hold down a position if your main role is merely to "harass"?

Lots of love for Graham after he took it up to a few of the bullies after Sumner was poleaxed.

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Hopefully the first of a few players to get dropped

Curnofides, Cripps, Weitering. That is the nucleus to build around. Trade Murphy, Gibbs and Kreuzer and build around these blokes.

I know one bloke who'll agree with you

And hence well and truly looking after himself and his future. Only the blind would not see the trend here.

You are talking about the 2001/2 breaches. The one we got the 1mil fine, lost picks 1+2 etc.

I'm talking about before that. When he first left to the AFL.
Don't tell me you didn't know we got in trouble for something he setup and dobbed on us for.

Mozzie, i'm not sure why i bother trying to explain this to you, this is more for others who may actually believe what you say.
Why didn't anyone take on Elliot? You blame Pratt because he put his hand up after Collo dug is deeper in the hole that we couldn't get out of?
On wikipedia (yes, i know) there is a whole stack of salary cap breaches listed.
I find these 2 the most interesting in light of what you quoted above.So yes, he was in charge. In doing so he would've set up things for a few years in advance (contracts run for more than 1 year) and are setup before the season starts - ie, while Collo was in charge.

He setup dodgy payments. Went to his new role at the AFL and pointed the finger straight back at us and got us fined.

Not only that, because of these prior breaches, when our 2001/2 salary cap breaches came out we got a bigger fine because we were 'serial offenders'.

So sure all hail collo, who has bent us over multiple times.

You do understand how the corporate world works don't you?

You're dreaming if you think a germ like Collins would come out and admit he bent the club over for a bonus.