Big move requires a big signing. My top 10 candidates are

1. Steven Rowe
2. Robert Shaw
3. Laurence Angwin
4. Tony Armstrong (playing coach)
5. G. Cornes
6. Matt Connell
7. Jason Akermanis
8. Ben Dixon
9. Mark Cisco
10. Tony McGuiness

Also we pay players which had nothing to do with it.

Shocking isn't it.

I don't think it has anything to do with being old scholars or whether or not you pay players. To me its far more critical that players get along at a club and socialise together But this is the exact point!

If you're an old scholars club, there is a reasonable chance that a lot of the players have known eachother for a long time, gone to school together, or at least socialised together outside of footy for a long time.

If you're a mercenary club that recruits players who are there for money, this wouldn't be the case - or at least not to the same degree, which might not cause divisions or mutiny or anything like that, I am sure they're still good people, but in cut throat finals, playing for your mates that you've known since year 9, counts for a bit.

Personally speaking, I played for a team in Victoria that paid players, I was one of them, and it was different. Everyone was friendly enough towards each other but it definitely wasnt a group of mates playing together.

It's a factor come finals time IMO and might go some way to explaining CLG choking against WOS all the time.

The case in point is WOS vs North Haven, as Dragons says being old scholars has nothing to do with it and in my opinon being a close group is only part of it.
North Haven had 21 players of 22 in that game live with in a few kilometres of our club, most went to school together, played juniors together or are close friends in many cases all three. Add to that 3 sets of brothers and a father was assistant coach. I have never got along with a football team as much as I have with this one.

Yet we got comprehensively beaten by a team who was in good form, finals hardened and had an excellent game plan that was executed perfectly.

I don't think anyone has labelled Harvey any of those things. They've been mysteriously deleted and or edited. But the evidence is still there. ;)

And most of us just disagree with your assessment of CLG under achieving. Yeah no dramas at all, or at least there shouldn't be. For the most part it was a really good footy chat. Until a certain section of people got all butt hurt. I am fascinated with their pattern of results - people confused that with obsession.

I love amateur footy and the characters and stories therein. This could have been a great thread about some of the ins and outs of finals gone by, we could have heard inside stories and reasons why certain things happened, we could have discussed in depth football theory. All with a bit of banter. Which I tried to do.

More to do with your obsession with colonel light, why not have a crack at north haven? Who have a pretty bad finals record too! I was once fascinated with Central United discipline record - people confused that with obsession. I was once fascinated with Angle Vale and their operations - people confused that with obsession. I am fascinated with Ingle Farm and Mitchell Parks history - people confused that with obsession. I was once fascinated with Smithfield and their discipline - people confused that with obsession. I was once fascinated with Henley and their ideas - people confused that with obsession.

Get. Over. Yourselves. I like talking about football. CLG are a football club. This is a thread about finals. CLG have played lots of finals. I play for a club around the corner and know a few funny stories.

All of that doesn’t equate to obsession. Other than maybe being obsessed about local footy - then guilty as charged!

Happy to discuss North Haven! Lets do it! Go for it! Unfortunately I know nothing about them as I think Mitchell Park has played them only once (stand to be corrected). But honestly, it would be great to hear about some of those upsets…

Lets talk about 2011 and Mitchell Park if you like?

In the div 6 thread you have congratulated ingle farm for coming up a division and finishing third...Clg do the same and we are chokers? No, as I said to HH3 and Q above, I don’t know enough about 2014 CLG in D5, I apologise if I have inferred that you choked this year, I don’t know if that’s reality. I would say WOS beating you was an upset though?

WOS Dragons wrote:Last year in trial games we lost to both BOS and TOS and then to someone else the following week. I don't read anything into them. They are competitive training drills, nothing more.

I can't seem to remember how your season turned out but I will assume it improved slightly from there

Salisburys scorelines look really impressive thus far, I haven't looked at ins and outs, has the team changed much from last year Pag ?

I find this pretty staggering. Last couple of years Salisbury have been noncompetitive in Div 3, losing a lot of games by 100+ and now they have had 2 solid wins against sides that have won their other game. With Salisbury being a club that doesn't really have a high turn over of players, what's the go here? Is it just reflective of the gap between Div 3 & 4?

We find it staggering too. We picked ourselves for the spoon just like everyone else on here did.

It did get me wondering though, is he able to eat with chopsticks? I can grasp big pieces of food but it would take me a week to eat all of my rice.

To much class in the end mate, blessing,shattock,fisher were all great, though wakelin was the difference, all the best next wee

Westminster are the envy of Many clubs. We had a pretty poor
Relationship with them which started 20 years ago. These days the two clubs get along very well, almost too well!!! Plenty of good lads at wosfc and it starts with Easton, Newman etc. I don't think pointing the finger at Westminster as the trouble maker is correct