Jonathon Brown to Captain Collingwood?
There is a report in the Herald Sun today from Damien Barrett he reports that the Collingwood Football Club will be going hammer and tong at getting Brisbane Lion Superstar Jonathon Brown to return to Melbourne. He has suggested that Brown will be offered the Collingwood Captaincy along with massive amounts of cash and career opportunities after football.
If you remember back a while ago the Pies put in the hard yards the last time he was out of contract and missed out. Then they offered him $1 million a year and that was in 2005. Can you just imagine what that amount would have to be this time around? Brown is originally from South Warrnambool so he obviously has family and that sort of thing down here, but I think he is pretty comfortable where he is wouldn’t you?
The Magpies have denied all these rumours, but no doubt Eddie will be cooking something up behind the scenes you can bet on that. With Anthony Rocca in the later part of his career the Pies are going to need a handy replacement will it be the Big Brown Dog? I don’t think so. This move would be as big as the Chris Judd move from West Coast to Carton.
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Lets hope that he does not move and follow in Judds footsteps. I think its a low things to do with leaving the club that has helped you become who you are and go for the money.
Family is all well and good but i think its a bit of an excuse…
@Kick2Kick
I don’t really think he will go do you? There will no doubt be a lot of clubs interested and will throw some massive amounts of cash at him,
Would be tempting for him though I would think.
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Sorry if I get riled up here but is it just the fact that Collingwood is interested that you don’t want him to move? It always seems the we can’t get great players to come to Collingwood for some reason and I can’t figure out why. Please explain!
The last big name to come to Vic Park was Dermie, big woop!, before that it was Buckley.
We didn’t really want Stevens, so that was no biggie, Didak is more value to us. All the young blokes we have will keep us going for 5-10 years, J Brown will just fit in when Rocca leaves.