The power of email

by MICHAEL STEVEN

AT 3.45pm on Wednesday 5 October I heard on the radio that Richard Cole had been traded. I immediately wrote an email, consisting of just the one sentence, to three siblings, one in Melbourne, one in Hobart and one in Sydney.

I wrote:

"Cole has gone, for draft pick 23!"

And the responses were...

Melbourne sibling, 3.46pm: "Yep - at least we got something for him unlike Davis - still as we all know there must be something wrong with player management for him to want to leave."

Hobart sibling, 4.41pm: "Bugger".

Sydney Sibling, 5.51pm: "Collingwood are the easy beats of the trade period. It tells you a lot about the club. With this latest "trade" their record now challenges Fremantle as the most clueless group of the lot. Cole was taken at draft pick number 11 he played four years and more than 50 games. Essendon offer draft pick 23 and Collingwood just say OK. All an opposition club has to do is target a Collingwood player who wants to go there. Get that player to declare they want to go and then offer some dipshit deal and wait for Collingwood to roll over. They did it with Davis, now they have done it with Cole. The terrible thing is that Essendon know this and Collingwood don't seem to have a clue. Cole will be a star for Essendon. Based on this decision I seriously doubt that Collingwood football department (or whoever makes these decisions) has any spine whatsoever. Malthouse's reported comments, "well he didn't want to play here" so we let him go is truly pathetic. I am disgusted."

Oh dear!

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