Yep.Spinner wrote:MC Gusto wrote:Seriously the bloke deserves a chance.
We stuffed up with Lovett - maybe unlucky...but...we probably should have had a ping at cousins...these things can work out!!!
Fev is definitely worth a punt. Especially for the saints.
Just my two drunken cents
I still maintain Lovett was a risk worth taking. And Cousins not.
In hindsight Cousins played some average games... Was injured. Played some more. Then was injured again.
Lovett didnt play any.
Im not going to be one of the 'experts' and work in hindsight. I still maintain my analysis. Even though it fell the opposite way.
I think people get confused... When a risk goes bad... doesnt mean it was the wrong decision to make. Thats what makes a risk a risk.
Get Fev, 150,000 for one year. High draft pick.
Sometimes a one in ten chance comes good, and sometimes a seven in ten chance goes bad... that's life, it's risk and assessment of that risk... I trust they made the right decision at the time with the information they had (I was in favour of picking up both players at the time).
The irony is that lovett wouldn't have been in that room had St Kilda not recruited him, so who knows where he'd be now, and maybe us knocking cousins back was the final moment of clarity that scared him enough to clean up for a year or two... but how's he going now?
Fev is a risk, but you way up the potential gain against potential cost, and try to judge where he's at and what he's likely to offer and deliver, then you make your call..
From my perspective (a million miles away), he would be cheap, on a short leash behaviour and contract wise, and could deliver much... But I trust the club will look at him, and if he's not worth pursuing, they wont.
The hindsight floggery (from a million miles away) on this forum gets to the pathological stage sometimes... you really gotta wonder about how tightly some cats are wound.