You said that was skill. You referred to pure luck as a big component of our performance, and used draft picks as examples of this. Draft picks that as I posted above, had incredibly little influece on-field.saintsRrising wrote:If you had read the WHOLE paragraph..you would understand that I have CLEARLY written that we also gained GTrain, Hamill, Voss and others..rodgerfox wrote:
I don't understand what the above means.
Due to the above we received Goddard, Roo, Kosi, Ball, and X Clarke.
Goddard was a child.
Roo a star. Although in 06 was severely hampered with injury.
Kosi barely played.
Ball had one good year until crippled with injury. And even in that good year was injured at the most important part.
X Clarke - hardly a factor in any form of 'success' we may have had.
You might also understand that by finishing low on the ladder that we gained Powell in the PSD.
Huh??saintsRrising wrote: Injury predicament???
You go on and on about this one point in many of your posts Rodge.....
But many of our injuries were PREVENTABLE....and GT's abject failure in this regard had the Saints having a truly dismal record with soft tissue injuries.
Now a season may be bad luck...but a sustained period means bad mangement, incompetance or both.
This one point continually highlighted by you is reason enough of why GT who had demanded full responsibility and accountability for player fitness and conditioning had to go...
You canot have your cake and eat it too Rodge.
WTF?
What cake do I want?? What does GT's sacking have to do with this?
I was referring to your idiotic statement that high draft picks resulted in our 'success'.
An idiotic comment because any of the draft picks we received due to 'pure luck' had very little influence on-field.
Since when I have ever argued anything along these lines???saintsRrising wrote: If you want to have it that injuries were our only reason for not winning two flags.....you cannot also have it that the man responsible and accountable for our player fitness and conditioning record was not therefore responsible for not winning those two flags.
You're delusional.
I'm responding to your foolish and ignorant comment, straight from the outer at the SCG, that the reason we were awesome on-field up until last year, was our luck in getting 'high draft picks'.
It's incredibly stupid and really disappointing to hear coming fro the mouths of Saints supporters.