You guys have to be joking. Next it will be GT's fault for the global financial crisis!!Lennon wrote:This.groupie1 wrote:Guys
The classism is a bit rich.
Luke saw Steven and he saw Armitage and he saw his OP and saw the writing on the wall. If he wants to play as an integral part of a senior AFL team he needs to do it at another club.
If we didn't lose Luke Ball this year, we'd have lost Armitage the next.
I feel for the kid. Couldda been anything. Thomas threw him under packs when he was 19, injured, and still finding his feet. That's when you play them at half back and let them get used to the big bodies. Grant Thomas and that f***-knuckle incompetent mother fucker Chris Jones - guy who's dimwitted ineptitude cost us at least one, probably two flags (04 and 05) - the meat-and-potatoes guy (some will know what I'm talking about), destroyed Luke Ball and that's the sad thing about all this.
GT was the one who allowed Ball to finish his schooling and rest his OP, even when we could probably have done with him playing in 03. He even allowed him to play footy for Xavier College as well! How many #2 draft picks get that luxury whilst getting paid 40k a year?
Should GT have held his hand and wiped his arse for him as well when he went to the toilet?
Luke Ball's best 2 years were 04 and 05. 05 he was AA. So instead of playing on the ball like he had his entire life, he should have been played off half back? He didn't have the physique to play anywhere but centre/rover and he did it bloody well. Should GT have told to stop putting his head over the ball and stop going at it so hard?
06 the OP set in. By then Ball was 21 years old. THese things happen. I'm sure Ball himself could have approached the club and told them he needed a rest. GT showed he cared about Ball and his future by giving him the year off and allowing him to concentrate on his schooling. Chris JUDD played his entire 1st year with both shoulders strapped after having operations on them. Were WC negligent?
GT may not have been a supercoach, but fair dinkum he can't be blamed for everything that goes wrong with this footy club!
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