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....just for old times sake!
Playing out of his skin. Surely can't keep it up all game?
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BigMart wrote:I think stk players thought he was still a team mate, we kicked it to him 12 times uncontested...
He played very well indeed, good on him..... Least we had will Johnson. Astute.
Agree plugs. Goose was finished. Still in hindsight Im happy we gotplugger66 wrote:BigMart wrote:I think stk players thought he was still a team mate, we kicked it to him 12 times uncontested...
He played very well indeed, good on him..... Least we had will Johnson. Astute.
Does the club ever do anything right?
BigMart wrote:Going on premierships won... You figure it out..
Here's one,
Went on recruiting campaigns in Tassie in late 50's early/mid 60's and netted
Baldock, Howell, Stewart, Lawrence, Breen
Here's another
Chose a good coach in 2006
Here's another
Chose a good coach in 2011
Many mistakes (like a few clubs) with regard to list management and player development.
Hawthorn, Geelong, Collingwood, Sydney have succeeded in those areas
Richmond, Freo, Melbourne, Stk, Bris, WB
Have made some big mistakes
BigMart wrote:That's pretty much it,
Clubs are measure on premiership success.... It's what every club sets out to try and achieve!!!
I would have thought that was pretty obvious
Part two
I posted in 2009
It was a MASSIVE mistake to get rid of X.Clarke, L.Ball, M.Maguire.... And it cost the fabric of the club
They were players who were leaders around the club, and super humans.... Not sure the benefits of not retaining them
We gained
A.Lovett (indirectly).... Well known moron
J.Smith...... Similar to X was injury riddled, with more critical injuries... And an average character
W.Johnson..... Nothing special
We got
1 game and 1 possession out of that three....vs 94 games
The net gain/loss indicates we were the big losers....is that even debated
I said in 2009 it was a huge mistake, not in hindsight.... And could easily have been made look stupid in time, what I've seen since I am even stronger in my view....
The 5 mistakes that hurt in 2009 that cost us multiple premierships IMO
1-not retaining L.Ball 2010 or gaining compensation for him leaving
2-trading X.Clarke, M.Maguire, for picks 63 and 91.... Any real point
3-not selecting BC for ZERO
4-trading a FRP for A.Lovett, a known moron with a poor attitude
5-The lack of development of D.Armitage
BigMart wrote:What benefits came of it??? What were the gains
They were outstanding characters at stk, why was it good to show them the door.....
More a mistake was the recruiting 2008/09,..... The worst recruiting performance
We have no key back, and Goose is one
X.Clarke was injured again, happens, a knee... Happened to Hayes last season
Will Johnson is an average footballer and cannot hold a candle to Maguire, Jesse Smith can barely walk now from an injury pre selection to stk...X.Clarke is playing footy again.
What was the benefit of Axing either, besides opening list room up... To bring in untrieds
nailed it except BC, i guess we'll agree to disagree on that/BigMart wrote:That's pretty much it,
Clubs are measure on premiership success.... It's what every club sets out to try and achieve!!!
I would have thought that was pretty obvious
Part two
I posted in 2009
It was a MASSIVE mistake to get rid of X.Clarke, L.Ball, M.Maguire.... And it cost the fabric of the club
They were players who were leaders around the club, and super humans.... Not sure the benefits of not retaining them
We gained
A.Lovett (indirectly).... Well known moron
J.Smith...... Similar to X was injury riddled, with more critical injuries... And an average character
W.Johnson..... Nothing special
We got
1 game and 1 possession out of that three....vs 94 games
The net gain/loss indicates we were the big losers....is that even debated
I said in 2009 it was a huge mistake, not in hindsight.... And could easily have been made look stupid in time, what I've seen since I am even stronger in my view....
The 5 mistakes that hurt in 2009 that cost us multiple premierships IMO
1-not retaining L.Ball 2010 or gaining compensation for him leaving
2-trading X.Clarke, M.Maguire, for picks 63 and 91.... Any real point
3-not selecting BC for ZERO
4-trading a FRP for A.Lovett, a known moron with a poor attitude
5-The lack of development of D.Armitage
Cousins was past it at Richmond and was still on the gear and still evading the drug testers.Dan Warna wrote:concur, on BC.
glad we didn't get him. pure poison, over rated and injury prone at Richmond.
Is that a fact? You must know that personally as i know how much you hate posting opinions as factplugger66 wrote:Salary cap but that doesnt matter. We should have kept them and played them in the seconds. Who cares what money they were taking on the cap.