cwrcyn wrote:Whoah!!!! Hang on a minute.
Essendon got lucky because three players nominated their club, one if which no-one else wanted to touch. It's easier when they're banging at your door to get in. If three players were banging at our door, we would have gotten them in, too. It requires no genius to get that done. Dodoro is still a useless, arrogant turd.
As for Schache, hardly anyone wanted to touch him, and we were never interested.
We declared our hand on Dustin Martin 6 months ago...."No thanks"
We were never in the hunt for Fyfe, and everyone in the business knows that.
Yes, we wanted Kelly, but he decided to stay at GWS. He even baulked at 1.4 million a year from North Melbourne, so it wasn't about our incompetence, as much as some on here are desperate to believe.
So, we go into the draft with picks 7 & 8....boo hoo, what a tragedy.
Are any of the naysayers going to bag us for last year's trade period, too? Are they going to bag the trades that landed us Steele, Stevens, Carlisle (with Gresham), Brown, Membrey, Savage, Roberton, Freeman, Longer, and Bruce? Aah, yes, they forget about those, don't they! For club that's crap at trading, those trades must have happened just by accident.
At no stage did I say that last years, or previous years drafting campaign have been crap. Nor did I say that I was unhappy with 7 & 8. In fact, in one post I have said that I hope that they do not throw 7 & 8 at a no name just to achieve the 'big fish' we were promised.
What I did say was:
We got no where;
We made a bold statement and did not follow through;
We are not a destination club;
The teams that we are competing against for finals spots - achieved what in their minds was an improvement in their stocks.
I can see no scenario where this trade period can be measured as a success against what we set out to do.
“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
― Aristophanes
If you have a Bee in your Bonnet - I can assist you with that - but it WILL involve some smacking upside the head!