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I'm not trying to defend Fantasia but he's from another time. Perhaps had he the resources available to the likes of Rendell/ Olgilvie he may have performed better to your liking.I'm not blaming Fantasia for our failure to win a flag, but his record of 1st round draft selection failures staggers belief.
The current regime (Rendell/Ogilvie) has had a 100% success rate when it comes to our 1st round selections. It's not an outlandish claim, because it's true. Refer to my previous posts in this thread.
I'm not trying to defend Fantasia but he's from another time. Perhaps had he the resources available to the likes of Rendell/ Olgilvie he may have performed better to your liking.
that his own club is even baffled by saying on AA that around pick # 35 would have been a good result.
But that's a number picked out based on previous drafts and where people went at, his coach didn't do a phantom draft to work out where people would go, he didn't look at the talent from other states and put them in order, he may be aware about other victorian kids, but he only knows about the character of his own side. He looked at Doedee and thought a kid like this normally goes about 35, he may have been a pick 35 in previous drafts, but this was a weak draft where he went 17.
It's also weird that you instantly trust the word of some coach you've never heard of before who coaches a TAC cup side more than the guys at our AFL side. Just because he's a coach doesn't mean he is a brilliant judge of talent, there are countless stories of players not being rated by their coach who go on to become stars under different coaches.
Sounds like you drink the TAC cup coach koolaid, spoon fed.
Strong contested game, very good lateral movement and poise and he looks like one of those guys who sees the game well.
I'd also argue his scope for improvement is much larger than some around him, given his last 12 months and being new to the game.
You clearly have never read the average 15 to 25 year olds facebook list. They don't know 50% of them.
I'm sure you can keep defending all decisions made by the AFC I'm not as forgiving they have failed for sometime and need to be kept accountable for poor decisions which affect on field results.
Please don't use them as our bench markIt ain't the recruiting department's fault. They have been our best department since Fantasia left.
Any club that has five coaches across five seasons will struggle.
Yet we have actually done ok. Basically had the same "success" as our cross town rivals in this period.
Hopefully the Pyke era can be a stable one. And more importantly he is a good enough coach to allow the club to have real success.
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It's all about the numbers.
I'm not defending all decisions, I just wait until I have some evidence they have done something wrong before I criticise a decision when I know the people making the decision know more about it than I do and they have the runs on the board to show they know what they are doing.
You're angry at them because some blogger's disagreed with their decision and that is idiotic. I'll wait until I've seen him play a few matches alongside our SANFL players before I start to make an opinion.
I believe he lasted 2 seasons on TV before being relegated to backyard rodeos and eventually a......wood chipper
Straight outta Compton.
The club see him moving into midfield, with his skillset I think its a big possibilitySo, where is his best long term position?
So, where is his best long term position?
I must admit when #17 came up I was saying Burton, Burton!! And then WhatTH and WhoTF!?
It seems poor Tom and our drafting team are on a hiding to nothing! If we had a 40-60 pick and chose him – and he turns out like a Rory Sloane/Graham Johncock - then we are rapt declaring our recruiting guys are geniuses !!
However at #17 – he needs to at least perform like a Burton/Tahlia to achieve some credibility! And be some sort of a gun.
And I keep thinking of the Kelly promotion! Some similarities there but maybe he goes ahead of him in the pecking order??
My son in law lives in Geelong – an avid cats fan – never heard of him!! (But as an aside said Dean Gore could be gun!! and I have seen him play live over there and also liked him!)
I did hear him say he is happy to leave Geelong and go elsewhere and thinks Adelaide will be a great place to develop his AFL career – so that’s a positive.
And maybe he could end up being a better player than Jack Watts! (In terms of draft pick selections!!)
So I am happy - at this stage to back our recruiting team and wait and see – give him a go.
Welcome Tom – let’s hope for the best!!
Central commentary position.
Bloody hell, Mike. I think we agree.
I liked Rendell, but some of the things he said didn't actually inspire confidence. Ogilvy seems like someone that just eats, drinks and breaths footy.
The club see him moving into midfield, with his skillset I think its a big possibility