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Seems funny that you "remember this happening" when using it as a point to discredit Voss's potential to play HBF. It seems a little made up story and has about as much credibility as the crazy concept that Voss would have been a diminished player as a HBFlanker.
Nah it seems more like you're too ready to believe the story was fabricated. Error or disagreement with the Essendon thread posters doesn't prove fabrication, that's only a conclusion you're too willing to jump to in order to try and prove your pre-conceived ideas on the subject.
You also accepted the Essendon testimony without basic fact-checking which would prove it was wrong (SJ didn't kick 3 goals against Essendon that year), whereas you're too eager to claim fabrication on my part. So it's clear which way you lean here.
Nevertheless at least one poster corroborated my story by saying he remembered Hird playing a few games back there and talk that he was going to be a half-back in the style of Harvey which never eventuated. This fits nicely with what I said earlier about Sheedy shelving plans for Hird as a defender. As does the report that Hird didn't like being away from the action, which fits the perception that he didn't want to be there, as I reported. Even the timing was right, the report was after the facial injury in 2002 and I said circa 2005.
So it seems there are reports from the Essendon thread which agree with what I have said, which is that Hird didn't play half-back to the level that he is accustomed in other areas of the ground, that Sheedy scrapped the idea pretty early in the piece, that it happened later in his career, and that he didn't seem to be all that happy to be in the position. I really don't know why you claimed otherwise.