Dom Barry heads home

[ExTasDeeMan]

Oh well.

 

[Crimson Azure]

Good luck to the young kid.

First Class effort to tell us pre draft.

Maybe that's why Paul Roos mentioned pick 40 the other day in an interview despite the fact that it looked like we only had 2 slots open in the draft.

I assumed thats this may be why Roos mentioned that we'd be using 40 despite not have room for the pick.

Makes sense but perhaps gave him time to consider his future.

 

[djpaulydemon]

I'm only sad because now we probably won't delist Evans or McKenzie.

 

[Praetorian]

Good luck to him, perhaps a good thing in terms of list management

Now the question is Who will we sponsor in his place?

 

[Trav 20]

He wouldn't have been in anyone's best 22. He's definitely soft and can't get his hands on it.

Whether he stayed, or went, he's just another uninspiring draft selection.

 

[youngbear]

Had a good chuckle at this:

Titus O'Reily ‏@TitusOReily 3m3 minutes ago
Mitch Clark encourages Dom Barry to choose Geelong.

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

He wouldn't have been in anyone's best 22. He's definitely soft and can't get his hands on it.

Whether he stayed, or went, he's just another uninspiring draft selection.

He wasn't drafted.

 

[Trav 20]

He wasn't drafted.

I know how he came to us (Hogan deal) and clearly he was the part that was a wasted exercise and ultimately a poor choice.

I'm not sure why you felt the need to post, other than you've got diarrhea.

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

I know how he came to us (Hogan deal) and clearly he was the part that was a wasted exercise and ultimately a poor choice.

I'm not sure why you felt the need to post, other than you've got diarrhea.

Because he wasn't drafted? Saying that he was just another 'uninspiring draft selection' is incorrect. We didn't give anything up for him or take him before anyone else. He was the steak knives that GWS already had and didn't need, and the deal probably would have happened even without him in it. You can either admit that you were wrong or resort to petty insults to try and repair your reputation, and it's obvious which one you've chosen.

 

[Flyswatter]

its a diarrhoea fight

 

[Trav 20]

Because he wasn't drafted? Saying that he was just another 'uninspiring draft selection' is incorrect. We didn't give anything up for him or take him before anyone else. He was the steak knives that GWS already had and didn't need, and the deal probably would have happened even without him in it. You can either admit that you were wrong or resort to petty insults to try and repair your reputation, and it's obvious which one you've chosen.

He was part of the negotiation to get Hogan and drop down from 13 to 20. Clearly he was the dud part and just as clearly he didn't have to be involved. Choices were made and they've proven to be poor. Yet you say the deal "probably" would have happened anyway.

I'm sure the deal would have happened too, but I'm not privy to what choices we may have been able to negotiate if we didn't want Barry. Are you ?

 

[Trav 20]

Also, by saying "We didn't give anything up for him or take him before anyone else." you conveniently overlook the fact he was on our list in place of somebody else and we spent two years of our time and money developing him.

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

He was part of the negotiation to get Hogan and drop down from 13 to 20. Clearly he was the dud part and just as clearly he didn't have to be involved. Choices were made and they've proven to be poor. Yet you say the deal "probably" would have happened anyway.

I'm sure the deal would have happened too, but I'm not privy to what choices we may have been able to negotiate if we didn't want Barry. Are you ?

No. But he still wasn't a draft selection. It's all well and good to say that it was a poor choice in hindsight but unlike with a draft pick you can't say that we had complete control to pick anyone else that we wanted. It's more than likely that Barry was the best or only choice offered, and we had no idea that he was going to throw the towel in. Moved to Ballarat when he was 14 or whatever to play tennis. I'm sure the recruiters figured that he was very committed.

To say that he was an 'uninspiring draft selection' implies that he was just another Strauss or Gysberts or Maric who we chose when we could have picked a Shuey or Talia without anyone else being able to stop us, when he really wasn't. We made our choices based on an extremely unique situation with the NT zoning and mini-draft concessions offered to GWS. I'm pretty happy with Hogan and P20/Dawes for P3 and P13, so I'm not going to get too hung up on it.

 

[Headless]

Best of luck, Dom!

 

[PerfectFooty]

did anyone read the last bit of Melbourne's statement? where we are making a submission to the AFL that if Dom decides to rekindle playing AFL he can pretty much resume his career with Melbourne. I've never heard of anything like this done before in the AFL, so forgive me if there has been similar scenarios.

Anyway as interesting as it is i doubt that he would resume his career anyway

 

[Demon 16]

Very sad to hear and unfortunately it will further tarnish the chance's of more remote Indigenous draftee's in the future

Sadly, this was the thing that came to my mind as well.

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

Dom Barrygon turned out to be an weaker brew than we thought.

 

[Theseventhhamster]

Sucks a bit. Had some tools to work with but it would have been a hard gig for him with the added guys particularly Stretch. Good luck to him, AFL footy isn't for everyone.

 

[Sprout]

Dom Barrygon turned out to be an weaker brew than we thought.

Yep, and I'm looking for a new Supercoach name.

Oh well. Nice fella. Good luck to him.

 

[saj_21]

No loss, i'm hoping he is the last of un-competitive pea hearts we have on our list. I'd rather keep mckenzie, evans or get Tapscott back on our list (rookie or primary list, i dont care) as these guys will have a crack at least.

 

[Cannon82]

did anyone read the last bit of Melbourne's statement? where we are making a submission to the AFL that if Dom decides to rekindle playing AFL he can pretty much resume his career with Melbourne.

The test run with Clark didn't go according to plan.

 

[schmuttt]

It does suck, but things like this really do hurt indigenous players chances of getting drafted, irregardless of whether they are more risky or not.

 

[Dee Won]

All the best to him

now the important question: Who will we now player sponsor

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

This is better for us than it is Dom...

Thanks for the favour, dud

 

[ThePuppetMaster]

He wouldn't have been in anyone's best 22. He's definitely soft and can't get his hands on it.

Whether he stayed, or went, he's just another uninspiring draft selection.

He was a trade (technically)!

We can't blame BP for this one mate.

Do agree it was a baffling choice to go after Barry when we could probably have landed Jed Anderson in a similar deal with Hogan, who is hard as a cats head.