To use the car analogy - we have only had a couple of runs around the block but I am concerned we may have bought a lemon.
Time will tell..
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To use the car analogy - we have only had a couple of runs around the block but I am concerned we may have bought a lemon.
Totally agree, but my point has been that we shouldn't be getting angry with the sports car for being s**t and needing a rebuild - we should be angry with ourselves for making a bad choice. When we finish rebuilding the sports car, it will still be a sports car and really good. We just have to wait, unfortunately.To continue your analogy regarding cars:
Boak is supposed to be a sports car (ready to go) whereas players like Cripps and Graham are supposed to be the cars that we build from scratch to provide the most revs.
Cripps and Graham are coming along nicely, and our investment in them is starting to pay off like we anticipated.
Boek on the other hand having supposedly purchased him as a ready made sports car, well we shouldn't have to redo his engine just to get him on the same track as our other up and coming young players.
He should be the already equipped sports car that we bought without needing to upgrade him, at least thats what we were told when we recruited a 'ready to go' player.
Totally agree, but my point has been that we shouldn't be getting angry with the sports car for being s**t and needing a rebuild - we should be angry with ourselves for making a bad choice. When we finish rebuilding the sports car, it will still be a sports car and really good. We just have to wait, unfortunately.
We can rebuild him, we have the technology.And if we have already miscalculated things with him, then that doesn't instil confidence in me that he can meet our new calculations of rebuilding him and getting him to be a really good AFL footballer in future.
Eureka or Lisbon?To use the car analogy - we have only had a couple of runs around the block but I am concerned we may have bought a lemon.
You certainly know your lemons Robbo's my heroEureka or Lisbon?
He has played 1 quarter of football. Yes, it was a good quarter, but can we hold off on directing more s**t at the recruiting team until he actually makes a name for himself? 16 other clubs didn't think he was worth the risk either...and I guarantee that if we had picked him up, the majority of posters on here would be screaming about his height and what a dumb move that was.NOT HAPPY JAN. Read today that we traded our Pick 46 to Western Bulldogs for Jones and Tutt. They picked up Caleb Daniel with our pick. How the hell did this happen. Every recruiter believed he was too small and light, even though he was one of the best players in the 2014 TAC championships carnival. He was the one that got under our guard and virtually won it for the Bullies, while Jones played in the VFL and didn't kick a goal. NOT HAPPY JAN..
Caleb Daniel is not the answer to our problemsNOT HAPPY JAN. Read today that we traded our Pick 46 to Western Bulldogs for Jones and Tutt. They picked up Caleb Daniel with our pick. How the hell did this happen. Every recruiter believed he was too small and light, even though he was one of the best players in the 2014 TAC championships carnival. He was the one that got under our guard and virtually won it for the Bullies, while Jones played in the VFL and didn't kick a goal. NOT HAPPY JAN..
NOT HAPPY JAN. Read today that we traded our Pick 46 to Western Bulldogs for Jones and Tutt. They picked up Caleb Daniel with our pick. How the hell did this happen. Every recruiter believed he was too small and light, even though he was one of the best players in the 2014 TAC championships carnival. He was the one that got under our guard and virtually won it for the Bullies, while Jones played in the VFL and didn't kick a goal. NOT HAPPY JAN..
Reaction wasn't blunt at all. Jokingly said there a bit lairy, which they are..Hey guys just wondering if anyone else thought it was strange before the game the interaction of Murphy and Barker. Murphy had the microphone on him for the night and as he was walking to the center circle to toss the coin Barker obviously commented on his pink boots to which Murphy replied sarcastically "Yeah Rightio". Maybe I am reading too much into things but just thought it was a little strange.
What do we do with Whiley? Full game next wk or dropped?
Sounds like barks reckons gibbs, menzel and carrots will all be test and cripps will get up.
I could see why they will go all out to win this one.
Rowe will probably come back in too.
Wood firms as an omission. Need to find three other spots.
NOT HAPPY JAN. Read today that we traded our Pick 46 to Western Bulldogs for Jones and Tutt. They picked up Caleb Daniel with our pick. How the hell did this happen. Every recruiter believed he was too small and light, even though he was one of the best players in the 2014 TAC championships carnival. He was the one that got under our guard and virtually won it for the Bullies, while Jones played in the VFL and didn't kick a goal. NOT HAPPY JAN..
Boekhurst needs to firstly harden up..the amount of times I saw him back out of contests and not putting his body on the line was atrocious. His tackling was weak as piss as well. These are non negotiables. He should be sent back to the two's until he learns this. Disposal I can accept that maybe it was nerves, pace of the game, lack of experience, etc.
I saw Caleb play last year and at not one person doubted he had the ability to play. But as you said his height put a lot of clubs off him. He was always going to be a speculative pick and maybe the Bulldogs thought it was a risk worth taking.
On the flip side of that, every club overlooked Nick Graham and now he is playing good footy as well.
Very easy to pass comment on recruiting 8 months after it has taken place.
Like most of "older" crowd on here, I have been supporting the club for 45-46 years... played it at primary school and high school levels, been trained by VFL players... so obviously I dont know anything about the game going by that premise. God knows how little some of the others knows about the game!