Opinion The I Was Wrong thread- Where Tom Atkins posts go to die

[iameviljez]

Rightio... following Stanley's demo job on Lobbe last night, I thought this would be an interesting thread topic.

- I thought we got absolutely stiffed in the Stanley-Christensen-Pick 21 swap, and that a 24-year-old StKilda reject had nothing to offer a club with finals aspirations

- I thought Mitch Brown would be a very good AFL-standard third tall defender or Tom Lynch-style forward

- I thought there was no way we would be able to match Collingwood for the next five years following the 2010 demolition job

- I thought David Spriggs and David Clarke were the best prospects in that promising early-2000s side

- I thought Moloney and Prismall would come back to really burn us, but that Ryan Gamble would prove to be a spud.

Who else? I'm awaiting for mea culpa regarding the supposedly useless Guthrie and Blicavs...

 

[year of the cat]

A few (unnamed posters) on here are utterly incapable of contributing to this thread.

 

[catempire]

I think I once said Jason Davenport would play more AFL games than Shannon Byrnes.

 

[Partridge]

A few (unnamed posters) on here are utterly incapable of contributing to this thread.

You should name them. Much more gutsy than taking anonymous potshots.

I'd need a week to list all mine. I challenge anyone to top my certain 'will make it' quinella of Kane Tenace and Charlie Gardiner though.

 

[iameviljez]

You should name them. Much more gutsy than taking anonymous potshots.

I'd need a week to list all mine. I challenge anyone to top my certain 'will make it' quinella of Kane Tenace and Charlie Gardiner though.

I thought Henry Playfair would make it as a Brad Miller-esque functional, strong, unspectacular CHF...

 

[Partridge]

I thought Henry Playfair would make it as a Brad Miller-esque functional, strong, unspectacular CHF...

He played good football there in the first half of 2005.

 

[year of the cat]

You should name them. Much more gutsy than taking anonymous potshots.

I'd need a week to list all mine. I challenge anyone to top my certain 'will make it' quinella of Kane Tenace and Charlie Gardiner though.

I think they know who they are.

I wanted Robert Walls to replace Bomber Thompson. //I win. End thread.

 

[Cataholic]

I'm always wrong.

Just ask the GF

 

[FredLeDeux]

I'm having doubts about my suggestion that Cowan was "definitely a potential major talent, on the limited amount we've seen so far."

 

[Partridge]

I think they know who they are.

I wanted Robert Walls to replace Bomber Thompson. //I win. End thread.

Perhaps. I dislike innuendo and bullshit. To me if you've got a problem with people have the guts to say so.

 

[RedVest4]

I'd rather do this when the season is finished...

 

[Cataholic]

I think they know who they are.

I wanted Robert Walls to replace Bomber Thompson. //I win. End thread.

You're lucky we don't have Capital Punishment here!

 

[iameviljez]

He played good football there in the first half of 2005.

I remember that he did particularly well in one close-fought game against Adelaide, but got injured halfway through it and was never really the same.

Charlie G also had one game that smelt of turning point against the Dogs at Kardinia around the same time, I thought he might be ok after that but then it was back to being ineffectual again.

 

[Cezz The Catter]

I think I once said Jason Davenport would play more AFL games than Shannon Byrnes.

Hahaha christ mate that is putrid. gave me a good laugh though

 

[iameviljez]

I think they know who they are.

I wanted Robert Walls to replace Bomber Thompson. //I win. End thread.

You win a one-way ticket to the Loony Bin, I suggest. Was this 2006?

 

[Frappe]

Never thought I'd live to see a Geelong premiership.

I was wrong.

Won't comment on 2016 because it's too early.

 

[year of the cat]

Perhaps. I dislike innuendo and bullshit. To me if you've got a problem with people have the guts to say so.

Mate, I don't have a problem with it. I'm not losing any sleep over it. It's just an observation.

Btw, I don't think it takes "guts" to name someone in a forum where I don't know anyone and furthermore will never meet anyone. If anything it's gutless to name them.

 

[Vdubs]

Wow. I don't want to hog this thread, but have had a few doozies.

Mitch Brown- felt he was a victim of injuries and timing, but the major hurt he has inflicted on us since his departure was his role in Thurlow's injury, iirc.

Ryan Gamble- thought he would be a loss.

Tim Callan, Will Slade, Jason Davenport, D Clarke jnr- rated all of them.

Varcoe, Mark Blake- still rate them.

Dawson Simpson- was convinced he would solve our ruck issues.

GAJ- was utterly convinced he could/would never leave Geelong.

 

[year of the cat]

You win a one-way ticket to the Loony Bin, I suggest. Was this 2006?

Yes. Looked like we were going nowhere. Not going to try and justify that opinion in any way..

 

[Mad_Hatter]

At the start of 2014 I said Blicavs offered nothing and the MC were playing him purely due to being "unique".
He's still unique, but he's also a bloody fine player in his own right.

 

[vinum coupe]

I can't remember my exact comment.
But it was along the lines of "Paul brown could be anything, he has Ablett X factor"

 

[you pick one]

I thought Josh Walker would of kicked on,might have lead with the heart there and not the head.
And in the really really early days when Mitch Brown was kicking bags in the VFL I was on the bandwagon.

 

[year of the cat]

I can't remember my exact comment.
But it was along the lines of "Paul brown could be anything, he has Ablett X factor"

Ended up a very decent footballer though to be fair.

 

[Cataholic]

I thought Ayres would be a sh*t coach, but.......oh, wait

 

[FredLeDeux]

I think they know who they are.

I wanted Robert Walls to replace Bomber Thompson. //I win. End thread.

At half-time in the NM game early 2007 the TV showed Woofer in the crowd, and I suggested to my brother that they should take him down to the rooms and announce him as the new coach, effective immediately.