- Feb 19, 2016
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What's there to feel? Turns out the problem was the coach so wouldn't matter either way.
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How many players in the AFL as a whole are capable of that? Was a very bad decision. The other three were done.Haven't really changed since my POV at the time - it was the right time to move on Dish, Spud & NDS, but the wrong time for Boomer. He had just kicked an equal-career-best 36 goals in the year while still averaging more than 20 touches... how many players do we have capable of that? s**t decision
How many players in the AFL as a whole are capable of that? Was a very bad decision. The other three were done.
But it was certainly dopey Scotts and Joyces related. Even the Blind Freddie Board finally stopped buying those guys Horseshit. :stern lookLike most I have read, agree Boomer was gone too soon, I always thought he would get to 450 and re-assess, it was certainly not form related at all.
You're dead right and he actually didn't need to... it wasn't relevant to his playing career. I guess on all of the players I was focusing on their relationship with North since then and Nick always comes across like a former St Kilda player to me.
Dal Santo is a St Kilda man who finished his career at North. Waite and Higgo are North men who started their careers elsewhere.
Me too. Waitey was a good man shackled in a family business for too many yearsYep, that's how I see it.
Now I miss Waitey again.
Yep.Educate me on the ‘letting Boomer go helped net LDU’ angle.
Is it as simple as keepingBoomer would have seen us finish higher, hence without the draft pick?
Thats how I have always thought of Stan Alves.Dal Santo is a St Kilda man who finished his career at North. Waite and Higgo are North men who started their careers elsewhere.
Who?You forgot Farren Ray.
With all due respect to Farren, no I didn’t .
Two second rounders for Levi Greenwood and Wells and we used them to pick two players with obvious flaws that would prevent them from becoming AFL players. Nielson was a short fullback that didn't intercept or kick and Josh Williams never went near a contest in his junior footy career. We can be such a dumb club.Petrie had been cooked for at least a year. Funnily he was the only one to continue his career elsewhere. Dal Santo and Firrito could have gone around again, but the thinking on finishing them up was sound. The timing - three days after securing a finals spot, four days before the last H&A game - was awful and the manner of the announcements was amateurish. I don't buy "They were wanting to know" argument. Tell them, keep it in house, plan the most respectful way of announcing it and do it properly.
The call of Boomer was wrong from whatever angle you approach it. He'd just broken the games record and was playing well. Whilst the handling of the other three was poor, the way Boomer was treated shown a massive disconnect between the football dept, coaching team, and the fans. It was actually quite shameful what and how it happened.
The other decision was on Daniel Wells. The club handled this perfectly. He didn't have three years left in him as his time at Collingwood would eventually show. Imagine if we still had Wellsy on the books last year. What he was offered was more than fair. Good luck to him for getting money for nothing at the Pies, but the club did well holding firm on him. Unfortunately we got nothing from the compensation pick.
That's my take SMat. A lot of close losses that year, someone with experience and goal sense could have got us back into a couple of them and then we'd have missed him.Educate me on the ‘letting Boomer go helped net LDU’ angle.
Is it as simple as keepingBoomer would have seen us finish higher, hence without the draft pick?