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Over the last 20 years we've been overrepresented for individual honours (Coleman medal x3, Brownlow medal x3).With great respect to the dual brownlow medallist, Im kind of glad Crippa is down the list atm. Less reliance on him during the season the better, then he can go beast mode for the finals
It’s disgraceful and embarrassing. No other words.
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Normally I would agree with you...but a few years back we gave Ed another year when we re-rookied him, which in hindsight did nothing to improve our list when Richmond jagged Seth Campbell with the selection immediately after Ed.
There’s a huge difference between giving someone another contract, and forcing them out a quarter through their final year, after they’ve recovered from an ACL the year before.
The cats had 2 brownlow medallists, and a mountain of AA's between 2007 and 2011Throughout our golden years 1968 to 1995 - one Brownlow medal - and 4 Norm Smiths (which should have been 5).
Think it's an average. 12M over 7 years.
It really isn’t. He does not want to put his body on the line for the sake of the team. We aren’t winning anything if we have blokes like that in the team. No disrespect to Doc, he seems like a great bloke and is a wonderful example to young players with the adversity he has overcome, but his time in the league is over IMO. No shame in that either as it happens to every player. I would have absolutely have no problem with him taking a player development role as I think he is a great role model to younger players but if he plays another game for the league side then out club is in serious trouble as there is very little benefit of this version of him playing. This may come across as harsh but if we are fair dinkum about success then these are the decisions that need to be made.
Geelong signed Dangerfield on a big deal from Adelaide initially, maybe subsequently less but a lot early, and Richmond signed Tom Lynch on a big deal. Big to the point Alex Rance on TV queried whether spending so much on one player was a good idea - then they won 2 more flags.
Not by you or I. Respect!
Put better than i could.
Dangerfield played for Geelong Falcons and was from the area, it was a major factor to return to Geelong much broader reasons than a good contract, Lynch was also coming back to a strong Melbourne club again more factors than chasing $.
When Danger signed it was reported and mentioned by players that his deal wasn’t more than Selwoods, his move wasn’t motivated by $$$.
That's 1 example and part of the reason why I said "not many"...
we'd need to have 2 very good prospects in the MSD to make an early call on Doc, and that's unlikely.
Precisely, weird arguments to be retiring somebody so early in the season. Makes zero sense, there is absolutely nothing wrong with any player young or old playing at the next level down to find form and confidence.
Eg….Murphy getting games he didn’t deserve towards the end. Would have been to give younger guys games to develop them quicker.
