Rumour Bluemour Discussion thread

[Bluella]

In other news about time that ******* car race started paying for itself........

Hundreds of thousands to pay much more to see GP, Senate hearing told.

(couldn't find the bad dad joke smiley)

 

[Aphrodite]

We will be getting a recruiter from GWS by end of year.

#bluemour

Any idea who that may be Marc Shmurf 3

 

[Jatz]

Makes sense really.

 

[Marc Shmurf 3]

Any idea who that may be Marc Shmurf 3

Yes but can't say Aphro

 

[ShanDog]

Got screwed out of Boyd so we are taking the rest of the team and administration from GWS?

 

[King of Ruin]

Fire sale at GWS!

 

[Jeremias]

Looking at their website, GWS only have two listed "scouts" - Phil Scully and Paul Brodie.

I am sure there are others involved in their recruiting but I would say if MS3 is on the money it would be one of the above.

I'm going to have a stab and say it is Brodie. He has been around for a while - he was at Brisbane prior to GWS and was reportedly responsible for recruiting Rockliff.

 

[Jatz]

It's not going to be Scully's old man.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

It's not going to be Scully's old man.

$1m contract to Tom for the father/son package deal.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Looking at their website, GWS only have two listed "scouts" - Phil Scully and Paul Brodie.

I am sure there are others involved in their recruiting but I would say if MS3 is on the money it would be one of the above.

I'm going to have a stab and say it is Brodie. He has been around for a while - he was at Brisbane prior to GWS and was reportedly responsible for recruiting Rockliff.

Indeed. Will be Brodie.

The 2011 lottery will produce big winners, but it's going to be quite a while before they consistently influence games.

There will also be early picks who flounder, late picks who blossom.

You won't need a reminder of those who have bombed, while the bargains can be as interesting.

Tom Rockliff, the Brisbane Lions' 2011 club champion, was taken at No.5 in the pre-season draft of 2009 after being passed over in the national draft. There's a genuine steal.

They say he was picked by Paul Brodie, a mysterious football figure then at Brisbane, now with Greater Western Sydney, the man universally known in football as "Stooka".

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...rs-time-to-shine/story-fn4hg9de-1226206670946

 

[Jatz]

$1m contract to Tom for the father/son package deal.

There are very few things that would turn me off Carlton but that would almost certainly be one of them. If I wanted to watch a club piss money away, I could go watch my local cricket club.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Didn't realise Paul Brodie has been with us before. Seems he has a track record as far as late picks go.

http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2011-07-21/hoops-readies-for-game-200

As Carlton’s fifth round selection (No.73 overall) in the 1999 National AFL draft, Houlihan was a bargain basement pick-up.

“We really liked him,” the club’s then recruiting manager Shane O’Sullivan said this week, “but on the way through [to the draft] he hit a bit of a poor patch and other clubs dropped off him.

“Some people probably saw him as not hard enough, but one of our scouts Paul ‘Stuka’ Brodie was a massive fan, and while he didn’t have to twist my arm, he was really pushing for Ryan.

“We always thought that with his skill level and the way he went about it he was always pretty good, so we took the punt, thought we might have been able to get him a bit later and that’s how it worked out . . . and he pretty much played straight away.”

http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2011-07-21/hoops-readies-for-game-200

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

More about Brodie and the Rockliff pick. Had pushed him that whole year so wasn't just having a stab in the PSD.

Paul Brodie always knew Rockliff was good enough and each time the 24-year-old laces up his boots he proves him right.

Rockliff broke his leg as a 16-year-old and was forced to play as a small forward throughout under-18s.

Despite kicking a bag of goals in a Murray Bushrangers side that went on to win that year’s TAC Cup, he was overlooked in the draft because recruiters did not believe he could play in the midfield.

Brodie, who was then the Lions’ chief talent spotter, came from the same area in country Victoria as Rockliff, knew his family, and was convinced that, injury free, he could prove the doubters wrong.

Brodie had an ally in Lions head of football Graeme Allan, who had been urged by Brodie to watch Rockliff closely that year.

“He (Brodie) knew all about him and put his name forward really early so we watched him a lot in his under-18s year,’’ Allan said. “Even though he had the dodgy leg and couldn’t run that well and was stuck in the forward pocket, we could see he was a great contested footballer.’’

Brisbane took Rockliff with pick five in the 2008 pre-season draft, a roll of the dice that hit the jackpot.

 

[HBF]

More about Brodie and the Rockliff pick. Had pushed him that whole year so wasn't just having a stab in the PSD.

Not to blow my own trumpet, but I liked Rockliff the year he was drafted and would have liked to have seen us take a chance on him.
Issue was he mainly played forward for the Bushies that year, and didn't see a lot of time in the midfield.
Brisbane got an absolute steal in him.

 

[AlecDuncan]

Jeremy Cameron hemming and hawing about new contract. would be nice to have. Our pockets should be deep enough this year.

 

[ShanDog]

Jeremy Cameron hemming and hawing about new contract. would be nice to have. Our pockets should be deep enough this year.

Mate, it's 'hither and thither'.

 

[Just Kreuzing]

Jeremy Cameron hemming and hawing about new contract. would be nice to have. Our pockets should be deep enough this year.

Hope your right AD, knowing our luck/strategy we will probably have Jack Newton employed to reach into those deep pockets.....

 

[Keyza]

Heard this from someone with an Essendon connection so not sure what to make of it, but it is the rumour thread.
Malthouse to give away coaching, didnt say that it would happen at the end of the year or earlier. With his wife's recent operation maybe there is something to it. Or then again it could be complete BS.

 

[HereComesJuddy]

since we are focusing on gws. Devon smith would be handy. Would love he and Menzel creating havoc in the forward 50, along with Clem smith.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Jeremy Cameron hemming and hawing about new contract. would be nice to have. Our pockets should be deep enough this year.

Mate, it's 'hither and thither'.

Waxing and waning
Pillar to post
Vacillating and waffling

 

[LanceRomance]

Heard this from someone with an Essendon connection so not sure what to make of it, but it is the rumour thread.
Malthouse to give away coaching, didnt say that it would happen at the end of the year or earlier. With his wife's recent operation maybe there is something to it. Or then again it could be complete BS.

hmmm.... not sure about that one.

 

[Jatz]

If his wife's condition turned sour (knock on wood that it doesn't), I don't think he'd hesitate to throw it away in a heartbeat. He's always been really grounded and knows that in the end, it's just a game. As long as she's alright, I think you'd see him continue.

 

[ShanDog]

Waxing and waning
Pillar to post
Vacillating and waffling

That you Andy McKay??

 

[jj1978]

Stuff one of their recruiters... Jeremy Cameron would do nicely..

 

[coryne]

Yes but can't say Aphro

But the question is do we REALLY want Tom Scully in Navy blue ??? ............