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Picking up a conversation from another thread, what are people's thoughts about Hird and his place at the club?
I know I'm in the minority (there's a shock) but I don't want him back at the club anytime soon. Of course he'll be welcome back at some point, but in the medium/long term. Not the short term. Like it or not this all happened under his watch. I'm yet to see him really take responsibility for it beyond that first presser, where we know he had to be really urged to say that. (There's been so much happen between then and now so if he HAS taken responsibility for it I'm happy to correct).
I used to see him as a great legend of our club. I don't anymore. He was a great player, no doubting that. But to me that's all he is now. He won two flags and a Brownlow. His reign is now likely to cost us a Brownlow, ruined a period where we were building to a flag, cost us Jake Carlisle and Paddy Ryder, cost us a year of these 12 players. To me the damage outweighs the good he did and that can't be ignored. I simply can't see him as a great of our club anymore. To me that suggests something more than a gun player, and he's lost that.
But, obv, just my thoughts. People will agree and people will disagree. But I was grabbing a convo from the other thread and bringing it in here. Before anyone accuses me of randomly bringing Hird up again. So what do y'all think?
I know I'm in the minority (there's a shock) but I don't want him back at the club anytime soon. Of course he'll be welcome back at some point, but in the medium/long term. Not the short term. Like it or not this all happened under his watch. I'm yet to see him really take responsibility for it beyond that first presser, where we know he had to be really urged to say that. (There's been so much happen between then and now so if he HAS taken responsibility for it I'm happy to correct).
I used to see him as a great legend of our club. I don't anymore. He was a great player, no doubting that. But to me that's all he is now. He won two flags and a Brownlow. His reign is now likely to cost us a Brownlow, ruined a period where we were building to a flag, cost us Jake Carlisle and Paddy Ryder, cost us a year of these 12 players. To me the damage outweighs the good he did and that can't be ignored. I simply can't see him as a great of our club anymore. To me that suggests something more than a gun player, and he's lost that.
But, obv, just my thoughts. People will agree and people will disagree. But I was grabbing a convo from the other thread and bringing it in here. Before anyone accuses me of randomly bringing Hird up again. So what do y'all think?

