Universal Love Chad Wingard - thanks for the memories

[JimmyBeerCans]

lol all you guys getting baited by Chad Wingard just don't read this tabloid garbage.

Well you can always fall for the agenda driven media club stooge stuff I guess

 

[TeeKray]

This thread has moved a long way from its original intent - time to move on

 

[Wargreymon90]

You don't remember the guy who had two AA's and a B&F by the end of his fourth season?

If somebody had told you at the end of 2015 that in just a few year's time we'd be trading Chad Wingard for a pretty good halfback and a fringe wingman, you'd have thought they were mental.

I remember the Ferrari (continuing the metaphor). But he crashed it himself. I have no issue with the club trading a player who was overweight, didn’t apply himself and still demanded a massive contract.

Port have made plenty of mistakes, but trading wingard wasn’t one of them

 

[Schulzenfest]

I remember the Ferrari (continuing the metaphor). But he crashed it himself. I have no issue with the club trading a player who was overweight, didn’t apply himself and still demanded a massive contract.

Port have made plenty of mistakes, but trading wingard wasn’t one of them

Trading Wingard wasn't one of them. Allowing Wingard to deteriorate to the point where we needed to trade him was.

Wingard isn't blameless but the club isn't blameless. What you've described doesn't happen at good clubs. Dustin Martin looked like going the way that Wingard ended up going at around the same point in his career, now he has a Brownlow and three Norm Smith medals.

 

[dirty2]

How exactly did we crash our Ferrari?

Hinkley drove around the Ferrari (Wingard).. Was to much of a cheap ass to get it serviced and ****ed up the warranty?

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Lol we took a ferrari, totally wrote it off, then still managed to trade it for a ******* lambo and Xavier Duursma

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Xavier Duursma

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82kg

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Mid

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18.5

5star

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10.0

4star

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8.5

5star

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5.4

5star

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2.1

4star

CL

1.6

4star

D

13.0

3star

K

8.8

4star

HB

4.3

3star

M

3.8

4star

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2.3

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0.5

3star

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16.8

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8.4

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8.4

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4.8

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2.0

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1.6

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[Malibu#27]

Trading Wingard wasn't one of them. Allowing Wingard to deteriorate to the point where we needed to trade him was.

Wingard isn't blameless but the club isn't blameless. What you've described doesn't happen at good clubs. Dustin Martin looked like going the way that Wingard ended up going at around the same point in his career, now he has a Brownlow and three Norm Smith medals.

Is Clarko (the wonder coach) also at fault for not getting the best out of Chad during his time at Hawthorn ?

 

[EskimoPAFC]

The real question is whether Chad's Fortnite clan are getting the best out of him.

 

[Andre]

Lol we took a ferrari, totally wrote it off, then still managed to trade it for a ******* lambo and Xavier Duursma

I like Burton as a player, but that's over the top.

More like we took a Ferrari, totally wrote it off, then still managed to trade it for a BMW and an Alfa Romeo. Nice, but we're only ahead because we crashed the much better car firstly. All things considered we're doing well out of that trade, but I'd take AA years Chad back over Burton and Duursma in a heartbeat. Chad should have been more interested in torturing greyhounds than Fortnite.

 

[bomberclifford]

The Ferrari crashed but it was Chad that was driving.

 

[Duck Farmer]

The Ferrari crashed but it was Chad that was driving.

Yeah, but the driving instructor was Hinkley.

 

[Powerade 08]

Yeah, but the driving instructor was Hinkley.

Chad was paying for the lessons with the money he was making working at Subway. So whichever way you look at it, ultimately it was still Chads fault.

 

[TeeKray]

Chad was still a very good player for us in the latter years, even if not reaching the heights he had promised to previously. He was traded 1) for off field reasons and 2) as part of a concerted strategy to buy the regime time. The fact that it worked out ok in the end was dumb luck more than anything else.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

The Ferrari crashed but it was Chad that was driving.

So Chad is a Ferrari who is driving a Ferrari?

 

[dirty2]

Maybe the problem is Chad was a Ferrari with a manual gearbox... And we had a dumbass driver who could only drive auto?

 

[Janus]

Wingard could request a trade back to Port this year or retire and neither would surprise me.

 

[Windy Cindy]

Wingard could request a trade back to Port this year or retire and neither would surprise me.

I’d take him back.

play him as a stay at home forward.

 

[Nemisis]

The Ferrari crashed but it was Chad that was driving.

Crashed while playing fortnite.

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

Lol we took a ferrari, totally wrote it off, then still managed to trade it for a ******* lambo and Xavier Duursma

Chads comitment to rehab seems to be him just doing enough to get by at Port and the HFC.

Shaune Burgoyne attitude and comitment is what the Hawks were looking for in this trade from Wingard.

Port won the trade, an i feel Burton has another level left in the gears yet if his attitude is right you should see it in 2023 or 2024.

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

I’d take him back.

play him as a stay at home forward.

I love Chads happy vibe, but no you dont want him back. Sadly he is crusing and not living up to his potential.

 

[Windy Cindy]

I love Chads happy vibe, but no you dont want him back. Sadly he is crusing and not living up to his potential.

he would need to be coming back with the right attitude.

we can’t afford to knock back anyone with skill. We lack it in spades.

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

He se

he would need to be coming back with the right attitude.

we can’t afford to knock back anyone with skill. We lack it in spades.

Port kicking Wingard to the curb should of inspired him. Yet i feel he still is just happy to cruise by on talent alone. You do not win premierships that way.

Unless he breaks out of cruise control, i doubt he will be with Sams Hawks in 2024.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Difficult to see how Wingard or any other senior player could be enthused about playing for Hawthorn this year after their offseason. At 29 he's the second oldest player on their list. If they're not short priced spoon favourites, they should be.

If we're lucky enough to end up without Hinkley or Chad Cornes at the club next year, I wouldn't rule out Wingard returning.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

I love Chads happy vibe, but no you dont want him back. Sadly he is crusing and not living up to his potential.

Pretty much identical to his time at Port then after his first couple of seasons.

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

Difficult to see how Wingard or any other senior player could be enthused about playing for Hawthorn this year after their offseason. At 29 he's the second oldest player on their list. If they're not short priced spoon favourites, they should be.

If we're lucky enough to end up without Hinkley or Chad Cornes at the club next year, I wouldn't rule out Wingard returning.

Spirit and mateship seems like an all time high after the last five year at the Hawks.

Make no mistake it will be an up and down season, but our youth have talent and are keen to learn.

I feel we will lose a couple later in the season were expected to win due to being young, yet on the flip side i think the young Hawks will win a couple early by the skin of there teeth that there expected to lose based on a couple of talent younsters showing a bit.

Get Cam Mackenzie in your super coach team. An ones to just admire Ward and C.MacDonald. There going to compliment the likes of Newcombe, Worple and Moore in the middle.