Chat with Blair Hartley at 2pm

[bigstyletiger]

Thanks Dea Day for pasting that in.

RFC O - really good initiative. Loving the work you guys are doing at the club atm.

 

[_RT_]

Was disappointed my question about if he still thinks there are holes in our lists was posted but not answered. Would have been nice to at least get a little bit of an indication as to what our thought processes might be heading into the draft. Can understand why it probably wasn't answered.

 

[TigerTime88]

Potentially so that their drafting strategy is not obvious going in.

 

[Dr Tigris]

I found it interesting what Blair said about the Grigg trade "We completed a detailed analysis of our playing list and felt we needed to continue to build our midfield depth in particular, our size, capacity and flexibility. With the changes to the interchange rules, all these factors became paramount."

So Grigg was acquired to allow our stars to get free in contested play. That is very smart, Collins would never do that, he's not that sort of player. I'm still not entirely happy with the trade, but it makes a lot of sense now.

 

[eays]

missed it live, but reading between the lines on this comment

2:27 We had a strong focus on developing our list with youth, by adding Grigg and Houli to our mix we will now have Jack Riewoldt, Shane Edwards Daniel Connors all from the 2006 draft. When you look at the Geelong and Hawthorn premierships, they were built on strong draft periods and I feel that this will set us up well for the future

... i guess we can assume Hislop is certain to be delisted then.

 

[Morro]

I cant believe so many people needed the Grigg trade explained. I would of thought it was obvious.

 

[_RT_]

Potentially so that their drafting strategy is not obvious going in.

Yeah I understand that, just would have been nice to just get a bit more of an insight as to where the club sees our list.

 

[TOOs_Finest]

I cant believe so many people needed the Grigg trade explained. I would of thought it was obvious.

It's obvious if you agree that Grigg can play that role well, and not miss too many games with injury. I think some people just question if he is really that much better than Collins. Touch and go for mine.

 

[Bojangles17]

thats was fantastic RFC, hope to see more of the same following draft day...top effort

 

[Azzleberry]

Thanks RFC_O, good to hear that Posty has been at the club every day!! Sure these fellas should all be on holiday...Jack was at the club also doing the Grigg interview... Good dedication happening down at Tigerland...

 

[Equus]

Don't want to train too hard though. I remember Cotchin injured himself as a result of it.

 

[RFC_Official]

Thanks RFC_O, good to hear that Posty has been at the club every day!! Sure these fellas should all be on holiday...Jack was at the club also doing the Grigg interview... Good dedication happening down at Tigerland...

Daniel Connors, Jack and Dusty Martin were all down here yesterday.

I've seen Dustin at the gym more days than not in the past fortnight, he's obsessed with training!

 

[RFC_Official]

Yeah I understand that, just would have been nice to just get a bit more of an insight as to where the club sees our list.

I was sitting with Blair when you asked that question and he wanted to answer it, but then thought it might be giving too much away. He's an experienced campaigner.

 

[CoggaRules]

I was sitting with Blair when you asked that question and he wanted to answer it, but then thought it might be giving too much away. He's an experienced campaigner.

Dont sweat it dude, you have to understand there are a lot of tigerheads that have got used to the TW spin and want to hear how ****ing good we are travelling and how our list is "locked and loaded".

 

[The Rusty Trombone]

I was sitting with Blair when you asked that question and he wanted to answer it, but then thought it might be giving too much away. He's an experienced campaigner.

Don't worry about it champ fantastic initiative by the club. You guys should be proud of yourselves so keep it up. I was telling some mates that support other clubs about it today and they were so impressed.

 

[_RT_]

Dont sweat it dude, you have to understand there are a lot of tigerheads that have got used to the TW spin and want to hear how ****ing good we are travelling and how our list is "locked and loaded".

Quite the contrary Cogga, I wanted to get the details without the spin as I believe someone like Blair is unlikely to spin when it comes to things like this.

 

[LuKe2428]

Daniel Connors, Jack and Dusty Martin were all down here yesterday.

I've seen Dustin at the gym more days than not in the past fortnight, he's obsessed with training!

Shouldn't Jack be in the gym and Dustin working on endurance? Dustin could also give some playres like Will and Shane some tips in the gym. Will there be a bigger bodied midfielder then Dustin in 2012?

 

[Tiger_Stripes]

Shouldn't Jack be in the gym and Dustin working on endurance? Dustin could also give some playres like Will and Shane some tips in the gym. Will there be a bigger bodied midfielder then Dustin in 2012?

Pretty sure when Dustin came to the club, they actually told him he needed to lose some weight haha. More core strength is never a bad thing though. If we can smack another 10kg onto Will he might have a spot next year.

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

Don't want to train too hard though. I remember Cotchin injured himself as a result of it.

Really I thought he had a body development condition which was aggravated by standard work load, which normal AFL players would undertake !

 

[Tigerland]

I was sitting with Blair when you asked that question and he wanted to answer it, but then thought it might be giving too much away. He's an experienced campaigner.

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Definitely understand that, as unlike any other year the crafty foxes at GC would love to know who's taking who in the top 10 so they can manipulate things with all their picks.

 

[ToroHombre]

Blair Hartley seems to know what he's doing anyhow. Coincidentally, he also went to my school.

 

[leighroy]

Don't want to train too hard though. I remember Cotchin injured himself as a result of it.

cotchin hasnt been train yet. pretty sure he went to thailand for 2 weeks, then to echua and then last week ballarat. says his looking forward to gettin into preseason tho

 

[CoggaRules]

Quite the contrary Cogga, I wanted to get the details without the spin as I believe someone like Blair is unlikely to spin when it comes to things like this.

thats ok RT, at the end of the day we are all in this group hug type of situation and we all think that our new brains trust will tell us everything and be real about it. It dont happen dude. Its a business and you can be open about stuff to a point and the rest is the good ol party line.

 

[Tiger_Stripes]

Really I thought he had a body development condition which was aggravated by standard work load, which normal AFL players would undertake !

He and a couple other players (I can't remember names, there was a newspaper article) made a pact (he's into pacts) to train extra, they did a lot of sessions and Cotchin got hurt.

One article talking about his dedication