Close call?

[tizzay7]

With so many people in the off season wanting us to take a punt on Garlett, news is from the hawks that the club will delist him.

People were saying that his risk is too good to refuse. In the end, are we lucky to not have picked him up, or could we really have swayed him and turned him into a true professional of the sport?

http://afl.com.au/news/2014-03-25/garlett-quits-hawks

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[Sanecow]

Would have been a lot cheaper than Daniel O'Keefe.

 

[Ed_Gein]

It will take about 3-4 years before the clown wakes up to himself and realises what he is throwing away. The talent he has for the game is wasted on him.

 

[S120]

It's silly to expect every young man who signs up to play professional sport - particularly on the other side of the country - to be ready to step in straight away and be ready to be a professional. He's not ready and he might be in three years. Or 18 months.

No need to pile on him. This is the gauntlet you run when you're recruiting people who are officially adults but really haven't reached full maturity yet.

 

[swansfan51]

Would have been a lot cheaper than Daniel O'Keefe.

Daniel O'Keefe is still a sensitive issue (along with Willoughby, Veszpremi and Johnston)

 

[MickyG]

My understanding is that our recruitment is based a lot on character and that is why I wrote that we would not pick him up. Talent is only one component of success and in professional sports it is no longer enough. AFL players now have to sacrifice a lot including normal social activities so the days of drugs, alcohol and late nights, and still being able to perform are gone. There may be the slim chance there is the odd super freak talent that might get away with it but they are more likely to be delusional and not worth the risk as we have just seen. Hawthorn just wasted pick 38!

 

[tizzay7]

It proves nowadays that talent alone wont get you that far. I am glad that we passed on him and I don't think we were ever really in the mix. For those saying that we will regret it and hawthorne will be the bane of our existence because we didn't recruit him, well look how it played out.

Even then, look how many players walk away or have been delisted for different reasons not just trying to handle the demands of footy. Now look at how many of them actually come back to try and redeeem themselves later on and try and forge a steady afl career. Not many of them. Plenty of talent gets wasted for one reason or another.

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[Wayne Swan]

A lot of sad things about this situation, none more so than the great opportunity that was given to someone from a disadvantaged background to lift themselves and their family towards a better future.

I'm sure he will have a useful WAFL career but he has gone back to the environment where clubs and people will let him get away with stuff just because he can play footy.

It's cost Hawthorn a useful draft pick 38 and may make all clubs more "gunshy" about taking risks with this type of recruit which will be to the detriment of a large number of fringe behavioural/background draftees, many of whom we've seen written up glowingly for their outstanding footy ability around draft time only to be passed over.

I think even our own Micky O (in his book) had thoughts about chucking it in and the sport is much more demanding nowadays. But Micky fought through to become a champion player and person.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Wow just imagine the circus if we would of picked him up.. in the end Buddy would of been blamed for his departure.

 

[The King!]

hawks could afford to take a risk given their draft picks and current list to be fair

 

[mark121]

I think even our own Micky O (in his book) had thoughts about chucking it in and the sport is much more demanding nowadays. But Micky fought through to become a champion player and person.

Think Micky O gave full credit to his mother for pushing almost forcing him to give it his best shot.

From memory he seriously considered returning home but his mother told him she had already given his room away to another person and not to return until he gave it his best shot. Also said this is an opportunity he would regret throwing away if he walked away too soon.

 

[Number37]

He has matured enough to say he is not up to it. I for one would have liked to see him make it ( even if it was with Hawthorn).

 

[MF]

Some of the crap directed at him on the main board is ridiculous. I don't see how it's all that different to any old 18 or 19 year old resigning from a job that they're not suited for.

 

[SM]

Talked about it a bit on the mainboard podcast, sounds like there were a lot of underlying factors in it not working out for him at the Hawks, hard to really blame anyone, least of all the kid.

 

[Swansujelly]

Guilty here, I was all for him as a late pick, I thought with Goodes, Jetts, Mick and our super club, we could have turned him around. In all honesty though, if the Hawks couldn't, we probably couldn't of either.