Crows demanded compensation pick for Angwin

[GOALden Hawk]

In amongst Rucci's latest piece of dribble on Laurence Angwin was this gem.

http://heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/printpage/0,8036,7036138%5E19742,00.html

Last season Adelaide football operations manager John Reid went to league general manager football Andrew Demetriou asking to declare Angwin unfit for football and to grant the Crows a compensation pick.

Surely this is a fabrication? Who are the Crows kidding? They managed to stuff their only top 10 pick ever and because of that wanted another one!

I think Hawthorn and Richmond should approach Andrew Demetriou asking him to retrospectively declare Alex McDonald and Richard Lounder unfit for football (shouldn't be too hard based on the on-field evidence) and give us a compensatory pick as well.

 

[The Passenger]

I can't believe that as being true.

Especially with MR being the source.

But if it is, I demand a compensation pick for picking up Brandon Hill at number 10 in 1999.....

 

[Ron]

Lets not forget Danny Roach.
The pies easily should get another pick for him.

 

[DaveW]

It was worth a question.

Adelaide took him at number seven (?) in the draft and the bastard walked out on the club.

 

[Portia]

Well ****, if Freo can get additional compensation on top of what they got in the Jeff White trade, its a question worth asking.

 

[superstar]

Fremantle should be given another #1 pick in compensation for importing that dud Trent Croad.

 

[tribey]

I'm surprised the waste of carbon hasn't stolen this thread.

 

[Z_K]

Originally posted by DaveW
It was worth a question.

Adelaide took him at number seven (?) in the draft and the bastard walked out on the club.

Buyer beware.

Do you reckon the Crows ran a Police check on him?

 

[The Floodbuster]

Well the AFL compensated Fremantle for White walking out on the club, the others mentioned were delisted, if we got compensated for wasted picks, Port would have a good case with number #5 Mick Stevens.

 

[Stiffy_18]

Originally posted by NorthBhoy
Buyer beware.

Do you reckon the Crows ran a Police check on him?

It is true that Adelaide approached AFL for a compensation pick on the basis of being fed incorrect information. It was a long shot but it was worth asking.

The Crows did a background check but someone along the lines stuffed up so when the Crows got the report it was all clear. Once he got drafted and got to Adelaide things became a lot clearer. Adelaide still persisted with him and organised conselling session to no avail. He got nto so much trouble in Adelaide that the Crows had to cut their loses. It just goes to say that you shouldn't take any info you get on a player for granted.

 

[Nic]

Originally posted by Ron
Lets not forget Danny Roach.
The pies easily should get another pick for him.

I reckon Matthew Pavlich will do.

 

[Sera]

Haha!

 

[JUBJUB]

Originally posted by DaveW
It was worth a question.

Adelaide took him at number seven (?) in the draft and the bastard walked out on the club.

So what if he had of suffered a serious injury like Jason Snell's in his very first intra-club game for the Crows and not been able to play again ?

How would it be any different ?

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

You can understand why the Crows would have hated losing Angwin. Afterall, he is a "possession" player. He should have played baseball where he could steal 2nd base and nobody would have minded at all.

 

[JUBJUB]

Originally posted by Adelaide Hawk
You can understand why the Crows would have hated losing Angwin. Afterall, he is a "possession" player. He should have played baseball where he could steal 2nd base and nobody would have minded at all.

He's probably a good back pocket player.

 

[Abaddon]

Originally posted by Adelaide Hawk
You can understand why the Crows would have hated losing Angwin. Afterall, he is a "possession" player. He should have played baseball where he could steal 2nd base and nobody would have minded at all.

forget second base. He wants the big stuff. he'll steal home. karl normans home.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Originally posted by JUBJUB
He's probably a good back pocket player.

Good one

 

[mic59]

I can't believe this. If the Adelaide Football Club didn't do their homework properly why do they think they should be rewarded? If they'd persisted and turned him into a champion they'd have been quite happy to accept that so why complain because they couldn't? And I notice they had no qualms about realising him into the draft where the club least able to waste draft picks, Carlton, has now got him.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Originally posted by mic59
And I notice they had no qualms about realising him into the draft where the club least able to waste draft picks, Carlton, has now got him.

Actually, I think the police have now got him

 

[DaveW]

Originally posted by mic59
And I notice they had no qualms about realising him into the draft where the club least able to waste draft picks, Carlton, has now got him.

No qualms? We didn't have any choice once he fell out of contract.

 

[blackdiamond]

Could this be Adelaide's compensation pick?

Hewitt hint on footy career

Leyton Hewitt plays for the Adelaide Crows in a charity match.

Lleyton Hewitt has again hinted that his ambitions to play Australian football may one day become more than just a fantasy, perhaps at the expense of his professional tennis career.

Hewitt remarked in a CBS television interview with American Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe that he harboured a desire to one day switch back to the sport he played with some promise as a junior.

McEnroe was quoted as saying the former world No.1 had told him "he would really love to play Australian rules and football and not necessarily love to be a tennis player for the next eight years".

Although Hewitt, according to his management, remains committed to tennis and intent on adding another US Open and a first Australian Open title to his two grand slam tournament victories, he has spoken of his ambition to nourish his passion for football previously.

Last year, he was granted permission to skip a dead Davis Cup rubber against India in order to play for the Adelaide Crows in a charity match. Also last year, in describing the ATP tour as a "circus", Hewitt expressed disgust by saying he would sometimes rather stay home in Adelaide and watch the Crows, whom he follows avidly whether he is at home or overseas.

"There are times when you feel like . . . pulling on the boots and playing footy," he said at the time. On another occasion, Hewitt unequivocally described Australian rules as "the best game in the world", tennis included.

Hewitt's father, Glynn, is a former star for West Adelaide and Richmond and has said his son was gifted enough to play the game at a high level.

But, in the interview with McEnroe, the 22-year-old reportedly stopped short of agreeing that he was serious about becoming Australia's answer to Bo Jackson, who played baseball and American football at the elite level.

 

[DaveW]

Originally posted by Scott
Hewitt's father, Glynn, is a former star for West Adelaide and Richmond and has said his son was gifted enough to play the game at a high level.

West Adelaide? So the Power would have first dibs on him under father/son.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Originally posted by DaveW
West Adelaide? So the Power would have first dibs on him under father/son.

Glynn also played for Woodville and South Adelaide

 

[GoalsFrom50Out]

When did the Power have an agreement with West Adelaide?

 

[My North]

Originally posted by Porthos
Well ****, if Freo can get additional compensation on top of what they got in the Jeff White trade, its a question worth asking.

this happen for the 1999 draft. It happened becuase at the end of the 1997 season Jeff White went from Fremantle to Melbourne as he was leaving Fremantle. It was aroun this time that that melbourne were breaching the salary cap and were caught in 1999, so the AFL took away Melbourne first round draft pick from them and gave to Fremantle as comp. This gave Freo a huge advantage has it now had picks 2,4 and 5. pick 2 being a comp for wining less than 5 games, pick 4 for finishing second last on the ladder and pick 5 was Melbourne who finished 3rd last on the ladder. The players who were recurited by Freo were Matthew Pavlivch, Paul Hasleby and Leigh Brown.

At the time AFL clubs were ****ed off at the AFL for giving Melbouren draft pick to Fremantle.