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If he has got over his off field demons, I imagine he will got to early in the draft for him to come into our consideration.

Also we need to draft/Free Agent other areas to fix. Another KPD and another Ruck imo.
 
Why pick someone with poor off-field behaviour? we aren't a struggling club needing to boost our personnel.

Leave the bad boys for crap teams.
 

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cynical said:
Why pick someone with poor off-field behaviour? we aren't a struggling club needing to boost our personnel.

Leave the bad boys for crap teams.
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Bet you weren't saying that when a certain Steve Johnson had constant off field issues at the end of 06
 
Son_Of_God29 said:
Bet you weren't saying that when a certain Steve Johnson had constant off field issues at the end of 06
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Don't remember drafting Johnson in 2006.

It's 2013 our list is pretty good and our culture we don't need a Garlett type in any case.

I think Garlett's problems are a bit worse than Stevie J's.

He was rated a top 15 pick and got passed up by all clubs. Even Melbourne didn't think he was worth the risk, the club that took Gillies, Byrnes and Rodan passed on a potential star.
 
Being of good character and being a binge drinker at age 17 are not mutually exclusive. I have always found all the character talk very sanctimonious.

Geelong's off field clean skin reputation owes more to a tightly controlled relationship with local media than actual player behaviour.
 
I'd take him in a heartbeat if they were confident they could get the kid to grow up. His talent is immense.
 

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bulletproof said:
Being of good character and being a binge drinker at age 17 are not mutually exclusive. I have always found all the character talk very sanctimonious.

Geelong's off field clean skin reputation owes more to a tightly controlled relationship with local media than actual player behaviour.
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Not me. You only need one major disruptive influence and it can disrupt the club both on field and off field. Don't need 'em and we don't recruit 'em.
 
In the 2013 Potential Draftee and Trade Watch , is said this


Turbocat said:
Someone raised Dayle Garletts name in another thread. Thought Id post this here.

As I said in that other thread , not all talented player belong in the AFL. The demands placed on them , the focus on them at all times , the pressure ... its not just about the footy. As the article mentions , after failing to be drafted he trained at Ess hoping for a Rookie spot and apparently complained to friends about too many meetings. Not what clubs want to hear if it gets back to them. One would have thought after being not drafted (when in the best 20 for talent no question) would have given him a bit a slap down but it takes differing amounts for different people. Some never do.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/dayle-garlett-boosts-draft-hopes-as-he-form-of-field-continues-to-blossom/story-e6frf9jf-1226650258471
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Personally if had missed on being drafted and then was trying to get a gig as a Rookie , i would have been making no noise at all. Just head down etc.
 
What constitutes bad character? Cheating on a wife? Hitting a female? Drug taking? Drug dealing?

The issue with Gartlett was the perception he could not be controlled within an AFL club, not his character. Semantics maybe, but I bristle when I hear talk of 'good character' as being a part of our success. It is unnecessary chest beating and does not square with reality.
 
AM said:
Not me. You only need one major disruptive influence and it can disrupt the club both on field and off field. Don't need 'em and we don't recruit 'em.
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Which id more likely to happen,
a) a young 18 yo kid corrupting and destroying the Geelong brand or
b) the Geelong culture with it's strong leadership ,on and of the field being able to mould the kid into a gun footballer who has obviously a ton of talent.
He will have the support of fellow indigenous players to help guide him into the Geelong way.
If our culture and professionalism is what everyone claims it to be then why not take a punt and give the kid a second chance.
After all Ablett Snr was given it and we got the greatest player of all time as a result!!
 
I'd take a punt, it can't be much worse than stokes and stevie j got up to...
 

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sarah.13 said:
Which id more likely to happen,
a) a young 18 yo kid corrupting and destroying the Geelong brand or
b) the Geelong culture with it's strong leadership ,on and of the field being able to mould the kid into a gun footballer who has obviously a ton of talent.
He will have the support of fellow indigenous players to help guide him into the Geelong way.
If our culture and professionalism is what everyone claims it to be then why not take a punt and give the kid a second chance.
After all Ablett Snr was given it and we got the greatest player of all time as a result!!
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From what I gather it would be far from a second chance. That's why every club passed on him.

That said, if there was a genuine recognition by him that his behaviour had cost him a chance to play at AFL level and that was demonstrably so and you could test it in some way then you'd look at him.

Senior was a great player. A great selfish player who played at a time when the culture that now exists at our club was absent. Might at least partly explain why, with such a talent laden team, we couldn't win the ultimate prize.
 
Gee its started early this year.
ill mark this as number 1.
Number 1 of every time the Herald Sun run a article on some young player a new thread will pop up here.
 
I'd take a punt but..
If he had grown up enough to be coachable then he would be picked up long before we got the chance
People talk of character but I don't think it is about being an angel
rather it is about being capable of learning from your errors, maturing, and improving on the basis of input from others
Realisticly I think our only real chance of picking up this very talented young man is if everyone else passes over him, he goes into the seconds comp and we pick him up in his mid twenties a number of years from now after he has grown up a bit
 
AM said:
Not me. You only need one major disruptive influence and it can disrupt the club both on field and off field. Don't need 'em and we don't recruit 'em.
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It's spin. All very nice and warm and fuzzy, and makes us fans feel morally superior, which I've never understood. In reality footballers are young males who can be as stupid and immature as they've always been. And footy clubs will hush up 99% of the dumb things they do. As they always have.
 

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