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Carnthedockers

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Guys I know the Mitch Clark thing has been discussed to death, and I know its been touched on in a few of the threads but I really feel that we have dodged a bullet by not getting him. As I have stated before I went to the Doig medal, and we have all heard the message that Freo is conveying. Its time to get serious. We will not be held to ransom by any player or any club. No player is bigger than the club and we play football to win Premierships.
Mitch Cark was the first test of that resolve. In previous years we would have given up any thing to get him,not anymore. The club comes first.
Can you imagine the reaction of the playing group if we had met his demands? Paying him more than Pav and Sandi?
There are 2 clubs that should feel betrayed, Brisbane and Freo. Clark told brisbane the only reason for him leaving was family, otherwise he would have stayed. As Tom Rockliff tweeted "It appears money cures all!"Clark then told Fremantle he was commited to them no matter what. We do not want a player like this at the club. We only want players that are comitted to the cause!
All these headline about the "Great Coup" of Melbourne is an absolute joke! Paying a bloke who has had 1 year of good footy that much money is embarassing! We will look at moments like these in years to come and silently mutter one thing "Thankyou Chris Bond".
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Yeah, but say we lose Griff next year and Zac doesn't keep on progressing and plateaus, then we will once again have a ruck deficiency. Which had we gotten Mitch it wouldn't have been, we also wouldn't had have to worry about getting a KPF quite as desperately this year.

Look, I am in no way saying that we should have offered him as much as Melbourne were. Heck, they have the master of over paying players to lure them in Scwabb.

He would have been nice to have and yes, we could have had him for pick 16 if we didn't piss fart around. In that regard i'm angry that we tried to squeeze every last drop and in the end lost the cake.

It will all be forgiven if pick 16 turns out to be Ballantyne/Fyfe/Barlow/Broughton esque. So the pressure is on them now.
 
Yeah, but say we lose Griff next year and Zac doesn't keep on progressing and plateaus, then we will once again have a ruck deficiency. Which had we gotten Mitch it wouldn't have been, we also wouldn't had have to worry about getting a KPF quite as desperately this year.

Look, I am in no way saying that we should have offered him as much as Melbourne were. Heck, they have the master of over paying players to lure them in Scwabb.

He would have been nice to have and yes, we could have had him for pick 16 if we didn't piss fart around. In that regard i'm angry that we tried to squeeze every last drop and in the end lost the cake.

It will all be forgiven if pick 16 turns out to be Ballantyne/Fyfe/Barlow/Broughton esque. So the pressure is on them now.

why exactly would griffin leave then? He would love for us to actually have a ruck deficiency so he gets the game time he wants.
 
We didn't dodge one more like we wore a kevlar vest.

Mitch was never going to solve any ruck position for us so not bothered. I think we'll be excellent in the draft with kids and mature age prospects. Our list management team know what they are doing and the fact that we did not move on a pre-listed player makes me think that we have our ducks in a row.
 

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Bit of old school sentimentality but I also like that Bond was a Freo player (and captain), obviously not needed to be good at your job, the Lloyd brothers have been great for us, but just another Antischwab-ish thing in his favour :).
 
Bit of old school sentimentality but I also like that Bond was a Freo player (and captain), obviously not needed to be good at your job, the Lloyd brothers have been great for us, but just another Antischwab-ish thing in his favour :).

The irony being that we traded pick 2 (Brad Ottens) for him, and then treated him like dog-poop on the shoe.
 

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