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Imagine giving up 6000 first round draft picks for a "superstar" (it's hyperbole gaiz, don't @ me).... who then goes on to poll a whopping 3 Brownlow medal votes in 2022. Career low, in case yall are wondering
Always feels like Kelly is only going backwards at West Coast. The meme that keeps on giving for opposition supporters. I get we only won a cutla games and our team is absolute trash in every essence, but gee whiz, even crap teams can still have players that poll votes. Especially with the lack of talent around him. Is he supposed to be good or not? Seems there's always one excuse or another for him. Getting tagged and wilting completely probably does him zero favors. 16, 18, 19 disposal games, and last but not least..... the 4 disposal effort after being shut down completely by rookie nobody Windhager.
I don't think Kelly is actually even close to the top 20 mids of the competition. Saying "Oh but he's our best mid" is a total cop out, considering Jamie Mcnamara could probably be our best mid at this point (providing he knows what end we're kicking at). If thicc boy Jye Bolton dropped the FIGJAM and left Claremont for West Coast in 2023 for one year, i think even he'd be close to being our best mid.
I appreciate the fact we took a punt and what we were "trying" to do, but it seems we reaaaaallly cocked up evaluating our list and flag window. If we managed to get him after the flag in 18 (Cheers Wells you POS) we might have been able to make that last flag push in 19, but after being held to his contract and the trade going through a year late, we've been nowhere near it unfortunately
Seems people like to cite what players those draft picks turned into like it's some sort of a defense for what we paid, yet that argument is bollocks IMO. Nobody can say who we'd have drafted, nor who else we could've targeted with those potential picks. Potentially Warner, potentially Robertson, who even knows. Daresay our list profile would look a lot better if we'd have just hit the draft.
We've played 1 final since Kelly joined the team, and we got punted out by the less fancied Collingwood at our own home ground (ironically the final of Kelly's 12 disposals from that game riled a few fans when he fed the ball to Tom Cole in traffic to get his kick smothered). Wonder if Benny Cousins ever racked up a measly 12 touches in a final. Or Kerr. Cats obviously used those picks for Cameron in the end, and here we are. Offloaded an evidently replaceable 4th string mid, cashed in and bought a KPF. 102 goals in less than 2 seasons playing second fiddle to Tommakent.
Such is Fyfe.
I've sorted your new avatar for whilst we're in our down swing:
