Gold Jacket curse

[Dangerousfield]

A mate pointed this out to me at the weekend, the Gold Jacket has a long list of sad endings for us and/or for them after players win it. When he rattled off the list I was really surprised at how many of the peak of our club had ended badly.

ROB, got a five year deal, turned to mediocre

Brad Crouch

5

Brad Crouch

Age

30

Ht

186cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

26.1

5star

K

12.1

4star

HB

14.0

5star

M

2.7

3star

T

5.5

5star

CL

5.0

5star

D

20.3

5star

K

11.1

4star

HB

9.1

5star

M

1.5

2star

T

3.9

5star

CL

4.6

5star

D

21.6

5star

K

10.0

4star

HB

11.6

5star

M

3.4

4star

T

4.2

5star

CL

2.6

5star

, pushed out for a badly miscalculated Compo Pick

Matt Crouch

5

Matt Crouch

Age

29

Ht

183cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

28.4

5star

K

12.0

4star

HB

16.4

5star

M

3.3

3star

T

3.9

5star

CL

4.8

5star

D

24.9

5star

K

9.7

4star

HB

15.1

5star

M

2.4

3star

T

2.4

3star

CL

4.4

5star

D

21.2

5star

K

10.4

4star

HB

10.8

5star

M

4.4

4star

T

3.4

5star

CL

2.0

4star

, whole situation has turned ugly

Sloane, gets a lucrative long deal, starts to fade as a player, does an ACL, disquiet about his come back

Danger, wins and says seeya later, I'm off to Moggs Creek to win a couple of Brownlows

Talia, career ends in a bit of a mess

Thompson, goes on a year too long

Vince, pushed out the door, we use his trade pick on Matt

Bock, leaves for a truck load of $, career ends sadly

McLeod, just sad really

Ricciuto, much loved but becoming much loathed as the manipulator behind our current malaise

McLeod

 

[Coopers]

Goodwin: Coaches Melbourne to a Premiership


At any rate, fully half of these are just "player got old". The crouches, and ROB are not a great story though.

 

[Golumless]

At least Laird won it last year.

 

[Plugger46]

While i agree with ROB and the crouches you could probably find something similar at any club

 

[1970crow]

I don't think it's a gold jacket curse in isolation. We have a deeper history of players taking that next step to be locked into the 22 and then flatlining or receding from there.

 

[CrowToon]

Alternative history:

Club imploded post-2017 and the club champion was simply the least bad player and therefore. We were so uncompetitive that players who played well when we were good got less good when they had to play a bad team and also people got older and slower.

But yeah I like your curse idea

 

[whattagun07]

Matt Connell....not even on an AFL list anymore