Lets not re-write history here:
Pagan is gone. There is no need to continually re-write history just for the sake of pissing on him.
- HE had a few good weeks in the two's, but we had also won two out of our first three games. The talk was he might have come in for the WCE game when Anderson debuted, but for his shoulder injury...........nothing to do with Pagan IIRC.
- Exactly what did Pagan do to "destroy" his confidence in his debut game vs Melbourne? My recollection was that when Grigg got the ball, in wide open space, for his first touch........he froze, and put himself under the pump........and not for the only time that game. A rabbit in the spotlight.........should Pagan have kept shining the light in his eyes? or take him off and have a chat, settle him down and then send him back out where.......gee whiz if he didn't get a couple of good touches and do a couple of good things............
Grigg froze all by himself. Get over it.
Having got that off my chest, I'm hoping he can get some good pre-season form. He is one guy that a lot of us have forgotten about to some degree, but is a top 20 pick in a deep draft, and could just surprise a few.
I hope he does.
I'm of the opinion that players need more than just a week to be blooded and catch the speed of the game. A perfect example is Simmo who (if memory serves me correctly) had no possessions in his first 2 games. Fair point on not dredging up the past but this did actually relate to the topic of conversation!!!!
You may endorse the way Pagan chose to introduce debutants to AFL footy but I don't. This along with the fact that I have heard from the horse's mouth the way he had treated/abused Kouta, Hartlett and a couple of others last year adds to the importance of a new driver at the helm.
As for your bolded comments, not sure thi is what happened. As far as I recall he was removed from the ground - put back on for the last 5 minutes in a couple of quarters and then dropped!!!
