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James_37 said:
Should Wigg have been given a go, probably, but seriously why are people getting their knickers into a knot over him. He may have made a capable AFL role player, but a potential A-Grader he was not.

I don’t usually agree with BACCS, but the hissy fits over what happened to Wigg? It was a dead set “start the car” moment when GC agreed to pay what they did for him.

Almost everyone accepts there’s been some serious short comings in our selection policies, backing in underperforming senior players in a way which would make the Australian Test Cricket selection panel proud, which lead to a culture of entitlement and complacency amongst the senior group. I’d hardly classify not selecting Wigg as having any bearing on our premiership failure.
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I think it's because it's emblematic of a systemic failing at our club that goes beyond the singular example being discussed, and people understand that.

It may be that Wigg would have assisted our team, had we blooded him. It may be that he wouldnt. I don't think that anyone is trying to die in that ditch. We will never know. It's a problem that we'll never know though- because that's far too often the case. We are too often far too conservative in identifying and giving opportunity to developing players.

Think Fogarty and ROB this year- both held out until there was no other option. Both proved to be better than the options that they replaced, by significant margins. Neither would have played by the club's design. So we end up in circumstances where we deprive ourselves of knowing what the younger players might be capable of, and of benefiting from that.

And on the opposite side of the ledger is what we do know: that in most circumstances the players who hold them out are known quantities, and not valuable in any real way. We have a significant number of non elite senior players throughout our club's history that have played substantial amounts of football. And to what benefit? If playing the likes of Wigg is a gamble, just what are the stakes? That we'll miss out on the contribution of senior players who almost never impact upon the outcome of matches?
 
1970crow said:
I’m not sure that’s right, I reckon there’d be numerous players who could have had a careee if not for some bad luck at the wrong time. If ROB did an ACL 2 games into his 2019 SANFL season there’d be a fair chance he’d have ended up on the scrap heap. I think you’d be right in most cases, but I’m pretty confident that there’d be isolated exceptions. Wigg’s only real chance was in a couple of preseason games and I agree he failed to take them, in particular his use by foot was ordinary. But that’s not much of a go in reality and he never had a chance at the Suns.
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Absolutely fair call, it’s a brutal industry for some.
 
James_37 said:
Should Wigg have been given a go, probably, but seriously why are people getting their knickers into a knot over him. He may have made a capable AFL role player, but a potential A-Grader he was not.

I don’t usually agree with BACCS, but the hissy fits over what happened to Wigg? It was a dead set “start the car” moment when GC agreed to pay what they did for him.

Almost everyone accepts there’s been some serious short comings in our selection policies, backing in underperforming senior players in a way which would make the Australian Test Cricket selection panel proud, which lead to a culture of entitlement and complacency amongst the senior group. I’d hardly classify not selecting Wigg as having any bearing on our premiership failure.
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Who did we get with the pick for Wigg? McPherson?
 

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morris086 said:
I agree, he's looked great when he's played but we've swapped a player who spent a lot of time in rehab for another. I'm not writing McPherson off yet.
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Clearly the club rates McPherson hence the 2-year contract extension in the middle of 2018 tying him the club to the end of 2021. IMO he’ll either be the bolter this pre-season, make his debut in R1 and become a 200 gamer for us or just more of the same with his injury issues and eventually delisted without a senior game, the two extremes of AFL footy.


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Apsaalooke said:
Another mangled body left in the wake of Hurricane DMac
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Not so much DMac as VB. He should have been selected in mid-2016, when he was at the peak of his SANFL form - but they opted to bring VB back into the side for his last ever AFL games instead. The first of these was against Gold Coast, which would have been the perfect opportunity to debut Wigg.

Wigg's opportunity passed, and he wasn't good enough to create another.
 
Vader said:
Not so much DMac as VB. He should have been selected in mid-2016, when he was at the peak of his SANFL form - but they opted to bring VB back into the side for his last ever AFL games instead. The first of these was against Gold Coast, which would have been the perfect opportunity to debut Wigg.

Wigg's opportunity passed, and he wasn't good enough to create another.
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Didn't he cop the old Neil Craig travelling emergency treatment? We then couldn't possibly select him the following week after missing a game...

Poholke and McHenry have experienced this "reward" in more recent times.
 
Vader said:
Not so much DMac as VB. He should have been selected in mid-2016, when he was at the peak of his SANFL form - but they opted to bring VB back into the side for his last ever AFL games instead. The first of these was against Gold Coast, which would have been the perfect opportunity to debut Wigg.

Wigg's opportunity passed, and he wasn't good enough to create another.
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was travelling emergency for that game which preceded an SANFL bye and I reckon there may have even been another week where he couldn’t play. State game or something lIke that.
 
Vader said:
Not so much DMac as VB. He should have been selected in mid-2016, when he was at the peak of his SANFL form - but they opted to bring VB back into the side for his last ever AFL games instead. The first of these was against Gold Coast, which would have been the perfect opportunity to debut Wigg.

Wigg's opportunity passed, and he wasn't good enough to create another.
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If I remember correctly we flew Wigg up as an emergency too, which then lead to a 3-4 week period where he didn't play any football thanks to byes and such.
 
MRB37 said:
If I remember correctly we flew Wigg up as an emergency too, which then lead to a 3-4 week period where he didn't play any football thanks to byes and such.
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That didn't help... but ultimately they chose to give VB one last shot, instead of debuting a youngster in an absolute gimme game.
 

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MRB37 said:
If I remember correctly we flew Wigg up as an emergency too, which then lead to a 3-4 week period where he didn't play any football thanks to byes and such.
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Same thing happened to McHenry this year and then he got injured
 

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