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Rumour Jack Watts off field issues.

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I never rated him. Soft as butter and prone to brain farts, but a lovely kick... lace out in the chest and rarely missed in front of goal, but once or twice a game wasn’t enough from a hash one draft pick. He was a bust. He coasted big time.

But he was slammed from the moment he was drafted. The media rode us to play him before he was ready, and then my stupid club picked QB to do it. ****ing lambs to the wolves there. I was there and cringed when we call him out. FFS he was a kid thrown into the biggest caldron he was likely to play in for many years. Back in the 50’s Melbourne had a policy of never blooding a kid against Collingwood because they’d give them nightmares. Again in the 80’s it was hawthorn. But my so well run club threw that out the window because they listened to media flogs. And he never had a chance. He was a skinny school boy that had the world on his back.

Never seen the great white hope put on anyone before or since. I feel sorry for him (well not that much as he probably has a couple of million in the bank) but for his footy career it was wrong place, wrong time and wrong club
 

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Very typical by Port, covering things up. I wonder who else was in the car.
Geez if they were covering it up, they did a pretty poor job. Should have used one of those tarps....
Just to clear it up for you, it was a big clown car. Lots of possible passengers...
Scott Thompson? Buddy Franklin? Lachie Hunter? Tyson Stengle? Jarman Impey? David King? Graham Johncock? And dozens of others..... a microcosm of society's ills.
 
I never rated him. Soft as butter and prone to brain farts, but a lovely kick... lace out in the chest and rarely missed in front of goal, but once or twice a game wasn’t enough from a hash one draft pick. He was a bust. He coasted big time.

But he was slammed from the moment he was drafted. The media rode us to play him before he was ready, and then my stupid club picked QB to do it. ******* lambs to the wolves there. I was there and cringed when we call him out. FFS he was a kid thrown into the biggest caldron he was likely to play in for many years. Back in the 50’s Melbourne had a policy of never blooding a kid against Collingwood because they’d give them nightmares. Again in the 80’s it was hawthorn. But my so well run club threw that out the window because they listened to media flogs. And he never had a chance. He was a skinny school boy that had the world on his back.

Never seen the great white hope put on anyone before or since. I feel sorry for him (well not that much as he probably has a couple of million in the bank) but for his footy career it was wrong place, wrong time and wrong club
Great post. Richard Tambling, and to a lesser extent Brett Deledio(who really did have a great career) are 2 players I wonder how they would have gone if they'd been recruited to Richmond in the last 5 years instead of 15 years ago.
 

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