He's trying to say that Dodoro holding up deals and demanding ridiculous shit shouldn't bother anyone, by stating that it didn't hold up any deals (although how we could know that this didn't hold up deals ever is beyond me).
We have one demonstrable fact. He holds up deals, asks for ridiculous shit that is insulting to the intelligence of those he deals with, and many people in the industry think he is hard to deal with as a result.
We know this. Anything else is speculation.
Why did he wait on the Crameri deal rather than just accepting what was obviously the right deal in the first place?
If you don't believe me do an analysis of his public statements over the past several years. Utter ******* bullshit, that always ends in him caving.
Lol... it's not "fact". It's just narrative crap that the media lazily pushes out every time and people gobble up. It doesn't flesh out in reality. He gets deals done.
The only "facts" are in the pudding.
Nobody really cares if he's "hard to deal with" personally. Why would we give a shit?
It just gets tiresome is all. It's carbon copy crap every single time. Every one of our trades just sees the tools on the media and online automatically "oh oh oh Essendon are hard to deal with watch them ask for 10 first rounders then we'll say no then he walks to the PSD / takes the club to court and the bombers end yo losing him for nothing lolololololol!!!!"
Every. Single. Time.
And it just doesn't happen. The only proof is in the pudding. The rest is rumour crap. Players want to leave Essendon, they leave, and they go to their club of choice, and in a trade.
It happened with Gumby. It happened with Monfries. It happened with Crameri. It happened with Jenkins. It happened with Ryder. It'll happen with Melksham and guess what, it'll happen with Carlisle.
100 odd pages of this thread and it was Carlton's turn to pull each other off with the "Dodoro is a dick we're getting Carlisle for free!!!"
Yes. We've heard it all before. We have no time for it because we know a deal will get done, we'll get a fair trade on the circumstances, and you know who'll get that done at our end? Dodoro and his team. Excuse us for treating everything that is said between now and then as the horseshit that it is.