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There is a rumor going around that Trent Knobel has quit the Saints and will be picked up as our number one pick in the pre-season draft. Has anyone else heard this?
 
tiger of old said:
havnt heard a thing altho id say a bloke can only take so much after being pi$$ed on in the shower week after week by gehrig. :D

cheers!
Zantuck to Saints, I've heard he likes that sort of thing??????????????
 

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londontiger said:
Its official.

Knobel has walked out on the saints and will go into the PSD.

Article on real footy
we pickup Ackland in the nationals
we pickup knobel in the psd with our 1st pick.
if we pick up Ackland its hello Bowden
if not then its hello Knobel and bye bye Bowden

cheers!
 
itsintheblood said:
Finishing last this year hasn't been a disaster by any stretch!!!!

If you completely discount the fact that going to watch Richmond play had no allure and it felt like not having a football team for the entire year.

If you discount the fact that your team was a laughing stock with its Dud Coach.

You must really rate Knobel and Bowden!!!!
 
Knobel would be a very good pick up. He was about the only ruckman who could match Ottens with his leap, so if we get him we should win alot of hit outs, hopefully to our players ;). I suppose he is decent around the ground too.
 
1980GFVideo said:
If you completely discount the fact that going to watch Richmond play had no allure and it felt like not having a football team for the entire year.

If you discount the fact that your team was a laughing stock with its Dud Coach.

You must really rate Knobel and Bowden!!!!
In the defence of ITTB there id say he may being looking at it from a different angle ;)
we can get a backup ruckman and hence our 1st 4-5 picks in the draft wont be used on speculative ruckman.
thats what i hope ITTB was getting at anyway :D

cheers!
 
tiger of old said:
In the defence of ITTB there id say he may being looking at it from a different angle ;)
we can get a backup ruckman and hence our 1st 4-5 picks in the draft wont be used on speculative ruckman.
thats what i hope ITTB was getting at anyway :D

cheers!

Absolutely spot on TOO. It's just nice being in a position where we a gonna pick 5 of the best 20 available young kids on offer as well as having picked up troy simmonds and offloaded a bloke who was earning twice as much as he deserved. I think miller and wallace have done a fantastic job so far and now to be in a position to be able to pick up one of bowden, knobel, ackland, keating would be absolutely fantastic.

The future looks bright.
 
1980GFVideo said:
If you completely discount the fact that going to watch Richmond play had no allure and it felt like not having a football team for the entire year.

If you discount the fact that your team was a laughing stock with its Dud Coach.

You must really rate Knobel and Bowden!!!!

Don't disagree one iota. Everything you say is true except i do rate both these guys only because they are young and up&coming players who would fit in beautifully. Bowden is a good mark and reasonable kick and can hold down a KP whilst Knobel will get better. Simmond, Knobel, Stafford and a bit of ray hall in the ruck will be a good thing IMO.
 

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Although I don't mind Pat Bowden as a player IITB, is he going to be any benefit in a KP? He doesn't seem overly tall or quick, I feel he may be better suited on a flank or pocket. I do agree with you however that finally we seem to be making the best out of having a shocking season, rather than just bringing out the bandaids again.
 
itsintheblood said:
Don't disagree one iota. Everything you say is true except i do rate both these guys only because they are young and up&coming players who would fit in beautifully. Bowden is a good mark and reasonable kick and can hold down a KP whilst Knobel will get better. Simmond, Knobel, Stafford and a bit of ray hall in the ruck will be a good thing IMO.

Have to disagree.

Knobel is 24 (25 by round 5, 2005) and has allready had 6 years of footy at 2 different clubs. He gets hitouts but that is all and is deplorable around the ground. 2004 was the first year he actually managed to be in a team's best 22 and that was because they had no other options because Brooks isn't working out.

Bowden is 23 and had 5 years. He is not a genuine key position player and gets the ball because he is used as the decoy forward to keep defenders from double teaming Darcy. He is hugely inconsistant as a result and again only had his first good year this year, but still got dropped.

Neither really appeals.
 
Well Bowden is staying at the dogs, so we can cross his name off. Without a doubt we will be chasing a second string Ruckman now


I say why even bother :rolleyes:


Ackland
McKee
Knobel


let's hope Keating doesnt resign with the lions, we would get more out of his 6 games a year than a full 22 from those duds.
 
Knobel's decision to leave St Kilda and Bowdens decision to stay at the Bulldogs were coincidentally close. ;)

Knobel is just a battler in the ruck. Goes ok at the hitouts but doesn't do much else. Would fill a role as 2nd or 3rd ruckman.
 
maybe plough is thinking of simmonds or stafford in the ruck for the first 20 mins of each quarter, then knobel off the bench who bashes the heck out of the other teams ruckman for 10 mins while staff or simmo rest up forward.
 

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Apologies for making the same point as in the Pat Bowden thread, but it's an important one (IMHO).

In Knobel's last 2 games for the Saints his stats were:

40 hitouts
0 kicks
0 marks
0 handballs

Saints board is not unhappy about losing him.

No thanks
 
Darth_Tiger said:
maybe plough is thinking of simmonds or stafford in the ruck for the first 20 mins of each quarter, then knobel off the bench who bashes the heck out of the other teams ruckman for 10 mins while staff or simmo rest up forward.
Pretty similar too blakes role role for the saints last year ;)

cheers!
 
Weaver said:
Have to disagree.

Knobel is 24 (25 by round 5, 2005) and has allready had 6 years of footy at 2 different clubs. He gets hitouts but that is all and is deplorable around the ground. 2004 was the first year he actually managed to be in a team's best 22 and that was because they had no other options because Brooks isn't working out.

Thank God somebody can see the truth. If anybody expects Knobel to be their saviour, they've got rocks in their head.
The best you can say about him is that he's a trier. An achiever he aint.
 
Harvey Leadpipe said:
Although I don't mind Pat Bowden as a player IITB, is he going to be any benefit in a KP? He doesn't seem overly tall or quick, I feel he may be better suited on a flank or pocket. I do agree with you however that finally we seem to be making the best out of having a shocking season, rather than just bringing out the bandaids again.

Well we don't have to worry about it now hey?

I guess the biggest positive out of this is if (heaven forbid) Joel Bowden goes back to his pathetic form we'd have 2 of them to worry about if Pat came over.


Probably a good thing he signed with the dogs in the end.
 
Weaver said:
Have to disagree.

Knobel is 24 (25 by round 5, 2005) and has allready had 6 years of footy at 2 different clubs. He gets hitouts but that is all and is deplorable around the ground. 2004 was the first year he actually managed to be in a team's best 22 and that was because they had no other options because Brooks isn't working out.

Bowden is 23 and had 5 years. He is not a genuine key position player and gets the ball because he is used as the decoy forward to keep defenders from double teaming Darcy. He is hugely inconsistant as a result and again only had his first good year this year, but still got dropped.

Neither really appeals.

I also second this motion, i'd rather take Keating, even if he only plays 2 games a year, that 2 good games that we wouldn't be getting out of Bowden and Knobel (and yes I do remember P.Bowdens 'one' good game against us).
 

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