Mal, Fletch, Lloyd, Lucas

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Lloyd was struggling in his final year.

He made the right call.
He was a little..but we didn't exactly have a whole heap of young talent banging the door down at the time. His leadership was important and I don't think it was entirely his decision to call it quits
 

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Yeah, to completely contradict myself, I am pretty disappointed that he didn't stick around an extra year to help mentor Jobe, as was the tradition until then.

Even Jobe mentioned that in his Brownlow speech.
 

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Yeah, to completely contradict myself, I am pretty disappointed that he didn't stick around an extra year to help mentor Jobe, as was the tradition until then.

Even Jobe mentioned that in his Brownlow speech.
He wasn't getting a high level of supply in his final years either.

I think he could have gone on another year playing deep forward; and probably would have done well. Leadership would have been important too.
 

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I think that Lloyd made the right call, considering Knights was asking him to play a role he probably wasn't suited to.

I think his body could still have gone again, so in retrospect, it was perhaps a shame we didn't see Lloyd play a deeper forward role in 2010- especially when seen in the light of Neagle's complete failure to pull his career out of the fire in Lloyd's absence. But Lloyd was never going to be great at the neither here-nor-there role Knights wanted him to perform.

I have no doubt Knights pushed him out the door by stealth, in the manner in which he did this.

On the other hand, Lucas' body was clearly shot by 2009- in retrospect, he was probably virtually shot by the end of 2008.

Fletcher is just a marvel.
 

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Did you see Lloyd's last 3/4 games - Couldn't get near the ball.
He was being played in a no-mans land sort of position which he clearly wasn't suited to though, because Knights was committed to playing Neagle at FF and Hurley CHF.

You're right, he was struggling no doubt. He still would have done a lot better than Neagle did in 2010, though.
 

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He was being played in a no-mans land sort of position which he clearly wasn't suited to though, because Knights was committed to playing Neagle at FF and Hurley CHF.

You're right, he was struggling no doubt. He still would have done a lot better than Neagle did in 2010, though.
He played in a role in which he performed admirably in 2008/2009.
 
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