Off to Arizona

[Madtiger2006]

Our midfield are struggling to run out games now. Of course we'll gain a top midfielder with our first pick to strengthen the centre. But looking at the Pies pulling away in the last quarter most weeks shows what that extra fitness will add. I think we should grab McIntosh from North too. Get rid of Graham, have Browne and Derickx as depth and draft an 18 year old ruckman. McIntosh may be our Greg Stafford while we develop a ruckman for the future

 

[The Rusty Trombone]

Our midfield are struggling to run out games now. Of course we'll gain a top midfielder with our first pick to strengthen the centre. But looking at the Pies pulling away in the last quarter most weeks shows what that extra fitness will add. I think we should grab McIntosh from North too. Get rid of Graham, have Browne and Derickx as depth and draft an 18 year old ruckman. McIntosh may be our Greg Stafford while we develop a ruckman for the future

All sounds too easy MT. Can we send them over This weekend ?

 

[Infamy]

McIntosh may be our Greg Stafford while we develop a ruckman for the future

Good comparison
Care to look at what trading for Greg Stafford cost the RFC?

 

[Dustin Credible]

Good comparison
Care to look at what trading for Greg Stafford cost the RFC?

Nick Daffy and pick 17, which was James Kelly in 2001

 

[RoaringTiger]

Sound good, but would be prohibitively expensive for the RFC at the moment. There are good reasons (money!) why Collingwood is the only club that does it (I think). If they send 20 players, that's $120k on flights (20 x $6k business class) plus 2 weeks in Arizona (probably $750 per day for 20 players equals ~$200k). That's probably $350k which could instead be used for two assistant coaches / or additional recruiting resources. We are probably 10 years away from being in a position to be able to afford something like Arizona for our club I imagine.

 

[KiwiTiger]

Watch this space.

Haere Ra

 

[nut]

Sound good, but would be prohibitively expensive for the RFC at the moment. There are good reasons (money!) why Collingwood is the only club that does it (I think). If they send 20 players, that's $120k on flights (20 x $6k business class) plus 2 weeks in Arizona (probably $750 per day for 20 players equals ~$200k). That's probably $350k which could instead be used for two assistant coaches / or additional recruiting resources. We are probably 10 years away from being in a position to be able to afford something like Arizona for our club I imagine.

I think we should buy this http://www.scrutonmarine.com/PV2167.htm ... We can convert it into a gym /Accommodation for 50 people. It would take a bit over two weeks to get to the US.... Stopping in Hawaii for some running. We can do an extensive weight session on the way over... some swimming.... eating high protein fish and getting plenty of omega-3.
We can sell a few passenger seats to pay for the fuel.

Then 2 weeks in Arizona ... we booking everything to Collingwood by wearing Collingwood training gear, the pies and eddie wont notice they have too much money.

Obviously we would do a similar program on the way back ... all up 6weeks.

Start up cost would be around $800K including converting the boat to a Gym/ Accommodation. But as long as we maintain the boat during the season we would be able to us it every preseason. We could also hire it out to the Hawks for their Tassie trips. So we could pay it off petty quick.

The big advantage is that we wouldn't have to worry about those stupid drug tests....


PS... can you imagine how much fun Rance would have.

 

[mauricerioli]

Sound good, but would be prohibitively expensive for the RFC at the moment. There are good reasons (money!) why Collingwood is the only club that does it (I think). If they send 20 players, that's $120k on flights (20 x $6k business class) plus 2 weeks in Arizona (probably $750 per day for 20 players equals ~$200k). That's probably $350k which could instead be used for two assistant coaches / or additional recruiting resources. We are probably 10 years away from being in a position to be able to afford something like Arizona for our club I imagine.

The poorest club in the comp also do it.

North Melbourne started going to a high altitude camp in Utah last pre-season and are going back again this year.

 

[tugga]

The poorest club in the comp also do it.

North Melbourne started going to a high altitude camp in Utah last pre-season and are going back again this year.

And yet they are 117 points worse than Collingwood.