Raines for pick 44

[tate13]

I'm extremely happy with this trade, pick 44 isn't a huge loss considering we picked up pick 39 from the Eagles. I still can't work out how Amon was worth pick 28, but as Ned Kelly once said, such is life.

 

[Judge]

I still can't work out how Amon was worth pick 28, but as Ned Kelly once said, such is life.

Didn't we take Pat Garner @ pick 25? I know injuries cruelled his chances, but I'm not devastated at effectively swapping 28 for 39 in this year's draft in the scheme of things.

 

[Grimreepah]

Didn't we take Pat Garner @ pick 25? I know injuries cruelled his chances, but I'm not devastated at effectively swapping 28 for 39 in this year's draft in the scheme of things.

Can you imagine the uproar on this board if we had of traded that pick for someone equivalent to Buchanan?

 

[Spluff]

How did he ever manage to finish runner up in your B&F?

He was beaten by Kane Johnson and came just in front of Troy Simmonds. That's how he managed to finish runner up.

 

[tate13]

Not angry about the acquisition of Amon, Voss obviously has plans for him. I would of thought passing on pick 39 from the Eagles may have been a bit more reasonable, however I'm sure they know what they are doing.

 

[ThePhantom6]

I think Vossy knows what he's doing

 

[ThePhantom6]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/blogarticle/tabid/8123/newsid/85792/default.aspx

"ST KILDA has landed Essendon midfielder Andrew Lovett in a deal that will see its first-round draft pick go to Windy Hill."

Now it seems we've lost our chance to get Andrew Lovett

 

[PaddleFoot]

I think Vossy knows what he's doing

I know Vossy does what he's thinking ..

 

[Quigley]

I'm extremely happy with this trade, pick 44 isn't a huge loss considering we picked up pick 39 from the Eagles. I still can't work out how Amon was worth pick 28, but as Ned Kelly once said, such is life.

Wasn't that Ben Cousins

 

[Grimreepah]

He was beaten by Kane Johnson and came just in front of Troy Simmonds. That's how he managed to finish runner up.

He also managed to finish ahead of your first 4 place getters in this year's B&F - Deledio, Jackson, Newman and Tambling.

 

[Sausage roll]

Any input Rawlings and McRae had did not veto the move.

yep, those two have proven to be fine development coaches! Done a sterling job bringing our kids through haven't they?

Hey, how did Coburg go under Mccrea?

Shocking, after being in the top 5 when he took over. Yep, they must really know what they are on about.

Refer my previous post, Raines is no good.
Please stop analying 2006( it is nealry 2010) wehn people were fooled by his likeness to his dad and dashes out of defence. The opposition soon worked him out.

Plenty of players have had good years and proven tobe no good. jonathan hay comes to mind. Hey, eVen Kelvin Moore at our club had a good year last year( stinkers before and since!)

I repeat, he has no left side, zero periphieral vision, can't mind a man and simply kicks it long all the time.

He has no defensive side and makes terrible decisoins. Runs around in circles.

But, it all ok.Vossy will turn all that around in a few months!

good luck!

 

[tate13]

Wasn't that Ben Cousins

Nah he printed it across his stomach, the thief! Ned should of asked for the copyright to it upon his execution, imagine the royalties today!

 

[tate13]

yep, those two have proven to be fine development coaches! Done a sterling job bringing our kids through haven't they?

Hey, how did Coburg go under Mccrea?

Shocking, after being in the top 5 when he took over. Yep, they must really know what they are on about.

Refer my previous post, Raines is no good.
Please stop analying 2006( it is nealry 2010) wehn people were fooled by his likeness to his dad and dashes out of defence. The opposition soon worked him out.

Plenty of players have had good years and proven tobe no good. jonathan hay comes to mind. Hey, eVen Kelvin Moore at our club had a good year last year( stinkers before and since!)

I repeat, he has no left side, zero periphieral vision, can't mind a man and simply kicks it long all the time.

He has no defensive side and makes terrible decisoins. Runs around in circles.

But, it all ok.Vossy will turn all that around in a few months!

good luck!

Zac Dawson was deemed crap last year, seemed to do OK under a new club this year. He'll be fantastic at a club with a winning culture!

 

[Eons]

gary ablett jnr would have been a hack if he was at richmond.

 

[Happy_Neale]

yep, those two have proven to be fine development coaches! Done a sterling job bringing our kids through haven't they?

Hey, how did Coburg go under Mccrea?

Shocking, after being in the top 5 when he took over. Yep, they must really know what they are on about.

Refer my previous post, Raines is no good.
Please stop analying 2006( it is nealry 2010) wehn people were fooled by his likeness to his dad and dashes out of defence. The opposition soon worked him out.

Plenty of players have had good years and proven tobe no good. jonathan hay comes to mind. Hey, eVen Kelvin Moore at our club had a good year last year( stinkers before and since!)

I repeat, he has no left side, zero periphieral vision, can't mind a man and simply kicks it long all the time.

He has no defensive side and makes terrible decisoins. Runs around in circles.

But, it all ok.Vossy will turn all that around in a few months!

good luck!

Your senior side improved dramatically when Rawlings took over. Conveniantly left out that detail. Pretty damn good for assistant coaches, when they were both seen as future senior coaches.

Back on topic, I'll be happy to trade 44 for Raines. Putting it in perspective, we're not going to get someone like Raines FOR pick 44, so it's a good deal, you would think. He has at least shown signs that he is capable of playing AFL, and right now that is more than we would of had with our third round pick.

 

[Happy_Neale]

I'm just hoping he Raines on the Tiger's parade.

Brilliant OD!

 

[Haggis McHaggis]

I feel kinda sorry for the decent set of Richmond fans out there. There's two definite camps. The decent ones I speak of are generally pretty insightful, realistic, and unfortunately for them, mostly heartbroken at what's happened to their club over the last 20 years. The other mob, Exhibit A being a few posts above, are feral lunatics that dump loads of manure on footpaths & slag at coaches & players because they're too mentally stunted to deal with anguish in any constructive manner.

That said, I feel kinda sorry for Damien Hardwick too. Any kind of failure and it won't be long until he feels the bite of the same stupid vitriol from mentally stunted 'supporters'. If you're so happy to see the back of these people Sausage roll, why come onto an opposition board to admonish them? Shouldn't you be over on your own board pumping up the future now you've offloaded what you considered your dead weight? Smells like someone who couldn't stand to see more people that have left the club do well in another environment. Get off our board *******.

 

[Sausage roll]

Your senior side improved dramatically when Rawlings took over. Conveniantly left out that detail. Pretty damn good for assistant coaches, when they were both seen as future senior coaches.

Back on topic, I'll be happy to trade 44 for Raines. Putting it in perspective, we're not going to get someone like Raines FOR pick 44, so it's a good deal, you would think. He has at least shown signs that he is capable of playing AFL, and right now that is more than we would of had with our third round pick.

Yeh, finished a treat with four shocking losses and a win that Melbourne tried to lose for us. You conveniently ignore McCrea;s great job as development coach over the past three years. Why your club would want to poach two guys( coaches!) from us is unbelievable. Voss obviously couldn't get on with his other assistants.
What I find interesting, is that not one of you have actually addressed the specific deficencies I outlined in Raines game. Please read what I wrote and feel free to tell me his left side is good( LOL), that he has great peripheral vision( lmao!), that he makes good decisions and he is excelelnt at minding a man. NOT!! By the nd of the year blind freddy was getting a game at RIchmoind(refer SImmonds!), so Raines would have played in the worst side in history if he was any good. he Isn't. I heard all the same arguments about Fiora!

You are clinging to hope from a glimpse of form from over three years ago.

Please deal with the facts about his deficencies!
The Snag

 

[tate13]

Yeh, finished a treat with four shocking losses and a win that Melbourne tried to lose for us. You conveniently ignore McCrea;s great job as development coach over the past three years. Why your club would want to poach two guys( coaches!) from us is unbelievable. Voss obviously couldn't get on with his other assistants.
What I find interesting, is that not one of you have actually addressed the specific deficencies I outlined in Raines game. Please read what I wrote and feel free to tell me his left side is good( LOL), that he has great peripheral vision( lmao!), that he makes good decisions and he is excelelnt at minding a man. NOT!! By the nd of the year blind freddy was getting a game at RIchmoind(refer SImmonds!), so Raines would have played in the worst side in history if he was any good. he Isn't. I heard all the same arguments about Fiora!

You are clinging to hope from a glimpse of form from over three years ago.

Please deal with the facts about his deficencies!
The Snag

Why are you attacking your own club? No one here is claiming Raines will be the next Michael Voss, we are simply expressing our thoughts on what seems are pretty good trade, I bet you said the same things about Ottens. Does it matter what Mcrae did at Coburg? He's at the club to be Vossy's assistant and would not have been selected had he not been up to it. Also the reasons this seasons assistants departed have been well documented, feel free to read up on them and talk about it when you have a clue, until then you should probably keep your posts to a minimum as you come across as a supremely unintelligent person.

 

[Sausage roll]

Why are you attacking your own club? No one here is claiming Raines will be the next Michael Voss, we are simply expressing our thoughts on what seems are pretty good trade, I bet you said the same things about Ottens. Does it matter what Mcrae did at Coburg? He's at the club to be Vossy's assistant and would not have been selected had he not been up to it. Also the reasons this seasons assistants departed have been well documented, feel free to read up on them and talk about it when you have a clue, until then you should probably keep your posts to a minimum as you come across as a supremely unintelligent person.

Again, yet another post where Raines deficencies haven't been adressed.

You guys are truly delusional if you think he is up to AFL standard.
I await yet another self proclaimed intelligent person to tell me what a great deal you have, how Vossy will turn him around etc etc. Just generic ramblings
. How predictabel to bring up Ottens. No, he actually had shown he could play. (although many argue he cost them a flag last year!!). fiora??
none of you can address what I outlined as you haven't watched him closely enough and seen how limited the guy is.

The defence rests

 

[tate13]

Again, yet another post where Raines deficencies havne't been adressed.

You guys are truly delusional ifyou think he is up to aFL standard.
I await yet another self proclaimed intelligent person to tell me what a great deal you have, how Vossy will turn him around etc etc. Just generic ramblings

none of you can address what I outlined as you haven't watched him closely enough and seen how limited the guy is.

The defence rests

Again your intellect sours your argument, no one claimed to be intelligent, quite the opposite actually. See you were described as a "supremely unintelligent person" and you have vindicated this statement in spades so congratulations on that. Furthermore no one here is denying Raines has deficiencies but why would anyone focus on that? You must be one of those "the glass if half empty" people.

 

[lionbear]

Again, yet another post where Raines deficencies haven't been adressed.

You guys are truly delusional if you think he is up to AFL standard.
I await yet another self proclaimed intelligent person to tell me what a great deal you have, how Vossy will turn him around etc etc. Just generic ramblings
. How predictabel to bring up Ottens. No, he actually had shown he could play. (although many argue he cost them a flag last year!!). fiora??
none of you can address what I outlined as you haven't watched him closely enough and seen how limited the guy is.

The defence rests

I watched him 2 years ago, he has some potential, Mal Michael was a scrouny injury prone full back and I think we did ok with him.

When you pick up players from other clubs its not about them being superstars, never is, thats why they have been let go. It is about believing they can fill a roll in the club they are going to.

In a weak draft we have risked a 3rd round pick because Voss believes he can fill a roll. If he doesn't, who cares.

 

[The Flying Belgian]

Again, yet another post where Raines deficencies haven't been adressed.

You guys are truly delusional if you think he is up to AFL standard.
I await yet another self proclaimed intelligent person to tell me what a great deal you have, how Vossy will turn him around etc etc. Just generic ramblings
. How predictabel to bring up Ottens. No, he actually had shown he could play. (although many argue he cost them a flag last year!!). fiora??
none of you can address what I outlined as you haven't watched him closely enough and seen how limited the guy is.

The defence rests

The defence. What a collosal load of balls.

Who knows what a guy under a new voice with new teammates and a new game plan could do? Hopefully with some dominant forwards to kick it to he'll fare better. Is it coincident he did better when Richardson provided a dominant focal point up forward? I don't know. We paid probably a bit more than necessary, but I doubt at that stage in the draft whether 16 places will really matter.

But anyone pretending to know the outcome of a trade is FOS. We'll see when we see. It's a gamble, but in light of pick 44, not a particularly huge one, don't you think. No, scratch that, I know the answer. There's Ray's and Fiora's and many in between.

 

[Sausage roll]

Again your intellect sours your argument, no one claimed to be intelligent, quite the opposite actually. See you were described as a "supremely unintelligent person" and you have vindicated this statement in spades so congratulations on that. Furthermore no one here is denying Raines has deficiencies but why would anyone focus on that? You must be one of those "the glass if half empty" people.

I would welcome any discussion about his deficneices..bbut I ahve heard nothing.

Why is what I am saying unintelligent? Why has it been vindicated by my outlining of raines' many deficncies?

At least I ahve some idea what type of player he is.

Exactly, what has been your contribution other than to run people down?

 

[Haggis McHaggis]

Still crying. He's a Brisbane player now. Raines' deficiencies will be addressed by Brisbane coaching staff, not posters on a forum that you seem to desperately need to vindicate the belief you want to kid yourself into in thinking we overrate Raines and expect him to become a gun. We expect Voss to give him a crack, and what will be will be. I'd still maintain you're shit scared of the possibility of him showing up your crap club yet again by coming good. Trying desperately to claim we expect it rather than hope for it sticks you out a mile. I'll reiterate my previous advice. Go pump your own mob up and get the **** off our board.