Quite simply because we needed a back up ruckman. King & Gardy were done & we had a young McEvoy with an injury prone Stanley. Pattison was a back up & no worse than Cain Ackland, Trent Knobel or Matthew Clarke.
Supporters can carry on about Pattison being no good & Gamble being a shocker but they were recruited to fill a need & we gave up SFA to get them.
They didn't work out & we moved on quickly.
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Pattison went on to be listed at the Hawks after he left us.